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Uncommon card · Society
Telegraphy, an Uncommon card
Telegraphy is the long-distance transmission of messages where the sender uses symbolic codes, known to the recipient, rather than a physical exchange of an object bearing the message.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Society
- ATK
- 82
- DEF
- 94
- Power
- 176
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 190,000
Ranked #865 of the 3,000 cards of the base set by power (ATK + DEF).
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Thus flag semaphore is a method of telegraphy, whereas pigeon post is not.
- Ancient signalling systems, although sometimes quite extensive and sophisticated as in China, were generally not capable of transmitting arbitrary text messages.
- Possible messages were fixed and predetermined, so such systems are thus not true telegraphs.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Telegraphy article was read about 190,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 82 and blocks with 94: each hit it takes is cut by 38 %.
How to get Telegraphy
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, Telegraphy (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Lokilech at German Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
