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W. C. Handy, an Uncommon card
William Christopher Handy was an American composer and musician who referred to himself as the Father of the Blues.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 74
- DEF
- 83
- Power
- 157
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 92,000
Power 157 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 80 % of WikiCards cards.
W. C. Handy quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the W. C. Handy card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Handy used elements of folk music in his ______.
Answer
compositions. Handy used elements of folk music in his compositions. From the W. C. Handy article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Dubbing. Dubbing 87 · Stephanie Sheh 81 · Bagan 77 · W. C. Handy 74 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.
- He was one of the most influential songwriters in the United States.
- One of many musicians who played the distinctively American blues music, Handy did not create the blues genre but was one of the first to publish music in the blues form, thereby taking the blues from a regional music style with a limited audience to a new level of popularity.
- Handy used elements of folk music in his compositions.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The W. C. Handy article was read about 92,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 74 and blocks with 83: each hit it takes is cut by 33 %.
How to get W. C. Handy
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, W. C. Handy (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Carl Van Vechten, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
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