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Ed van der Elsken, a Common card
Eduard van der Elsken was a Dutch photographer and filmmaker.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 72
- DEF
- 53
- Power
- 125
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 7,700
Power 125 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 60 % of WikiCards cards.
Ed van der Elsken quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Ed van der Elsken card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
His style is subjective and emphasises the seer over the seen, a ______ equivalent of first-person speech.
Answer
photographic. His style is subjective and emphasises the seer over the seen, a photographic equivalent of first-person speech. From the Ed van der Elsken article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Pramod Bhagat. Pramod Bhagat 75 · Ed van der Elsken 72 · Alex Wyse 67 · Balthasar Neumann 60 ATK in WikiCards.
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.
- His imagery provides quotidian, intimate and autobiographic perspectives on the European zeitgeist spanning the period of the Second World War into the 1970s in the realms of love, sex, art, music, and alternative culture.
- He described his camera as 'infatuated', and said: "I'm not a journalist, an objective reporter, I'm a man with likes and dislikes".
- His style is subjective and emphasises the seer over the seen, a photographic equivalent of first-person speech.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Ed van der Elsken article was read about 7,700 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 72 and blocks with 53: each hit it takes is cut by 21 %.
How to get Ed van der Elsken
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 Ed van der Elsken in the power ranking, all domains together.
- Balthasar NeumannCommon · Arts · ATK 60 DEF 65
- Paul OscarCommon · Arts · ATK 65 DEF 60
- Pramod BhagatCommon · Society · ATK 75 DEF 50
- 1975 NASCAR Winston Cup SeriesCommon · Society · ATK 84 DEF 41
- Nicolas HulotCommon · Society · ATK 67 DEF 58
- Typhoon SinlakuCommon · Nature · ATK 65 DEF 60
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Ed van der Elsken (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Rob Bogaerts for Anefo, CC0, Wikimedia Commons.
