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Lyd, a Common card
Lyd is a narrow gauge steam locomotive built by the Ffestiniog Railway in their own Boston Lodge shops over a period of 15 years.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Society
- ATK
- 52
- DEF
- 25
- Power
- 77
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 3,700
Power 77 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 20 % of WikiCards cards.
Lyd quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Lyd card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
In which decade?
Lyd is based on the design of the Lynton and Barnstaple Railway Locomotive E188 Lew which was built by Manning Wardle in ____ for the Southern Railway, who owned the line at the time.
Answer
1920s. Lyd is based on the design of the Lynton and Barnstaple Railway Locomotive E188 Lew which was built by Manning Wardle in 1925 for the Southern Railway, who owned the line at the time. From the Lyd article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Central Pacific 173. Central Pacific 173 57 · Lyd 52 · Danube–Oder Canal 47 · Bourgueil 41 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.
- Lyd is based on the design of the Lynton and Barnstaple Railway Locomotive E188 Lew which was built by Manning Wardle in 1925 for the Southern Railway, who owned the line at the time.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Lyd article was read about 3,700 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 25: each hit it takes is cut by 10 %.
How to get Lyd
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, Lyd (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Lyd_at_TyB.jpg : fairlightworks derivative work: Herbert Ortner, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.
