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Defense Distributed, an Uncommon card
Defense Distributed is an online, open-source hardware and software organization that develops digital schematics for firearms as CAD files that may be downloaded from the Internet and used in 3D printing or CNC milling applications.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 77
- DEF
- 78
- Power
- 155
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 21,000
Ranked #1,876 of the 3,000 cards of the base set by power (ATK + DEF).
Defense Distributed quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Defense Distributed card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Its purpose is to support and defend the popular production of ______ firearms.
Answer
homemade. Its purpose is to support and defend the popular production of homemade firearms. From the Defense Distributed article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
List of awards and nominations received by Dua Lipa. List of awards and nominations received by Dua Lipa 90 · Mississippian period 85 · Defense Distributed 77 · Binary logarithm 74 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Agoraphobia. Agoraphobia 940,000 · Viking program 46,000 · Shopping center 33,000 · Defense Distributed 21,000 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.
- Its purpose is to support and defend the popular production of homemade firearms.
- The company is best known for developing and releasing the files for the Liberator, the world's first completely 3D printed gun.
- When Defense Distributed first published these printable STL files in 2013, the United States Department of State demanded they be removed from the Internet, citing a violation of the International Traffic in Arms Regulations.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Defense Distributed article was read about 21,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 77 and blocks with 78: each hit it takes is cut by 31 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Defense Distributed (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Kamenev, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.




