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Uncommon card · Science
Empedocles, an Uncommon card
Empedocles was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher and a native citizen of Akragas, a Greek city in Sicily.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 69
- DEF
- 82
- Power
- 151
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 120,000
Power 151 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 75 % of WikiCards cards.
Empedocles quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Empedocles card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Empedocles challenged the ______ of animal sacrifice and killing animals for food.
Answer
practice. Empedocles challenged the practice of animal sacrifice and killing animals for food. From the Empedocles article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Hyperbola. Hyperbola 82 · Stellar evolution 76 · Rolls-Royce BR700 72 · Empedocles 69 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.
- Empedocles' philosophy is known best for originating the cosmogonic theory of the four classical elements.
- He also proposed forces he called Love and Strife which would mix and separate the elements, respectively.
- Empedocles challenged the practice of animal sacrifice and killing animals for food.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Empedocles article was read about 120,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 69 and blocks with 82: each hit it takes is cut by 33 %.
How to get Empedocles
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The cards just above and just below Empedocles in the power ranking, all domains together.
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- CountercultureUncommon · Society · ATK 79 DEF 72
- Epistle to the HebrewsUncommon · Arts · ATK 74 DEF 77
- FortificationUncommon · History · ATK 79 DEF 72
- Il trovatoreUncommon · Arts · ATK 75 DEF 76
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Empedocles (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
