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Uncommon card · Science
Loam, an Uncommon card
Loam is soil composed mostly of sand, silt, and a smaller amount of clay.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 49
- DEF
- 41
- Power
- 90
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 100,000
Power 90 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 30 % of WikiCards cards.
Loam quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Loam card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
By weight, its ______ composition is about 40–40–20% concentration of sand, silt and clay, respectively.
Answer
mineral. By weight, its mineral composition is about 40–40–20% concentration of sand, silt and clay, respectively. From the Loam article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Masoud Khamenei. Masoud Khamenei 590,000 · Loam 100,000 · Bunsen burner 75,000 · SULT4A1 220 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.
- By weight, its mineral composition is about 40–40–20% concentration of sand, silt and clay, respectively.
- These proportions can vary to a degree, however, and result in different types of loam soils: sandy loam, silty loam, clay loam, sandy clay loam, silty clay loam, and loam.
- In the United States Department of Agriculture, textural classification triangle, the only soil that is not predominantly sand, silt, or clay is called "loam".
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Loam article was read about 100,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 49 and blocks with 41: each hit it takes is cut by 16 %.
How to get Loam
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 Loam in the power ranking, all domains together.
- Yazz the GreatestUncommon · Arts · ATK 55 DEF 35
- Bagger 288Uncommon · Science · ATK 56 DEF 34
- BraisingUncommon · Society · ATK 49 DEF 41
- Emperor KinmeiUncommon · History · ATK 60 DEF 30
- Banana breadUncommon · Science · ATK 48 DEF 42
- Elizabeth AllenUncommon · Arts · ATK 56 DEF 34
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Loam (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : cmglee, Mikenorton, United States Department of Agriculture, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
