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[graceful drift]

I actually don't know

[iron portal]

I wanna buy the official deck for my bf, should I?

[graceful drift]

What was going for

18 bucks

?

[iron portal]

Dunno

But his birthday is soon

[graceful drift]

He totally deserves it

[iron portal]

Alr

[graceful drift]

Every Balatro fan should have a joker irl

[tribal knoll]

not even an estimate? unfort

[graceful drift]

✌️🥹

[forest carbon]

the bloodstone popped on all cards

[graceful drift]

Sorry, I just don't remember

[tribal knoll]

all g

[graceful drift]

Look up poker card size

And that's it

[iron portal]

Him and I basically are planning a blueprint and brainstorm cosplay for a con

Would that count?

[graceful drift]

That's cool!

[graceful drift]

Yeah you're the only joker he needs

[iron portal]

Period

[graceful drift]

What?

[iron portal]

I mean cool

[graceful drift]

Oh

[graceful drift]

THE PLAY STORE ACHIEVEMENT

😭

Congratulations

[tight vessel]

Got it thanks @tribal knoll & @forest carbon

[tribal knoll]

gz

[forest carbon]

peak

[tribal knoll]

big unlock

[iron portal]

YASSSS GO GIRL

[tribal knoll]

unlike ppl who click unlock all

[iron portal]

[forest carbon]

i mean stuntman only like viable when ur dyin on plasma and need help

[tribal knoll]

stuntman builds are hella fun to run with imo

if i see it early i'm probably taking it most of the time on gold

as long as its not rental probably

[forest carbon]

im not saying they arent

[tribal knoll]

and eternal

[iron portal]

Last run I did was a cryptid mod and I ended up in e201 and crashed

Bomboclat

[forest carbon]

you crashed on e201? smh

[iron portal]

Yeah, terrible choices of the coded deck

Dunno what even happened

It just

Poof

And every move I did crashed at the end

No matter what

[forest carbon]

no i mean that is such a low scroe to crash on

[iron portal]

🤓☝️

[tribal knoll]

fr

[iron portal]

It is my first week playing give me a minute to understand it

💔

[forest carbon]

like what was the build to need that much calculations fo rsuch a low score that it crashes

[iron portal]

I just play balatro for my man and he told me to try cryptid

[forest carbon]

you aint built for ee1000

[calm kestrel]

Fragile challenge moment

[iron portal]

Maybe

Who knows

[regal flax]

is it worth it to get rid of lucky cat for chad

I already used ecto once btw

[calm kestrel]

It would be

Extremely funny

If the cards played in your last hand got a sticker based in ante

[forest carbon]

what

[iron portal]

Considering your lucky cat is low it might be better with the Chad

[calm kestrel]

Gotta gold sticker my king of hearts

Fr fr

[iron portal]

At least to survive

[forest carbon]

ohh i thought rental or sum shi after u beat the blind

[regal flax]

yeah well I'm dead this ante anyways unless i get another ecto and brainstorm

[iron portal]

Well, accept the fate

[regal flax]

wait no but considering I have 2 baseball I shoulnd't get rid of cat

[calm kestrel]

Playing cards can get eternal rental perishable (added gamemode)

[regal flax]

because chad is common

[calm kestrel]

Lmao

[regal flax]

yeah i'll just keep cat

[iron portal]

Then you just answered yourself jajajaja

[forest carbon]

that would be hell

[calm kestrel]

I'd play it

[forest carbon]

or imagine pinned sticker

so you cant optimize

[calm kestrel]

Like it chooses when it gets drawn?

That would be silly

[forest carbon]

no it stays in the far left like the dagger challenge

[tribal knoll]

like in the shop, upon using an arcana or by default the entire 52 deck can have eternal rentals and perishables

if its the entire deck sounds tedious enough tbh lol

[calm kestrel]

Cards in deck have a random chance (a lower one)

Standard packs

And consumables

[tribal knoll]

me when i lose 24$ per round cause my entire held hand is rented

in round 1

[calm kestrel]

I'd play it lol

[forest carbon]

upon start of the run half of deck has stickers. chance for stickers on cards in packs.

[calm kestrel]

It feels wrong having 3 discards

[tame lotus]

guys.... help me

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1156721486288126023/1464031570821251299/2026-01-22_19-55-03.mp4?ex=6973fd26&is=6972aba6&hm=fdd75d3b502b7b6383639415d2ae7d4e808938b9833eee0cebf4611a7c539883&

what is the closest thing to this version of the balatro theme

[forest carbon]

fr

[calm kestrel]

Scored exactly 300 round 1 nice

[tame lotus]

please help me giuys

[forest carbon]

peak. it was a flush 100% fr fr

[tame lotus]

im going to lose it without finding it

[forest carbon]

how are we supposed to know

[tame lotus]

im asking localthunk on his email 💀

[violet thistle]

Some good runs i had ig

[tribal knoll]

i dont even know what they mean by closest thing

[forest carbon]

fr

[tribal knoll]

like closest videogame ost to a sped up version to balatro? no idea

[tribal knoll]

honestly souns like hell

[calm kestrel]

That's exactly why I'd play it

[tribal knoll]

ur money would constantly be low idk how could you even afford anything

[violet thistle]

Credit card type shi 🥀 🔥

[tribal knoll]

it would be funnier i the eternal playing cards could also not be discarded

if

[forest carbon]

lowk eternal could mean that you cant discard it cus cant be destroyed isnt that bad for cards

[tribal knoll]

i mean i think it depends

eternal could be not destroyable but discardable or vice versa, or both

if its both + rental i think that's pretty wild

[forest carbon]

that would be too much

[tribal knoll]

could you win a gold stake game of balatro if you couldnt destroy any card? very probably yeah

could you win under the same conditions but also losing a ton of money? idts

[forest carbon]

lowk the card stickers have so much potential like imagine a card that you cant unselect like the cerulean bell and it would be like " ringing sticker"

[tribal knoll]

finding deaths would be key prob

[forest carbon]

fr

and then just add sum 'immortal sticker' so you cant death it

[coral pebble]

Is this good progress

[graceful drift]

The sped up version? Or just the main theme increasing the speed slowly

[tame lotus]

sped up

[graceful drift]

I just stuck with a version I found on YouTube

[tame lotus]

where

[graceful drift]

YouTube

😭

??

Just search Balatro theme sped up

Or something

I love it

So funny bro ✌️😭

"I stuck with a version I found on YouTube"
"where"
"YouTube? 😭"

[tame lotus]

i meant link vro 💔

[graceful drift]

Aaah

I'll share it with you rq

[graceful drift]

https://youtu.be/lDy4Rlzq3H0?si=gK1juxO8Ruzwu9bP

[desert wadi]

the helly

i didnt even know you could get 2 from one pack

[graceful drift]

😧

[desert wadi]

thats insane

[graceful drift]

Me neither

It is!

Wow

[forest carbon]

crazy

sacrifice

one needs to go gng

[compact stump]

what the fuck

is that modded

[desert wadi]

the deck is modded and i have a few qol mods, but nothing crazy

[graceful drift]

Nah pluh just lucky fr

[desert wadi]

and i already had gotten one earlier

[forest carbon]

i just realized that you have yorick

[graceful drift]

Ok maybe pluh does have mods

😭

[compact stump]

lol

[forest carbon]

what does the deck do

[desert wadi]

its one that one of my friends made, it makes it so there are twice as many face cards, and they're all glass

canio synergy ahh

[tribal knoll]

jesus christ

[forest carbon]

kinda peak

[desert wadi]

and i got canio from the soul 😭

ts fries me

[tribal knoll]

on a 3 card arcana pack as well thats insane

not even a 5

[compact stump]

canio is goated on that deck

just play faces and break them

[desert wadi]

FUCK

WHY

HOW

[forest carbon]

it even has canio on the art 🥀 🥀 🥀 🥀

[forest carbon]

huh

[compact stump]

thats just weird.

[tribal knoll]

pray for perkeo or trib

[forest carbon]

the deck prolly has a secret stat fr fr

[tribal knoll]

and sell steel guy prob

actualy thats a glass guy

[desert wadi]

chicot

[compact stump]

lol

[desert wadi]

maybe this deck has a higher chance to get legendarys or something, cuz what is this

i gotta ask the dude who made this just to see if thats the case

[forest carbon]

it definetly is the case

we ballin btw

[desert wadi]

🔥

[forest carbon]

the build is complete

e12 🔥 🔥

[cinder wharf]

Does using qol mods disable your ability to get c+ or c++

[forest carbon]

no

[cinder wharf]

Aight thanks

[calm kestrel]

I lost because my wee got debuffed

[desert wadi]

noooooooo

sadge

[calm kestrel]

800 wee

I had

Wee

Obelisk

Double card sharp

All eternal

Oh and an eternal abstract

[forest carbon]

almost got through. gg

[calm kestrel]

high score

Looks inside

White stake

Looks away

[glad oriole]

looks inside
meow!!

[charred smelt]

Not a bad start to a gold stake run lol

[finite plover]

bros gatekeeping high scores

[calm kestrel]

Jus saying when you make the game as easy as possible it's not as impressive

[finite plover]

just let people enjoy the game

[glad oriole]

and you're assuming their intention was to impress

[calm kestrel]

Not sure why else you'd show it off

[glad oriole]

why not

doesnt hurt anyone

i'd argue doing high score runs on higher stakes just pointlessly complicates things and makes the process less fun

besides

people have achieved much more impressive things

they dont stand to gain anything by "showing off"

and they dont have to

[placid pecan]

I have idea for run; Underdog

Try and get as far as you can with the five worst jokers

I always root for the underdogs so this could be interesting

[tribal knoll]

i think jokers arent all objectively good or bad but some can be very good in certain situations and you just have to learn how to get to those situations

like what are the "worst jokers" and why

[solemn elm]

showman

it's actively detrimental while it isn't helping you, and the chance of it helping you is incredibly slim

[glad oriole]

idol
borderline unusable

[tribal knoll]

i guess if you're looking for an ante 8 win from round 1, showman would be very bad, but i don't think that's necessarily making it 100% useless, don't get me wrong but i just think his idea wouldnt be that bad

[tribal knoll]

need a decent bit of deck fixing, true

[solemn elm]

"decent bit"

[glad oriole]

a bit?

[tribal knoll]

very decent bit at that

[calm kestrel]

Yeah only a little bit not too much

Turning your entire deck into one card isn't that hard dw about it

[wintry halo]

im a visual learner

[wicked sleet]

Which would be the best wild cards for playing plasma deck?

[lament tapir]

hi guys

[wintry halo]

red suit face/odd ranks

[wicked sleet]

El diablo

[wicked sleet]

Thanks bro

[lament tapir]

what

[wicked sleet]

What?

[lament tapir]

nothing

[lament tapir]

hehe doggie with sombrero

[wicked sleet]

Xd

They should make a wildcard that gives you multi for every stupid mistake you make in the run

[lament tapir]

you mean joker?

they should make a boss blind that forces you to play maximum 3 or 4 cards

like something similar to the boss blind that makes you play only 5 cards

[wintry halo]

you'll probably like reworked serpent in a way

[glad copper]

Awwww maan... I really wanna know what it is 🙁

[desert wadi]

average modded

[tawdry glen]

dinosaur 🦕

[dry pivot]

do i even grab photo here

or go foor infinite gold card

[severe obsidian]

Tremendo server muerto

[calm imp]

does rebate use same logic as idol where 4 jacks and 1 queen will be an 80% chance of landing on jack or will it be 50/50?

[tribal knoll]

it chooses a random rank on ur deck

[unborn oriole]

2 girls asked for my number today is that rizz?

[tribal knoll]

i'm not entirely sure but i think its like idol, yes

if it chooses a random rank on ur current deck

[tribal knoll]

very balatro of you indeed

[unborn oriole]

I blocked her cause she lowkey look like a mime

[unborn oriole]

The other was kinda badddd

[meager nymph]

wait why do the negs take up a slot?

[glad copper]

It doesn't, it's the 4 joker slots deck.

[dry pivot]

do i grab hanging?

and toss midas?

vampires at 3.5

[quiet oar]

is this server in english only? (sorry for my bad english)

[quiet oar]

ohh

do it

[wintry halo]

no

[meager nymph]

oh

[cloud rain]

sell the mime here 100%

[acoustic nexus]

My new best run. Got a nat negative mime and got a last minute blueprint allowing me to survive another ante but I had bad vouchers and bad money

[icy patrol]

hi

[icy patrol]

wow bro

[finite plover]

big number

[acoustic nexus]

Just realized it wasnt my best run i forgot I got e78 one time but still

Crazy run cause I didnt have all the vouchers unlocked on this account

[lament tapir]

GUYS GUYS GUYS

[rare yew]

what

[lament tapir]

CHECK OUT THIS COOL EPIC HIGH SCORE ON BALATRO :DDD

[lament tapir]

hella cool right

[calm kestrel]

This must be modded I don't remember that stake

[lament tapir]

?

[calm kestrel]

You're like

Playing a stake that isn't in the base game

[lament tapir]

uh

dude

it's green stake

lol

[cedar echo]

Modded?

[lament tapir]

No😭

[cedar echo]

That stake is a mod

[lament tapir]

Is this like an inside joke?

[cedar echo]

I've never seen it

[cedar echo]

I actually have never seen it

[lament tapir]

Yeah neither i dude

[cedar echo]

Go to modding chat ig

[lament tapir]

My Balatro is actually haunted

Every copy of Balatro is personalized

[cedar echo]

Idk why I was doing whitestake but fun run still

[real stratus]

chicken butt

a

ha

ha

ha

[calm kestrel]

There's only 3 steaks in the game

White Steak

Blue Steak

Gold Steak

[compact stump]

we don’t talk about blue stake.

[calm kestrel]

There's only 2 steaks in the game

White Steak

A d Gold Steak

[lament tapir]

b-blue s-s-stake...?

[calm kestrel]

Yeah but it's really not that hard

Dw about it

[compact stump]

not cuz it’s hard it’s getting reworked and thunk genuinely hates it lol

[calm kestrel]

I like it :3

It's very simple and effective at raising difficulty

Very W

[swift fulcrum]

steak.or stake

MMMM steak is w yums

[calm kestrel]

Obviously Steak

The whole point is beating Ante 8 gives you a suspiciously colored steak

[jovial estuary]

uh Idk what channel this should go in but does anyone know the dimensions of a joker in balatro?

[steel tangle]

The gap between white and blue is much much bigger than the gap between blue and gold

[calm kestrel]

Wish there was more than 3 difficulties for this reason

[steel tangle]

Jokers are 2 demential

[calm kestrel]

Tbh

[steel tangle]

Rework bluestake!

Now!!

[calm kestrel]

I like Blue Stake

[compact stump]

LocalThunk has confirmed it, along with matador rework and Mail in rebate nerf

[jovial estuary]

thanks... that was helpful (I was more thinking pixel dimensions like (number X number))

[calm kestrel]

Don't tell me that let me ignore the fact they're changing a stake I like

[steel tangle]

I dont hate blue but when i start playing on white again the extra discard feels so much nicer

[calm kestrel]

It's

A difficulty setting

It's supposed to not feel good

[compact stump]

i just wonder what he’s going to give blue stake

[calm kestrel]

Hopefully -.5 discards

[steel tangle]

He said something along the lines of it restricts some builds too much

[compact stump]

yeah

[calm kestrel]

Nerfed by 50%

Seems fair

[compact stump]

matador does needs a rework

that’s fair

[calm kestrel]

Could

Add more jokers

That actually let those builds exist

[steel tangle]

I remember someone suggesting +2 antes for blue stake

And i think thats pretty good

[calm kestrel]

Just saying

[compact stump]

i think that would make purple really hard

[calm kestrel]

Those builds don't exist because of joker selection

Not really the discard

[steel tangle]

Yeah

[steel tangle]

What do you mean,

Discard builds are huge

[calm kestrel]

An extra discard gives me no actual incentive to play something that isn't two pair or pair

They're just better

Still

[compact stump]

quite the opposite?

[steel tangle]

And the -1 discard is a heavy nerf to all build that require big hands to start scaling.

Mainly straights

[calm kestrel]

I'm not scoring any more with an extra discord and there's not really any jokers that really encourage anything else

[compact stump]

pairs are the easiest hand to find, if i had less discards i would go pairs

[desert wadi]

:p

[compact stump]

rebate,htr,baron,stm

[calm kestrel]

If I had more I'd still play pair

[compact stump]

much more

[calm kestrel]

Can't miss it

[steel tangle]

Honestly im surprised there are blue stake supporters

I thought it was a consensus that it sucked

[calm kestrel]

If Blue Stake is truly part of the issue you should be in favor of jokers that discourage pair and stuff like that

They don't really exist

[steel tangle]

What??

Where does this come from

[calm kestrel]

So why not just play the most consistent hand anyways?

Even with an extra discard you can search for those golds, purples, and blues better if you aren't trying to build a bigger hand

So again.. pair is still just better

[compact stump]

Are you saying that discards are useless?

[steel tangle]

Yeah it’s better

But

[calm kestrel]

Every card you need to build your hand is -1 handsize

This impacts your searching ability

[steel tangle]

The jokers you get are what determines your build

[compact stump]

Are we still talking abt discards?

[calm kestrel]

More searching benefits pair

Sure it benefits other hands too but pair has better joker access than the non viable hands

Same with two pair

With the benefit of more consistency

[steel tangle]

So since discards dont affect hands very much, removing one only makes discard jokers worse

[calm kestrel]

So they don't have to use as many discards to build their hand

They can use them to search

[steel tangle]

so why target that playstyle in specific?

[calm kestrel]

For value generators

[calm kestrel]

It's a general thing that benefits the already good hands more

[steel tangle]

Changing it to +1 extra ante allows players to take their build further to win.

[calm kestrel]

That would be too easy imo

And wouldn't add much

[steel tangle]

• 2 then

[calm kestrel]

I don't like the idea of adding antes I'd prefer an actual gameplay change

Additional antes don't really change your decision making

Just keep scaling

[steel tangle]

It does though

You have to play long term

[calm kestrel]

Scaling jokers

Just keep scaling

Gg

It doesn't change much

[steel tangle]

And make safer choices rather than something that guarantees you the earlybwin

[ember cradle]

Just unlocked Abandoned Deck Dx good day for a noob. Assuming Ride the Bus would be nuts for the deck

[steel tangle]

Its not like -1 discard does much anyways

[calm kestrel]

It does

It very effectively makes the game harder

It's very simple and does its job

[steel tangle]

If pairs are the best anyways why does it matter?

How does it do its job

[calm kestrel]

Pairs aren't the best imo

Two pair is

[steel tangle]

Two pair is still easy to play

[calm kestrel]

Well no duh

That's why it's good

[steel tangle]

So the -1 discard doesnt affect it much

What im trying to say is

[calm kestrel]

Full house is never going to be viable anyways cause the discard helps already good hands more since they're smaller

They have less handsize loss building their hand

[steel tangle]

Blue stake makes all builds look with any hand above 2 pair not viable at all.

[calm kestrel]

It's a joker problem

Not a discard problem

[steel tangle]

Why change all your jokers to fit a single stake?

[calm kestrel]

The jokers don't make enough of a case to bother playing the hands given their natural downside

[steel tangle]

Yes they will be bro

[calm kestrel]

Of having less handsize

Less value generators

[steel tangle]

You know what helps that?

[calm kestrel]

They need to pick up specific cards

[steel tangle]

Discards…

[calm kestrel]

They can't just pick any card they want

That's a problem

They lose out on seals

Golds

Stuff like that

Because they have to be picky

[jaunty bane]

balatro is love

balatro is live

[calm kestrel]

Every card their hand needs is -1 handsize for searching for value generators

[steel tangle]

Which is why discards help…

[calm kestrel]

No it's not

Sure technically they help

[steel tangle]

Because you can get the value cards easier..

[calm kestrel]

But less for them

[steel tangle]

Less yeah

[calm kestrel]

And more for pair, two pair, 3 of a kind

[steel tangle]

So adding a discard back wont hurt…

[calm kestrel]

It's not enough though

[steel tangle]

Yes it is

[calm kestrel]

Again, there's no joker incentive to cover their natural downsides

[steel tangle]

Playing bigger poker hands is so much easier on lower stakes

Its the only place where you can really play those builds

On most decks

[calm kestrel]

Scoring jokers are only .25x as effective for 5 card hands vs 4

[steel tangle]

Thats huge

[calm kestrel]

You already have an ultra consistent 4 card hand

That'll always be easier to make

[calm kestrel]

That's nothing when one is more repeatable and less picky on cards it picks up from packs

[steel tangle]

Yeah

[calm kestrel]

The hand just has so much more freedom

[steel tangle]

Its better

I agree

But blue stake is kicking a dying horse

[calm kestrel]

5 card hands need more joker incentive to be worth

Is the problem

[steel tangle]

Flushes have many suit based jokers so that poker hands doesnt need changes

[calm kestrel]

They require more deck fixing, are less consistent, are picky about the cards they pick up

[steel tangle]

Full house has all two pair jokers and three oak

[calm kestrel]

There's a reason why the only good 5 card hand is straight

[steel tangle]

Blue stake makes them pointless though…

[calm kestrel]

It has the joker incentive and support

It's not as picky

[calm kestrel]

Straight is good on gold stake

Why is that?

[steel tangle]

I havent had that experience with straights

They are still very hard to make

[calm kestrel]

They aren't

[steel tangle]

With two discards you can only really play one straight

[calm kestrel]

Minimal deck fixing

Not too picky on cards it picks up (more value generators)

Has the joker incentive

Gets some support and utility cards

[calm kestrel]

I have experience saying you're wrong

But alright

[steel tangle]

All of those can be applied to all poker hands

[calm kestrel]

No they can't

Again there's a reason why straight is good on gold stake but the others aren't

[steel tangle]

They have better planet levels

Thats all i can think of

[calm kestrel]

That's not all

[steel tangle]

What else

[calm kestrel]

They aren't picky about what cards they pick up

They're easy to make

Require very minimal deck fixing

[steel tangle]

Yes

Flushes

Are the exact same

[calm kestrel]

Aren't good

[steel tangle]

Yeah

[calm kestrel]

They're picky, have worse planet scaling, don't utilize scoring jokers much better than two pair

[steel tangle]

So what makes them better than straights?

[steel tangle]

5 card hands allow ranks synergies

[calm kestrel]

They are easy to make however

[calm kestrel]

3 oak and you get halfsies

You get to hold more cards in your hand

You have +2 handsize for searching for value generators

[trim canopy]

i just got soul two times in a row from arcana packs what

[calm kestrel]

3 oak is always more repeatable too so

Card sharp

For ranks

At least

[steel tangle]

3 oaks are harder to get than flushes

[calm kestrel]

We're talking about rank synergy

Flushes can't fully utilize rank synergy

Flushes need similar amounts of deck fixing to make repeatable once you've chosen a suit however

[steel tangle]

Act as a transition for 3oak and 4 oak

[calm kestrel]

Flushes don't do that

[steel tangle]

Yes they do

[calm kestrel]

No, they do not

[steel tangle]

You start to deckfix for one specific card

[calm kestrel]

Then you aren't playing flushes

[steel tangle]

And play flushes with those cards while you are at it

[calm kestrel]

Flushes look for suit changers

They're more efficient at enabling tneir playstyle

[steel tangle]

Which can be played with other cards to get value

[calm kestrel]

Than Death

Just because you found 20 high card levels while playing 3 oak and found Baron Mime doesn't mean 3 oak builds into highcard

[steel tangle]

Suit changer are great but death is only 1/3 as good and you get the card you are transitioning into

[steel tangle]

You can use 3 oak and flushes interchangeably

The goal is to build to 4 oak

[calm kestrel]

Focusing on a hand is always better

Unless you have exactly obelisk

[steel tangle]

I go down the pait 3oak 4oak pipeline usually

[steel tangle]

Convinced thats the only rare joker to ever exist

Only thing I ever get

[calm kestrel]

Funny enough obelisk incentivises spamming pair

Lmao

Or two pair

Super repeatable, super easy to get super high on the amount of times played

[hollow spade]

Goofy ahh straight run about to win

[calm kestrel]

Straights are the goat

[hollow spade]

Shop 1 gave me superposition

[calm kestrel]

I hate superposition

Tbh

[steel tangle]

How arent you in crippling debt?

[hollow spade]

gold seal lucky

i got the chad after i had 3 gold seal 2s

made em lucky, alongside my aces

[calm kestrel]

Because it's actually very easy to get decent money in gold stake

Contrary to what pair glazers say

[steel tangle]

5 rentals bro….

[hollow spade]

so what?

i dont spend down to 40

and then its the same

[calm kestrel]

Plays 5 cards has gold seals and luckies

Checks out

[steel tangle]

Easier said than done

[hollow spade]

nah

this was handed to me ngl

[calm kestrel]

Hanging chad is 9 dollars

Every hand

[steel tangle]

One rental in the early game and you get beat down by debt

[calm kestrel]

By itself

[hollow spade]

My only early rental was the throwback

Bc you have to take any xmult you see early in gold basically

[calm kestrel]

Throwback? Ew

Going for sticker?

[hollow spade]

Also that

[calm kestrel]

Anything but throwback basically

Actually

[hollow spade]

yeah but bros 2.5x and my skips have been kinda cracked

[calm kestrel]

You get stronger by seeing more shops

[hollow spade]

im fully aware

but i can already win

[steel tangle]

Flower pot not working with wilds makes me crashout….

So i never take it

[hollow spade]

with glass and chad i score over 500k

[calm kestrel]

You got lucky if good skips tbf

[steel tangle]

And you also basically have to be playing big hands

Which are kinda hard pn gold-

Oh shoot twopair glaze incoming

[calm kestrel]

Flowerpot should be reworked

I think it should be +chips

"Has no effect for the first two suits score, if a third suit is present give {base chips} on the fourth suit add {some amount of chips}"

[hollow spade]

double tag into double 40 in one ante

the next was two free rares and i figured as long as they werent both perishable itd be worth, and it got me order

like i fully know i was gambling

but as i said

handed

[calm kestrel]

I kinda think flower pot rn is worse seeing double

[calm kestrel]

This would make it completely different from what seeing double is doing

[hollow spade]

update

no longer need glass to score 600k

[calm kestrel]

Also I don't think it should work with wilds unless it's that 3rd suit scored or 4th suit and is the last suit you need

Because it's

Just the other suit with two wilds

[hollow spade]

Cry about it

[calm kestrel]

Like

[calm kestrel]

Nice boss blind idiot

[hollow spade]

two straights and i win

i aint need to read i know my levels

[full thunder]

The eternal chad is killing you

[hollow spade]

it made me live

i had gold luckies

[calm kestrel]

They got it for econ

[full thunder]

Oooohhhhh

I figured

But eternal seems painful there almost

[hollow spade]

i only do ante 8 so

[calm kestrel]

You really only need 4 jokers to win

[hollow spade]

i dont find endless fun

[full thunder]

Oh doing math you don’t need those card points to win

[calm kestrel]

I do

[hollow spade]

so i dont play it, as games are meant to be fun

[calm kestrel]

I play endless

As I enjoy it

[hollow spade]

thats also why i spend down to nothing before ante 8 boss

[calm kestrel]

As games are meant to be fun

[hollow spade]

in case i see a diff thing i wanna sticker

sadly no scholar showed up on my rolls

[calm kestrel]

Scholar is one of my favorite jokers

[hollow spade]

hes so fun

[calm kestrel]

I love having an excuse to pop grim

[full thunder]

Scholar is one I see and try to use so often

[calm kestrel]

And +4 mult +20 chips? That's solid right there

[hollow spade]

oh yeah

[calm kestrel]

Good common

[hollow spade]

one of my skips was a spectral

grim

[full thunder]

But I fear it never survived past 8

[hollow spade]

gave 2 lucky aces

killed a face card

[full thunder]

A win

[hollow spade]

so it also decided for me to build into lows

[calm kestrel]

Grim is hugeee

It tells you exactly what you're getting

[hollow spade]

i only have 3 more decks to gold stake

anaglyph, plasma, erratic

[calm kestrel]

But I mean if you're two pair or pair you take the other ones anyways

I guess

It don't matter

What they are

[hollow spade]

i really love the spectral cards

ghost deck is probably gonna be the main way i do c++

bc i also think the negatives being basically guaranteed will help with sticker rate

[calm kestrel]

I'd only advise against inflating the deck with faces on pair though since

You already basically hard lose to the needle

Don't wanna make plant less consistent if you can help it (and if you already needed enhancements anywaaays)

[hollow spade]

oh also fun fact

im going for c++ before 100% collection

i never see magic trick 2

[calm kestrel]

We really need more 5 card hand jokers that do some unique with 5 cards

I hate I can only rely on straight out of the 5 cards

[hollow spade]

the mob - 5x mult if played hand contians 5oak

kekw

[calm kestrel]

Oh boy another bad rare

[hollow spade]

the only good one of that group is duo bc its real easy to do

[calm kestrel]

And order

[hollow spade]

and 2x mult can change games

true

[calm kestrel]

Order, duo, and Trio

3oak is actually good

[hollow spade]

i have won with all but tribe looking at my collection acttually

gold stake

[calm kestrel]

Tribe is flush I think

[hollow spade]

not just in general

[gusty lantern]

i love balatro

[calm kestrel]

Right

[hollow spade]

cirrect

[calm kestrel]

Flushes are okaaay

I think they should be mid tho

[hollow spade]

i already gold staked checkered so

[calm kestrel]

They're in a good spot

[hollow spade]

odds are that one comes quite late

[calm kestrel]

Good for the early game nit reliable later

I like that

[hollow spade]

i will say

sometimes i spice a photochad run up with flushes

[calm kestrel]

Flush is in a very balanced spot

[hollow spade]

that can be fun

[calm kestrel]

Photo chad is best with bigger hands

Yeah

[hollow spade]

flush needs a decent amount of xmult to work, but thats fine considering it is about as hard to draw as 3oak if not slightly easier

[calm kestrel]

Usually I chuck it in with two pair and load some enhancements in front of the faces

Two pair uses scoring jokers well, and is more repeatable than flush generally

[hollow spade]

love an enhancement chad build any day

[calm kestrel]

Win win

[hollow spade]

chad is prob my favorite joker

[calm kestrel]

Chad makes Photo not lose to plant

[hollow spade]

it is incredible for econ, retriggering glass or mult can be game changing, and makes for the best two joker combo in the game

best might be exaggerating when blueprint, brainstorm, and legendaries exist

but its still really nice and consistent

i love photochad

[calm kestrel]

Burglar is also Scoring + Econ

[hollow spade]

only if you can draw hands consistently though

[calm kestrel]

... Especially for pair.. two pair

[hollow spade]

in those cases yes

i once had a burgler + bp + vagabond run

HOLY MOLY

[calm kestrel]

.. this game really loves pair and two pair too much

[hollow spade]

the tarots i generated

i had to throw high cards to not over score before i was done getting my tarots

[calm kestrel]

There's not enough joker incentive to play anything else tho and the other hands just have natural downsides

It's unfortunate

[hollow spade]

oh i forgot to mention

idk if yall noticed but i gold staked 4 jokers in that straight run

all but chad got gold staked

that dude's been staked up

[calm kestrel]

I think this is what needs to happen.

Enhancement buffs

More jokers that incentivise bigger hands in some unique way (when x is scored is better for 2 pair since 5 card is only marginally better in return for less consistency)

[warped sphinx]

Jane remover triple balatro reference

[calm kestrel]

I too don't have enough soul

I just want Perkeo

[warped sphinx]

[glad oriole]

the world like convert 3 selected cards to spade

[warped sphinx]

Line above it has the word star in it

so it's a quintuple balatro reference

[glad oriole]

this xannot be a coincedencr

[warped sphinx]

jane remover is among us

[round bridge]

does anyone have that one mod frm a year ago where jimbo said fuck

i need to find it

[prisma idol]

Meow

[glad oriole]

miaw

[prisma idol]

Only one more joker and I unlocked em all :3

[glad oriole]

pogg :3

[covert ridge]

first time doing this

[native tusk]

jane remover mention..

[candid cosmos]

Guys

Help

[glad oriole]

ur cooked

[twin furnace]

AHAHAHHA

its pizdec

ahahahah

[twin furnace]

ahahhahahahhhahah

[candid cosmos]

WTF?????

[unreal stag]

bet

[slim junco]

lmao this was fun

[shrewd estuary]

should i take it? i dont want to lose the rading card

[unreal stag]

help

[unreal stag]

bhallaJhalaSkyforgedShrug

[cinder wharf]

should i sell burnt with the lvl 13 pair

[unreal stag]

nvm i win

[unreal stag]

ya

lvl 13 pair aint worth much

nvm i no win

2N2U9XFI

[cinder wharf]

alr thats seriously a no brainer i think im sleep depribed

[unreal stag]

😭 🙏

enlighten me

[cinder wharf]

"alr dude i swear im gonna start unlocking higher stakes on my lesser played decks"
me proceeding to play white stake yellow deck

jolly heavens

i swear did i accidentally install a mod to boost the soul spawnrates cause i keep getting 2-3 a day

[unreal stag]

wait

arent souls common in spectral packs?

[cinder wharf]

are they really that common?

i thought i heard from some people that theyve only seen a few souls with over 200 hours

[wicked mirage]

they are 1 in 300 cards you see in a arcana

every individual card has a 1/300 chance of being soul

[ornate field]

folks should i risk this

it might be gg

[placid shard]

Risk it for the biscuit cro

Maybe disintegrate hallucination

[ornate field]

its inf either my goat photograph or hanging

[cedar echo]

Eternal

[ornate field]

yh

hit the road highkey important

boss blind is chrimson heart

so we might fr be gg

[cinder wharf]

this might just be a skill issue but ive never really had a good hit the road

[ornate field]

i love hit the road

esp earlier antes

depends right

[placid shard]

Unless you have like 12 jacks from erratic deck it's usually just a 2.5x card

[ornate field]

just shape your deck around jacks

it's a clear gameplan

[placid shard]

Man i do 2s alot

[ornate field]

tuffff

[unreal stag]

HUH

[placid shard]

Hack and wee joker my goats

[ornate field]

hit the road my baobei <3

[unreal stag]

if ur going for a chip run not a mult one

[unreal stag]

bhallaJhalaSkyforgedShrug

[placid shard]

I do chips a lot

Like one of my favs is marble joker

[unreal stag]

explains

[cedar echo]

Ahem, yall forgetting the best joker

[unreal stag]

WHAAAT

[placid shard]

What cro

[unreal stag]

who is that

[placid shard]

Paired with stone jimbo and hologram/drivers license it's peak

[cedar echo]

Me

Obviously

[unreal stag]

mmm

naw

[placid shard]

My personal favs of all time

1. Flash card
2. Marble joker
3. Wee joker
4. Diet cola
5. Mr bones
6. Credit card

Can you tell i like gimmicks

[ornate field]

let me smile rn actually

[cedar echo]

And I synergize with 4 of those

[unreal stag]

i mean u can figure out the jokers i like

[placid shard]

Flash card is so underrated when you get enough money to start shovelling rerolls into it it becomes amazing

[placid shard]

Burning joker?

[placid shard]

Yes you do my goat

[unreal stag]

naw

[placid shard]

Aaaand guess what can also work great with flash card?

ANAGLYYYYPH!!!

Double tag either the 25 dolla boss tag or any other money tag and just feed flash card

[unreal stag]

photo chad, blueprint , brainstorm

and

drivers license

or cavandish

[placid shard]

Anyways been thinking if green deck is like popular among the community

I saw some people clown on it

[plush badge]

green deck is goated

[unreal stag]

i used to like it but am into checkered deck lately

[placid shard]

When its goated especially with flash card

[cedar echo]

Photochad? Opinion Immolated

[unreal stag]

why do ppl hate photo chad

srsly

[placid shard]

Boring to do the exact same setup 15 times

[unreal stag]

ehhhh am kinda new to the game sooo

[placid shard]

Duuuuuurrrrhhhhhh
Photochad.... Sock and buskinmmmm scary facemmmmmm smiley facemmmm

[cedar echo]

And easily vulnerable to plant and is worthless on Abandoned

[unreal stag]

thats why directors cut was created no?

[cedar echo]

Oh, so you're gonna bank on a voucher appearing

[cinder wharf]

sad

[cedar echo]

Inconsistent smh

[placid shard]

Feeling like people don't like using green deck a lot because it's much harder to get full value without hella rng for jokers

[placid shard]

The punchline is AAALWAYS plant

[unreal stag]

i mean it will appear at some point

😔

[placid shard]

At like ante 15

[unreal stag]

TBOI

[placid shard]

For people deciding on using the one and only anaglyph

Do not be an idiot and dont JUST take negatives

[unreal stag]

isaac_shrug

[placid shard]

There are so many options

[cedar echo]

I use it for orbital tag

[placid shard]

I mean like

[cedar echo]

Pair upgrade is peak

[placid shard]

Spectral tag, orbital tag, playing cards, insane amounts of money, upgrades

I got to two pair level 55 with it

By ante 10

Two pair is fun as hell same with regular pair

Especially if early square joker

Of course don't AVOID negative tags since it's still insanely good if you have like 4+ doubles

Theres also the rare tags which i usually pick if i have 1-2 tags

[cedar echo]

@unreal stag are you a white stake player?

[placid shard]

Hot take but green is the best stake imo

It's perfectly balanced without being bullshit so i can actually have fun

[cedar echo]

I'm calling them whitestaker bc they skull reacted me saying pairs are great

Pairs are the best hand for consistency

[placid shard]

Obviously

I love me some full houses but they're really hard to get sometines

And you also just lose if you keep discarding for straight or flush

[cedar echo]

Straights are the best 5 card hand

[placid shard]

Let's be so fr right now

[cedar echo]

Especially bc of Shortcut and Four Fingers

[placid shard]

They are wayyyy too inconsistent without them

[cedar echo]

And chip scalers like runner

[fresh current]

yeah, highest reward relative to their risk

[fresh current]

that's a pairs joker, lets be honest

[placid shard]

Look im a chronic flush avoider but they're mostly better

[cedar echo]

Deckfixing, abandoned, seals, painted

You can deck fix for straights

[placid shard]

I've used painted once on a white stake run so i have no experience with it

[fresh current]

nah, they scale too slow to be worth

[fresh current]

yea straights on abandoned are pretty potent

[placid shard]

They're worth on 1-8 ante white stake runs with all their jokers

Otherwise? HELL NO

[fresh current]

nah even then they still just dont compete with more spammable hands

[cedar echo]

The run that gave me C++ I ran straights lol

[fresh current]

hardly ever

[placid shard]

Flushes are overglazed only new players use them

[fresh current]

i dont hate them with arrowhead but thats an uncommon

[placid shard]

Onyx agate and clubs>>>>

[cedar echo]

I think they are just fun to build around

[fresh current]

fs

[fresh current]

usually i can find another way of getting mult

chips are much harder to come by

[cedar echo]

And it's the only hand that has 2 dedicated jokers to make them easier to draw (+strushes)

[placid shard]

Like flash card

[unreal stag]

i told u am new

about 2 months of playing the game

[forest carbon]

is ts peak

[rigid dove]

Eiþer abstract or seance

[cinder wharf]

i suck at running straight builds

[hexed thunder]

just won this run

[radiant arch]

is there a meme chat

[radiant arch]

looks inside
photchad

[radiant arch]

straight builds are kinda mid tho
(i think i might get killed for saying this)

[tribal knoll]

pair builds are so fun

my very 1st time trying 1

[stray vault]

Pair build is mid

[placid shard]

White stake plasma deck speech bubble

[tribal knoll]

[stiff moat]

hi

[fathom copper]

hi

[warped sphinx]

5806

[covert ridge]

Guess my fav synergy

[stiff moat]

i have to stop using seeds

oops qrong channel

[stray vault]

Dont make me send it

[lament tapir]

There should be a joker so bad the game gives you money for choosing it

[lofty socket]

Pretty big wee for ante 8, no hack sadly but dusk works. Gold staked dusk, even steven, and hallucination

[visual basin]

ballot card ?

[stray vault]

Agree

But what could be worse than rental eternal seance

[lament tapir]

"Joker gives x0.75 mult, Gives 10 dollars (or more) at end of the round"

[stray vault]

There is no point in picking it up

[lament tapir]

Exactly.

[stray vault]

Every econ joker, except matador can make that amount

[lament tapir]

That's why i said "or more"

Maybe put in some more amount of money

But the point is that it's SOOO bad

[cinder wharf]

just my luck

[stray vault]

Its not bad if you can secure a good score and the amount of money awarded is more reasonable

I think the amount of money should not be fixed per round btw

Cuz if you fix it, it will either be too weak or too strong

[lament tapir]

I mean, It just adds 0.75 mult to the play, Which means that if you play flush, you'll get 3 mult instead of 4, or for example, If your initial mult if 100, then you'll get 75

[stray vault]

I understand it

Lmao

It kinda nerfs your score

[lament tapir]

Then how should it be fixed?

[stray vault]

I mean it should be varied per round

[lament tapir]

Ah i see

[stray vault]

Maybe depends on the total score you scored

[lament tapir]

Kinda like misprint

[lament tapir]

Or yeah

[stray vault]

Like if you can score 100K, it takes away your 25k

Then it should give u more money than when u score 50k

Sth like that

[lament tapir]

It'd be hella overpowered on at least ante 12

[stray vault]

So it will be a joker that can snowball

[lament tapir]

Let's say if you get 100k chips, you'll be getting like around, hm, 40 or 30 dollars at least

[stray vault]

Yeah kinda

[lament tapir]

That'd be neat

With the cost of you reducing your mult, putting the joker on the leftmost isn't kind of a big deal

Low risk high reward

[stray vault]

But i can see its gonna be another joker that can only be useful for endless

Like baron

[tribal knoll]

@timber sierra happy bday

[lament tapir]

Or showman

[warped sphinx]

hey

[hollow spade]

bp should be copying photo 😤

[warped sphinx]

glass card

[warped sphinx]

i can half read this what does aunque mean

[hollow spade]

pretty sure photo still scores more

[vague anchor]

Rotoscopia

[warped sphinx]

you will not question me

[tribal knoll]

depending on context aunque means "even if" "even" or "however"

[warped sphinx]

why does dr doom look like the chud face in your pfp

[hollow spade]

1 trigger, + 6 triggers. each trigger gives 2x from glass and 2x from photo, for a napkin math of 28x

1 trigger + 4 retriggers. each trigger gives 2x from glass, 2x from photo, and 2x from BP on photo, for a napkin math of 40x

[tribal knoll]

prob cause its a zoomed in panel

[hollow spade]

it is objectively MUCH stronger to still copy photo in this setup

so i will continue to question speedblitz

[tribal knoll]

i thought glass double chad was better

[hollow spade]

they have triple chad

one bp

one photo

[warped sphinx]

well my source is that i like photochad so im always right

[hollow spade]

if one of each yes

[tribal knoll]

ohhh

[warped sphinx]

my opinions defy mathematics and physics

[hollow spade]

but in this case, copying chad gives 28x and copying photo gives 40x

[tribal knoll]

yeah makes more sense

yeah}}

[hollow spade]

id copy chad for econ but that isnt a factor with the hand being played

and also theyre against violet vessel

[warped sphinx]

they still win pretty easy

[hollow spade]

so like, just win bc endless is garbo

oh yeah im not denying that

i just had to scream at someone to do math in the math poker rougelike

[unreal stag]

🥶

[warped sphinx]

also im pretty sure your math is wrong anyways

[hollow spade]

those shoes fuck, bet theyre 300 dollars though

[hollow spade]

i don't think it is

[unreal stag]

800 v bucks
around 10 bucks

[warped sphinx]

isnt 4 chad + photo + glass 4^8

or is it 8^4

i think its 8^4

[hollow spade]

i just did amount of triggers multiplied by amount of mult per trigger

as a general rule

you always want your retriggers to be close to equal to your 2x shots

the closer to equal these numbers, the bigger the score

[hollow spade]

it would actually be 9 ^ 4

you arent counting the first trigger

compared to 7^6

[warped sphinx]

right

[warped sphinx]

67

[warped sphinx]

this does appear to be a bigger number

[hollow spade]

6561 (9^4) vs 117649 (7^6)

[warped sphinx]

hmmmm

[hollow spade]

it is SO much bigger doing the actual math

[warped sphinx]

i think photo copy may be better

[hollow spade]

that doing the napkin math

wrong

still makes it better

[tribal knoll]

thats crazy lol

[hollow spade]

this is because

you ALWAYS want your retriggers and 2x shots to be roughly equal