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Booster packs of articles

You get one 5-card booster pack every 10 minutes, up to 10 in reserve: the reserve fills up even while you're away. The first 10 open without an account. Nearly a million French Wikipedia articles can drop: people, places, artworks, species, video games, dishes…

Each card shows the article's title, its picture (from Wikimedia Commons, author credited on the card), its description and the start of its introduction, plus its readership, which sets its rarity.

Five rarities, five finishes

Rarity follows the median of the article's monthly views over twelve months: a month of news doesn't make a mythic. The tiers, for English Wikipedia:

• Mythic: over 150,000 views a month, about 1,400 articles (Taylor Swift, Napoleon, Minecraft…)
• Epic: over 48,000, about 10,200 articles
• Rare: over 15,600, about 41,900 articles
• Uncommon: over 9,300, about 42,600 articles
• Common: every other article above 200 views a month, about 1.8 million of them

French Wikipedia has its own pool and thresholds, mythic from 25,000 views a month.

Each copy also gets its own finish, drawn separately from its rarity: standard, reverse, holo, cosmos or prism, and sometimes neon, a black card where the picture's outlines light up as tubes. About one pack in four holds a special card; one in sixteen a holo, one in two hundred a prism.

Collect, trade, sell

Your cards land in your collection, with its filters and search. Sort them into themed albums you share with a link, show off your best three on your profile, and climb the leaderboards.

Duplicates have three fates: the market, at auction or buy-now; a trade with another player, up to 20 cards on each side; or recycling, which turns them into ink. Ink buys cards on the market, and the forge turns it into the card you're missing, or upgrades a copy to holo, cosmos or prism.

Decks and duels

Build a deck of 50 cards and challenge another player. A duel lasts 3 rounds; in each, you draw 6 cards from your deck and a theme drops, "The hottest" or "Would make the worst birthday present". You have 30 seconds to play the card that fits best; Lexi, the referee, an AI, scores both out of 100, and points add up until the last round.

No attack or defense stats: a well-chosen common beats an off-topic mythic.

A second TCG: words

Next to Wikipedia, Lexicodex has a game of word cards: each word's Wiktionary entry, in French or English, with its definitions, pronunciation and etymology. Same pack reserve, same ink, same market.

Coming from another Wikipedia card game?

• From WikiMasters: your collection comes with you, in a few minutes.
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