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Golden Legend, an Uncommon card
The Golden Legend is a collection of 153 hagiographies by Jacobus de Voragine that was widely read in Europe during the Late Middle Ages.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 67
- DEF
- 65
- Power
- 132
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 70,000
Power 132 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 65 % of WikiCards cards.
Golden Legend quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Golden Legend card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
More than a ______ manuscripts of the text have survived.
Answer
thousand. More than a thousand manuscripts of the text have survived. From the Golden Legend article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Night on Bald Mountain. Night on Bald Mountain 74 · Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon 70 · Golden Legend 67 · Christmas Island red crab 62 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.
- More than a thousand manuscripts of the text have survived.
- It was probably compiled around 1259 to 1266, although the text was added to over the centuries.
- Initially entitled Legenda sanctorum, it gained its popularity under the title by which it is best known.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Golden Legend article was read about 70,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 67 and blocks with 65: each hit it takes is cut by 26 %.
How to get Golden Legend
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 Golden Legend in the power ranking, all domains together.
- Christmas Island red crabUncommon · Nature · ATK 62 DEF 70
- David WestUncommon · Society · ATK 71 DEF 61
- Canopic jarUncommon · History · ATK 64 DEF 68
- J. A. BayonaUncommon · Arts · ATK 69 DEF 63
- James LastUncommon · Arts · ATK 72 DEF 60
- J. Allen HynekUncommon · Science · ATK 73 DEF 59
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Golden Legend (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Sailko, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
