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Hoover Dam, a Rare card
The Hoover Dam is a concrete arch–gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, on the boundary between the U.S. states of Nevada and Arizona.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- Society
- ATK
- 84
- DEF
- 96
- Power
- 180
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 490,000
Ranked #602 of the 3,000 cards of the base set by power (ATK + DEF).
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Constructed between 1931 and 1936, during the Great Depression, it was dedicated on September 30, 1935, by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
- Its construction was the result of a massive effort involving thousands of workers, and cost over 96 lives.
- Bills passed by Congress during its construction referred to it as Hoover Dam, but the Roosevelt administration named it Boulder Dam.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Hoover Dam article was read about 490,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 84 and blocks with 96: each hit it takes is cut by 38 %.
How to get Hoover Dam
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The cards just above and just below Hoover Dam in the power ranking, all domains together.
- AztecsEpic · History · ATK 93 DEF 87
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- VolcanoRare · Nature · ATK 85 DEF 95
- John J. PershingRare · History · ATK 89 DEF 91
- Xi'anRare · History · ATK 88 DEF 92
- Aleksandr SolzhenitsynRare · Arts · ATK 88 DEF 92
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- Legendary cards136 cards
- Epic cards262 cards
- Strongest cardsTop 100 by attack
Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Hoover Dam (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Mariordo (Mario Roberto Durán Ortiz), CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
