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Uncommon card · Science
Richard Garfield, an Uncommon card
Richard Channing Garfield is an American mathematician, inventor, and game designer.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 63
- DEF
- 54
- Power
- 117
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 130,000
Power 117 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 55 % of WikiCards cards.
Richard Garfield quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Richard Garfield card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Magic debuted in 1993, and its ______ spawned many imitations.
Answer
success. Magic debuted in 1993, and its success spawned many imitations. From the Richard Garfield article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Nonogram. Nonogram 72 · Correlation does not imply causation 69 · Henry Samueli 66 · Richard Garfield 63 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.
- Garfield created Magic: The Gathering, which is considered to be the first collectible card game.
- Magic debuted in 1993, and its success spawned many imitations.
- Garfield oversaw the successful growth of Magic and followed it with other game designs.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Richard Garfield article was read about 130,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 63 and blocks with 54: each hit it takes is cut by 22 %.
How to get Richard Garfield
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, Richard Garfield (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Sonja Pieper from Karlsruhe, Germany, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.
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