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Bossa nova, a Rare card
Bossa nova is a relaxed style of samba developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 70
- DEF
- 77
- Power
- 147
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 280,000
Power 147 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 80 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- It is mainly characterized by a calm syncopated rhythm with chords and fingerstyle mimicking the beat of a samba groove, as if it were a simplification and stylization on the guitar of the rhythm produced by a samba school band.
- Another defining characteristic of the style is the use of unconventional chords in some cases with complex progressions and "ambiguous" harmonies.
- A common misconception is that these complex chords and harmonies were derived from jazz, but samba guitar players have been using similar arrangement structures since the early 1920s, indicating a case of parallel evolution of styles rather than a simple transference from jazz to bossa nova.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Bossa nova article was read about 280,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 70 and blocks with 77: each hit it takes is cut by 31 %.
How to get Bossa nova
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Bossa nova (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Unknown Unknown, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.




