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Uncommon card · History
Philip Sidney, an Uncommon card
Sir Philip Sidney was an English poet, courtier, scholar and soldier who is remembered as one of the most prominent figures of the Elizabethan age.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 70
- DEF
- 51
- Power
- 121
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 80,000
Power 121 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 60 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- His works include a sonnet sequence, Astrophil and Stella, a treatise, The Defence of Poesy and a pastoral romance, The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia.
- He died fighting the Spanish in the Netherlands, aged 31, and his funeral procession in London was one of the most lavish ever seen.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Philip Sidney article was read about 80,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 70 and blocks with 51: each hit it takes is cut by 20 %.
How to get Philip Sidney
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, Philip Sidney (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : After Antonis Mor, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
