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Legendary card · History
Bay of Pigs Invasion, a Legendary card
The Bay of Pigs Invasion, also known as Playa Girón in Cuba, after the beach where the battle took place, was a failed military landing operation on the southwestern coast of Cuba in April 1961 by the United States and the Cuban Democratic Revolutionary Front, consisting of Cuban exiles who opposed Fidel Castro's…
- Rarity
- Legendary
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 92
- DEF
- 95
- Power
- 187
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 1,000,000
Power 187 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 95 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- The operation took place at the height of the Cold War, and its failure influenced relations between Cuba, the United States, and the Soviet Union.
- By early 1960, President Dwight D. Eisenhower had begun contemplating ways to remove Castro.
- In accordance with this goal, Eisenhower eventually approved Richard Bissell's plan which included training the paramilitary force that would later be used in the Bay of Pigs Invasion.
Why it is Legendary
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Bay of Pigs Invasion article was read about 1,000,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 92 and blocks with 95: each hit it takes is cut by 38 %.
How to get Bay of Pigs Invasion
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Bay of Pigs Invasion (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Rumlin, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
