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Sonny Rollins, a Rare card
Walter Theodore "Sonny" Rollins was an American jazz tenor saxophonist who is widely recognized as one of the most important and influential of jazz musicians.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 86
- DEF
- 94
- Power
- 180
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 390,000
Power 180 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 90 % of WikiCards cards.
Sonny Rollins quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Sonny Rollins card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
In a seven-decade career, Rollins recorded more than 60 albums as a ______.
Answer
leader. In a seven-decade career, Rollins recorded more than 60 albums as a leader. From the Sonny Rollins article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
British Museum. British Museum 97 · Leon Russell 89 · Sonny Rollins 86 · M. C. Escher 80 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.
- In a seven-decade career, Rollins recorded more than 60 albums as a leader.
- His 1956 album Saxophone Colossus was selected for preservation by the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress in 2016.
- A number of his compositions, including "St. Thomas", "Oleo", "Doxy", and "Airegin", have become jazz standards.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Sonny Rollins article was read about 390,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 86 and blocks with 94: each hit it takes is cut by 38 %.
How to get Sonny Rollins
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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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Sonny Rollins (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Distributed by Milestone Records, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
