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Lens, an Uncommon card
The lens, or crystalline lens, is a transparent biconvex structure in most land vertebrate eyes.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 77
- DEF
- 88
- Power
- 165
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 20,000
Power 165 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 85 % of WikiCards cards.
Lens quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Lens card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Relatively long, thin fiber cells make up the ______ of the lens.
Answer
majority. Relatively long, thin fiber cells make up the majority of the lens. From the Lens article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
List of federal judges appointed by George W. Bush. List of federal judges appointed by George W. Bush 86 · Clique problem 83 · Congregationalism in the United States 80 · Lens 77 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Geomorphology. Geomorphology 58,000 · Hans Eysenck 44,000 · Clique problem 30,000 · Lens 20,000 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.
- Relatively long, thin fiber cells make up the majority of the lens.
- These cells vary in architecture and are arranged in concentric layers.
- New layers of cells are recruited from a thin epithelium at the front of the lens, just below the basement membrane surrounding the lens.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Lens article was read about 20,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 77 and blocks with 88: each hit it takes is cut by 35 %.
How to get Lens
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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The cards just above and just below Lens in the power ranking, all domains together.
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- Su SongUncommon · History · ATK 73 DEF 92
- Animal colorationUncommon · Nature · ATK 76 DEF 89
- 5-MethoxytryptamineUncommon · Society · ATK 79 DEF 86
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Lens (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Tgru001, CC0, Wikimedia Commons.

