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Oskar Merikanto, a Common card
Oskar Merikanto was a Finnish composer, music critic, pianist, and organist.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 62
- DEF
- 42
- Power
- 104
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 4,900
Power 104 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 45 % of WikiCards cards.
Oskar Merikanto quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Oskar Merikanto card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
As a composer, Merikanto was primarily a ______, and his extensive œuvre includes songs and piano pieces.
Answer
miniaturist. As a composer, Merikanto was primarily a miniaturist, and his extensive œuvre includes songs and piano pieces. From the Oskar Merikanto article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Carter Brown. Carter Brown 65 · Oskar Merikanto 62 · Afghan literature 58 · Merchant Adventurers' Hall 53 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.
- As a composer, Merikanto was primarily a miniaturist, and his extensive œuvre includes songs and piano pieces.
- Of the latter, he is best remembered for: Summer Evening Waltz, Romance, Summer Evening Idyll, Valse lente, and Idyll.
- Merikanto also wrote three operas: The Maiden of the North, which retains a degree of historical significance as the first opera composed to a Finnish libretto, The Death of Elina, and Regina von Emmeritz.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Oskar Merikanto article was read about 4,900 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 62 and blocks with 42: each hit it takes is cut by 17 %.
How to get Oskar Merikanto
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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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Oskar Merikanto (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Photographer: Salon Strindberg, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
