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Uncommon card · History
Gregor MacGregor, an Uncommon card
Gregor MacGregor was a Scottish soldier, adventurer and con man who attempted from 1821 to 1837 to draw British and French investors and settlers to "Poyais", a fictional Central American territory that he claimed to rule as "Cazique".
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 86
- DEF
- 100
- Power
- 186
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 130,000
Power 186 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 95 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Hundreds invested their savings in supposed Poyaisian government bonds and land certificates.
- About 250 emigrated to MacGregor's invented country in 1822–1823 to find only an untouched jungle in Honduras, more than half of them died.
- MacGregor's Poyais scheme has been called one of the most brazen confidence tricks in history.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Gregor MacGregor article was read about 130,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 86 and blocks with 100: each hit it takes is cut by 40 %.
How to get Gregor MacGregor
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Gregor MacGregor (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : George Watson (†1837), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
