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Uncommon card · Science
Gold, an Uncommon card
Gold, also called golden, is a color tone resembling the chemical element gold.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 66
- DEF
- 65
- Power
- 131
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 84,000
Power 131 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 65 % of WikiCards cards.
Gold quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Gold card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The web color gold is sometimes referred to as golden to ______ it from the color metallic gold.
Answer
distinguish. The web color gold is sometimes referred to as golden to distinguish it from the color metallic gold. From the Gold article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
The first recorded use of golden as a color name in English was in ____ to refer to the element gold.
Answer
1300s. The first recorded use of golden as a color name in English was in 1300 to refer to the element gold. From the Gold article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
A. J. P. Taylor. A. J. P. Taylor 80 · Nominalism 72 · Sodium sulfate 69 · Gold 66 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 web color gold is sometimes referred to as golden to distinguish it from the color metallic gold.
- The use of gold as a color term in traditional usage is more often applied to the color "metallic gold".
- The first recorded use of golden as a color name in English was in 1300 to refer to the element gold.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Gold article was read about 84,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 66 and blocks with 65: each hit it takes is cut by 26 %.
How to get Gold
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 Gold in the power ranking, all domains together.
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- Christo PopovUncommon · Society · ATK 73 DEF 58
- Tom RobinsonUncommon · Arts · ATK 68 DEF 63
- DaevaUncommon · Arts · ATK 78 DEF 53
- John McCraeUncommon · History · ATK 69 DEF 62
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Gold (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
