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Uncommon card · Science
Comedo, an Uncommon card
A comedo is a clogged hair follicle in the skin.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 62
- DEF
- 53
- Power
- 115
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 110,000
Power 115 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 55 % of WikiCards cards.
Comedo quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Comedo card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Keratin combines with oil to block the ______.
Answer
follicle. Keratin combines with oil to block the follicle. From the Comedo article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Max Mallowan. Max Mallowan 190,000 · Comedo 110,000 · Analytic function 87,000 · Björn Gunnlaugsson 790 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.
- Keratin combines with oil to block the follicle.
- A comedo can be open or closed by skin and occur with or without acne.
- The word comedo comes from Latin comedere 'to eat up' and was historically used to describe parasitic worms, in modern medical terminology, it is used to suggest the worm-like appearance of the expressed material.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Comedo article was read about 110,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 62 and blocks with 53: each hit it takes is cut by 21 %.
How to get Comedo
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, Comedo (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : BruceBlaus . When using this image in external sources it can be cited as: Blausen.com sta, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
