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Yusef Lateef, an Uncommon card
Yusef Abdul Lateef was an American jazz multi-instrumentalist, composer, and prominent figure among the Ahmadiyya Community in the United States.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 63
- DEF
- 42
- Power
- 105
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 71,000
Power 105 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 45 % of WikiCards cards.
Yusef Lateef quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Yusef Lateef card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
He is known for having been an ______ in the blending of jazz with "Eastern" music.
Answer
innovator. He is known for having been an innovator in the blending of jazz with "Eastern" music. From the Yusef Lateef article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Eric Tsang. Eric Tsang 69 · Robert Penn Warren 66 · Yusef Lateef 63 · Play 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.
- Although Lateef's main instruments were the tenor saxophone and flute, he also played oboe and bassoon, both rare in jazz, and non-western instruments such as the bamboo flute, shehnai, shofar, xun, arghul and koto.
- He is known for having been an innovator in the blending of jazz with "Eastern" music.
- Peter Keepnews, in his New York Times obituary of Lateef, wrote that the musician "played world music before world music had a name".
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Yusef Lateef article was read about 71,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 63 and blocks with 42: each hit it takes is cut by 17 %.
How to get Yusef Lateef
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, Yusef Lateef (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Tom Beetz, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.
