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Rare card · History
Arquebus, a Rare card
An arquebus is a form of long gun that appeared in Europe and the Ottoman Empire during the 15th century.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 78
- DEF
- 93
- Power
- 171
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 360,000
Ranked #1,379 of the 3,000 cards of the base set by power (ATK + DEF).
Arquebus quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Arquebus card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
An ______ armed with an arquebus is called an arquebusier.
Answer
infantryman. An infantryman armed with an arquebus is called an arquebusier. From the Arquebus article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Almohad Caliphate. Almohad Caliphate 88 · Abdul Hamid II 85 · Muhammad Ali of Egypt 81 · Arquebus 78 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.
- An infantryman armed with an arquebus is called an arquebusier.
- The term arquebus was applied to many different forms of firearms from the 15th to 17th centuries, but it originally referred to "a hand-gun with a hook-like projection or lug on its under surface, useful for steadying it against battlements or other objects when firing".
- These "hook guns" were in their earliest forms defensive weapons mounted on German city walls in the early 15th century.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Arquebus article was read about 360,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 78 and blocks with 93: each hit it takes is cut by 37 %.
How to get Arquebus
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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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Arquebus (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : alisdair, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.
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