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Rare card · History
Wild Hunt, a Rare card
The Wild Hunt is a folklore motif occurring across various northern, western and eastern European societies, appearing in the religions of the Germanics, Celts, and Slavs.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 79
- DEF
- 84
- Power
- 163
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 280,000
Power 163 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 85 % of WikiCards cards.
Wild Hunt quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Wild Hunt card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The ______ are generally the souls of the dead or ghostly dogs, sometimes fairies, valkyries, or elves.
Answer
hunters. The hunters are generally the souls of the dead or ghostly dogs, sometimes fairies, valkyries, or elves. From the Wild Hunt article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Khris Middleton. Khris Middleton 82 · Wild Hunt 79 · Pronghorn 76 · Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany 73 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.
- Wild Hunts typically involve a chase led by a mythological figure escorted by a ghostly or supernatural group of hunters engaged in pursuit.
- The leader of the hunt is often a named figure associated with Odin in Germanic legends, but may variously be a historical or legendary figure like Theodoric the Great, the Danish king Valdemar Atterdag, the dragon slayer Sigurd, the psychopomp of Welsh mythology Gwyn ap Nudd, biblical figures such as Herod, Cain, Gabriel, or the Devil, or an unidentified lost soul.
- The hunters are generally the souls of the dead or ghostly dogs, sometimes fairies, valkyries, or elves.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Wild Hunt article was read about 280,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 79 and blocks with 84: each hit it takes is cut by 34 %.
How to get Wild Hunt
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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Cards close in power
The cards just above and just below Wild Hunt in the power ranking, all domains together.
- Juan Sebastián VerónRare · Society · ATK 80 DEF 83
- Khris MiddletonRare · Society · ATK 82 DEF 81
- PronghornRare · Nature · ATK 76 DEF 87
- Nick CastellanosRare · Society · ATK 79 DEF 84
- Samuel Taylor ColeridgeRare · Arts · ATK 81 DEF 82
- Sea cucumberRare · Nature · ATK 82 DEF 81
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Wild Hunt (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Peter Nicolai Arbo, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
