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Ice core, an Uncommon card
An ice core is a core sample that is typically removed from an ice sheet or a high mountain glacier.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Nature
- ATK
- 83
- DEF
- 97
- Power
- 180
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 28,000
Power 180 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 90 % of WikiCards cards.
Ice core quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Ice core card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Cores are drilled with hand augers or ______ drills, they can reach depths of over two miles, and contain ice up to 800,000 years old.
Answer
powered. Cores are drilled with hand augers or powered drills, they can reach depths of over two miles, and contain ice up to 800,000 years old. From the Ice core article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
List of soricines. List of soricines 93 · Climate variability and change 87 · Ice core 83 · Delran Township, New Jersey 80 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Irish whiskey. Irish whiskey 100,000 · Barbuda 75,000 · Blue spruce 54,000 · Ice core 28,000 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.
- Since the ice forms from the incremental buildup of annual layers of snow, lower layers are older than upper ones, and an ice core contains ice formed over a range of years.
- Cores are drilled with hand augers or powered drills, they can reach depths of over two miles, and contain ice up to 800,000 years old.
- The physical properties of the ice and of material trapped in it can be used to reconstruct the climate over the age range of the core.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Ice core 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 83 and blocks with 97: each hit it takes is cut by 39 %.
How to get Ice core
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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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Ice core (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Photo by Lonnie Thompson, Byrd Polar Research Center, Ohio State University., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
