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Uncommon card · Nature
Fire whirl, an Uncommon card
A fire whirl, fire devil or fire tornado is a whirlwind induced by a fire and often composed of flame and/or ash.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Nature
- ATK
- 69
- DEF
- 48
- Power
- 117
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 96,000
Power 117 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 55 % of WikiCards cards.
Fire whirl quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Fire whirl card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
These eddies can contract to a tornado-like vortex that ingests debris and ______ gases.
Answer
combustible. These eddies can contract to a tornado-like vortex that ingests debris and combustible gases. From the Fire whirl article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Fire whirl. Fire whirl 69 · Douro 64 · Sabah Al-Khalid Al-Sabah 61 · Coprinus comatus 58 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.
- These start with a whirl of wind, often made visible by smoke, and may occur when intense rising heat and turbulent fire-caused wind conditions combine to form whirling eddies of air.
- These eddies can contract to a tornado-like vortex that ingests debris and combustible gases.
- The phenomenon is sometimes labeled a fire tornado, firenado, fire swirl, fire wheel, or fire twister, but these terms usually refer to a separate phenomenon where a fire has such intensity that it generates an actual tornado, which an intensely rotating vortex in contact with the surface and a cumuliform cloud above.
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 whirl article was read about 96,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 69 and blocks with 48: each hit it takes is cut by 19 %.
How to get Fire whirl
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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- Sabah Al-Khalid Al-SabahUncommon · History · ATK 61 DEF 56
- Bail bondsmanUncommon · Society · ATK 64 DEF 53
- Carlo RovelliUncommon · Science · ATK 71 DEF 46
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Fire whirl (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Jan van Rooyen, CC0, Wikimedia Commons.
