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Black Stump, a Common card
Black stump is an Australian expression for an imaginary point beyond which the country is considered remote or uncivilised, an abstract marker of the limits of established settlement.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 63
- DEF
- 41
- Power
- 104
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 4,400
Power 104 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 45 % of WikiCards cards.
Black Stump quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Black Stump card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The origin of the ______, especially in its evolved use as an imaginary marker in the landscape, is contested.
Answer
expression. The origin of the expression, especially in its evolved use as an imaginary marker in the landscape, is contested. From the Black Stump article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Amy Frazier. Amy Frazier 67 · Black Stump 63 · Dries Buytaert 60 · Maryna Vasileuskaya 57 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.
- The origin of the expression, especially in its evolved use as an imaginary marker in the landscape, is contested.
- The term "Black stump" was used as land markers on a surveyors plan and was first referred to as a boundary marker in a New South Wales court case involving a land law dispute.
- The case refers to vacant land at Woolloomooloo where a surveyor had difficulty in ascertaining the boundaries as he could not find a plan from the days of Governor Lachlan Macquarie.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Black Stump article was read about 4,400 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 63 and blocks with 41: each hit it takes is cut by 16 %.
How to get Black Stump
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, Black Stump (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Mattinbgn, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
