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Barnes Wallis, an Uncommon card
Sir Barnes Neville Wallis was an English engineer and inventor.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 72
- DEF
- 65
- Power
- 137
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 64,000
Power 137 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 70 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- He is best known for having invented the bouncing bomb used by the Royal Air Force in Operation Chastise to attack the dams of the Ruhr Valley during World War II.
- The raid was the subject of the 1955 film The Dam Busters, in which Wallis was played by Michael Redgrave.
- Among his other inventions were his version of the geodetic airframe and the earthquake bomb, including designs such as the Tallboy and Grand Slam bombs.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Barnes Wallis article was read about 64,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 72 and blocks with 65: each hit it takes is cut by 26 %.
How to get Barnes Wallis
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Barnes Wallis (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Unknown author., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.