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Uncommon card · Science
Excavator, an Uncommon card
Excavators are heavy construction equipment primarily consisting of a boom, dipper, bucket, and cab on a rotating platform known as the "house".
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 66
- DEF
- 40
- Power
- 106
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 110,000
Power 106 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 45 % of WikiCards cards.
Excavator quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Excavator card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The modern excavator's house sits atop an ______ with tracks or wheels, being an evolution of the steam shovel.
Answer
undercarriage. The modern excavator's house sits atop an undercarriage with tracks or wheels, being an evolution of the steam shovel. From the Excavator article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Excavator. Excavator 66 · Cornet 62 · Pigpen cipher 58 · Anders Celsius 55 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Conrad Murray. Conrad Murray 1,300,000 · Low Earth orbit 280,000 · Pigpen cipher 180,000 · Excavator 110,000 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.
- The modern excavator's house sits atop an undercarriage with tracks or wheels, being an evolution of the steam shovel.
- All excavation-related movement and functions of a hydraulic excavator are accomplished through the use of hydraulic fluid, with hydraulic cylinders and hydraulic motors, which replaced winches, chains, and steel ropes.
- Another principle change was the direction of the digging action, with modern excavators pulling their buckets toward them like a dragline rather than pushing them away to fill them the way the first powered shovels did.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Excavator article was read about 110,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 66 and blocks with 40: each hit it takes is cut by 16 %.
How to get Excavator
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, Excavator (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : kallerna, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
