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Uncommon card · Arts
Étienne de La Boétie, an Uncommon card
Étienne or Estienne de La Boétie was a French magistrate, classicist, writer, poet and political theorist, best remembered for his relationship with essayist Michel de Montaigne.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 59
- DEF
- 40
- Power
- 99
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 26,000
Power 99 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 40 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- His early political treatise Discourse on Voluntary Servitude was posthumously adopted by the Huguenot movement and is sometimes seen as an early influence on modern anti-statist, utopian and civil disobedience thought.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Étienne de La Boétie article was read about 26,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 59 and blocks with 40: each hit it takes is cut by 16 %.
How to get Étienne de La Boétie
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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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Étienne de La Boétie (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Tommy-Boy, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
