Joseph Justus Scaliger, a Common card

Joseph Justus Scaliger was a Franco-Italian philologist and historian, known for expanding the notion of classical history from Greek and Ancient Roman history to include Persian, Babylonian, Jewish and Ancient Egyptian history.
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Rarity: Common
Domain: Arts
ATK: 63
DEF: 56
Power: 119
Wikipedia reads a year: 15,000

Power 119 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 55 % of WikiCards cards.

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The facts on the card

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A Protestant convert, he spent the last sixteen years of his life in the Netherlands.

Why it is Common

Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Joseph Justus Scaliger article was read about 15,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 63 and blocks with 56: each hit it takes is cut by 22 %.

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Credits

Text : Wikipedia, Joseph Justus Scaliger (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Jan Cornelisz. van 't Woudt, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.