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Uncommon card · Science
Fire lance, an Uncommon card
The fire lance was a gunpowder weapon used by lighting it on fire, and is the ancestor of modern firearms.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 65
- DEF
- 61
- Power
- 126
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 99,000
Power 126 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 60 % of WikiCards cards.
Fire lance quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Fire lance card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
It first ______ in 10th–12th century China and was used to great effect during the Jin–Song Wars.
Answer
appeared. It first appeared in 10th–12th century China and was used to great effect during the Jin–Song Wars. From the Fire lance article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Flashlight. Flashlight 75 · Combine harvester 68 · Fire lance 65 · Dinner 62 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.
- It first appeared in 10th–12th century China and was used to great effect during the Jin–Song Wars.
- It began as a small pyrotechnic device attached to a polearm weapon, used to gain a shock advantage at the start of a melee.
- As gunpowder improved, the explosive discharge was increased, and debris or pellets added, giving it some of the effects of a combination modern flamethrower and shotgun, but with a very short range, and only one shot.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Fire lance article was read about 99,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 65 and blocks with 61: each hit it takes is cut by 24 %.
How to get Fire lance
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, Fire lance (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : 焦玉, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
