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Bacchylides, a Common card
Bacchylides was a Greek lyric poet.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 74
- DEF
- 81
- Power
- 155
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 11,000
Ranked #1,864 of the 2,999 cards of the base set by power (ATK + DEF).
Bacchylides quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Bacchylides card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Some scholars have ______ these qualities as superficial charm.
Answer
characterized. Some scholars have characterized these qualities as superficial charm. From the Bacchylides article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Capitoline Museums. Capitoline Museums 81 · Criminal Tribes Act 77 · Bacchylides 74 · Khachatur Abovian 70 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Colossal Cave Adventure. Colossal Cave Adventure 91,000 · Capitoline Museums 68,000 · Criminal Tribes Act 52,000 · Bacchylides 11,000 Wikipedia reads over a year.
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.
- Later Greeks included him in the canonical list of Nine Lyric Poets, which included his uncle Simonides.
- The elegance and polished style of his lyrics have been noted in Bacchylidean scholarship since at least Longinus.
- Some scholars have characterized these qualities as superficial charm.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Bacchylides article was read about 11,000 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 81: each hit it takes is cut by 32 %.
How to get Bacchylides
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, Bacchylides (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Albert Joseph Moore, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
