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Excalibur, a Rare card
Excalibur is the mythical sword of King Arthur that was purported to possess magical powers and be associated with the rightful sovereignty of Britain.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 72
- DEF
- 79
- Power
- 151
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 420,000
Ranked #1,920 of the 2,999 cards of the base set by power (ATK + DEF).
Excalibur quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Excalibur card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Its first reliably datable ______ is found in Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae.
Answer
appearance. Its first reliably datable appearance is found in Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae. From the Excalibur article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction. Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction 88 · Vijay filmography 81 · Medusa 75 · Excalibur 72 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.
- Its first reliably datable appearance is found in Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae.
- Excalibur as the "sword in the stone" functioning as the proof of Arthur's lineage is an iconic motif featured throughout most works dealing with Arthur's youth since its introduction in Robert de Boron's Merlin.
- The sword given to the young Arthur by the Lady of the Lake in the tradition that began soon afterwards with the Post-Vulgate Cycle is not the same weapon, but in Thomas Malory’s Le Morte d'Arthur they share the name of Excalibur.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Excalibur article was read about 420,000 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 79: each hit it takes is cut by 32 %.
How to get Excalibur
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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The cards just above and just below Excalibur in the power ranking, all domains together.
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- Jacques CousteauRare · History · ATK 79 DEF 72
- AndesRare · Nature · ATK 80 DEF 71
- AmethystRare · Nature · ATK 70 DEF 81
- Bartholomew the ApostleRare · Arts · ATK 73 DEF 78
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Excalibur (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Howard Pyle, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
