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Uncommon card · History
John McCrae, an Uncommon card
Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae was a Canadian poet, physician, author, artist and soldier during World War I and a surgeon during the Second Battle of Ypres, in Belgium.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 69
- DEF
- 62
- Power
- 131
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 81,000
Power 131 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 65 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- He is best known for writing the famous war memorial poem "In Flanders Fields".
- McCrae died of pneumonia near the end of the war.
- His famous poem is a threnody, a genre of lament.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The John McCrae article was read about 81,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 69 and blocks with 62: each hit it takes is cut by 25 %.
How to get John McCrae
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, John McCrae (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : William Notman and Son, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
