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Basmati, an Uncommon card
Basmati is a variety of long, slender-grained aromatic rice which originates from the Indian subcontinent, mainly in the regions of Haryana, Punjab, Sindh and many other states and provinces of India, Pakistan and Nepal.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 71
- DEF
- 64
- Power
- 135
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 150,000
Power 135 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 75 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- As of 2019, India accounted for 65% of the international trade in basmati rice, while Pakistan accounted for the remaining 35%.
- Many countries use domestically grown basmati rice crops, however, basmati is geographically exclusive to certain districts of India and Pakistan.
- According to the Indian Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority, a rice variety is eligible to be called basmati if it has a minimum average precooked milled rice length of 6.61 mm and average precooked milled rice breadth of up to 2 mm, among other parameters.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Basmati article was read about 150,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 71 and blocks with 64: each hit it takes is cut by 26 %.
How to get Basmati
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Basmati (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : nagualdesign, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.

