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Legendary card · Arts
Buddy Holly, a Legendary card
Charles Hardin Holley, known professionally by his stage name Buddy Holly, was an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist who was a central and pioneering figure of rock and roll.
- Rarity
- Legendary
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 82
- DEF
- 95
- Power
- 177
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 1,300,000
Power 177 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 90 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- He was born to a musical family in Lubbock, Texas, during the Great Depression, and learned to play guitar and sing alongside his two siblings.
- Holly made his first appearance on local television in 1952, and the following year he formed the group Buddy and Bob with his friend Bob Montgomery.
- In 1955, after opening once for Elvis Presley, Holly decided to pursue a music career.
Why it is Legendary
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Buddy Holly article was read about 1,300,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 82 and blocks with 95: each hit it takes is cut by 38 %.
How to get Buddy Holly
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 Buddy Holly in the power ranking, all domains together.
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- Mansa MusaLegendary · History · ATK 77 DEF 100
- ViennaLegendary · History · ATK 93 DEF 84
- Great BritainEpic · Nature · ATK 83 DEF 94
Card lists
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- Legendary cards136 cards
- Epic cards262 cards
- Strongest cardsTop 100 by attack
Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Buddy Holly (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Brunswick Records (photographer: James J. Kriegsmann ), scan by Hulton Archive, restored b, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
