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Grim Reaper, a Rare card
The Grim Reaper is a popular personification of death in Western culture in the form of a hooded skeletal figure wearing a black robe and carrying a scythe.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 53
- DEF
- 43
- Power
- 96
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 210,000
Power 96 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 40 % of WikiCards cards.
Grim Reaper quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Grim Reaper card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Sometimes, particularly when winged, the ______ is equated with the Angel of Death.
Answer
character. Sometimes, particularly when winged, the character is equated with the Angel of Death. From the Grim Reaper article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Antiquities of the Jews. Antiquities of the Jews 63 · Cole Hauser 60 · Pope Julius I 57 · Grim Reaper 53 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Cole Hauser. Cole Hauser 2,200,000 · Bill Hudson 1,600,000 · Paul Anthony Kelly 1,200,000 · Grim Reaper 210,000 Wikipedia reads over a year.
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.
- Since the 14th century, European art connected each of these various physical features to death, though the name "Grim Reaper" and the artistic popularity of all the features combined emerged as late as the 19th century.
- Sometimes, particularly when winged, the character is equated with the Angel of Death.
- The scythe as an artistic symbol of death has deliberate agricultural associations since the medieval period due to the importance of farming and seasons.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Grim Reaper article was read about 210,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 53 and blocks with 43: each hit it takes is cut by 17 %.
How to get Grim Reaper
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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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Grim Reaper (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Jaroslav A. Polák, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
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