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Uncommon card · Nature
Pest, an Uncommon card
A pest is any organism harmful to humans or human concerns. The term is particularly used for creatures that damage crops, livestock, and forestry or cause a nuisance to people, especially in their homes.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Nature
- ATK
- 77
- DEF
- 84
- Power
- 161
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 61,000
Power 161 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 80 % of WikiCards cards.
Pest quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Pest card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Thus, an elephant is ______ in its natural habitat but a pest when it tramples crops.
Answer
unobjectionable. Thus, an elephant is unobjectionable in its natural habitat but a pest when it tramples crops. From the Pest article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Evolution of sexual reproduction. Evolution of sexual reproduction 83 · Social movement 80 · Pest 77 · Black-backed jackal 74 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.
- Humans have modified the environment for their own purposes and are intolerant of other creatures occupying the same space when their activities impact adversely on human objectives.
- Thus, an elephant is unobjectionable in its natural habitat but a pest when it tramples crops.
- Some animals are disliked because they bite or sting, wolves, snakes, wasps, ants, bees, bed bugs, mosquitos, fleas and ticks belong in this category.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Pest article was read about 61,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 77 and blocks with 84: each hit it takes is cut by 34 %.
How to get Pest
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 Nature cards
Cards close in power
The cards just above and just below Pest in the power ranking, all domains together.
- Social movementUncommon · Society · ATK 80 DEF 81
- Houghton, MichiganUncommon · Society · ATK 78 DEF 83
- HyadesUncommon · Science · ATK 75 DEF 86
- Hannah LimUncommon · Arts · ATK 76 DEF 85
- JustificationUncommon · Society · ATK 82 DEF 79
- China National Petroleum CorporationUncommon · Society · ATK 77 DEF 84
Card lists
- Wikipedia quizNew questions every day
- All cards from A to ZEvery card, by name
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- Tier listS and A tiers by power (ATK + DEF)
Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Pest (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Michal Maňas, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
