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Uncommon card · History
Tom Crean, an Uncommon card
Thomas Crean was an Irish seaman and Antarctic explorer who was awarded the Albert Medal for Lifesaving.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 74
- DEF
- 90
- Power
- 164
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 79,000
Power 164 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 85 % of WikiCards cards.
Tom Crean quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Tom Crean card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
This saw the race to reach the South Pole lost to Roald Amundsen and ended in the ______ of Scott and his party.
Answer
deaths. This saw the race to reach the South Pole lost to Roald Amundsen and ended in the deaths of Scott and his party. From the Tom Crean article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Ryan Routh. Ryan Routh 84 · Hugo Grotius 81 · Sergei Witte 77 · Tom Crean 74 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.
- Crean was a member of three major expeditions to Antarctica during the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, including Robert Falcon Scott's 1911–1913 Terra Nova Expedition.
- This saw the race to reach the South Pole lost to Roald Amundsen and ended in the deaths of Scott and his party.
- During the expedition, Crean's 35-statute-mile solo walk across the Ross Ice Shelf to save the life of Edward Evans led to him receiving the Albert Medal.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Tom Crean article was read about 79,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 74 and blocks with 90: each hit it takes is cut by 36 %.
How to get Tom Crean
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Tom Crean (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Frank Hurley, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
