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Thomas Linacre, a Common card
Thomas Linacre or Lynaker was an English humanist scholar, Catholic priest, and physician, after whom Linacre College, Oxford, and Linacre House, a boys' boarding house at The King's School, Canterbury, were named.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 60
- DEF
- 38
- Power
- 98
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 5,900
Power 98 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 40 % of WikiCards cards.
Thomas Linacre quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Thomas Linacre card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Linacre was more of a scholar than a ______ investigator.
Answer
scientific. Linacre was more of a scholar than a scientific investigator. From the Thomas Linacre article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Sylhet-4. Sylhet-4 64 · Thomas Linacre 60 · Georg Bednorz 57 · Mysore-Ooty Road 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.
- Linacre was more of a scholar than a scientific investigator.
- It is difficult to judge his practical skill in his profession, but it was highly esteemed in his own day.
- He took no part in political or theological questions, but his career as a scholar was characteristic of the critical period in the history of learning through which he lived.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Thomas Linacre article was read about 5,900 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 60 and blocks with 38: each hit it takes is cut by 15 %.
How to get Thomas Linacre
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, Thomas Linacre (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : copied by William Miller (College Beadle and amateur painter), 1810, from a painting at Wi, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
