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Ash Carter, an Uncommon card
Ashton Baldwin Carter was an American government official and academic who served as the 25th United States secretary of defense from February 2015 to January 2017.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 76
- DEF
- 94
- Power
- 170
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 130,000
Power 170 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 85 % of WikiCards cards.
Ash Carter quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Ash Carter card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Carter began his career as a ______.
Answer
physicist. Carter began his career as a physicist. From the Ash Carter article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Arcade video game. Arcade video game 90 · Fluxus 85 · Ilya Repin 79 · Ash Carter 76 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.
- He later served as director of the Belfer Center for Science & International Affairs at Harvard Kennedy School.
- Carter began his career as a physicist.
- After a brief experience as an analyst for the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment, he switched careers to public policy.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Ash Carter article was read about 130,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 76 and blocks with 94: each hit it takes is cut by 38 %.
How to get Ash Carter
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, Ash Carter (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : US Department of Defense, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.

