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Epic card · History
Mali War, an Epic card
The Mali War is an ongoing conflict that began on 16 January 2012 with a Tuareg rebellion in northern Mali.
- Rarity
- Epic
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 97
- DEF
- 99
- Power
- 196
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 520,000
Power 196 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 95 % of WikiCards cards.
Mali War quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Mali War card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
In which decade?
The Mali War is an ongoing conflict that began on 16 January ____ with a Tuareg rebellion in northern Mali.
Answer
2010s. The Mali War is an ongoing conflict that began on 16 January 2012 with a Tuareg rebellion in northern Mali. From the Mali War article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Bosnian War. Bosnian War 1,300,000 · Andy Murray 1,000,000 · Ferdinand Marcos 680,000 · Mali War 520,000 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.
- The rebels included the secular-oriented National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad, a group fighting for independence or greater autonomy of a region they called Azawad.
- The MNLA was initially allied with the jihadist Ansar Dine, which, in turn, was allied to other Salafi jihadist organizations such as al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb and its splinter, Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa.
- On 22 March 2012, President Amadou Toumani Touré was ousted in a coup d'état over his handling of the crisis, a month before a presidential election was to have taken place.
Why it is Epic
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Mali War article was read about 520,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 97 and blocks with 99: each hit it takes is cut by 40 %.
How to get Mali War
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Mali War (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Borysk5, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
