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Legendary card · Science
Email, a Legendary card
Electronic mail is a method of transmitting and receiving digital messages using electronic devices over a computer network.
- Rarity
- Legendary
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 83
- DEF
- 75
- Power
- 158
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 1,000,000
Power 158 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 80 % of WikiCards cards.
Email quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Email card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
It was conceived in the late–20th century as the ______ version of, or counterpart to, mail.
Answer
digital. It was conceived in the late–20th century as the digital version of, or counterpart to, mail. From the Email article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Tornado outbreak of March 29–31, 2022. Tornado outbreak of March 29–31, 2022 87 · Email 83 · Smoke grenade 80 · Caroline Herschel 74 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Email. Email 1,000,000 · Caroline Herschel 52,000 · Smoke grenade 41,000 · Internet censorship and surveillance in the Americas 6,600 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 was conceived in the late–20th century as the digital version of, or counterpart to, mail.
- Email is a ubiquitous and very widely used communication medium, in current use, an email address is often treated as a basic and necessary part of many processes in business, commerce, government, education, entertainment, and other spheres of daily life in most countries.
- Email operates across computer networks, primarily the Internet, and also local area networks.
Why it is Legendary
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Email article was read about 1,000,000 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 75: each hit it takes is cut by 30 %.
How to get Email
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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The cards just above and just below Email in the power ranking, all domains together.
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- The Last SupperEpic · Arts · ATK 74 DEF 84
- Haley StevensEpic · History · ATK 79 DEF 79
- French and Indian WarEpic · History · ATK 81 DEF 77
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Email (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : AlexanderVanLoon, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
