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Raymond Briggs, a Rare card
Raymond Redvers Briggs was an English illustrator, cartoonist, graphic novelist and author.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 72
- DEF
- 71
- Power
- 143
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 260,000
Power 143 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 70 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Achieving critical and popular success among adults and children, he is best known in Britain for his 1978 story The Snowman, a book without words whose cartoon adaptation is televised and whose musical adaptation is staged every Christmas.
- Briggs won the 1966 and 1973 Kate Greenaway Medals from the British Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book illustration by a British subject.
- For the 50th anniversary of the Medal, a panel named Father Christmas one of the top-ten winning works, which composed the ballot for a public election of the nation's favourite.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Raymond Briggs article was read about 260,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 72 and blocks with 71: each hit it takes is cut by 28 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Raymond Briggs (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Rob Croes for Anefo, CC0, Wikimedia Commons.