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Flying Dutchman, a Rare card
The Flying Dutchman is a legendary ghost ship, allegedly never able to make port and doomed to sail the sea forever.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- Nature
- ATK
- 72
- DEF
- 69
- Power
- 141
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 360,000
Ranked #2,089 of the 3,000 cards of the base set by power (ATK + DEF).
Flying Dutchman quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Flying Dutchman card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The ______ known extant version of the legend dates from the late 18th century.
Answer
oldest. The oldest known extant version of the legend dates from the late 18th century. From the Flying Dutchman article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Coefficient of determination. Coefficient of determination 75 · Flying Dutchman 72 · Okra 68 · Lyra 65 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Flying Dutchman. Flying Dutchman 360,000 · Bethel Island 6,700 · Cyclone Savannah 2,400 · Lyra 740 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.
- The myths and ghost stories are likely to have originated from the 17th-century Golden Age of the Dutch East India Company and of Dutch maritime power.
- The oldest known extant version of the legend dates from the late 18th century.
- According to the legend, if hailed by another ship, the crew of the Flying Dutchman might try to send messages to land, or to people long dead.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Flying Dutchman article was read about 360,000 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 69: each hit it takes is cut by 28 %.
How to get Flying Dutchman
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, Flying Dutchman (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Albert Pinkham Ryder, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
