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Uncommon card · History
Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge, an Uncommon card
Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge is a 1919 lithographic Bolshevik propaganda poster by El Lissitzky.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 68
- DEF
- 62
- Power
- 130
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 47,000
Power 130 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 70 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- In the poster, the intrusive red wedge symbolizes the Bolsheviks, who are penetrating and defeating their opponents, the White movement, during the Russian Civil War.
- The image gained popularity in the West upon Lissitzky's migration to Germany in 1921.
- It is considered symbolic of the Russian Civil War in Western publications, and is often used in album art and advertisements.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge article was read about 47,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 68 and blocks with 62: each hit it takes is cut by 25 %.
How to get Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge
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, Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : El Lissitzky, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
