Sam Shankland, an Uncommon card

Samuel L. Shankland is an American chess grandmaster.
From the Wikipedia article

Rarity: Uncommon
Domain: Society
ATK: 65
DEF: 53
Power: 118
Wikipedia reads a year: 34,000

Power 118 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 55 % of WikiCards cards.

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The facts on the card

The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.

He won the U.S. Chess Championship in 2018.
Shankland was California State Champion in 2008, 2009, 2011 and 2012, and Champion of State Champions in 2009.
He won bronze at the 2008 World U18 Championship, and was US Junior Champion in 2010.

Why it is Uncommon

Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Sam Shankland article was read about 34,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 65 and blocks with 53: each hit it takes is cut by 21 %.

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Credits

Text : Wikipedia, Sam Shankland (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Stefan64, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.