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The Emperor's New Clothes, a Rare card
"The Emperor's New Clothes" is a literary fairy tale written by the Danish author Hans Christian Andersen, about a vain emperor who gets exposed before his subjects.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 66
- DEF
- 49
- Power
- 115
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 310,000
Power 115 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 55 % of WikiCards cards.
The Emperor's New Clothes quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the The Emperor's New Clothes card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The tale has been ______ into over 100 languages.
Answer
translated. The tale has been translated into over 100 languages. From the The Emperor's New Clothes article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
"The Emperor's New Clothes" was first published with "The Little Mermaid" in Copenhagen, Denmark, by C. A. Reitzel, on 7 April ____, as the third and final installment of Andersen's Fairy Tales Told for Children.
Answer
1830s. "The Emperor's New Clothes" was first published with "The Little Mermaid" in Copenhagen, Denmark, by C. A. Reitzel, on 7 April 1837, as the third and final installment of Andersen's Fairy Tales Told for Children. From the The Emperor's New Clothes article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Military organization. Military organization 73 · Jim Plunkett 69 · The Emperor's New Clothes 66 · Maxim 61 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.
- The tale has been translated into over 100 languages.
- "The Emperor's New Clothes" was first published with "The Little Mermaid" in Copenhagen, Denmark, by C. A. Reitzel, on 7 April 1837, as the third and final installment of Andersen's Fairy Tales Told for Children.
- The tale has been adapted to various media, and the story's title, the phrase "the Emperor has no clothes", and variations thereof have been adopted for use in numerous other works and as idioms.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The The Emperor's New Clothes article was read about 310,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 66 and blocks with 49: each hit it takes is cut by 20 %.
How to get The Emperor's New Clothes
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, The Emperor's New Clothes (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Vilhelm Pedersen (1820 - 1859), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
