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Rare card · History
Rubén Blades, a Rare card
Rubén Blades Bellido de Luna, known professionally as Rubén Blades, is a Panamanian musician, singer, composer, actor, activist, and politician, performing musically most often in the salsa, and Latin jazz genres.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 76
- DEF
- 66
- Power
- 142
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 230,000
Power 142 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 70 % of WikiCards cards.
Rubén Blades quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Rubén Blades card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Blades has written dozens of hit songs, including "Pedro Navaja" and "El ______".
Answer
Cantante. Blades has written dozens of hit songs, including "Pedro Navaja" and "El Cantante". From the Rubén Blades article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Toshiro Mifune. Toshiro Mifune 79 · Rubén Blades 76 · Karl von Habsburg 72 · Ball python 67 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Karl von Habsburg. Karl von Habsburg 520,000 · Jack Klugman 360,000 · Rubén Blades 230,000 · Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr 180,000 Wikipedia reads over a year.
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.
- As a songwriter, Blades brought the lyrical sophistication of Central American nueva canción and Cuban nueva trova as well as experimental tempos and politically inspired Son Cubano salsa to his music, creating "thinking persons' dance music".
- Blades has written dozens of hit songs, including "Pedro Navaja" and "El Cantante".
- He has received 21 Grammy Award nominations, winning twelve of them, along with twelve Latin Grammy Awards.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Rubén Blades article was read about 230,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 76 and blocks with 66: each hit it takes is cut by 26 %.
How to get Rubén Blades
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Rubén Blades (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.
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