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Legendary card · History
Roscoe Conkling, a Legendary card
Roscoe Conkling was an American lawyer and Republican politician who represented New York in the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate.
- Rarity
- Legendary
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 82
- DEF
- 100
- Power
- 182
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 1,000,000
Power 182 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 95 % of WikiCards cards.
Roscoe Conkling quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Roscoe Conkling card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
He was a leader of the ______ Stalwart faction and a dominant figure in the United States Senate during the 1870s.
Answer
Republican. He was a leader of the Republican Stalwart faction and a dominant figure in the United States Senate during the 1870s. From the Roscoe Conkling article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Dissolution of the Soviet Union. Dissolution of the Soviet Union 97 · Battle of Gettysburg 89 · Tarique Rahman 86 · Roscoe Conkling 82 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.
- He was a leader of the Republican Stalwart faction and a dominant figure in the United States Senate during the 1870s.
- As senator, his control of patronage at the New York Customs House, one of the busiest commercial ports in the world, made him very powerful.
- His comity with President Ulysses S. Grant and conflict with Presidents Rutherford B. Hayes and James A. Garfield were defining features of American politics of the 1870s and 1880s.
Why it is Legendary
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Roscoe Conkling article was read about 1,000,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 82 and blocks with 100: each hit it takes is cut by 40 %.
How to get Roscoe Conkling
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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- Alan GreenspanEpic · History · ATK 87 DEF 95
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Roscoe Conkling (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : John F. Jarvis after Mathew B. Brady, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
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