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Rare card · Arts
Italo Calvino, a Rare card
Italo Calvino was an Italian novelist and short story writer.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 79
- DEF
- 72
- Power
- 151
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 200,000
Power 151 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 75 % of WikiCards cards.
Italo Calvino quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Italo Calvino card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Admired in Britain, Australia and the United States, Calvino was the most translated ______ Italian writer at the time of his death.
Answer
contemporary. Admired in Britain, Australia and the United States, Calvino was the most translated contemporary Italian writer at the time of his death. From the Italo Calvino article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Darrell Waltrip. Darrell Waltrip 94 · Italo Calvino 79 · John MacArthur 76 · Anthony the Great 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.
- His best-known works include the Our Ancestors trilogy, the Cosmicomics collection of short stories, and the novels Invisible Cities and If on a winter's night a traveler.
- Admired in Britain, Australia and the United States, Calvino was the most translated contemporary Italian writer at the time of his death.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Italo Calvino article was read about 200,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 79 and blocks with 72: each hit it takes is cut by 29 %.
How to get Italo Calvino
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 Italo Calvino in the power ranking, all domains together.
- Abolhassan BanisadrUncommon · History · ATK 71 DEF 80
- BrazzavilleUncommon · Society · ATK 73 DEF 78
- Darrell WaltripRare · Society · ATK 94 DEF 57
- Minoru YamasakiUncommon · Arts · ATK 70 DEF 81
- Nicky HopkinsRare · Arts · ATK 75 DEF 76
- Phil SimmsUncommon · Society · ATK 76 DEF 75
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Italo Calvino (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : The original uploader was Varie11 at Italian Wikipedia ., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
