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Rare card · Nature
Swallow, a Rare card
The swallows, martins, and saw-wings, or Hirundinidae, are a family of passerine songbirds found around the world on all continents, including occasionally in Antarctica.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- Nature
- ATK
- 77
- DEF
- 85
- Power
- 162
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 210,000
Power 162 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 80 % of WikiCards cards.
Swallow quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Swallow card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Highly adapted to aerial feeding, they have a ______ appearance.
Answer
distinctive. Highly adapted to aerial feeding, they have a distinctive appearance. From the Swallow article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Cetacean. Cetacean 89 · Gqeberha 84 · Swallow 77 · Savanna 74 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Highly adapted to aerial feeding, they have a distinctive appearance.
- The term "swallow" is used as the common name for Hirundo rustica in the United Kingdom and Ireland.
- Around 90 species of Hirundinidae are known, divided into 21 genera, with the greatest diversity found in Africa, which is also thought to be where they evolved as hole-nesters.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Swallow article was read about 210,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 77 and blocks with 85: each hit it takes is cut by 34 %.
How to get Swallow
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Swallow (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Charles J. Sharp, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
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