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Merensky Reef, a Common card
The Merensky Reef is a layer of igneous rock in the Bushveld Igneous Complex in the North West, Limpopo, Gauteng and Mpumalanga provinces of South Africa which together with an underlying layer, the Upper Group 2 Reef, contains most of the world's known reserves of platinum group metals or platinum group elements…
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Nature
- ATK
- 56
- DEF
- 44
- Power
- 100
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 5,700
Power 100 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 40 % of WikiCards cards.
Merensky Reef quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Merensky Reef card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The Reef is 46 cm thick and bounded by thin chromite seams or ______.
Answer
stringers. The Reef is 46 cm thick and bounded by thin chromite seams or stringers. From the Merensky Reef article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Graphic matroid. Graphic matroid 62 · Fremont High School 59 · Merensky Reef 56 · Harwich International Port 53 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.
- The Reef is 46 cm thick and bounded by thin chromite seams or stringers.
- The composition consists predominantly of cumulate rocks, including leuconorite, anorthosite, chromitite, and melanorite.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Merensky Reef article was read about 5,700 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 56 and blocks with 44: each hit it takes is cut by 18 %.
How to get Merensky Reef
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, Merensky Reef (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Paul venter, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
