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Uncommon card · History
Ildibad, an Uncommon card
Ildibad was a king of the Ostrogoths who ruled from 540 to 541 during the middle stage of the Gothic War with the Byzantine Empire.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 53
- DEF
- 38
- Power
- 91
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 24,000
Power 91 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 35 % of WikiCards cards.
Ildibad quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Ildibad card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
He inherited a ______ reduced to a small territory around the cities of Pavia and Verona.
Answer
kingdom. He inherited a kingdom reduced to a small territory around the cities of Pavia and Verona. From the Ildibad article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Green Party. Green Party 64 · Walter A. Shewhart 61 · Luís Cabral 58 · Ildibad 53 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.
- After the capture of the Gothic king Witiges by the Byzantine general Belisarius during the fall of Ravenna, the nephew of the king, Uraias, refused the crown and instead suggested Ildibad, who was then chosen as king by the remaining Gothic forces in northern Italy.
- He inherited a kingdom reduced to a small territory around the cities of Pavia and Verona.
- Despite these difficulties, he took advantage of poor coordination among Byzantine commanders and rebuilt the Gothic forces.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Ildibad article was read about 24,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 53 and blocks with 38: each hit it takes is cut by 15 %.
How to get Ildibad
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, Ildibad (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Rijksmuseum, CC0, Wikimedia Commons.
