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Morris Canal, an Uncommon card
The Morris Canal was a 107-mile common carrier anthracite coal canal across northern New Jersey that connected the two industrial canals in Easton, Pennsylvania, across the Delaware River from its western terminus at Phillipsburg, New Jersey, to New York Harbor and New York City through its eastern terminals in Newark…
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Society
- ATK
- 76
- DEF
- 84
- Power
- 160
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 16,000
Power 160 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 80 % of WikiCards cards.
Morris Canal quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Morris Canal card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
It was built primarily to move coal to ______ eastern cities that had stripped their environs of wood.
Answer
industrializing. It was built primarily to move coal to industrializing eastern cities that had stripped their environs of wood. From the Morris Canal article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Richie Porte. Richie Porte 80 · Morris Canal 76 · Music of Iran 73 · Marajoara culture 70 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 canal was sometimes called the Morris and Essex Canal, due to confusion with the nearby and unrelated Morris and Essex Railroad.
- With a total elevation change of more than 900 feet, the canal was considered an ingenious technological marvel for its use of water-driven inclined planes, the first in the United States, to cross the northern New Jersey hills.
- It was built primarily to move coal to industrializing eastern cities that had stripped their environs of wood.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Morris Canal article was read about 16,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 76 and blocks with 84: each hit it takes is cut by 34 %.
How to get Morris Canal
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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- Richie PorteUncommon · Society · ATK 80 DEF 80
- Music of IranUncommon · Arts · ATK 73 DEF 87
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Morris Canal (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Zeete, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
