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Uncommon card · Arts
Gatehouse, an Uncommon card
A gatehouse is a building that contains the entrance to a large structure or complex, such as a walled town, castle, manor, monastery or academic college, enabling the entrance to be controlled or defended by the inhabitants.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 54
- DEF
- 31
- Power
- 85
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 23,000
Power 85 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 25 % of WikiCards cards.
Gatehouse quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Gatehouse card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Fortified gates or gateways appear in the Bronze Age and reach into the ______ times.
Answer
modern. Fortified gates or gateways appear in the Bronze Age and reach into the modern times. From the Gatehouse article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Marta Sánchez. Marta Sánchez 63 · Impromptus 58 · Gatehouse 54 · Letta Mbulu 49 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.
- Gatehouses are often the most heavily defended section of a fortification, as the gate was the easiest point for an enemy to attack.
- Fortified gates or gateways appear in the Bronze Age and reach into the modern times.
- There are numerous surviving examples around the world, especially from medieval Europe.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Gatehouse article was read about 23,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 54 and blocks with 31: each hit it takes is cut by 12 %.
How to get Gatehouse
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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Cards close in power
The cards just above and just below Gatehouse in the power ranking, all domains together.
- Letta MbuluUncommon · Arts · ATK 49 DEF 36
- Émilien JacquelinUncommon · Society · ATK 64 DEF 21
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- Per-Mathias HøgmoUncommon · Society · ATK 58 DEF 27
- BungalowUncommon · Society · ATK 53 DEF 32
- Colligative propertiesUncommon · Science · ATK 59 DEF 26
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Gatehouse (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : ianpudsey, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
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