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Uncommon card · Arts
Pindar, an Uncommon card
Pindar was an Ancient Greek lyric poet from Thebes.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 81
- DEF
- 88
- Power
- 169
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 95,000
Power 169 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 85 % of WikiCards cards.
Pindar quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Pindar card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Of the ______ nine lyric poets of ancient Greece, his work is the best preserved.
Answer
canonical. Of the canonical nine lyric poets of ancient Greece, his work is the best preserved. From the Pindar article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Romance novel. Romance novel 88 · August Strindberg 84 · Pindar 81 · Zucchero Fornaciari 78 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.
- Of the canonical nine lyric poets of ancient Greece, his work is the best preserved.
- Quintilian wrote, "Of the nine lyric poets, Pindar is by far the greatest, in virtue of his inspired magnificence, the beauty of his thoughts and figures, the rich exuberance of his language and matter, and his rolling flood of eloquence, characteristics which, as Horace rightly held, make him inimitable." His poems can also, however, seem difficult and even peculiar.
- The Athenian comic playwright Eupolis once remarked that they "are already reduced to silence by the disinclination of the multitude for elegant learning".
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Pindar article was read about 95,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 81 and blocks with 88: each hit it takes is cut by 35 %.
How to get Pindar
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, Pindar (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : NikonZ7II, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
