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Uncommon card · Arts
Horatio Alger, an Uncommon card
Horatio Alger Jr. was an American author who wrote young adult novels about impoverished boys and their rise from humble backgrounds to middle-class security and comfort through good works.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 72
- DEF
- 85
- Power
- 157
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 100,000
Power 157 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 80 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- His writings were characterized by the "rags-to-riches" narrative, which had a formative effect on the United States from 1868 through to his death in 1899.
- Alger secured his literary niche in 1868 with the publication of Ragged Dick, the story of a poor bootblack's rise to middle-class respectability.
- The novel was a success.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Horatio Alger article was read about 100,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 72 and blocks with 85: each hit it takes is cut by 34 %.
How to get Horatio Alger
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, Horatio Alger (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
