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William Ball, a Common card
William Ball, the "Shropshire Giant", was a nineteenth-century iron puddler and "giant".
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 47
- DEF
- 37
- Power
- 84
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 4,900
Ranked #2,803 of the 3,000 cards of the base set by power (ATK + DEF).
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- As an adult he was 5 feet 9 inches tall and weighed more than forty stone.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The William Ball article was read about 4,900 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 47 and blocks with 37: each hit it takes is cut by 15 %.
How to get William Ball
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, William Ball (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Andy Dingley, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.





