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Uncommon card · History
Dreyse needle gun, an Uncommon card
The Dreyse needle-gun was a 19th-century military breech-loading rifle, as well as the first breech-loading rifle to use a bolt action to open and close the chamber.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 67
- DEF
- 56
- Power
- 123
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 130,000
Power 123 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 60 % of WikiCards cards.
Dreyse needle gun quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Dreyse needle gun card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
It was used as the main infantry weapon of the ______ in the Wars of German Unification.
Answer
Prussians. It was used as the main infantry weapon of the Prussians in the Wars of German Unification. From the Dreyse needle gun article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Ethos. Ethos 70 · Dreyse needle gun 67 · Curry tree 59 · Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani 54 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.
- It was used as the main infantry weapon of the Prussians in the Wars of German Unification.
- It was invented in 1836 by the German gunsmith Johann Nikolaus von Dreyse, who had been conducting numerous design experiments since 1824.
- The name "ignition needle rifle" was based on its firing pin, since it passed like a needle through the paper cartridge to strike a percussion cap at the base of the bullet.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Dreyse needle gun article was read about 130,000 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 56: each hit it takes is cut by 22 %.
How to get Dreyse needle gun
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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The cards just above and just below Dreyse needle gun in the power ranking, all domains together.
- AlstroemeriaUncommon · Nature · ATK 66 DEF 57
- Curry treeUncommon · Nature · ATK 59 DEF 64
- Dan WalkerUncommon · Society · ATK 66 DEF 57
- EthosUncommon · History · ATK 70 DEF 53
- George MacDonaldUncommon · Arts · ATK 77 DEF 46
- Husband E. KimmelUncommon · History · ATK 70 DEF 53
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Dreyse needle gun (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Armémuseum (The Swedish Army Museum), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
