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Harlequin, a Rare card
Harlequin is the best-known of the comic servant characters from the Italian commedia dell'arte, associated with the city of Bergamo.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 68
- DEF
- 82
- Power
- 150
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 330,000
Power 150 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 75 % of WikiCards cards.
Harlequin quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Harlequin card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The Harlequin is characterised by his ______ costume.
Answer
checkered. The Harlequin is characterised by his checkered costume. From the Harlequin article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Ben Askren. Ben Askren 84 · Dennis Prager 74 · Lady with an Ermine 71 · Harlequin 68 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 role is traditionally believed to have been introduced by the Italian actor-manager Zan Ganassa in the late 16th century.
- It was definitively popularized by the Italian actor Tristano Martinelli in Paris in 1584–1585, and became a stock character after Martinelli's death in 1630.
- The Harlequin is characterised by his checkered costume.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Harlequin article was read about 330,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 68 and blocks with 82: each hit it takes is cut by 33 %.
How to get Harlequin
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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The cards just above and just below Harlequin in the power ranking, all domains together.
- Payne StewartRare · Society · ATK 78 DEF 72
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- Ben AskrenRare · Arts · ATK 84 DEF 66
- Lady with an ErmineRare · Arts · ATK 71 DEF 79
- MoonshineRare · Society · ATK 73 DEF 77
- Object-oriented programmingRare · Society · ATK 78 DEF 72
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Harlequin (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Maurice Sand, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
