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Epic card · History
Philistines, an Epic card
The Philistines were an ancient people who lived along the southern coast of Canaan during the Iron Age.
- Rarity
- Epic
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 88
- DEF
- 95
- Power
- 183
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 640,000
Ranked #592 of the 3,000 cards of the base set by power (ATK + DEF).
Philistines quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Philistines card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Their territory was organized into a ______ of city-states known collectively as Philistia.
Answer
confederation. Their territory was organized into a confederation of city-states known collectively as Philistia. From the Philistines article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Bertrand Russell. Bertrand Russell 94 · Suharto 91 · Philistines 88 · Battle of the Alamo 83 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.
- Their territory was organized into a confederation of city-states known collectively as Philistia.
- They spoke the Philistine language, which is poorly attested, with debate ongoing among scholars as to whether the Philistines originally spoke an Indo-European language that gradually synthesized with the local Canaanite dialect continuum of the Northwest Semitic languages.
- There is evidence to suggest that the Philistine identity began developing through the arrival in Canaan of a Greek migrant group from the Aegean.
Why it is Epic
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Philistines article was read about 640,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 88 and blocks with 95: each hit it takes is cut by 38 %.
How to get Philistines
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Philistines (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Ant888nsmb2, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
