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Uncommon card · Science
Hornfels, an Uncommon card
Hornfels is the group name for a set of contact metamorphic rocks that have been baked and hardened by the heat of intrusive igneous masses and have been rendered massive, hard, splintery, and in some cases exceedingly tough and durable.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 62
- DEF
- 50
- Power
- 112
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 19,000
Power 112 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 50 % of WikiCards cards.
Hornfels quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Hornfels card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
These rocks were referred to by miners in northern England as ______.
Answer
whetstones. These rocks were referred to by miners in northern England as whetstones. From the Hornfels article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Mary Parker Follett. Mary Parker Follett 68 · John D. Barrow 65 · Hornfels 62 · Histories 58 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.
- These properties are caused by fine grained non-aligned crystals with platy or prismatic habits, characteristic of metamorphism at high temperature but without accompanying deformation.
- The term is derived from the German word Hornfels, meaning "hornstone", because of its exceptional toughness and texture both reminiscent of animal horns.
- These rocks were referred to by miners in northern England as whetstones.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Hornfels article was read about 19,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 62 and blocks with 50: each hit it takes is cut by 20 %.
How to get Hornfels
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The cards just above and just below Hornfels in the power ranking, all domains together.
- Baadur JobavaUncommon · Society · ATK 62 DEF 50
- Ferhat AbbasUncommon · History · ATK 64 DEF 48
- HistoriesUncommon · History · ATK 58 DEF 54
- Luke BerryUncommon · Society · ATK 61 DEF 51
- National Historical Commission of the PhilippinesUncommon · History · ATK 60 DEF 52
- Nectanebo IUncommon · History · ATK 58 DEF 54
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Hornfels (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : User Fed on ru.wikipedia, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
