Because I applied for it a week before it was publicized. 2 cards.
So you wanted it on your terms.
And what if the beans were spilled 2 weeks beforehand?
Either way once that loophole was divulged to the public it would have been killed within hours.
It was passed around via PM which allowed it to survive for much longer than it otherwise would have been able to. If it was never posted online it likely would still be around today.
There's a fine line between posting something that can survive in the wild and something that can't. The trick is knowing what can or can't survive once publicized.