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Wolfgang Beltracchi, an Uncommon card
Wolfgang Beltracchi is a German former art forger and visual artist who has admitted to forging hundreds of paintings in an international art scam netting millions of euros.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 75
- DEF
- 66
- Power
- 141
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 48,000
Power 141 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 70 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Beltracchi, together with his wife Helene, sold forgeries of alleged works by famous artists, including Max Ernst, Heinrich Campendonk, Fernand Léger, and Kees van Dongen.
- Though he was found guilty for forging 14 works of art that sold for a combined $45m, he claims to have faked "about 50" artists.
- The total estimated profits Beltracchi made from his forgeries surpasses $100m.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Wolfgang Beltracchi article was read about 48,000 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 66: each hit it takes is cut by 26 %.
How to get Wolfgang Beltracchi
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Wolfgang Beltracchi (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Jindřich Nosek (NoJin), CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
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