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Uncommon card · History
Billy Strayhorn, an Uncommon card
William Thomas Strayhorn was an American jazz composer, pianist, lyricist, and arranger who collaborated with bandleader and composer Duke Ellington for nearly three decades.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 71
- DEF
- 68
- Power
- 139
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 85,000
Power 139 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 70 % of WikiCards cards.
Billy Strayhorn quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Billy Strayhorn card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
His ______ include "Take the 'A' Train", "Chelsea Bridge", "A Flower Is a Lovesome Thing", and "Lush Life".
Answer
compositions. His compositions include "Take the 'A' Train", "Chelsea Bridge", "A Flower Is a Lovesome Thing", and "Lush Life". From the Billy Strayhorn article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Giorgio Agamben. Giorgio Agamben 80 · Yevgeny Primakov 74 · Billy Strayhorn 71 · Toghon Temür 66 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 compositions include "Take the 'A' Train", "Chelsea Bridge", "A Flower Is a Lovesome Thing", and "Lush Life".
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Billy Strayhorn article was read about 85,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 71 and blocks with 68: each hit it takes is cut by 27 %.
How to get Billy Strayhorn
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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The cards just above and just below Billy Strayhorn in the power ranking, all domains together.
- Giorgio AgambenUncommon · Science · ATK 80 DEF 59
- HeredityUncommon · Nature · ATK 71 DEF 68
- Alphonsus LiguoriUncommon · Arts · ATK 68 DEF 71
- Mathew BradyUncommon · Arts · ATK 70 DEF 69
- Radial engineUncommon · Society · ATK 72 DEF 67
- "I AM" ActivityUncommon · Society · ATK 70 DEF 69
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Billy Strayhorn (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : William P. Gottlieb / Adam Cuerden, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
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