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Uncommon card · Arts
Compass, an Uncommon card
A compass, also commonly known as a pair of compasses, is a technical drawing instrument that can be used for inscribing circles or arcs.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 54
- DEF
- 47
- Power
- 101
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 62,000
Power 101 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 55 % of WikiCards cards.
Compass quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Compass card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Compasses can be used for ______, drafting, navigation and other purposes.
Answer
mathematics. Compasses can be used for mathematics, drafting, navigation and other purposes. From the Compass article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Microdata. Microdata 3,600,000 · CMYK color model 200,000 · Data structure 110,000 · Compass 62,000 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.
- As dividers, it can also be used as a tool to mark out distances, in particular, on maps.
- Compasses can be used for mathematics, drafting, navigation and other purposes.
- Prior to computerization, compasses and other tools for manual drafting were often packaged as a set with interchangeable parts.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Compass article was read about 62,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 54 and blocks with 47: each hit it takes is cut by 19 %.
How to get Compass
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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Cards close in power
The cards just above and just below Compass in the power ranking, all domains together.
- Cantilever bridgeUncommon · Arts · ATK 58 DEF 43
- Carl Gustav Jacob JacobiUncommon · Science · ATK 65 DEF 36
- Javan rusaUncommon · Nature · ATK 55 DEF 46
- Rashbehari Assembly constituencyUncommon · Society · ATK 61 DEF 40
- Caesium standardUncommon · Science · ATK 65 DEF 36
- Elettaria cardamomumUncommon · Nature · ATK 54 DEF 47
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Compass (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : No machine-readable author provided. Peng assumed (based on copyright claims)., CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
