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Veit Stoss, a Common card
Veit Stoss was a leading German sculptor, mostly working with wood, whose career covered the transition between the late Gothic and the Northern Renaissance.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 60
- DEF
- 48
- Power
- 108
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 11,000
Power 108 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 50 % of WikiCards cards.
Veit Stoss quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Veit Stoss card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
He is best known for the ______ in St. Mary's Basilica in Kraków, Poland.
Answer
altarpiece. He is best known for the altarpiece in St. Mary's Basilica in Kraków, Poland. From the Veit Stoss article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Ahmad Shahzad. Ahmad Shahzad 68 · Tommy Seebach 63 · Veit Stoss 60 · Charles Gleyre 55 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.
- His style emphasized pathos and emotion, helped by his virtuoso carving of billowing drapery, it has been called "late Gothic Baroque".
- He had a large workshop, and in addition to his own works there are a number by pupils.
- He is best known for the altarpiece in St. Mary's Basilica in Kraków, Poland.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Veit Stoss article was read about 11,000 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 48: each hit it takes is cut by 19 %.
How to get Veit Stoss
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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Cards close in power
The cards just above and just below Veit Stoss in the power ranking, all domains together.
- Symmetry in mathematicsCommon · Science · ATK 65 DEF 43
- Tommy SeebachCommon · Arts · ATK 63 DEF 45
- Track geometry carCommon · Society · ATK 60 DEF 48
- Ahmad ShahzadCommon · History · ATK 68 DEF 40
- Charles GleyreCommon · Arts · ATK 55 DEF 53
- Eleanor Fortescue-BrickdaleCommon · Arts · ATK 58 DEF 50
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Veit Stoss (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : The original uploader was Hoss at German Wikipedia ., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
