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Uncommon card · Science
Foil, an Uncommon card
A foil is one of the three weapons used in the sport of fencing.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 65
- DEF
- 68
- Power
- 133
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 70,000
Power 133 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 65 % of WikiCards cards.
Foil quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Foil card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The foil is the most commonly used weapon in ______.
Answer
fencing. The foil is the most commonly used weapon in fencing. From the Foil article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Betting in poker. Betting in poker 82 · Congress of Berlin 73 · Académie Française 70 · Foil 65 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 is a flexible weapon of total length 110 cm or under, rectangular in cross section, weighing under 500 g, with a blunt tip.
- As with the épée, points are only scored by making contact with the tip.
- The foil is the most commonly used weapon in fencing.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Foil article was read about 70,000 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 68: each hit it takes is cut by 27 %.
How to get Foil
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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- Icelandic CommonwealthUncommon · History · ATK 70 DEF 63
- PredictionUncommon · Science · ATK 70 DEF 63
- Cairo UniversityUncommon · Society · ATK 69 DEF 64
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Foil (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Marie-Lan Nguyen, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
