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Rare card · Nature
Lightning, a Rare card
Lightning is a natural phenomenon consisting of electrostatic discharges occurring through the atmosphere between two electrically charged regions.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- Nature
- ATK
- 90
- DEF
- 93
- Power
- 183
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 380,000
Power 183 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 95 % of WikiCards cards.
Lightning quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Lightning card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Following the lightning, the ______ become partially or wholly electrically neutralized.
Answer
regions. Following the lightning, the regions become partially or wholly electrically neutralized. From the Lightning article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Beta distribution. Beta distribution 97 · Lightning 90 · Parrot 87 · Emu 83 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.
- One or both regions are within the atmosphere, with the second region sometimes occurring on the ground.
- Following the lightning, the regions become partially or wholly electrically neutralized.
- Lightning involves a near-instantaneous release of energy on a scale averaging between 200 megajoules and 7 gigajoules.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Lightning article was read about 380,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 90 and blocks with 93: each hit it takes is cut by 37 %.
How to get Lightning
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, Lightning (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Maxime Raynal from France, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.
