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Genius (2009)
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- Cost
- 4 RAM
- Power
- 6
- Rarity
- Rare
- Family
- Media
- Era
- Modern (2009 on)
- Collection
- The Long Tail
What it does
On reveal: If played in round 5 or later, +3 Power to this card.
On reveal happens once, when the card flips.
It costs 4 RAM to play and brings 6 Power to its lane. You get 1 RAM in round 1, 2 in round 2, and so on.
Media cards broadcast Power to your other lanes.
The site, in 2009
A site where users annotate song lyrics, poems and other texts, explaining references, samples and wordplay line by line.
Three friends from Yale, Tom Lehman, Ilan Zechory and Mahbod Moghadam, founded it. Artists such as Nas, RZA and 50 Cent joined to explain their own lyrics, in highlighted verified annotations.
In 2009: Launched in August as Rap Exegesis, a hip-hop lyrics site. It became Rap Genius in December, because exegesis was hard to spell.
Modern era, 2009 on. Phones, feeds and cookie banners. The web got fast, flat and very sure about notifications.
The Long Tail: The niche, the local and the specialist. Most of the web, really.
Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 2009 page.
In the game, this pixel page loads the way it did in 2009, then plays a short scene. Want Genius in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
