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Uncommon card · Nature
Butte, an Uncommon card
In geomorphology, a butte is an isolated hill with steep, often vertical sides and a small, relatively flat top, buttes are smaller landforms than mesas, plateaus, and tablelands.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Nature
- ATK
- 51
- DEF
- 43
- Power
- 94
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 140,000
Power 94 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 35 % of WikiCards cards.
Butte quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Butte card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Due to their ______ shapes, buttes are frequently landmarks in plains and mountainous areas.
Answer
distinctive. Due to their distinctive shapes, buttes are frequently landmarks in plains and mountainous areas. From the Butte article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
List of fictional turtles. List of fictional turtles 64 · 2012 Hong Kong legislative election in Hong Kong Island 60 · Korowya 55 · 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 · 2012 Hong Kong legislative election in Hong Kong Island 320 · 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.
- The word butte comes from the French word butte, meaning 'knoll', its use is prevalent in the Western United States, including the Southwest, where mesa is used for the larger landform.
- To differentiate the two landforms, geographers use the rule of thumb that a mesa has a top that is wider than its height, while a butte has a top that is narrower than its height.
- Due to their distinctive shapes, buttes are frequently landmarks in plains and mountainous areas.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Butte article was read about 140,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 51 and blocks with 43: each hit it takes is cut by 17 %.
How to get Butte
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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The cards just above and just below Butte in the power ranking, all domains together.
- Loïc FéryRare · Society · ATK 56 DEF 38
- Brackish waterRare · Nature · ATK 59 DEF 35
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- Age of SailUncommon · History · ATK 56 DEF 38
- AgoutiUncommon · Nature · ATK 54 DEF 40
- Woodwind instrumentUncommon · Nature · ATK 54 DEF 40
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Butte (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Wolfgang Staudt from Saarbruecken, Germany, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.
