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Gunpowder Plot, an Epic card
The Gunpowder Plot of 1605, in earlier centuries often called the Gunpowder Treason Plot or the Jesuit Treason, was an unsuccessful attempted regicide against King James VI of Scotland and I of England by a group of English Catholics, led by Robert Catesby.
- Rarity
- Epic
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 86
- DEF
- 99
- Power
- 185
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 540,000
Power 185 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 95 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- The plan was to blow up the House of Lords during the State Opening of Parliament on Tuesday 5 November 1605, as the prelude to a popular revolt in the Midlands during which King James's nine-year-old daughter, Princess Elizabeth, was to be installed as the new head of state.
- Catesby is suspected by historians to have embarked on the scheme after hopes of greater religious tolerance under James had faded, leaving many English Catholics disappointed.
- His fellow conspirators were John and Christopher Wright, Robert and Thomas Wintour, Thomas Percy, Guy Fawkes, Robert Keyes, Thomas Bates, John Grant, Ambrose Rookwood, Sir Everard Digby and Francis Tresham.
Why it is Epic
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Gunpowder Plot article was read about 540,000 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 99: each hit it takes is cut by 40 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Gunpowder Plot (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Unknown (printed for P. Brooksby, I. Deacon, I. Blare, I. Back.), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
