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Uncommon card · Science
Flugelhorn, an Uncommon card
The flugelhorn is a high brass instrument similar to the trumpet and cornet, but with the wider conical bore of a bugle, producing a darker, mellower sound or timbre.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 65
- DEF
- 60
- Power
- 125
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 120,000
Power 125 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 60 % of WikiCards cards.
Flugelhorn quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Flugelhorn card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The keyed bugle was soon replaced by valved bugles after the ______ of valves in the 1820s.
Answer
invention. The keyed bugle was soon replaced by valved bugles after the invention of valves in the 1820s. From the Flugelhorn article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Lathe. Lathe 75 · Keye Luke 72 · Collie 69 · Flugelhorn 65 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.
- Like trumpets and cornets, most flugelhorns are built in B♭, though some are in C. Developed in Germany in the late 18th century from earlier traditional signal instruments, bugles were fitted with tone holes to produce keyed bugles around 1800.
- The keyed bugle was soon replaced by valved bugles after the invention of valves in the 1820s.
- Modern flugelhorns usually have piston valves, though flugelhorns with rotary valves are common in central and eastern Europe.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Flugelhorn article was read about 120,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 65 and blocks with 60: each hit it takes is cut by 24 %.
How to get Flugelhorn
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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- Keye LukeUncommon · Arts · ATK 72 DEF 53
- LactoseUncommon · Science · ATK 69 DEF 56
- Oleg TaktarovUncommon · Arts · ATK 70 DEF 55
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Flugelhorn (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Photograph: Yamaha Corporation, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
