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Uncommon card · History
Galleon, an Uncommon card
Galleons were large, multi-decked sailing ships developed in the early 16th century from ships such as the caravel and the carrack, in Portugal and in Spain.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 69
- DEF
- 51
- Power
- 120
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 190,000
Power 120 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 55 % of WikiCards cards.
Galleon quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Galleon card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Ananda Mahidol. Ananda Mahidol 72 · Galleon 69 · Vasily Arkhipov 66 · Miuccia Prada 63 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Abe Vigoda. Abe Vigoda 400,000 · Vasily Arkhipov 310,000 · Galleon 190,000 · Amrita Pritam 150,000 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.
- They were first used by Europeans as armed cargo carriers from the 16th to 18th centuries during the Age of Sail, and they were the principal vessels drafted for use as warships until the Anglo-Dutch Wars of the mid-17th century.
- Galleons generally carried three or more masts with a lateen fore-and-aft rig on the rear masts, were carvel built with a prominent squared off raised stern, and used square-rigged sail plans on their fore-mast and main-masts.
- Such ships played a major role in commerce in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and were often drafted into use as auxiliary naval war vessels, indeed, they were the mainstay of contending fleets through most of the 150 years of the Age of Exploration, before the Anglo-Dutch wars made purpose-built warships dominant at sea during the remainder of the Age of Sail.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Galleon article was read about 190,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 69 and blocks with 51: each hit it takes is cut by 20 %.
How to get Galleon
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, Galleon (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Desconhecido, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
