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Uncommon card · Arts
Kumbaya, an Uncommon card
"Kum ba yah" is an African-American spiritual of disputed origin, known to have been sung in the Gullah culture of the islands off South Carolina and Georgia, with ties to enslaved Central Africans.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 66
- DEF
- 48
- Power
- 114
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 140,000
Power 114 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 55 % of WikiCards cards.
Kumbaya quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Kumbaya card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The first known recording was made by the ______ Robert Winslow Gordon in 1926.
Answer
folklorist. The first known recording was made by the folklorist Robert Winslow Gordon in 1926. From the Kumbaya article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Carter Family. Carter Family 69 · Kumbaya 66 · Colin O'Donoghue 63 · Henry J. Heinz 59 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.
- Originally an appeal to God to come to the aid of those in need, the song is thought to have spread from the islands to other Southern states and the North, as well as to other places outside the United States.
- The first known recording was made by the folklorist Robert Winslow Gordon in 1926.
- It features an unaccompanied tenor voice identified only as "H. Wylie" singing in the Gullah language.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Kumbaya article was read about 140,000 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 48: each hit it takes is cut by 19 %.
How to get Kumbaya
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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The cards just above and just below Kumbaya in the power ranking, all domains together.
- Eugene StonerUncommon · Arts · ATK 61 DEF 53
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- Henry J. HeinzUncommon · Science · ATK 59 DEF 55
- Unbound Co.Uncommon · Society · ATK 61 DEF 53
- Vinson MassifUncommon · Nature · ATK 63 DEF 51
- Andrey AndreevUncommon · Society · ATK 63 DEF 51
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Kumbaya (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Author unknown. Sung by H Wylie. Recorded by Robert Winslow Gordon. Transcription: Jennife, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
