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Baldr, a Rare card
Baldr in Old Norse, Bældæġ in Old English, Balder or Palter in Old High German, is a god in Germanic mythology.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 67
- DEF
- 69
- Power
- 136
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 250,000
Power 136 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 75 % of WikiCards cards.
Baldr quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Baldr card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
In Norse mythology, he is a son of the god Odin and the ______ Frigg, and has numerous brothers, such as Thor and Váli.
Answer
goddess. In Norse mythology, he is a son of the god Odin and the goddess Frigg, and has numerous brothers, such as Thor and Váli. From the Baldr article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Peter Cullen. Peter Cullen 80 · Archbasilica of Saint John Lateran 76 · Robert Carradine 72 · Baldr 67 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Robert Carradine. Robert Carradine 3,000,000 · Peter Cullen 2,100,000 · Clytemnestra 1,100,000 · Baldr 250,000 Wikipedia reads over a year.
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.
- In Norse mythology, he is a son of the god Odin and the goddess Frigg, and has numerous brothers, such as Thor and Váli.
- During the 12th century, Danish accounts by Saxo Grammaticus and other Danish Latin chroniclers recorded a euhemerized account of his story.
- Compiled in Iceland during the 13th century, but based on older Old Norse poetry, the Poetic Edda and the Prose Edda contain numerous references to the death of Baldr as both a great tragedy to the Æsir and a harbinger of Ragnarök.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Baldr article was read about 250,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 67 and blocks with 69: each hit it takes is cut by 28 %.
How to get Baldr
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, Baldr (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Elmer Boyd Smith, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
