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Gamelan, an Uncommon card
Gamelan is the traditional ensemble music of the Javanese, Sundanese, and Balinese peoples of Indonesia, made up predominantly of percussive instruments.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 86
- DEF
- 81
- Power
- 167
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 170,000
Ranked #1,538 of the 3,000 cards of the base set by power (ATK + DEF).
Gamelan quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Gamelan card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The most common instruments used are ______ and a set of hand-drums called kendang, which keep the beat.
Answer
metallophones. The most common instruments used are metallophones and a set of hand-drums called kendang, which keep the beat. From the Gamelan article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Gamelan. Gamelan 86 · Megalith 81 · Mikhail Bulgakov 77 · Enlil 72 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Opera. Opera 280,000 · Mikhail Bulgakov 220,000 · Gamelan 170,000 · Furniture 100,000 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.
- The most common instruments used are metallophones and a set of hand-drums called kendang, which keep the beat.
- The kemanak, a banana-shaped idiophone, and the gangsa, another metallophone, are also commonly used gamelan instruments on Bali.
- Other notable instruments include xylophones, bamboo flutes, a bowed string instrument called a rebab, and a zither-like instrument called a siter, used in Javanese gamelan.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Gamelan article was read about 170,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 86 and blocks with 81: each hit it takes is cut by 32 %.
How to get Gamelan
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, Gamelan (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Gunawan Kartapranata, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
