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Uncommon card · Arts
Desmond Dekker, an Uncommon card
Desmond Dekker was a Jamaican singer/songwriter and musician considered a pioneer in the ska, rocksteady and reggae genres.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 66
- DEF
- 47
- Power
- 113
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 72,000
Power 113 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 50 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Together with his backing group the Aces, he had one of the earliest international reggae hits with "Israelites".
- Other hits include "007", "It Mek" and "You Can Get It If You Really Want".
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Desmond Dekker article was read about 72,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 66 and blocks with 47: each hit it takes is cut by 19 %.
How to get Desmond Dekker
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, Desmond Dekker (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Original photo by sean mason from Austin, Texas, USA. Cropped by Gaaarg ., CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.
