Captain Beefheart, a Rare card

Don Van Vliet, known by his stage name Captain Beefheart, was an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and visual artist.
From the Wikipedia article

Rarity: Rare
Domain: Arts
ATK: 85
DEF: 98
Power: 183
Wikipedia reads a year: 310,000

Power 183 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 95 % of WikiCards cards.

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The facts on the card

The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.

Leading a rotating ensemble known as the Magic Band, he recorded 13 studio albums between 1967 and 1982.
His music blended elements of blues, free jazz, rock, and avant-garde composition with idiosyncratic rhythms and absurdist wordplay.
He possessed a distinctive gravelly voice and a wide vocal range.

Why it is Rare

Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Captain Beefheart article was read about 310,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 85 and blocks with 98: each hit it takes is cut by 39 %.

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Credits

Text : Wikipedia, Captain Beefheart (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Jean-Luc, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.