Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., an Uncommon card

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. was an American physician, poet, and polymath based in Boston.
From the Wikipedia article

Rarity: Uncommon
Domain: Arts
ATK: 80
DEF: 100
Power: 180
Wikipedia reads a year: 76,000

Power 180 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 90 % of WikiCards cards.

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The facts on the card

The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.

Grouped among the fireside poets, he was acclaimed by his peers as one of the best writers of the day.
His most famous prose works are the "Breakfast-Table" series, which began with The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table.
He was also an important medical reformer.

Why it is Uncommon

Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. article was read about 76,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 80 and blocks with 100: each hit it takes is cut by 40 %.

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Credits

Text : Wikipedia, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Armstrong & Co. (Boston, Mass.),, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.