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Common card · Science
Necessity good, a Common card
In economics, a necessity good or a necessary good is a type of normal good, and they are usually classified as an inferior good.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 41
- DEF
- 23
- Power
- 64
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 4,900
Power 64 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 10 % of WikiCards cards.
Necessity good quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Necessity good card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Necessity goods often do not have close ______ goods.
Answer
substitute. Necessity goods often do not have close substitute goods. From the Necessity good article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Multistage amplifier. Multistage amplifier 51 · Ernst Herzfeld 48 · Sony Ericsson M600 45 · Necessity good 41 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.
- Necessity goods are product and services that consumers will buy regardless of the changes in their income levels, therefore making these products less sensitive to income change.
- Necessity goods are goods or services which are indispensable to humans, such as food, water, or shelter.
- Necessity goods often do not have close substitute goods.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Necessity good article was read about 4,900 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 41 and blocks with 23: each hit it takes is cut by 9 %.
How to get Necessity good
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 Necessity good in the power ranking, all domains together.
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- Rodrigo CorralesCommon · Society · ATK 48 DEF 16
- Sandra MondainiCommon · Arts · ATK 49 DEF 15
- Belarusian Transport TroopsCommon · History · ATK 47 DEF 17
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Necessity good (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Cmglee, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
