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Uncommon card · Arts
Son House, an Uncommon card
Edward James "Son" House Jr. was an American Delta blues singer and guitarist, noted for his highly emotional style of singing and slide guitar playing.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 66
- DEF
- 54
- Power
- 120
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 79,000
Power 120 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 55 % of WikiCards cards.
Son House quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Son House card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
After years of ______ to secular music while working as a preacher, he turned to blues performance at the age of 25.
Answer
hostility. After years of hostility to secular music while working as a preacher, he turned to blues performance at the age of 25. From the Son House article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Storm Thorgerson. Storm Thorgerson 73 · Kim Ki-duk 69 · Son House 66 · Fuxi 60 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.
- After years of hostility to secular music while working as a preacher, he turned to blues performance at the age of 25.
- He quickly developed a unique style by applying the rhythmic drive, powerful delivery, and emotional intensity of his preaching to the newly learned idiom.
- In a short career interrupted by a spell in Parchman Farm penitentiary, he developed his musicianship to the point that Charley Patton, the foremost blues artist of the Mississippi Delta region, invited him to share engagements and to accompany him to a 1930 recording session for Paramount Records.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Son House article was read about 79,000 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 54: each hit it takes is cut by 22 %.
How to get Son House
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 Son House in the power ranking, all domains together.
- Barry WilmoreUncommon · History · ATK 65 DEF 55
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- QuillUncommon · Arts · ATK 58 DEF 62
- Santiago BuenoUncommon · Society · ATK 64 DEF 56
- CondimentUncommon · Society · ATK 60 DEF 60
- Peter ChristophersonUncommon · Arts · ATK 68 DEF 52
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Son House (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
