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Uncommon card · Arts
Algernon Blackwood, an Uncommon card
Algernon Henry Blackwood was an English broadcasting narrator, journalist, novelist and short story writer, and among the most prolific ghost story writers in the history of the genre.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 70
- DEF
- 52
- Power
- 122
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 83,000
Power 122 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 60 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- The literary critic S. T. Joshi stated, "His work is more consistently meritorious than any weird writer's except Dunsany's" and that his short story collection Incredible Adventures "may be the premier weird collection of this or any other century".
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Algernon Blackwood article was read about 83,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 70 and blocks with 52: each hit it takes is cut by 21 %.
How to get Algernon Blackwood
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, Algernon Blackwood (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
