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Legendary card · Science
Thomas Edison, a Legendary card
Thomas Alva Edison was an American inventor and businessman known for his work on the incandescent light bulb, the phonograph, electric power distribution and early motion pictures.
- Rarity
- Legendary
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 86
- DEF
- 100
- Power
- 186
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 1,300,000
Ranked #269 of 3,000 cards by power (ATK + DEF) in the base set.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- The merger of the Edison General Electric Company and the competitor Thomson-Houston Electric Company resulted in the formation of General Electric.
- Edison registered 1,093 patents in the United States.
- Edison was born in Milan, Ohio, but grew up in Michigan with little formal schooling.
Why it is Legendary
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Thomas Edison article was read about 1,300,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 86 and blocks with 100: each hit it takes is cut by 40 %.
How to get Thomas Edison
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 3 hours, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Thomas Edison (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Louis Bachrach, Bachrach Studios , restored by Michel Vuijlsteke, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
