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Rare card · History
James Bowie, a Rare card
James Bowie was an American military officer, landowner and slave trader who played a prominent role in the Texas Revolution.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 77
- DEF
- 100
- Power
- 177
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 230,000
Power 177 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 90 % of WikiCards cards.
James Bowie quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the James Bowie card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Bowie was among the ______ who died at the Battle of the Alamo.
Answer
Americans. Bowie was among the Americans who died at the Battle of the Alamo. From the James Bowie article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Santiago Peña. Santiago Peña 89 · Curt Schilling 85 · Train 80 · James Bowie 77 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.
- Bowie was among the Americans who died at the Battle of the Alamo.
- Stories of him as a fighter and frontiersman, both real and fictitious, have made him a legendary figure in Texas history and a folk hero of American culture.
- Born in Logan County, Kentucky, Bowie spent most of his life in Louisiana, where he was raised and where he later worked as a land speculator.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The James Bowie article was read about 230,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 77 and blocks with 100: each hit it takes is cut by 40 %.
How to get James Bowie
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, James Bowie (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : George Peter Alexander Healy, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
