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Earl Bakken, a Common card
Earl Elmer Bakken was an American engineer, inventor, businessman and philanthropist.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 53
- DEF
- 24
- Power
- 77
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 12,000
Power 77 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 20 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- He founded Medtronic, where he developed the first external, battery-operated, transistorized, wearable artificial pacemaker in 1957.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Earl Bakken article was read about 12,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 53 and blocks with 24: each hit it takes is cut by 10 %.
How to get Earl Bakken
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, Earl Bakken (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Bobak Ha'Eri & Paul Schmokel, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
