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Uncommon card · Science
Adagio for Strings, an Uncommon card
Adagio for Strings is a work by Samuel Barber arranged for string orchestra from the second movement of his String Quartet, Op. 11.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 69
- DEF
- 58
- Power
- 127
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 180,000
Power 127 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 70 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Barber finished the arrangement in 1936, the same year that he wrote the quartet.
- It was performed for the first time on November 5, 1938, by Arturo Toscanini conducting the NBC Symphony Orchestra in a radio broadcast from NBC Studio 8H.
- Toscanini also conducted the piece on his South American tour with the NBC Symphony in 1940.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Adagio for Strings article was read about 180,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 69 and blocks with 58: each hit it takes is cut by 23 %.
How to get Adagio for Strings
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, Adagio for Strings (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Carl Van Vechten, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
