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The North Star, a Common card
The North Star was a nineteenth-century anti-slavery newspaper published from the Talman Building in Rochester, New York, by abolitionists Martin Delany and Frederick Douglass.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 61
- DEF
- 41
- Power
- 102
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 10,000
Power 102 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 45 % of WikiCards cards.
The North Star quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the The North Star card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The North Star's slogan was: "Right is of no Sex, Truth is of no Color, God is the ______ of us all, and all we are Brethren."
Answer
Father. The North Star's slogan was: "Right is of no Sex, Truth is of no Color, God is the Father of us all, and all we are Brethren." From the The North Star article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Warren Weaver. Warren Weaver 65 · The North Star 61 · Edwin Eugene Aldrin Sr. 57 · Metropolis Building, Madrid 51 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.
- The paper commenced publication on December 3, 1847, and ceased as The North Star in June 1851, when it merged with Gerrit Smith's Liberty Party Paper to form Frederick Douglass' Paper.
- At the time of the Civil War, it was Douglass' Monthly.
- The North Star's slogan was: "Right is of no Sex, Truth is of no Color, God is the Father of us all, and all we are Brethren."
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The The North Star article was read about 10,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 61 and blocks with 41: each hit it takes is cut by 16 %.
How to get The North Star
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 The North Star in the power ranking, all domains together.
- Metropolis Building, MadridCommon · Arts · ATK 51 DEF 51
- Nikolai MorozovCommon · Science · ATK 62 DEF 40
- Serhiy ArbuzovCommon · History · ATK 64 DEF 38
- Vera MukhinaCommon · History · ATK 63 DEF 39
- Safran ArdidenCommon · Science · ATK 59 DEF 43
- Sony α7S IICommon · Science · ATK 56 DEF 46
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, The North Star (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Frederick Douglass, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
