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Oil paint, an Uncommon card
Oil paint is a type of slow-drying paint that consists of particles of pigment suspended in a drying oil, commonly linseed oil.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 62
- DEF
- 45
- Power
- 107
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 36,000
Power 107 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 45 % of WikiCards cards.
Oil paint quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Oil paint card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Oil paint also has practical advantages over other paints, mainly because it is ______.
Answer
waterproof. Oil paint also has practical advantages over other paints, mainly because it is waterproof. From the Oil paint article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Billy Gilbert. Billy Gilbert 66 · Oil paint 62 · Glacial lake 59 · Banquet 55 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.
- Oil paint also has practical advantages over other paints, mainly because it is waterproof.
- The earliest surviving examples of oil paint have been found in Asia from as early as the 7th century AD, in examples of Buddhist paintings in Afghanistan.
- Oil-based paints made their way to Europe by the 12th century and were used for simple decoration, mostly on wood.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Oil paint article was read about 36,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 62 and blocks with 45: each hit it takes is cut by 18 %.
How to get Oil paint
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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Cards close in power
The cards just above and just below Oil paint in the power ranking, all domains together.
- Glacial lakeUncommon · Nature · ATK 59 DEF 48
- Grazia DeleddaUncommon · Arts · ATK 64 DEF 43
- Ilya SorokinUncommon · Society · ATK 65 DEF 42
- Saab 21RUncommon · Science · ATK 62 DEF 45
- Argo NavisUncommon · Science · ATK 60 DEF 47
- BanquetUncommon · Society · ATK 55 DEF 52
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Oil paint (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Johannes Vermeer, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
