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Rare card · Arts
Charon, a Rare card
In Greek mythology, Charon or Kharon is the ferryman of the Greek underworld.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 61
- DEF
- 49
- Power
- 110
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 280,000
Power 110 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 50 % of WikiCards cards.
Charon quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Charon card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
He transports the souls of those who have been given funeral rites across the river that borders the ______.
Answer
underworld. He transports the souls of those who have been given funeral rites across the river that borders the underworld. From the Charon article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Cassandra Wilson. Cassandra Wilson 69 · Jill Wagner 65 · Charon 61 · The Day the Earth Smiled 58 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Jill Wagner. Jill Wagner 970,000 · Alice Braga 690,000 · Charon 280,000 · St. Paul and The Broken Bones 94,000 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.
- He transports the souls of those who have been given funeral rites across the river that borders the underworld.
- Archaeology confirms that, in some burials, low-value coins known generically as Charon's obols were placed in, on, or near the mouth of the deceased, or next to the cremation urn containing the ashes.
- In Virgil's epic poem, Aeneid, the dead who could not pay the fee, and those who had received no funeral rites, had to wander the near shores of the Styx for one hundred years before they were allowed to cross the river.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Charon article was read about 280,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 61 and blocks with 49: each hit it takes is cut by 20 %.
How to get Charon
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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Cards close in power
The cards just above and just below Charon in the power ranking, all domains together.
- Alice BragaEpic · Arts · ATK 65 DEF 45
- Akhil AkkineniEpic · Arts · ATK 65 DEF 45
- Mohammad PakpourEpic · History · ATK 63 DEF 47
- Jennifer RobertsonRare · Arts · ATK 65 DEF 45
- Cassandra WilsonRare · Arts · ATK 69 DEF 41
- Copper peptide GHK-CuRare · Science · ATK 66 DEF 44
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Charon (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Carole Raddato from FRANKFURT, Germany, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.
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