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Uncommon card · Society
Envy, an Uncommon card
Envy is an emotion which occurs when a person lacks another's quality, skill, achievement, or possession and either desires it or wishes that the other lacked it.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Society
- ATK
- 69
- DEF
- 71
- Power
- 140
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 140,000
Power 140 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 70 % of WikiCards cards.
Envy quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Envy card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Bertrand Russell said that envy was one of the most potent causes of ______.
Answer
unhappiness. Bertrand Russell said that envy was one of the most potent causes of unhappiness. From the Envy article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Juan Manuel Márquez. Juan Manuel Márquez 80 · Reilly Opelka 76 · Matisse Thybulle 72 · Envy 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.
- Envy can also refer to the wish for another person to lack something one already possesses so as to remove the equality of possession between both parties.
- Aristotle defined envy as pain at the sight of another's good fortune, stirred by "those who have what we ought to have".
- Bertrand Russell said that envy was one of the most potent causes of unhappiness.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Envy article was read about 140,000 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 71: each hit it takes is cut by 28 %.
How to get Envy
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 Envy in the power ranking, all domains together.
- Tom ScottUncommon · Society · ATK 74 DEF 66
- Battle of CaporettoUncommon · History · ATK 69 DEF 71
- BiochemistryUncommon · Science · ATK 82 DEF 58
- Geoff DuncanUncommon · History · ATK 70 DEF 70
- Jerry SloanUncommon · Society · ATK 75 DEF 65
- Kris AquinoUncommon · Arts · ATK 71 DEF 69
Card lists
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- Tier listS and A tiers by power (ATK + DEF)
Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Envy (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Théodore Géricault, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
