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Uncommon card · Nature
Grande Dixence Dam, an Uncommon card
The Grande Dixence Dam is a concrete gravity dam on the Dixence at the head of the Val d'Hérémence in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Nature
- ATK
- 60
- DEF
- 52
- Power
- 112
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 22,000
Power 112 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 50 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- At 285 m high, it is the tallest gravity dam in the world, seventh tallest dam overall, and the tallest dam in Europe.
- It is part of the Cleuson-Dixence Complex.
- With the primary purpose of hydroelectric power generation, the dam fuels four power stations, totaling the installed capacity to 2,069 MW, generating approximately 2,000 GWh annually, enough to power 400,000 Swiss households.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Grande Dixence Dam article was read about 22,000 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 52: each hit it takes is cut by 21 %.
How to get Grande Dixence Dam
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Grande Dixence Dam (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Jérémy Toma, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
