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Rare card · History
Janissary, a Rare card
A janissary was a member of the elite infantry units that formed the Ottoman sultan's household troops.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 82
- DEF
- 90
- Power
- 172
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 340,000
Power 172 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 85 % of WikiCards cards.
Janissary quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Janissary card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The corps was ______ under either Orhan or Murad I, and dismantled by Mahmud II in 1826.
Answer
established. The corps was established under either Orhan or Murad I, and dismantled by Mahmud II in 1826. From the Janissary article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Capacitor. Capacitor 88 · Enigma machine 85 · Janissary 82 · Sargon of Akkad 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.
- They were one of the first modern standing armies, and perhaps the first infantry force in the world to be equipped primarily with firearms, adopted during the reign of Murad II.
- The corps was established under either Orhan or Murad I, and dismantled by Mahmud II in 1826.
- Janissaries began as an elite corps made up through the devşirme system of child levy enslavement, by which Christian boys, chiefly from the Balkans, were taken, levied, subjected to forced circumcision and forced conversion to Islam, and incorporated into the Ottoman army.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Janissary article was read about 340,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 82 and blocks with 90: each hit it takes is cut by 36 %.
How to get Janissary
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, Janissary (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Lambert Wyts, CC0, Wikimedia Commons.
