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Rare card · Science
Cinnabar, a Rare card
Cinnabar, also called cinnabarite or mercurblende, is the bright scarlet to brick-red form of mercury sulfide.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 68
- DEF
- 77
- Power
- 145
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 280,000
Power 145 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 75 % of WikiCards cards.
Cinnabar quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Cinnabar card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The ______ resembles quartz in symmetry and it exhibits birefringence.
Answer
mineral. The mineral resembles quartz in symmetry and it exhibits birefringence. From the Cinnabar article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Grigori Perelman. Grigori Perelman 80 · Electromagnetic spectrum 76 · Caesium-137 73 · Cinnabar 68 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Terry A. Davis. Terry A. Davis 760,000 · Electromagnetic spectrum 590,000 · Red pill and blue pill 410,000 · Cinnabar 280,000 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 is the most common source ore for refining elemental mercury and is the historic source for the brilliant red or scarlet pigment termed vermilion and associated red mercury pigments.
- Cinnabar generally occurs as a vein-filling mineral associated with volcanic activity and alkaline hot springs.
- The mineral resembles quartz in symmetry and it exhibits birefringence.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Cinnabar article was read about 280,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 68 and blocks with 77: each hit it takes is cut by 31 %.
How to get Cinnabar
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.
More Science cards
Cards close in power
The cards just above and just below Cinnabar in the power ranking, all domains together.
- Merovingian dynastyRare · History · ATK 77 DEF 68
- Secret societyRare · Society · ATK 72 DEF 73
- Bill WattersonRare · Arts · ATK 76 DEF 69
- GelatinRare · Nature · ATK 75 DEF 70
- Richey EdwardsRare · Arts · ATK 72 DEF 73
- FantasyRare · Nature · ATK 73 DEF 72
Card lists
- Wikipedia quizNew questions every day
- All cards from A to ZEvery card, by name
- Science cards
- Legendary cards
- Tier listS and A tiers by power (ATK + DEF)
Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Cinnabar (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : H. Zell, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
