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Uncommon card · Nature
Desertification, an Uncommon card
Desertification is a type of gradual land degradation of fertile land into arid desert due to a combination of natural processes and human activities.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Nature
- ATK
- 83
- DEF
- 94
- Power
- 177
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 100,000
Power 177 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 90 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- The immediate cause of desertification is the loss of most vegetation.
- This is driven by a number of factors, alone or in combination, such as drought, climatic shifts, tillage for agriculture, overgrazing and deforestation for fuel or construction materials.
- Though vegetation plays a major role in determining the biological composition of the soil, studies have shown that, in many environments, the rate of erosion and runoff decreases exponentially with increased vegetation cover.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Desertification article was read about 100,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 83 and blocks with 94: each hit it takes is cut by 38 %.
How to get Desertification
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Desertification (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Cherlet, M., Hutchinson, C., Reynolds, J., Hill, J., Sommer, S., von Maltitz, G. (Eds.), W, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
