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Uncommon card · Science
Gillnetting, an Uncommon card
Gillnetting is a fishing method that uses gillnets: vertical panels of netting that hang from a line with regularly spaced floaters that hold the line on the surface of the water.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 71
- DEF
- 73
- Power
- 144
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 38,000
Power 144 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 75 % of WikiCards cards.
Gillnetting quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Gillnetting card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Gillnets can be ______ by mesh size, as well as colour and type of filament from which they are made.
Answer
characterized. Gillnets can be characterized by mesh size, as well as colour and type of filament from which they are made. From the Gillnetting article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast. Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast 80 · Linear particle accelerator 74 · Gillnetting 71 · 1,4-Dioxane 67 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.
- The floats are sometimes called "corks" and the line with corks is generally referred to as a "cork line." The line along the bottom of the panels is generally weighted.
- Traditionally this line has been weighted with lead and may be referred to as "lead line." A gillnet is normally set in a straight line.
- Gillnets can be characterized by mesh size, as well as colour and type of filament from which they are made.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Gillnetting article was read about 38,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 71 and blocks with 73: each hit it takes is cut by 29 %.
How to get Gillnetting
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 Gillnetting in the power ranking, all domains together.
- Fernando HaddadUncommon · History · ATK 73 DEF 71
- Jacque FrescoUncommon · History · ATK 73 DEF 71
- George StubbsUncommon · Arts · ATK 73 DEF 71
- Stan StasiakUncommon · Society · ATK 71 DEF 73
- Denis ComptonUncommon · History · ATK 72 DEF 72
- Félix VallottonUncommon · Arts · ATK 72 DEF 72
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Gillnetting (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Eilif Peterssen, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
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