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Tarand, a Common card
A tarand, also known as a tarandos, tarandus, parandrus, or parandros, is a legendary reindeer/moose-like creature with chameleon properties.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Nature
- ATK
- 51
- DEF
- 30
- Power
- 81
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 6,900
Power 81 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 25 % of WikiCards cards.
Tarand quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Tarand card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
It was first described in Aristotle's Corpus ______ as Tarandos.
Answer
Aristotelicum. It was first described in Aristotle's Corpus Aristotelicum as Tarandos. From the Tarand article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Bikont. Bikont 55 · Tarand 51 · Lake Taymyr 47 · Swartberg Pass 44 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.
- It was first described in Aristotle's Corpus Aristotelicum as Tarandos.
- It was also mentioned in Pliny's History of the Animals, Aelian's De Natura Animalium, Solinus and Caesar, appearing again in key texts of the medieval period, such as The York Mystery Cycle and Francois Rabelais' Pantagruel.
- The veracity of the tarand was discussed by Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric, Baron Cuvier.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Tarand article was read about 6,900 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 51 and blocks with 30: each hit it takes is cut by 12 %.
How to get Tarand
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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The cards just above and just below Tarand in the power ranking, all domains together.
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- University Hospital, New OrleansCommon · Society · ATK 53 DEF 28
- Zsolt ErdeiCommon · Society · ATK 60 DEF 21
- AglaoniceCommon · Science · ATK 48 DEF 33
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Tarand (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
