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Ironstone, an Uncommon card
Ironstone is a sedimentary rock, either deposited directly as a ferruginous sediment or created by chemical replacement, that contains a substantial proportion of an iron ore compound from which iron can be smelted commercially.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Nature
- ATK
- 44
- DEF
- 32
- Power
- 76
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 26,000
Power 76 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 20 % of WikiCards cards.
Ironstone quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Ironstone card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The ______ deposits, which have a different origin, are generally known as banded iron formations.
Answer
Precambrian. The Precambrian deposits, which have a different origin, are generally known as banded iron formations. From the Ironstone article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Gadiformes. Gadiformes 59 · Kaz 54 · Bagheera kiplingi 50 · Ironstone 44 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Ironstone. Ironstone 26,000 · Hawksbill Mountain 12,000 · Spotted wood owl 6,000 · Swainsona flavicarinata 100 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.
- Not to be confused with native or telluric iron, which is very rare and found in metallic form, the term ironstone is customarily restricted to hard, coarsely banded, non-banded, and non-cherty sedimentary rocks of post-Precambrian age.
- The Precambrian deposits, which have a different origin, are generally known as banded iron formations.
- The iron minerals comprising ironstones can consist either of oxides, i.e. limonite, hematite, and magnetite, carbonates, i.e. siderite, silicates, i.e. chamosite, or some combination of these minerals.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Ironstone article was read about 26,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 44 and blocks with 32: each hit it takes is cut by 13 %.
How to get Ironstone
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, Ironstone (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Jstuby at English Wikipedia, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
