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Uncommon card · Nature
Eiger, an Uncommon card
The Eiger is a 3,967-metre mountain of the Bernese Alps, overlooking Grindelwald and Lauterbrunnen in the Bernese Oberland of Switzerland, just north of the main watershed and border with Valais.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Nature
- ATK
- 73
- DEF
- 72
- Power
- 145
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 150,000
Power 145 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 75 % of WikiCards cards.
Eiger quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Eiger card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The most notable feature of the Eiger is its nearly 1,800-metre-high north face of rock and ice, the ______ north face in the Alps.
Answer
biggest. The most notable feature of the Eiger is its nearly 1,800-metre-high north face of rock and ice, the biggest north face in the Alps. From the Eiger article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Cormorant. Cormorant 300,000 · Ruminant 230,000 · Eiger 150,000 · Bass Strait 69,000 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.
- It is the easternmost peak of a ridge crest that extends across the Mönch to the Jungfrau at 4,158 m, constituting one of the most emblematic sights of the Swiss Alps.
- While the northern side of the mountain rises more than 3,000 m above the two valleys of Grindelwald and Lauterbrunnen, the southern side faces the large glaciers of the Jungfrau-Aletsch area, the most glaciated region in the Alps.
- The most notable feature of the Eiger is its nearly 1,800-metre-high north face of rock and ice, the biggest north face in the Alps.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Eiger article was read about 150,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 73 and blocks with 72: each hit it takes is cut by 29 %.
How to get Eiger
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, Eiger (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Terra3, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
