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Rare card · Science
Agate, a Rare card
Agate is a banded variety of fibrous chalcedony. Agate stones are characterized by alternating bands of different colored chalcedony and often contain some visible quartz crystals.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 78
- DEF
- 100
- Power
- 178
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 260,000
Power 178 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 90 % of WikiCards cards.
Agate quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Agate card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Most agates are concentrically banded, while some have bands that form ______ lines.
Answer
parallel. Most agates are concentrically banded, while some have bands that form parallel lines. From the Agate article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
São Paulo. São Paulo 93 · Maimonides 87 · Airbus A300 83 · Agate 78 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.
- They are common in nature and can be found globally in a large number of different varieties.
- Most agates are concentrically banded, while some have bands that form parallel lines.
- Certain varieties of chalcedony without bands are commonly called agate, but these are not true agates.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Agate article was read about 260,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 78 and blocks with 100: each hit it takes is cut by 40 %.
How to get Agate
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, Agate (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : James St. John, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.
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