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Legendary card · History
Cuban Missile Crisis, a Legendary card
The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis in Cuba, or the Caribbean Crisis, was a 13-day confrontation between the governments of the United States and the Soviet Union, when American deployments of nuclear missiles in the United Kingdom, Italy and Turkey were matched by Soviet deployments of nuclear…
- Rarity
- Legendary
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 96
- DEF
- 82
- Power
- 178
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 1,100,000
Power 178 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 90 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- The crisis lasted from 16 to 28 October 1962.
- The confrontation is widely considered the closest the Cold War came to escalating into full-scale nuclear war.
- In 1959, the US government deployed Thor nuclear missiles in England, an initiative known as Project Emily.
Why it is Legendary
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Cuban Missile Crisis article was read about 1,100,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 96 and blocks with 82: each hit it takes is cut by 33 %.
How to get Cuban Missile Crisis
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, Cuban Missile Crisis (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : USAF, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
