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Uncommon card · Society
Mortar and pestle, an Uncommon card
A mortar and pestle is a set of two simple tools used to prepare ingredients or substances by crushing and grinding them into a fine paste or powder in the kitchen, laboratory, and pharmacy.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Society
- ATK
- 66
- DEF
- 57
- Power
- 123
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 150,000
Power 123 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 60 % of WikiCards cards.
Mortar and pestle quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Mortar and pestle card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The pestle is a blunt, club-shaped ______.
Answer
object. The pestle is a blunt, club-shaped object. From the Mortar and pestle article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Kostya Tszyu. Kostya Tszyu 73 · Jeongjo of Joseon 69 · Mortar and pestle 66 · Dodge Charger 63 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 mortar is characteristically a bowl, typically made of hardwood, metal, ceramic, or hard stone such as granite.
- The pestle is a blunt, club-shaped object.
- The substance to be ground, which may be wet or dry, is placed in the mortar where the pestle is pounded, pressed, or rotated into the substance until the desired texture is achieved.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Mortar and pestle article was read about 150,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 66 and blocks with 57: each hit it takes is cut by 23 %.
How to get Mortar and pestle
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.
More Society cards
Cards close in power
The cards just above and just below Mortar and pestle in the power ranking, all domains together.
- Jeongjo of JoseonUncommon · History · ATK 69 DEF 54
- John BoyneUncommon · Arts · ATK 69 DEF 54
- Kostya TszyuUncommon · Society · ATK 73 DEF 50
- New Testament apocryphaUncommon · Society · ATK 73 DEF 50
- OsmosisUncommon · Science · ATK 66 DEF 57
- SolitaireUncommon · Society · ATK 66 DEF 57
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Mortar and pestle (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Evan-Amos, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
