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Candide, a Rare card
Candide, ou l'Optimisme is a French satire written by Voltaire, a philosopher of the Age of Enlightenment, first published in 1759.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 84
- DEF
- 95
- Power
- 179
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 250,000
Ranked #747 of the 2,999 cards of the base set by power (ATK + DEF).
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- The novella has been widely translated, with English versions titled Candidus: or, All for the Best, Candide: or, The Optimist, and Candide: Optimism.
- A young man, Candide, lives a sheltered life in an Edenic paradise, being indoctrinated with Leibnizian optimism by his mentor, Professor Pangloss.
- This lifestyle is abruptly ended, followed by Candide's slow and painful disillusionment as he witnesses and experiences great hardships in the world.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Candide article was read about 250,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 84 and blocks with 95: each hit it takes is cut by 38 %.
How to get Candide
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, Candide (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Voltaire, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
