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Uncommon card · Arts
Native Son, an Uncommon card
Native Son is a novel written by the American author Richard Wright.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 79
- DEF
- 67
- Power
- 146
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 110,000
Power 146 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 75 % of WikiCards cards.
Native Son quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Native Son card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Thomas kills a white woman at a time when ______ is at its peak and pays the price for it.
Answer
racism. Thomas kills a white woman at a time when racism is at its peak and pays the price for it. From the Native Son article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
It tells the story of Bigger Thomas, a 20-year-old black man living in utter poverty in a poor area on Chicago's South Side in the ____s.
Answer
1930s. It tells the story of Bigger Thomas, a 20-year-old black man living in utter poverty in a poor area on Chicago's South Side in the 1930s. From the Native Son article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Dale Jarrett. Dale Jarrett 90 · Native Son 79 · Morgana King 74 · Malacostraca 70 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.
- It tells the story of Bigger Thomas, a 20-year-old black man living in utter poverty in a poor area on Chicago's South Side in the 1930s.
- Thomas kills a white woman at a time when racism is at its peak and pays the price for it.
- While not apologizing for Bigger's crimes, Wright portrays a systemic causation behind them.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Native Son article was read about 110,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 79 and blocks with 67: each hit it takes is cut by 27 %.
How to get Native Son
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 Native Son in the power ranking, all domains together.
- Dale JarrettUncommon · Society · ATK 90 DEF 56
- IonosphereUncommon · Nature · ATK 79 DEF 67
- MalacostracaUncommon · Nature · ATK 70 DEF 76
- Nicholas RoerichUncommon · Arts · ATK 76 DEF 70
- Randall MunroeUncommon · Arts · ATK 72 DEF 74
- Risk managementUncommon · Science · ATK 80 DEF 66
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Native Son (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Designer uncredited, Published by Harper & Brothers, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
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