Wolfgang von Kempelen, an Uncommon card

Johann Wolfgang von Kempelen was a writer, engineer, and inventor, known for his chess-playing "automaton" hoax The Turk and for his speaking machine.
From the Wikipedia article

Rarity: Uncommon
Domain: Science
ATK: 56
DEF: 37
Power: 93
Wikipedia reads a year: 28,000

Power 93 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 35 % of WikiCards cards.

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The facts on the card

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Johann Wolfgang von Kempelen was a writer, engineer, and inventor, known for his chess-playing "automaton" hoax The Turk and for his speaking machine.

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 von Kempelen article was read about 28,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 56 and blocks with 37: each hit it takes is cut by 15 %.

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Text : Wikipedia, Wolfgang von Kempelen (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Wolfgang von Kempelen, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.