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Epic card · History
Timbuktu, an Epic card
Timbuktu is an ancient city in Mali, situated 20 kilometres north of the Niger River.
- Rarity
- Epic
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 85
- DEF
- 94
- Power
- 179
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 520,000
Power 179 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 90 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- It is the capital of the Tombouctou Region, one of the 19 administrative regions of Mali, with a population of around eighty-four thousand people in the 2023 census.
- Archaeological evidence suggests prehistoric settlements in the region, predating the city's Islamic scholarly and trade prominence in the medieval period.
- Timbuktu began as a seasonal settlement and became permanent early in the 12th century.
Why it is Epic
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Timbuktu article was read about 520,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 85 and blocks with 94: each hit it takes is cut by 38 %.
How to get Timbuktu
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Timbuktu (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Flickr user: Emilio Labrador Santiago de Chile https://www.flickr.com/people/3059349393/, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.




