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The Ministry of Silly Walks, an Uncommon card
"The Ministry of Silly Walks" is a sketch from the Monty Python comedy troupe's television show Monty Python's Flying Circus, series 2, episode 1, which is entitled "Face the Press".
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 63
- DEF
- 35
- Power
- 98
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 47,000
Power 98 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 40 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- The episode first aired on 15 September 1970.
- A shortened version of the sketch was performed for Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl.
- A satire on bureaucratic inefficiency, the sketch involves John Cleese as a bowler-hatted civil servant in a fictitious British government ministry responsible for developing silly walks through grants.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The The Ministry of Silly Walks article was read about 47,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 63 and blocks with 35: each hit it takes is cut by 14 %.
How to get The Ministry of Silly Walks
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, The Ministry of Silly Walks (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Jazeen Hollings ( User talk:JazHol ), CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
