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Martial, an Uncommon card
Marcus Valerius Martialis was a Roman poet born in Bilbilis, Hispania, best known for his twelve books of Epigrams, published in Rome between AD 86 and 103, during the reigns of the emperors Domitian, Nerva and Trajan.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 66
- DEF
- 38
- Power
- 104
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 150,000
Power 104 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 45 % of WikiCards cards.
Martial quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Martial card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Martial has been called the ______ Latin epigrammatist.
Answer
greatest. Martial has been called the greatest Latin epigrammatist. From the Martial article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Martial. Martial 66 · Mandira Bedi 61 · Chas Chandler 57 · American Shorthair 54 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.
- In these poems he satirises city life and the scandalous activities of his acquaintances, and romanticises his provincial upbringing.
- A total of 1,561 epigrams written by him have survived, of which 1,235 are in elegiac couplets.
- Martial has been called the greatest Latin epigrammatist.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Martial article was read about 150,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 66 and blocks with 38: each hit it takes is cut by 15 %.
How to get Martial
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.
More Arts cards
Cards close in power
The cards just above and just below Martial in the power ranking, all domains together.
- LimerickUncommon · Arts · ATK 61 DEF 43
- American ShorthairUncommon · Nature · ATK 54 DEF 50
- BlimpUncommon · Science · ATK 62 DEF 42
- VoltUncommon · Science · ATK 63 DEF 41
- Chas ChandlerUncommon · Arts · ATK 57 DEF 47
- IcingUncommon · Society · ATK 59 DEF 45
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Martial (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Wikimedia Commons, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
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