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Epic card · History
Gordon Lightfoot, an Epic card
Gordon Meredith Lightfoot Jr. was a Canadian singer-songwriter who achieved worldwide success and helped define the singer-songwriter era of the 1970s.
- Rarity
- Epic
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 81
- DEF
- 92
- Power
- 173
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 830,000
Power 173 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 90 % of WikiCards cards.
Gordon Lightfoot quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Gordon Lightfoot card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
In which decade?
Gordon Meredith Lightfoot Jr. was a Canadian singer-songwriter who achieved worldwide success and helped define the singer-songwriter era of the ____s.
Answer
1970s. Gordon Meredith Lightfoot Jr. was a Canadian singer-songwriter who achieved worldwide success and helped define the singer-songwriter era of the 1970s. From the Gordon Lightfoot article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
List of United States presidential assassination attempts and plots. List of United States presidential assassination attempts and plots 89 · John McAfee 86 · Gordon Lightfoot 81 · Nymph 75 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.
- Widely considered one of Canada's greatest songwriters, he had numerous Gold and Platinum albums, and his songs have been covered by many of the world's most renowned musical artists.
- Lightfoot's biographer Nicholas Jennings wrote, "His name is synonymous with timeless songs about trains and shipwrecks, rivers and highways, lovers and loneliness." Covers of Lightfoot's songs by other acts, including "For Lovin' Me", "Early Morning Rain", "Steel Rail Blues", "Home From The Forest", and "Ribbon of Darkness", a number one hit on the U.S.
- Chart success with his own recordings began in Canada in 1962 with the No. 3 hit " I'm the One" and led to a series of major hits at home and abroad throughout the 1970s.
Why it is Epic
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Gordon Lightfoot article was read about 830,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 81 and blocks with 92: each hit it takes is cut by 37 %.
How to get Gordon Lightfoot
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- NymphEpic · Arts · ATK 75 DEF 98
- Trey ParkerEpic · Arts · ATK 85 DEF 88
- American AirlinesEpic · Society · ATK 86 DEF 87
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Gordon Lightfoot (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Arnielee, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
