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Epic card · Arts
Icarus, an Epic card
In Greek mythology, Icarus was the son of the master craftsman Daedalus, the architect of the labyrinth of Crete, and his wife Naucrate.
- Rarity
- Epic
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 64
- DEF
- 60
- Power
- 124
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 520,000
Power 124 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 60 % of WikiCards cards.
Icarus quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Icarus card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Tim Robbins. Tim Robbins 70 · Caleb Landry Jones 67 · Icarus 64 · Wallace L. Dow 60 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Tim Robbins. Tim Robbins 1,600,000 · Icarus 520,000 · Stephen Schwartz 370,000 · Wallace L. Dow 1,200 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.
- After Theseus, king of Athens and enemy of King Minos, escaped from the labyrinth, Minos suspected that Icarus and Daedalus had revealed the labyrinth's secrets and thus imprisoned the two, either in a large tower overlooking the ocean or in the labyrinth itself, depending upon the account.
- Icarus and Daedalus escaped using wings Daedalus constructed from birds' molted feathers, threads from blankets, the leather straps from their sandals, and beeswax.
- Before escaping, Daedalus warned Icarus not to fly too low or the water would soak the feathers and not to fly too close to the Sun or the heat would melt the wax.
Why it is Epic
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Icarus article was read about 520,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 64 and blocks with 60: each hit it takes is cut by 24 %.
How to get Icarus
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.
More Arts cards
Cards close in power
The cards just above and just below Icarus in the power ranking, all domains together.
- Caleb Landry JonesLegendary · Arts · ATK 67 DEF 57
- Edward Guinness, 1st Earl of IveaghLegendary · History · ATK 66 DEF 58
- Zhang LingheLegendary · Arts · ATK 69 DEF 55
- Javokhir SindarovRare · Society · ATK 65 DEF 59
- Brazil at the FIFA World CupRare · Society · ATK 75 DEF 49
- David CrowleyRare · History · ATK 75 DEF 49
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Icarus (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Dosseman, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
