NEW RULE

[Althemia]

If your card is broken as all hell and would be banned in even Traditional, it's gonna get locked. This was supposed to be blatantly obvious, but since I've seen quite a few people "rebelling" / claiming to not know of this rule then I'm just going to spell out for you.

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[Althemia]

An expansion on this, since some members do not seem to understand why such a rule is put in place.

If you have made a card which is quite obviously rather broken and/or absurd, then we should have the right to lock it. And why? Because of several factors.

A ) Bork bork cards generate little to no discussion: Let's look at it this way. You make your fun little card and upload it to http://forum.yugiohcardmaker.net/forum/9-realistic-cards-single-cards/. Cool, neat, good on you. But the idea of the topics in this section is to generate discussion on the usefulness of a card and how the card would be good and/or bad for the game. Make a broken card would simply generate a lot of comments with different wordings of "Oh, this is a broken card and should never exist". This is not a discussion, this is simply a goddamn +1 fest. You literally have to read one person's post before realizing that every post is going to be exactly the same.

B ) It shows you have no knowledge of what you are making: This is something that I've wanted to address for a while, but never actually really had the time or effort to do so. But now, I finally do! So yay! In this section, you are expected to keep up to date with the latest metagame and/or latest cards. These things, as well as your knowledge of any other cards in the game, should be taken into heavy consideration when designing a card. When it is quite obvious that you have not taken into account that other cards other than your own exist in the Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game and shows that your ability in designing and/or balancing cards is quite flawed, you can expect to see your topic get locked.

I feel like I'm forgetting something else, but shrug. Also, another thing to note. When a moderator locks a topic of yours for being poorly designed now, it's going to come with a paragraph or so explaining why it's badly designed. idk, not giving an explanation seemed a bit harsh when I look back at it so I'm going to just errata that in real quick.