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Uncommon card · Science
Tricorder, an Uncommon card
A tricorder is a fictional handheld sensor that exists in the Star Trek universe.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 65
- DEF
- 39
- Power
- 104
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 22,000
Power 104 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 45 % of WikiCards cards.
Tricorder quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Tricorder card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
In Star Trek stories the devices are issued by the ______ Starfleet organization.
Answer
fictional. In Star Trek stories the devices are issued by the fictional Starfleet organization. From the Tricorder article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
The original physical prop for the tricorder was designed by Wah Chang and appeared in "The Man Trap" in ____, the first Star Trek episode to air.
Answer
1960s. The original physical prop for the tricorder was designed by Wah Chang and appeared in "The Man Trap" in 1966, the first Star Trek episode to air. From the Tricorder article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney. Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney 68 · Tricorder 65 · Archytas 62 · Roland SH-101 58 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 tricorder is a multifunctional hand-held device that can perform environmental scans, data recording, and data analysis, hence the word "tricorder" to refer to the three functions of sensing, recording, and computing.
- In Star Trek stories the devices are issued by the fictional Starfleet organization.
- The original physical prop for the tricorder was designed by Wah Chang and appeared in "The Man Trap" in 1966, the first Star Trek episode to air.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Tricorder article was read about 22,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 65 and blocks with 39: each hit it takes is cut by 16 %.
How to get Tricorder
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 Tricorder in the power ranking, all domains together.
- Roland SH-101Uncommon · Science · ATK 58 DEF 46
- Sunda ShelfUncommon · Nature · ATK 56 DEF 48
- Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount SydneyUncommon · History · ATK 68 DEF 36
- Eugénie GrandetUncommon · Arts · ATK 64 DEF 40
- FerrimagnetismUncommon · Science · ATK 63 DEF 41
- Frank MalinaUncommon · History · ATK 58 DEF 46
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Tricorder (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Joe Ross, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.
