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Uncommon card · Science
Dredging, an Uncommon card
Dredging is the excavation of material from a water environment.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 74
- DEF
- 72
- Power
- 146
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 75,000
Power 146 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 75 % of WikiCards cards.
Dredging quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Dredging card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
In all but a few situations the excavation is undertaken by a ______ floating plant, known as a dredger.
Answer
specialist. In all but a few situations the excavation is undertaken by a specialist floating plant, known as a dredger. From the Dredging article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Jeff Monson. Jeff Monson 81 · Debate 77 · Dredging 74 · Computer memory 70 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.
- Possible reasons for dredging include improving existing water features, reshaping land and water features to alter drainage, navigability, and commercial use, constructing dams, dikes, and other controls for streams and shorelines, and recovering valuable mineral deposits or marine life having commercial value.
- In all but a few situations the excavation is undertaken by a specialist floating plant, known as a dredger.
- Usually the main objectives of dredging is to recover material of value, or to create a greater depth of water.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Dredging article was read about 75,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 74 and blocks with 72: each hit it takes is cut by 29 %.
How to get Dredging
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, Dredging (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Pearson Scott Foresman, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
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