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Uncommon card · Nature
Birdman of Alcatraz, an Uncommon card
Birdman of Alcatraz is a 1962 American biographical prison drama film directed by John Frankenheimer and starring Burt Lancaster, Karl Malden, Thelma Ritter, Neville Brand, Edmond O'Brien and Telly Savalas.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Nature
- ATK
- 67
- DEF
- 55
- Power
- 122
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 79,000
Power 122 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 70 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- It was adapted by Guy Trosper from the 1955 book by Thomas E. Gaddis.
- The film is a largely fictionalized version of the life of Robert Stroud, who was sentenced to solitary confinement after having killed a prison guard.
- A federal prison inmate, he became known as the "Birdman of Alcatraz" because of his studies of birds, which had taken place when he was incarcerated at Leavenworth Prison where he was allowed to keep birds in jail.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Birdman of Alcatraz article was read about 79,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 67 and blocks with 55: each hit it takes is cut by 22 %.
How to get Birdman of Alcatraz
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, Birdman of Alcatraz (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Saul Bass, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
