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Tucana, a Common card
Tucana is a constellation in the southern sky, named after the toucan, a South American bird.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 73
- DEF
- 80
- Power
- 153
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 15,000
Power 153 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 75 % of WikiCards cards.
Tucana quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Tucana card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
French explorer and astronomer Nicolas Louis de ______ gave its stars Bayer designations in 1756.
Answer
Lacaille. French explorer and astronomer Nicolas Louis de Lacaille gave its stars Bayer designations in 1756. From the Tucana article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Compressed-air energy storage. Compressed-air energy storage 81 · James H. Billington 76 · Tucana 73 · Carl Auer von Welsbach 69 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Compressed-air energy storage. Compressed-air energy storage 26,000 · Tucana 15,000 · Alfred Ely Beach 12,000 · Carl Auer von Welsbach 8,500 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.
- It is one of twelve constellations conceived in the late sixteenth century by Petrus Plancius from the observations of Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick de Houtman.
- Tucana first appeared on a 35-centimetre-diameter celestial globe published in 1598 in Amsterdam by Plancius and Jodocus Hondius and was depicted in Johann Bayer's star atlas Uranometria of 1603.
- French explorer and astronomer Nicolas Louis de Lacaille gave its stars Bayer designations in 1756.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Tucana article was read about 15,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 73 and blocks with 80: each hit it takes is cut by 32 %.
How to get Tucana
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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Cards close in power
The cards just above and just below Tucana in the power ranking, all domains together.
- Filippo AmbrosiniUncommon · Society · ATK 79 DEF 74
- John KayUncommon · Science · ATK 73 DEF 80
- Lorna SimpsonUncommon · Arts · ATK 75 DEF 78
- Respiratory complex ICommon · Science · ATK 79 DEF 74
- James H. BillingtonCommon · History · ATK 76 DEF 77
- Sam FeldtCommon · Arts · ATK 76 DEF 77
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Tucana (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : IAU and Sky & Telescope magazine (Roger Sinnott & Rick Fienberg), CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
