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Uncommon card · Science
Median strip, an Uncommon card
A median strip, central reservation, roadway median, or traffic median is the reserved area that separates opposing lanes of traffic on divided roadways such as divided highways, freeways, and motorways.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 67
- DEF
- 47
- Power
- 114
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 29,000
Power 114 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 55 % of WikiCards cards.
Median strip quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Median strip card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The term also applies to divided roadways other than highways, including some major streets in urban or ______ areas.
Answer
suburban. The term also applies to divided roadways other than highways, including some major streets in urban or suburban areas. From the Median strip article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Current source. Current source 70 · Median strip 67 · Firing pin 63 · Simon Johnson 60 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.
- The term also applies to divided roadways other than highways, including some major streets in urban or suburban areas.
- The reserved area may simply be paved, but commonly it is adapted to other functions, for example, it may accommodate decorative landscaping, trees, a median barrier, or railway, rapid transit, light rail, or streetcar lines.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Median strip article was read about 29,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 67 and blocks with 47: each hit it takes is cut by 19 %.
How to get Median strip
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 Median strip in the power ranking, all domains together.
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- Paul AnnaconeUncommon · Society · ATK 73 DEF 41
- Zemgus GirgensonsUncommon · Society · ATK 67 DEF 47
- AbbathUncommon · Arts · ATK 63 DEF 51
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Median strip (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Blue46gt, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
