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Rare card · Science
Ursa Major, a Rare card
Ursa Major, also known as the Great Bear, is a constellation in the Northern Sky, whose associated mythology likely dates back into prehistory.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 75
- DEF
- 73
- Power
- 148
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 270,000
Ranked #1,981 of the 3,000 cards of the base set by power (ATK + DEF).
Ursa Major quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Ursa Major card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
It is the third largest of the 88 modern ______.
Answer
constellations. It is the third largest of the 88 modern constellations. From the Ursa Major article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Swan Lake. Swan Lake 570,000 · Mike Todd 370,000 · Ursa Major 270,000 · Baroque music 210,000 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.
- Its Latin name means "greater bear", referring to and contrasting it with nearby Ursa Minor, the lesser bear.
- In antiquity, it was one of the original 48 constellations listed by Ptolemy in the 2nd century AD, drawing on earlier works by Greek, Egyptian, Babylonian, and Assyrian astronomers.
- It is the third largest of the 88 modern constellations.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Ursa Major article was read about 270,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 75 and blocks with 73: each hit it takes is cut by 29 %.
How to get Ursa Major
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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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Ursa Major (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : IAU and Sky & Telescope magazine (Roger Sinnott & Rick Fienberg), CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
