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Because I could not stop for Death, an Uncommon card
"Because I could not stop for Death" is a lyrical poem by Emily Dickinson first published posthumously in Poems: Series 1 in 1890.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 54
- DEF
- 28
- Power
- 82
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 40,000
Power 82 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 40 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Dickinson's work was never authorized to be published, so it is unknown whether "Because I could not stop for Death" was completed or "abandoned".
- The speaker of Dickinson's poem meets personified Death.
- Death is a gentleman who is riding in the horse carriage that picks up the speaker in the poem and takes the speaker on her journey to the afterlife.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Because I could not stop for Death article was read about 40,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 54 and blocks with 28: each hit it takes is cut by 11 %.
How to get Because I could not stop for Death
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, Because I could not stop for Death (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
