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Uncommon card · History
Gwent, an Uncommon card
Gwent is a preserved county and former local government county in southeast Wales.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 51
- DEF
- 24
- Power
- 75
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 28,000
Power 75 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 20 % of WikiCards cards.
Gwent quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Gwent card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Under the Local Government Act 1994, the ______ of Gwent was abolished on 1 April 1996.
Answer
county. Under the Local Government Act 1994, the county of Gwent was abolished on 1 April 1996. From the Gwent article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Kings. Kings 56 · Gwent 51 · Rebecca Cairns-Wicks 48 · Robert Owen 45 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Gwent. Gwent 28,000 · Rebecca Cairns-Wicks 22,000 · Robert Owen 230 · Harald Pettersen 170 Wikipedia reads over a year.
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.
- A county of Gwent was formed on 1 April 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972, it was named after the ancient Kingdom of Gwent.
- The authority was a successor to both the administrative county of Monmouthshire and the county borough of Newport.
- Under the Local Government Act 1994, the county of Gwent was abolished on 1 April 1996.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Gwent article was read about 28,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 51 and blocks with 24: each hit it takes is cut by 10 %.
How to get Gwent
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 Gwent in the power ranking, all domains together.
- Carbon-12Uncommon · Science · ATK 50 DEF 25
- KingsUncommon · Society · ATK 56 DEF 19
- Livinia NixonUncommon · Arts · ATK 52 DEF 23
- Fausto BrizziUncommon · Arts · ATK 53 DEF 22
- Tombs of the KingsUncommon · History · ATK 46 DEF 29
- Rebecca Cairns-WicksUncommon · History · ATK 48 DEF 27
Card lists
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- Tier listS and A tiers by power (ATK + DEF)
Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Gwent (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : TUBS, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
