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Kuwaiti oil fires, an Uncommon card
The Kuwaiti oil fires were caused by the Iraqi military setting fire to a reported 605 to 732 oil wells along with an unspecified number of oil-filled low-lying areas, such as oil lakes and fire trenches while retreating from Kuwait in 1991 due to the advances of US-led coalition forces in the Gulf War.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 74
- DEF
- 88
- Power
- 162
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 150,000
Power 162 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 80 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- The fires were started in January and February 1991, and the first oil well fires were extinguished in early April 1991, with the last well capped on November 6, 1991.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Kuwaiti oil fires article was read about 150,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 74 and blocks with 88: each hit it takes is cut by 35 %.
How to get Kuwaiti oil fires
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Kuwaiti oil fires (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Habib Hassan Kuwait, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.