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Uncommon card · Arts
Lost-wax casting, an Uncommon card
Lost-wax casting – also called investment casting, precision casting, or cire perdue – is the process by which a duplicate sculpture is cast from an original sculpture.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 77
- DEF
- 93
- Power
- 170
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 82,000
Power 170 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 85 % of WikiCards cards.
Lost-wax casting quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Lost-wax casting card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Intricate works can be ______ by this method.
Answer
achieved. Intricate works can be achieved by this method. From the Lost-wax casting article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Arcade video game. Arcade video game 90 · Detective fiction 85 · John Adams 81 · Lost-wax casting 77 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.
- Intricate works can be achieved by this method.
- The oldest known examples of this technique are approximately 6,500 years old and attributed to gold artefacts found at Bulgaria's Varna Necropolis.
- A copper amulet from Mehrgarh, Indus Valley Civilization, in present-day Pakistan, is dated to circa 4000 BC.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Lost-wax casting article was read about 82,000 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 93: each hit it takes is cut by 37 %.
How to get Lost-wax casting
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, Lost-wax casting (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : originally User:Jonkerr , redone by User:H Padleckas, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
