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Buck Owens, a Rare card
Alvis Edgar "Buck" Owens Jr. was an American musician, singer, and songwriter.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 70
- DEF
- 51
- Power
- 121
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 270,000
Power 121 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 60 % of WikiCards cards.
Buck Owens quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Buck Owens card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
He was the frontman for The ______, which had 21 No. 1 hits on the Billboard country music chart.
Answer
Buckaroos. He was the frontman for The Buckaroos, which had 21 No. 1 hits on the Billboard country music chart. From the Buck Owens article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
While the Buckaroos originally featured a fiddle and retained pedal steel guitar into the ____s, their sound on records and onstage was always more stripped-down and elemental.
Answer
1970s. While the Buckaroos originally featured a fiddle and retained pedal steel guitar into the 1970s, their sound on records and onstage was always more stripped-down and elemental. From the Buck Owens article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Duke. Duke 76 · Buck Owens 70 · Isaiah Mustafa 66 · Cordyceps 60 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.
- He was the frontman for The Buckaroos, which had 21 No. 1 hits on the Billboard country music chart.
- He pioneered what came to be called the Bakersfield sound, named in honor of Bakersfield, California, Owens's adopted home and the city from which he drew inspiration for what he preferred to call "American music".
- While the Buckaroos originally featured a fiddle and retained pedal steel guitar into the 1970s, their sound on records and onstage was always more stripped-down and elemental.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Buck Owens article was read about 270,000 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 51: each hit it takes is cut by 20 %.
How to get Buck Owens
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, Buck Owens (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Warner Brothers Records., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
