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Legendary card · History
Paddy Mayne, a Legendary card
Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Blair Mayne,, best known as Paddy Mayne or familiarly as Blair, was a British Army officer from Newtownards.
- Rarity
- Legendary
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 73
- DEF
- 67
- Power
- 140
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 1,100,000
Power 140 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 70 % of WikiCards cards.
Paddy Mayne quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Paddy Mayne card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
He was controversially denied the Victoria Cross, a ______ which King George VI remarked "so strangely eluded him".
Answer
decoration. He was controversially denied the Victoria Cross, a decoration which King George VI remarked "so strangely eluded him". From the Paddy Mayne article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Shreyas Iyer. Shreyas Iyer 77 · Paddy Mayne 73 · Walter K. Wilson Sr. 68 · 613th Tactical Fighter Squadron 65 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Paddy Mayne. Paddy Mayne 1,100,000 · 613th Tactical Fighter Squadron 1,400 · Walter K. Wilson Sr. 870 · Nether Mill 560 Wikipedia reads over a year.
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 was an amateur boxing champion, qualified as a solicitor and played rugby union for Ireland and the British Lions before becoming a founding member of the Special Air Service.
- Serving with distinction during the Second World War, Mayne became one of the British Army's most highly decorated officers.
- He was controversially denied the Victoria Cross, a decoration which King George VI remarked "so strangely eluded him".
Why it is Legendary
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Paddy Mayne article was read about 1,100,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 73 and blocks with 67: each hit it takes is cut by 27 %.
How to get Paddy Mayne
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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- Ian McShaneLegendary · Arts · ATK 75 DEF 65
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Paddy Mayne (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
