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Uncommon card · History
Martin Frobisher, an Uncommon card
Sir Martin Frobisher was an English sea captain and privateer who made three voyages to the New World looking for the North-west Passage.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 80
- DEF
- 87
- Power
- 167
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 50,000
Power 167 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 85 % of WikiCards cards.
Martin Frobisher quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Martin Frobisher card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
He initially determined a ______ of £5.20 per ton.
Answer
profit. He initially determined a profit of £5.20 per ton. From the Martin Frobisher article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Pancho Gonzales. Pancho Gonzales 85 · Martin Frobisher 80 · Bolesław Bierut 77 · First International 74 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.
- He probably sighted Resolution Island near Labrador in eastern Canada, before entering Frobisher Bay and landing on present-day Baffin Island.
- On his second voyage, Frobisher found what he thought was gold ore and carried 200 short tons of it home on three ships.
- He initially determined a profit of £5.20 per ton.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Martin Frobisher article was read about 50,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 80 and blocks with 87: each hit it takes is cut by 35 %.
How to get Martin Frobisher
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, Martin Frobisher (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Cornelis Ketel, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
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