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Rare card · Nature
Brackish water, a Rare card
Brackish water, sometimes termed brack water, is water occurring in a natural environment that has more salinity than freshwater, not as much as seawater.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- Nature
- ATK
- 59
- DEF
- 35
- Power
- 94
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 210,000
Power 94 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 35 % of WikiCards cards.
Brackish water quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Brackish water card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The word comes from the ______ Dutch root brak.
Answer
Middle. The word comes from the Middle Dutch root brak. From the Brackish water article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
List of fictional turtles. List of fictional turtles 64 · Brackish water 59 · Murexsul 56 · Butte 51 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Brackish water. Brackish water 210,000 · Butte 140,000 · Murexsul 330 · Diorhabda carinata 240 Wikipedia reads over a year.
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.
- It may result from mixing seawater and fresh water, as in estuaries, or it may occur in brackish fossil aquifers.
- The word comes from the Middle Dutch root brak.
- Certain human activities can produce brackish water, in particular civil engineering projects such as dikes and the flooding of coastal marshland to produce brackish water pools for freshwater prawn farming.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Brackish water article was read about 210,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 59 and blocks with 35: each hit it takes is cut by 14 %.
How to get Brackish water
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The cards just above and just below Brackish water in the power ranking, all domains together.
- Nahui OllinLegendary · Science · ATK 55 DEF 39
- Sidny Lopes CabralEpic · Society · ATK 61 DEF 33
- Loïc FéryRare · Society · ATK 56 DEF 38
- Ave MariaUncommon · Arts · ATK 59 DEF 35
- ButteUncommon · Nature · ATK 51 DEF 43
- Age of SailUncommon · History · ATK 56 DEF 38
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Brackish water (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Peter Summerlin, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
