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Epic card · Nature
North Pole, an Epic card
The North Pole, also known as the Geographic North Pole or Terrestrial North Pole, is the point in the Northern Hemisphere where the Earth's axis of rotation meets its surface.
- Rarity
- Epic
- Domain
- Nature
- ATK
- 82
- DEF
- 87
- Power
- 169
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 650,000
Power 169 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 85 % of WikiCards cards.
North Pole quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the North Pole card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
It is called the True North Pole to distinguish from the ______ North Pole.
Answer
Magnetic. It is called the True North Pole to distinguish from the Magnetic North Pole. From the North Pole article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
List of solar eclipses in the 21st century. List of solar eclipses in the 21st century 88 · Boeing B-29 Superfortress 85 · North Pole 82 · Tim Berners-Lee 77 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Tim Berners-Lee. Tim Berners-Lee 830,000 · North Pole 650,000 · Canon RF lens mount 39,000 · Electricity policy of Alberta 2,500 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.
- It is called the True North Pole to distinguish from the Magnetic North Pole.
- The North Pole is by definition the northernmost point on the Earth, lying antipodally to the South Pole.
- It defines geodetic latitude 90° North, as well as the direction of true north.
Why it is Epic
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The North Pole article was read about 650,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 82 and blocks with 87: each hit it takes is cut by 35 %.
How to get North Pole
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 North Pole in the power ranking, all domains together.
- AlexandriaEpic · Society · ATK 88 DEF 81
- Arunachal PradeshEpic · History · ATK 87 DEF 82
- Boeing B-29 SuperfortressEpic · History · ATK 85 DEF 84
- Nicholas I of RussiaEpic · History · ATK 82 DEF 87
- List of solar eclipses in the 21st centuryEpic · Science · ATK 88 DEF 81
- Body mass indexEpic · Science · ATK 80 DEF 89
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, North Pole (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Quentin Bernard, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
