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Flying buttress, an Uncommon card
The flying buttress is a specific form of buttress composed of a ramping arch that extends from the upper portion of a wall to a pier of great mass, to convey to the ground the lateral forces that push a wall outwards, which are forces that arise from vaulted ceilings of stone and from wind-loading on roofs.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 60
- DEF
- 47
- Power
- 107
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 100,000
Power 107 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 45 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- The namesake and defining feature of a flying buttress is that it is not in contact with the wall at ground level, unlike a traditional buttress, and transmits the lateral forces across the span of intervening space between the wall and the pier.
- To provide lateral support, flying-buttress systems are composed of two parts: a massive pier, a vertical block of masonry situated away from the building wall, and an arch that bridges the span between the pier and the wall – either a segmental arch or a quadrant arch – the flyer of the flying buttress.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Flying buttress article was read about 100,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 60 and blocks with 47: each hit it takes is cut by 19 %.
How to get Flying buttress
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Flying buttress (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Photo: Andreas Praefcke, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.