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Uncommon card · History
Urartu, an Uncommon card
Urartu was an ancient civilization and Iron Age kingdom centered on the Armenian highlands between Lake Van, Lake Urmia, and Lake Sevan.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 81
- DEF
- 87
- Power
- 168
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 170,000
Ranked #1,565 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.
- The territory of the ancient kingdom of Urartu extended over the modern frontiers of Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and Armenia.
- Its kings left behind cuneiform inscriptions in the Urartian language, a member of the Hurro-Urartian language family.
- The kingdom emerged in the mid-9th century BC and dominated the Armenian highlands in the 8th and 7th centuries BC.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Urartu article was read about 170,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 81 and blocks with 87: each hit it takes is cut by 35 %.
How to get Urartu
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Urartu (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Sémhur, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
