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Busby Stoop Chair, a Common card
The Busby Stoop Chair or the Dead Man's Chair is an oak chair that was supposedly cursed by the murderer Thomas Busby before his execution by hanging in 1702 in North Yorkshire, in the United Kingdom.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 46
- DEF
- 34
- Power
- 80
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 9,100
Power 80 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 40 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- The chair is said to have remained in use for centuries at the Busby Stoop inn, near Thirsk.
- Due to the many deaths later attributed to people sitting in the chair, the landlord donated it to Thirsk Museum in 1978.
- A furniture historian examined the chair and found it to have machine-turned spindles, whereas 18th-century chairs were made using a pole lathe.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Busby Stoop Chair article was read about 9,100 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 46 and blocks with 34: each hit it takes is cut by 14 %.
How to get Busby Stoop Chair
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, Busby Stoop Chair (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Maigheach-gheal, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.
