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Cut bank, a Common card
A cut bank, also known as a river cliff or river-cut cliff, is the outside bank of a curve in a water channel, which is continually undergoing erosion.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Nature
- ATK
- 47
- DEF
- 19
- Power
- 66
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 7,300
Power 66 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 10 % of WikiCards cards.
Cut bank quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Cut bank card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
They are shaped much like a small cliff, and are formed as the ______ collides with the river bank.
Answer
stream. They are shaped much like a small cliff, and are formed as the stream collides with the river bank. From the Cut bank article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Cut bank. Cut bank 47 · Philodendron melanochrysum 44 · Bathynellacea 41 · Rabalsmellen 36 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Chukchi Peninsula. Chukchi Peninsula 44,000 · Anthocyanidin 9,800 · Cut bank 7,300 · Rabalsmellen 110 Wikipedia reads over a year.
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.
- Cut banks occur on the outer side of meander bends, opposite the point bar or slip-off slope on the inner side.
- They are shaped much like a small cliff, and are formed as the stream collides with the river bank.
- It is the opposite of a point bar, which is an area of deposition of material eroded upstream in a cut bank.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Cut bank article was read about 7,300 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 47 and blocks with 19: each hit it takes is cut by 8 %.
How to get Cut bank
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Cut bank (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : United States Geological Survey, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
