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Blackletter, an Uncommon card
Blackletter was originally a medieval book hand of the Gothic family of scripts, later adapted into typefaces and still used in modern calligraphy and typesetting.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 66
- DEF
- 60
- Power
- 126
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 180,000
Ranked #2,363 of the 3,000 cards of the base set by power (ATK + DEF).
Blackletter quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Blackletter card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The book script was used ______ Western Europe from approximately the late 12th until the 17th century.
Answer
throughout. The book script was used throughout Western Europe from approximately the late 12th until the 17th century. From the Blackletter article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Blackletter. Blackletter 180,000 · Douglas Parish, New Brunswick 690 · George Foster Herben 360 · 2011 Torridge District Council election 210 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.
- The book script was used throughout Western Europe from approximately the late 12th until the 17th century.
- It continued to be commonly used for Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish until the 1870s, Finnish until the turn of the 20th century, Estonian and Latvian until the 1930s, and for the German language until the 1940s, when Adolf Hitler officially banned it in 1941.
- Fraktur is a notable script of this type, and sometimes the entire group of blackletter faces is referred to as Fraktur.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Blackletter article was read about 180,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 66 and blocks with 60: each hit it takes is cut by 24 %.
How to get Blackletter
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Blackletter (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Gerard Brils, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
