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Tarantula, a Rare card
Tarantulas are a group of large and often hairy spiders of the family Theraphosidae.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- Nature
- ATK
- 80
- DEF
- 74
- Power
- 154
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 410,000
Power 154 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 80 % of WikiCards cards.
Tarantula quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Tarantula card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
More than a ______ species have been identified, within almost 200 genera.
Answer
thousand. More than a thousand species have been identified, within almost 200 genera. From the Tarantula article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Squirrel. Squirrel 870,000 · Tarantula 410,000 · Cider apple 18,000 · Antbird 8,100 Wikipedia reads over a year.
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.
- More than a thousand species have been identified, within almost 200 genera.
- The term "tarantula" is usually used to describe members of the family Theraphosidae, although many other members of the same infraorder are commonly referred to as "tarantulas" or "false tarantulas".
- Some of the more common species have become popular in the exotic pet trade.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Tarantula article was read about 410,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 80 and blocks with 74: each hit it takes is cut by 30 %.
How to get Tarantula
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, Tarantula (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Carlos Valenzuela Montuy, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
