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Uncommon card · History
Shield wall, an Uncommon card
A shield wall is a military formation that was common in ancient and medieval warfare.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 54
- DEF
- 31
- Power
- 85
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 27,000
Power 85 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 25 % of WikiCards cards.
Shield wall quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Shield wall card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Each soldier thus benefited from the ______ of the shields of his neighbors and his own.
Answer
protection. Each soldier thus benefited from the protection of the shields of his neighbors and his own. From the Shield wall article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Ron Huldai. Ron Huldai 57 · Shield wall 54 · Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov 51 · Beorhtric of Wessex 48 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.
- There were many slight variations of this formation, but the common factor was soldiers standing shoulder to shoulder and holding their shields so that they would abut or overlap.
- Each soldier thus benefited from the protection of the shields of his neighbors and his own.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Shield wall article was read about 27,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 54 and blocks with 31: each hit it takes is cut by 12 %.
How to get Shield wall
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, Shield wall (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : photo by Gabriel Seah, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
