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B. Traven, an Uncommon card
B. Traven was the pen name of a novelist, presumed to be German, known for his novels on injustice and exploitation around the world, and especially in Mexico.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 74
- DEF
- 70
- Power
- 144
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 50,000
Power 144 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 75 % of WikiCards cards.
B. Traven quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the B. Traven card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
His name, ______, date and place of birth have been subject to dispute.
Answer
nationality. His name, nationality, date and place of birth have been subject to dispute. From the B. Traven article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Trueno. Trueno 84 · Len Wein 78 · B. Traven 74 · César Manrique 70 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.
- His name, nationality, date and place of birth have been subject to dispute.
- One certainty about Traven's life is that he lived under the name of Ret Marut in Germany until 1923 and arrived in 1924 in Mexico, where the majority of his fiction is also set.
- However, Ret Marut was an assumed name and debate remains about his birth name, and Traven himself obscured the subject.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The B. Traven article was read about 50,000 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 70: each hit it takes is cut by 28 %.
How to get B. Traven
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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- EdmundoUncommon · Society · ATK 73 DEF 71
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- GoldLinkUncommon · Arts · ATK 73 DEF 71
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, B. Traven (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : British Authorities (London, 1923), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
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