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Hard rock, a Rare card
Hard rock or heavy rock is a heavier subgenre of rock music typified by vocals and electric guitars that are aggressive and distorted relative to traditional rock music.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 82
- DEF
- 96
- Power
- 178
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 290,000
Power 178 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 90 % of WikiCards cards.
Hard rock quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Hard rock card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Hard rock began in the mid-1960s with the ______, psychedelic, and blues rock movements.
Answer
garage. Hard rock began in the mid-1960s with the garage, psychedelic, and blues rock movements. From the Hard rock article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Blackface. Blackface 95 · Paul Cézanne 90 · Faye Wong 87 · Hard rock 82 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.
- Hard rock began in the mid-1960s with the garage, psychedelic, and blues rock movements.
- Some of the earliest hard rock music was produced by the Kinks, the Who, the Yardbirds, the Rolling Stones, Cream, Vanilla Fudge, and the Jimi Hendrix Experience.
- In the late 1960s, bands such as Blue Cheer, the Jeff Beck Group, Iron Butterfly, Led Zeppelin, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Golden Earring, Steppenwolf, Grand Funk Railroad, Free, and Deep Purple also produced hard rock.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Hard rock article was read about 290,000 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 96: each hit it takes is cut by 38 %.
How to get Hard rock
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Hard rock (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Sellenman, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
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