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Epic card · Arts
Great Expectations, an Epic card
Great Expectations is the thirteenth novel by the English author Charles Dickens and his penultimate completed novel.
- Rarity
- Epic
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 89
- DEF
- 96
- Power
- 185
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 550,000
Power 185 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 95 % of WikiCards cards.
Great Expectations quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Great Expectations card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The novel is a ______ and depicts the education of an orphan nicknamed Pip.
Answer
bildungsroman. The novel is a bildungsroman and depicts the education of an orphan nicknamed Pip. From the Great Expectations article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Chengdu. Chengdu 97 · Film noir 92 · Great Expectations 89 · Ganesha 85 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.
- The novel is a bildungsroman and depicts the education of an orphan nicknamed Pip.
- It is Dickens' second novel, after David Copperfield, to be fully narrated in the first person.
- The novel was first published as a serial in Dickens's weekly periodical All the Year Round, from 1 December 1860 to August 1861.
Why it is Epic
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Great Expectations article was read about 550,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 89 and blocks with 96: each hit it takes is cut by 38 %.
How to get Great Expectations
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 Great Expectations in the power ranking, all domains together.
- First CrusadeEpic · History · ATK 89 DEF 96
- Gonzalo HiguaínEpic · Society · ATK 86 DEF 99
- ChengduEpic · History · ATK 97 DEF 88
- Gunpowder PlotEpic · History · ATK 86 DEF 99
- Ichiro SuzukiEpic · Society · ATK 91 DEF 94
- Alex TurnerEpic · Arts · ATK 88 DEF 97
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Great Expectations (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Chapman & Hall, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
