Clean0nion's card is theorically within the rules of the Challenge.
There is zero reason to decline it.
For crying out loud, what did you expect when you made a Weekly Challenge about breaking rules?
Clean's card is legal because he fulfilled the objective of "break Cygnia coding rules". The problem's your topic, not his submission. Please either set clearer rules next time or prepare to accept the consequences of loophole submissions.
- ZephyrPhantom
Hmm.
Very well.
I would be able to defend my position quite easily, but in the interest of ending this argument quickly and with no fuss, I will concede.
Here is what I'm going to do:
I'm going to write a de facto ruleset for all challenges, which'll be effective for the next challenge. I would make them effective immediately, but then something about making rules up as you go along is considered a bad idea.
The current rules will be unedited, but clarified.
Regarding this submission, I will drop my argument for this week. My argument for the denial, however, is still valid, and any type of submission like this will be invalid next week forward.
As a result, I'm going to, instead,
ask that they fix their submission.
And, I'm going to ask that no one else tries any similar submission.
A lot, if not all of current WC moderation simply involves curator discretion and nothing else. This is the first time I've really invoked that power, because this is the first time an image of a toaster has the same text as a submission. If you want an absolute, binary yes/no system, instead of the fluid "Within Reason" we use now, then very well. I've shied away from doing that simply because, by the very nature of cards, rigid rulesets limit what you can do. It's much safer for cards to be allowed "Within Reason", but that does lead itself up to exploitation.
Here is why 0nion's submission is, otherwise, invalid:
Spoiler for Hidden:
A card has to be complete. This isn't a coding rule, and it isn't a rule of submission. It's a rule of what makes a card a card; if a card is incomplete, it does not count as a valid card, which, in turn, makes it impossible to submit.
There are a number of things that make a card complete.
The one in violation here is that a lot of things on these cards are undefined. For a card to be a card, all mechanics on it need to be defined.
This means that, if you make an ability, you need to state what it does. Make a new element, you need to state how it's generated. Make a special cost or ATK/HP, you need to state what that signifies and how it's altered.
We don't talk about this because it's somewhat obvious. If it isn't, I'll clarify that even more. Better to get these errors out sooner than later.
Here are the issues:
"Tuesday" is an undefined cost. Because you have not defined how to pay this cost, the card is incomplete.
"Ainsley Harriott" is an undefined element. Because it's not defined, and how it's generated, the card is incomplete.
"Picture of a pillar" is an undefined card type, or, assuming it's a creature, an undefined ATK/HP, thus making the card incomplete.
"keep voldy alive" is undefined text, making the card incomplete.
These errors make the card incomplete, which in turn, make it invalid to submit. It's not any of the corruption that's the problem; it's the fact the image is not a card. You could submit an image of a toaster, and it'd have the same stats, abilities, and cost of 0nion's submission.
