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Rare card · History
Hubris, a Rare card
Hubris, or less frequently hybris, is extreme or excessive pride or dangerous overconfidence and complacency, often in combination with arrogance.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 60
- DEF
- 57
- Power
- 117
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 250,000
Power 117 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 55 % of WikiCards cards.
Hubris quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Hubris card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Hubris often indicates a loss of contact with reality and an ______ of one's own competence, accomplishments, or capabilities.
Answer
overestimation. Hubris often indicates a loss of contact with reality and an overestimation of one's own competence, accomplishments, or capabilities. From the Hubris article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Ralph Sampson. Ralph Sampson 72 · Progressive Bulgaria 69 · Compromise of 1877 66 · Hubris 60 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Progressive Bulgaria. Progressive Bulgaria 400,000 · Robert Harward 320,000 · Hubris 250,000 · Jean Dujardin 200,000 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.
- Hubris, arrogance, and pretension are related to the need for victory instead of reconciliation, which "friendly" groups might promote.
- Hubris is usually perceived as a characteristic of an individual rather than a group, although the group the offender belongs to may suffer collateral consequences from wrongful acts.
- Hubris often indicates a loss of contact with reality and an overestimation of one's own competence, accomplishments, or capabilities.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Hubris article was read about 250,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 60 and blocks with 57: each hit it takes is cut by 23 %.
How to get Hubris
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 Hubris in the power ranking, all domains together.
- Jennifer WarnesRare · Arts · ATK 68 DEF 49
- Ralph SampsonRare · History · ATK 72 DEF 45
- Sergei KrikalevRare · Science · ATK 68 DEF 49
- Peter NooneRare · Arts · ATK 64 DEF 53
- Sal Da VinciRare · Arts · ATK 67 DEF 50
- Da BratRare · Arts · ATK 69 DEF 48
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Hubris (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Gustave Doré, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
