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Uncommon card · Arts
Melencolia I, an Uncommon card
Melencolia I is a large 1514 engraving by the German Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 74
- DEF
- 84
- Power
- 158
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 82,000
Power 158 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 80 % of WikiCards cards.
Melencolia I quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Melencolia I card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Holding her head in her hand, she ______ past the busy scene in front of her.
Answer
stares. Holding her head in her hand, she stares past the busy scene in front of her. From the Melencolia I article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
Melencolia I is a large ____ engraving by the German Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer.
Answer
1510s. Melencolia I is a large 1514 engraving by the German Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer. From the Melencolia I article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Nobuhiko Okamoto. Nobuhiko Okamoto 88 · Medieval art 83 · Charles Ives 77 · Melencolia I 74 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.
- Its central subject is an enigmatic and gloomy winged female figure thought to be a personification of melancholia.
- Holding her head in her hand, she stares past the busy scene in front of her.
- The area is strewn with symbols and tools associated with craft and carpentry, including an hourglass, weighing scales, a hand plane, a claw hammer, and a saw.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Melencolia I article was read about 82,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 74 and blocks with 84: each hit it takes is cut by 34 %.
How to get Melencolia I
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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The cards just above and just below Melencolia I in the power ranking, all domains together.
- Antarctic ice sheetUncommon · Nature · ATK 72 DEF 86
- Medieval artUncommon · Arts · ATK 83 DEF 75
- Electrical gridUncommon · Society · ATK 76 DEF 82
- Charles IvesUncommon · Arts · ATK 77 DEF 81
- Cosmic dustUncommon · Science · ATK 79 DEF 79
- AsansolUncommon · Society · ATK 77 DEF 81
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Melencolia I (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Albrecht Dürer, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
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