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Rare card · History
Cardinal Richelieu, a Rare card
Armand Jean du Plessis, 1st Duke of Richelieu, commonly known as Cardinal Richelieu, was a French Catholic prelate and statesman who had an outsized influence in civil and religious affairs.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 79
- DEF
- 85
- Power
- 164
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 440,000
Power 164 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 85 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- He became known as the Red Eminence, a term derived from the style of Eminence applied to cardinals and their customary red robes.
- Consecrated a bishop in 1607, Richelieu was appointed Foreign Secretary in 1616.
- He continued to rise through the hierarchy of both the Catholic Church and the French government, becoming a cardinal in 1622 and chief minister to King Louis XIII in 1624.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Cardinal Richelieu article was read about 440,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 79 and blocks with 85: each hit it takes is cut by 34 %.
How to get Cardinal Richelieu
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Cardinal Richelieu (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Philippe de Champaigne, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
