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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.

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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).

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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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Text : Wikipedia, Alexander John Forsyth (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.

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