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Uncommon card · Science
The Alchemist, an Uncommon card
The Alchemist is a verse drama comedy by English playwright Ben Jonson.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 65
- DEF
- 28
- Power
- 93
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 40,000
Power 93 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 35 % of WikiCards cards.
The Alchemist quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the The Alchemist card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
In which decade?
First performed in ____ by the King's Men, it is generally considered Jonson's best and most characteristic comedy, Samuel Taylor Coleridge believed that it had one of the three most perfect plots in literature.
Answer
1610s. First performed in 1610 by the King's Men, it is generally considered Jonson's best and most characteristic comedy, Samuel Taylor Coleridge believed that it had one of the three most perfect plots in literature. From the The Alchemist article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
The Alchemist. The Alchemist 65 · Anatoly Fomenko 62 · Traveller's cheque 57 · Cadaverine 54 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.
- First performed in 1610 by the King's Men, it is generally considered Jonson's best and most characteristic comedy, Samuel Taylor Coleridge believed that it had one of the three most perfect plots in literature.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The The Alchemist article was read about 40,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 65 and blocks with 28: each hit it takes is cut by 11 %.
How to get The Alchemist
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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The cards just above and just below The Alchemist in the power ranking, all domains together.
- AntiqueUncommon · History · ATK 55 DEF 38
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- Egor KreedUncommon · Arts · ATK 57 DEF 36
- Tom LenkUncommon · Arts · ATK 58 DEF 35
- Ugo TognazziUncommon · Arts · ATK 63 DEF 30
- CadaverineUncommon · Science · ATK 54 DEF 39
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, The Alchemist (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Johann Zoffany, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
