Michael Ventris, an Uncommon card

Michael George Francis Ventris was an English architect, classicist and philologist who deciphered Linear B, the ancient Mycenaean Greek script.
From the Wikipedia article

Rarity: Uncommon
Domain: History
ATK: 65
DEF: 50
Power: 115
Wikipedia reads a year: 27,000

Power 115 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 55 % of WikiCards cards.

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The facts on the card

The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.

A student of languages, Ventris had pursued decipherment as a personal vocation since his adolescence.
After creating a new field of study, Ventris died in a car crash a few weeks before the publication of Documents in Mycenaean Greek, written with John Chadwick.

Why it is Uncommon

Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Michael Ventris article was read about 27,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 65 and blocks with 50: each hit it takes is cut by 20 %.

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Credits

Text : Wikipedia, Michael Ventris (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.