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Uncommon card · Society
Sheridan Le Fanu, an Uncommon card
Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu was an Irish writer of Gothic literature, journalist and newspaper proprietor.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Society
- ATK
- 75
- DEF
- 73
- Power
- 148
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 110,000
Power 148 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 75 % of WikiCards cards.
Sheridan Le Fanu quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Sheridan Le Fanu card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Born into a family of ______, Le Fanu began writing poetry at the age of fifteen, using his father's personal library to educate himself.
Answer
writers. Born into a family of writers, Le Fanu began writing poetry at the age of fifteen, using his father's personal library to educate himself. From the Sheridan Le Fanu article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Fly fishing. Fly fishing 80 · Sheridan Le Fanu 75 · Isidore of Seville 72 · Chowder 68 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.
- Le Fanu is considered by literary critics to be among the greatest ghost story writers of the Victorian era, as several of his works were central to the development of the genre.
- He was the author of Gothic short stories and macabre poems, novels such as Uncle Silas, and the collection of five stories In a Glass Darkly, in which the novella Carmilla is significant as a foundational work of vampire literature.
- Born into a family of writers, Le Fanu began writing poetry at the age of fifteen, using his father's personal library to educate himself.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Sheridan Le Fanu article was read about 110,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 75 and blocks with 73: each hit it takes is cut by 29 %.
How to get Sheridan Le Fanu
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, Sheridan Le Fanu (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Brinsley Le Fanu, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
