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Glíma, a Common card
Glíma is an Icelandic sport for combat and is categorised as Nordic folk wrestling.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Society
- ATK
- 52
- DEF
- 22
- Power
- 74
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 14,000
Power 74 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 15 % of WikiCards cards.
Glíma quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Glíma card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Other variants allow for more ______.
Answer
aggression. Other variants allow for more aggression. From the Glíma article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Vladimir Petrov. Vladimir Petrov 57 · Glíma 52 · Pauline privilege 49 · List of airlines of Vietnam 43 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.
- In the most common form of glima, players grip their opponent by the waist and attempt to throw them to the ground using technique rather than force.
- Other variants allow for more aggression.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Glíma article was read about 14,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 52 and blocks with 22: each hit it takes is cut by 9 %.
How to get Glíma
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 Glíma in the power ranking, all domains together.
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- Hand puppetCommon · Arts · ATK 46 DEF 28
- Massimo GirottiCommon · Arts · ATK 56 DEF 18
- Silver needle noodlesCommon · Science · ATK 48 DEF 26
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Glíma (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Eythorsson, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
