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Fault block, a Common card
Fault blocks are very large blocks of rock, sometimes hundreds of kilometres in extent, created by tectonic and localized stresses in Earth's crust.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Nature
- ATK
- 50
- DEF
- 28
- Power
- 78
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 14,000
Power 78 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 20 % of WikiCards cards.
Fault block quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Fault block card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Blocks are ______ by relatively uniform lithology.
Answer
characterized. Blocks are characterized by relatively uniform lithology. From the Fault block article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Gryphaea. Gryphaea 67 · Grenadiers 53 · Fault block 50 · Santa Cueva de Covadonga 46 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Grenadiers. Grenadiers 28,000 · Gryphaea 19,000 · Fault block 14,000 · 1946 Windsor–Tecumseh tornado 11,000 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.
- Large areas of bedrock are broken up into blocks by faults.
- Blocks are characterized by relatively uniform lithology.
- The largest of these fault blocks are called crustal blocks.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Fault block article was read about 14,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 50 and blocks with 28: each hit it takes is cut by 11 %.
How to get Fault block
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 Fault block in the power ranking, all domains together.
- YonahUncommon · Science · ATK 58 DEF 20
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- Dermot SheaCommon · Society · ATK 53 DEF 25
- Héctor NogueraCommon · Arts · ATK 56 DEF 22
- Jacopo PeriCommon · Arts · ATK 50 DEF 28
- Omani ArabicCommon · Society · ATK 54 DEF 24
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Fault block (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : 5ju989nfhs50 at English Wikipedia, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
