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Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, a Rare card
"Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves" is a folk tale in Arabic added to the One Thousand and One Nights in the 18th century by its French translator Antoine Galland, who heard it from Syrian storyteller Hanna Diyab.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 74
- DEF
- 78
- Power
- 152
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 240,000
Power 152 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 80 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- As one of the most popular Arabian Nights tales, it has been widely retold and performed in many media across the world, especially for children.
- In the original version, Ali Baba is a poor woodcutter and an honest person who discovers the secret treasure of a thieves' den, and enters with the magic phrase "open sesame".
- The thieves try to kill Ali Baba while his rich and greedy brother Cassim tries to steal the treasure for himself, but Ali Baba’s faithful slave-girl Morgiana foils their plots.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves article was read about 240,000 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 78: each hit it takes is cut by 31 %.
How to get Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Maxfield Parrish, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
