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Grotesque, an Uncommon card
Grotesque is an adjective often used to describe weird shapes and distorted forms such as Halloween masks.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 73
- DEF
- 70
- Power
- 143
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 110,000
Power 143 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 70 % of WikiCards cards.
Grotesque quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Grotesque card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The word was first used of ______ found on the walls of basements of ruins in Rome that were called at that time le Grotte.
Answer
paintings. The word was first used of paintings found on the walls of basements of ruins in Rome that were called at that time le Grotte. From the Grotesque article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Siege. Siege 82 · Symbolism 78 · Grotesque 73 · Giorgetto Giugiaro 70 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.
- In art, performance, and literature, however, grotesque may also refer to something that simultaneously invokes an audience feeling of uncomfortable bizarreness as well as sympathetic pity.
- The English word first appears in the 1560s as a noun borrowed from French, itself originally from the Italian grottesca, an extravagant style of ancient Roman decorative art rediscovered at Rome at the end of the fifteenth century and subsequently imitated.
- The word was first used of paintings found on the walls of basements of ruins in Rome that were called at that time le Grotte.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Grotesque article was read about 110,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 73 and blocks with 70: each hit it takes is cut by 28 %.
How to get Grotesque
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 Grotesque in the power ranking, all domains together.
- SiegeUncommon · History · ATK 82 DEF 61
- Alfred WegenerUncommon · History · ATK 74 DEF 69
- FranchisingUncommon · Society · ATK 82 DEF 61
- Joe ShusterUncommon · Arts · ATK 72 DEF 71
- Kingdom of IberiaUncommon · History · ATK 70 DEF 73
- LimpopoUncommon · Nature · ATK 71 DEF 72
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Grotesque (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Michelangelo, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
