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Extortion, a Rare card
Extortion is the practice of obtaining benefit from an individual or group through coercion, usually by threatening them with future psychological or physical harm.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 65
- DEF
- 44
- Power
- 109
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 230,000
Power 109 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 65 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- In most jurisdictions it is likely to constitute a criminal offence.
- Unlike extortion, robbery is the obtaining of goods using immediate personal violence, or the immediate threat of violence, usually in a one-off situation.
- Extortion is sometimes called the "protection racket" because the racketeers often phrase their demands as payment for "protection" from threats from unspecified other parties, though often, and almost always, such "protection" is simply abstinence of harm from the same party, and such is implied in the "protection" offer.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Extortion article was read about 230,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 65 and blocks with 44: each hit it takes is cut by 18 %.
How to get Extortion
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Extortion (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Chris Hoare, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.



