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USS Marathon, a Common card
USS Marathon was an Asheville-class gunboat acquired by the U.S. Navy for the task of high speed patrolling in shallow waterways.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 56
- DEF
- 21
- Power
- 77
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 1,000
Power 77 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 20 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- The second ship to be named Marathon by the Navy, PGM-89, a motor gunboat, was laid down 21 June 1966 by Tacoma Boatbuilding Company, Tacoma, Washington, reclassified PG 89 on 28 March 1967, launched 22 April 1967, sponsored by Mrs. Robert W. Copeland, and commissioned 11 May 1968.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The USS Marathon article was read about 1,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 56 and blocks with 21: each hit it takes is cut by 8 %.
How to get USS Marathon
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, USS Marathon (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : U.S. Navy, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
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