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Common card · Nature
Kanmon Straits, a Common card
The Kanmon Straits or the Straits of Shimonoseki is the stretch of water separating Honshu and Kyushu, two of Japan's four main islands.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Nature
- ATK
- 47
- DEF
- 30
- Power
- 77
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 15,000
Power 77 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 20 % of WikiCards cards.
Kanmon Straits quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Kanmon Straits card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Western maps from the 19th century also refer to this ______ as the Straits of Van der Capellen.
Answer
waterway. Western maps from the 19th century also refer to this waterway as the Straits of Van der Capellen. From the Kanmon Straits article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Ivan Lins. Ivan Lins 57 · Interphase 52 · Kanmon Straits 47 · Zebra moray 42 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.
- On the Honshu side of the strait is Shimonoseki and on the Kyushu side is Kitakyushu, whose former city and present ward, Moji, gave the strait its "mon".
- The straits silt up at the rate of about 15 centimetres per annum, and dredging has made it possible to build the Kitakyushu Airport at low cost.
- Western maps from the 19th century also refer to this waterway as the Straits of Van der Capellen.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Kanmon Straits article was read about 15,000 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 30: each hit it takes is cut by 12 %.
How to get Kanmon Straits
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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The cards just above and just below Kanmon Straits in the power ranking, all domains together.
- Concord SkyCommon · Arts · ATK 46 DEF 31
- Ivan LinsUncommon · Arts · ATK 57 DEF 20
- John FrenchUncommon · Arts · ATK 53 DEF 24
- Paolo BonolisCommon · Arts · ATK 56 DEF 21
- Umberto GiordanoUncommon · Arts · ATK 50 DEF 27
- Cvjetko PopovićCommon · Science · ATK 50 DEF 27
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Kanmon Straits (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Image Science and Analysis Laboratory, NASA-Johnson Space Center, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
