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Epic card · History
Doomsday Clock, an Epic card
The Doomsday Clock is a symbol that represents the estimated likelihood of a human-made global catastrophe, in the opinion of the nonprofit organization Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
- Rarity
- Epic
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 79
- DEF
- 79
- Power
- 158
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 690,000
Ranked #1,816 of the 3,000 cards of the base set by power (ATK + DEF).
Doomsday Clock quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Doomsday Clock card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
This is ______ in January of each year.
Answer
assessed. This is assessed in January of each year. From the Doomsday Clock article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Tomahawk missile. Tomahawk missile 86 · Zoroaster 83 · Doomsday Clock 79 · Daniel Kinahan 76 ATK in WikiCards.
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.
- Maintained since 1947, the Clock is a proxy mechanism for threats to humanity from unchecked scientific and technological advances: A hypothetical global catastrophe is represented by midnight on the Clock, with the Bulletin's opinion on how close the world is to "zero" represented by a certain number of minutes or seconds to midnight.
- This is assessed in January of each year.
- The main factors influencing the Clock are nuclear warfare, climate change, and artificial intelligence.
Why it is Epic
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Doomsday Clock article was read about 690,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 79 and blocks with 79: each hit it takes is cut by 32 %.
How to get Doomsday Clock
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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- Tennessee WilliamsEpic · Arts · ATK 81 DEF 77
- Daniel KinahanEpic · History · ATK 76 DEF 82
- Cyrillic scriptEpic · Science · ATK 85 DEF 73
- Lincoln Memorial Reflecting PoolEpic · Arts · ATK 78 DEF 80
- Drew LockEpic · Society · ATK 77 DEF 81
- ZoroasterEpic · Society · ATK 83 DEF 75
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Doomsday Clock (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : User:Freedoxm based on work by RicHard-59, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
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