WikiCards
Play on iPhone nowFree in Safari. Add it to your Home Screen.Play
WikiCards · Card list · Nature cards · Volvation
Common card · Nature
Volvation, a Common card
Volvation is a defensive behavior of certain animals in which the animal rolls its body into a ball, presenting only the hardest parts of its integument or its spines to predators.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Nature
- ATK
- 49
- DEF
- 39
- Power
- 88
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 11,000
Power 88 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 30 % of WikiCards cards.
Volvation quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Volvation card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Earthworms may volvate during periods of ______ heat or drought.
Answer
extreme. Earthworms may volvate during periods of extreme heat or drought. From the Volvation article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Jubba River. Jubba River 55 · Coregonus vandesius 52 · Volvation 49 · Dadès Gorges 42 ATK in WikiCards.
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.
- Mammals such as pangolins and hedgehogs exhibit the ability to conglobate.
- Armadillos in the genus Tolypeutes are able to roll into a defensive ball, but the nine-banded armadillo and other species have too many plates to do so.
- Earthworms may volvate during periods of extreme heat or drought.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Volvation article was read about 11,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 49 and blocks with 39: each hit it takes is cut by 16 %.
How to get Volvation
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.
More Nature cards
Cards close in power
The cards just above and just below Volvation in the power ranking, all domains together.
- Mikhail ZadornovCommon · Arts · ATK 59 DEF 29
- Nikolai FomenkoCommon · Arts · ATK 56 DEF 32
- Pavel SivakovCommon · Society · ATK 60 DEF 28
- Alan van der MerweCommon · Society · ATK 58 DEF 30
- Anna Swenn-LarssonCommon · Society · ATK 65 DEF 23
- Blessed by a Broken HeartCommon · Arts · ATK 63 DEF 25
Card lists
- Wikipedia quizNew questions every day
- All cards from A to ZEvery card, by name
- Nature cards
- Legendary cards
- Tier listS and A tiers by power (ATK + DEF)
Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Volvation (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Xtof054, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
