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Uncommon card · Science
Isidore of Seville, an Uncommon card
Isidore of Seville was a Hispano-Roman scholar, theologian and archbishop of Seville.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 72
- DEF
- 76
- Power
- 148
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 110,000
Power 148 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 75 % of WikiCards cards.
Isidore of Seville quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Isidore of Seville card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
He was influential in the inner circle of Sisebut, Visigothic king of ______.
Answer
Hispania. He was influential in the inner circle of Sisebut, Visigothic king of Hispania. From the Isidore of Seville article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Death anxiety. Death anxiety 84 · Fly fishing 80 · Joseph-Louis Lagrange 76 · Isidore of Seville 72 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.
- He is widely regarded, in the words of the 19th-century historian Charles Forbes René de Montalembert, as "the last scholar of the ancient world".
- At a time of disintegration of classical culture, aristocratic violence, and widespread illiteracy, Isidore was involved in the conversion of the Arian Visigothic kings to Catholicism, both assisting his brother Leander of Seville and continuing after Leander's death.
- He was influential in the inner circle of Sisebut, Visigothic king of Hispania.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Isidore of Seville article was read about 110,000 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 76: each hit it takes is cut by 30 %.
How to get Isidore of Seville
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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- Death anxietyUncommon · Science · ATK 84 DEF 64
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- Fly fishingUncommon · Society · ATK 80 DEF 68
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- PollenUncommon · Nature · ATK 77 DEF 71
- Sheridan Le FanuUncommon · Society · ATK 75 DEF 73
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Isidore of Seville (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
