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Alexander John Forsyth, a Common card
Alexander John Forsyth was a Scottish Church of Scotland minister, who first successfully used fulminating chemicals to prime gunpowder in fire-arms thereby creating what became known as percussion ignition.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 52
- DEF
- 32
- Power
- 84
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 4,700
Ranked #2,804 of the 3,000 cards of the base set by power (ATK + DEF).
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Alexander John Forsyth was a Scottish Church of Scotland minister, who first successfully used fulminating chemicals to prime gunpowder in fire-arms thereby creating what became known as percussion ignition.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Alexander John Forsyth article was read about 4,700 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 52 and blocks with 32: each hit it takes is cut by 13 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Alexander John Forsyth (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.




