Triassic, a Rare card

The Triassic is a geologic period and a stratigraphic system that spans 50.5 million years from the end of the Permian Period 251.902 Ma to the beginning of the Jurassic Period 201.4 Ma.
From the Wikipedia article

Rarity: Rare
Domain: History
ATK: 83
DEF: 94
Power: 177
Wikipedia reads a year: 420,000

Power 177 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 90 % of WikiCards cards.

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Triassic quiz: 3 questions

Three questions on the Triassic card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.

Find the missing word
The start and the end of the Triassic Period featured major ______ events.
Answer
extinction. The start and the end of the Triassic Period featured major extinction events. From the Triassic article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
François Mitterrand. François Mitterrand 92 · Tipu Sultan 87 · Triassic 83 · Battles of Saratoga 80 ATK in WikiCards.

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The facts on the card

The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.

The Triassic Period is the first and shortest geologic period of the Mesozoic Era, and the seventh period of the Phanerozoic Eon.
The start and the end of the Triassic Period featured major extinction events.
Chronologically, the Triassic Period is divided into three epochs: the Early Triassic, the Middle Triassic, and the Late Triassic.

Why it is Rare

Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Triassic article was read about 420,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 83 and blocks with 94: each hit it takes is cut by 38 %.

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