🕹・game-discussion

[upper dove]

Which hand are you planning to use ?

[warm kindle]

if im playing pairs tho

[warm kindle]

pairs

[gentle basalt]

id say yes if your deck is fixed enough

[upper dove]

If it works for you, go for it

[willow frost]

dont care you have 1/5 joker slots

[dark cairn]

dont you love when you hard counter a card-flipper boss blind with just pure luck skill
(and before you ask i took the eternal riff raff just to screw around, wasn't planning on winning) https://medal.tv/games/balatro/clips/lhBWOXspYnwzam8l4?invite=cr-MSxCbk0sMzg1MjQ0MTcy&v=60

[stark pier]

it isnt yet 😭

[gentle basalt]

hell nah

[stark pier]

yeah

[gentle basalt]

HELL NAW! HE- HE- HELL NAW!

[stark pier]

i'll keep fixing

[serene forge]

i can hate multiple things at the same time

[gentle basalt]

keep tinkering with it

[eternal anchor]

no you can't

[serene forge]

who the hell is using photochad in ante 15

[gentle basalt]

no. Pick one. Pick one card you can only hate One Card

[serene forge]

also it's a good thing the game ends 7 antes before that

[gentle basalt]

mm.e : ] hi

[stark pier]

me too

😁

[gentle basalt]

i think i did get to ante 15 with photochad when i first got past 8

it was a white stake run and i was a little schmetterling but whatever

[serene forge]

i feel like photochad is gonna run out of steam before then

maybe I'm wrong though

[gentle basalt]

i had just grown my wings and like icarus i abused the heck out of a poly glass card

icarus didnt do that but. imagine he did

[mild scaffold]

Trying to sticker cartomancy with canio straights

And other misc jokers

[vestal fern]

Man, the balatro fandom I'd full of dirty puriteens, why can't adult GAMBLERS have a space for themselves??? let us ship Vagabond and Wee Joker in peace smh... /joking

"27yo fandom moms" would genuinely say shit like this

[gentle basalt]

thats a Crippling Meth Addict and a baby

[upper dove]

How good is shot to the moon with a couple steel queens?

[vestal fern]

NOT THE HORSE

[serene forge]

good

[vestal fern]

NO NOT THE HORSE PLEASE PUT THE HORSE AWAY

I'M NOT LETTING THE HORSE WALK IN

GET THE HORSE OUT

[gentle basalt]

Buddy... Hey, buddy... just let it horse around a little bit....

[upper dove]

Maybe not post ante 8 good but yeah

[vestal fern]

The whole joke is that it references "27yo fandom moms" who complain about "puritans" not letting them ship gross stuff

[stark pier]

[serene forge]

there's like two strategies that work in deep endless

that's not an argument

[gentle basalt]

i have never heard of people like this. You have opened my eyes ramb

[vestal fern]

innit

[slow iris]

playign balatro on an old thinkpad

[upper dove]

Maybe a couple strengths and deaths can do the trick

[viral mountain]

Holy shit is that Ramb Deltarune

[cyan juniper]

Greetings fellow shoot the moon enjoyer

[simple bronze]

i take square or gamble on judgement?

[cyan juniper]

Get yourself a bus ride with that and you’ll really be cooking

[deep rapids]

always gamble

bc its funny

when you get jolly joker

[cyan juniper]

You could get anything on gamble…. Even square

[simple bronze]

actually thats pretty good

[upper dove]

How dare you making balatro a funny game

[viral mountain]

Winning

[dawn gulch]

Ok ish but unfortunately x1.5 triggered first before Shoot The Moon so

[deep rapids]

that is good

[simple bronze]

uh that is not good

[deep rapids]

my question is why eternal glutton?

[upper dove]

Fuckin ell

[terse dock]

Move the queens to the left of the steels

[lost vault]

they said steel queens

:3

[dawn gulch]

I meant the situation where you have Steel Queens

[terse dock]

Change the game's source code to change the held in hand ordering

[north schooner]

it's more criminal that glass triggers before holographic

[warm kindle]

isnt that a good thing tho

since u get the +10

then the x2

[north schooner]

It would be, but I wrote it backwards

[warm kindle]

?

[dawn gulch]

Edition always triggered first if I remember

[warm kindle]

oh u just said it wrong

[north schooner]

fixed

[pale wolf]

in certain situations im pretty sure holo goes before certain things poly goes after

[tall sky]

for the case of jokers specifically, it does mult first, then xmult

[north schooner]

but you can't have two editions on a joker

[terse dock]

+mult jokers

[tall sky]

for the case of cards like raised fist and stm, steel always comes before the mult

it's obvious if you try it with baseball card

[north schooner]

card enhancement > card edition > joker > joker edition, I think

[tall sky]

put baseball card with a holographic erosion

mult always triggers before xmult

it's probably hard coded in

[north schooner]

Does that depend on bbc placement?

[tall sky]

?

elaborate

[terse dock]

BBC's placement doesnt ever matter unless it's holo or poly

[north schooner]

does it depend if baseball card is before or after holo erosion

[lost vault]

no the joker edition doesnt activate on every card

[tall sky]

why does that matter

[north schooner]

got it

[tall sky]

lmao

bbc is its independent thing

[north schooner]

Oh I guess I didn't differentiate between per card and per hand jokers

[mild scaffold]

Clutched a run with canio

[terse dock]

https://youtu.be/MhyCitRWqqQ?t=1m48s

[mild scaffold]

Replaced swatch buckler gift card for a blueprint

[lost vault]

why

blueprint only takes 1 slot

[mild scaffold]

Yeah but swatchbucler was like 64+ mult and canio was at 9 mult

[lost vault]

oh u lept the catd

huh

[mild scaffold]

Yeah

I had crimson hesrt

I didn't wanna risk it

[lost vault]

why keep gc tho

[terse dock]

What was your other slot

[mild scaffold]

Gold sticker

[lost vault]

oh rad

[mild scaffold]

And also I used an ectoplasm on runner and I uhhhh

And I also sold a wrathful joker for a glass joker

Cuz glass joker is really rare And I don't like it

[warm kindle]

I actually hate plasma deck this is so painful

id rather play black deck ngl

[tranquil cargo]

plasma deck is pretty strong though

[mild scaffold]

Not too reliable on gold stake tho

[tranquil cargo]

keep adding chips for more stonks

[warm kindle]

not on gold stake

prob the 2nd hardest deck imo

[pale wolf]

bbc is weird because bbc activates when an uncommon is called for the scoring order, so like
maybe the edition would think there's a difference between it being before the Joker and after

since it does things left to right normally

[warm kindle]

maybe 3rd I have played like 2 games on anaglpyh lol

[mild scaffold]

I almost fully gold stickered page 10

The only two jokers I have left to gold sticker are satellite and stuntman

Stuntman is so painful tho, without plasma

[tranquil cargo]

even without plasma, stuntman scores a lot if you aren't dependent on big hands for scoring

[mild scaffold]

Stuntman basically gives 32 mult

[warm kindle]

just use pairs or high card

[mild scaffold]

It's very much not a lot

[hardy steppe]

Bruh i can't 😭

[terse dock]

Every run is a pair run until it isnt

[warm kindle]

crazy

[mild scaffold]

And even tho runner is good on his own, I ended up having him in my empty joker slot

[warm kindle]

4 blueprints and scary face

[terse dock]

Sell a blueprint for clone yuri

[north schooner]

hand jokers > card chips > card enhancement > gold seal > card edition > retriggers (seal and jokers) > steel > held in hand jokers > held retriggers > foil or holo joker editions > joker > bbc > polychrome > observatory

[tall sky]

mucho texto

[north schooner]

So yeah, joker editions have a special case to do poly last, card editions should behave the same.

[tall sky]

I'd rather you just drew it in a form of a flow chart

[warm kindle]

I keep getting so many negatives today wtf

this is like the 6th one now

[north schooner]

Nah, but here for reference: https://balatrogame.fandom.com/wiki/Guide:_Activation_Sequence

[tall sky]

kewl

[marsh dove]

Retriggers before steel?

🔥

[north schooner]

Flow chart wouldn't make sense, it's a linear ordering, no branching

[tall sky]

there are linear flow charts

the one you're making is literally what a flow chart is

[north schooner]

Yeah there's no point to them

[tall sky]

in text form

[north schooner]

It's a bad use of visualization

[marsh dove]

The way you wrote it seems like a ranking because of greater than
I thought you were saying having extra chips on your cards was more important than editions

[vocal rose]

what i miss

[north schooner]

Yes (aside from red steel)

[simple bronze]

odd todd better then banner?

[north schooner]

I thought about using -> but there were too many to do it

[north schooner]

yes and no

[simple bronze]

i mean i got bus so no need for face cards

[marsh dove]

Is it plasma

[warm kindle]

yeah

[marsh dove]

Naneinf time 🔥

[warm kindle]

gold stake 🥀

so not likely

[marsh dove]

Naneinf time 🔥

[warm kindle]

plus I took an eternal todd

[marsh dove]

Simply get lucky 🔥

[marsh dove]

Oh

[north schooner]

we're just talking about how it's bullshit that glass triggers before holographic on a card, but there's a special case for jokers so poly triggers after +mult abilities

[eternal pumice]

[vocal rose]

I see

if you have a poly rtb the x mult applies after the +mult?

[north schooner]

Yes

And if you have holographic constellation, the +mult triggers before the xMult

but if you have a holographic glass 9, the glass triggers before the holographic

[simple bronze]

do i take pants?

i probably don't need i need x mult

[tranquil cargo]

agreed

that's a nice reroll voucher to help find xmult (not here but in the next shop)

[simple bronze]

stupid the wall killed my run

[mild scaffold]

Fun fact

Invisible joker has the same transparency effect as glass joker

I'm thinking of this run

Marble joker, certificate, stone joker, hologram, and whatever +mult joker

[tawdry spade]

Glass Joker down, only two (Stone and Invisible Joker) to go

[mild scaffold]

Tbh

The conditional edition jokers are really hard to gold stake

[tawdry spade]

For real

They just never show up

[mild scaffold]

That's why I took glass joker in my last run

Infinitely harder to sticker than something like wrathful

[tawdry spade]

I jumped as soon as I saw an eternal rental Glass Joker

That's how desperate I was

[mild scaffold]

The things a man does for a sticker

[tawdry spade]

Granted, this is just a fucked run

I absolutely didn't need Glass Joker here

[mild scaffold]

Unironically glass joker isn't bad but god it's so rare

[lunar zealot]

Hi

glass joker is like

[analog mulch]

They said black cats were unlucky

[lunar zealot]

if canio and vampire had a baby

[bronze rune]

what do i sell for sock and buskin

[analog mulch]

Crazy

[bronze rune]

ok

[simple bronze]

how is my build?

[north schooner]

Glass joker is amazing though. Easy win.

I don't remember how I got stone, and lucky cat is another easy one usually. I just need to get steel.

[simple bronze]

hmmm

what do i sell?

[north schooner]

stone was probably an anaglyph negative skip

[north schooner]

Scholar?

[simple bronze]

debating between that and abstract

i have a bit of aces

[bronze rune]

yo

i need help

again

do i take the invis

[simple bronze]

sell blueprint and take invs

[bronze rune]

alr

[simple bronze]

then find chad

[bronze rune]

im trying

[simple bronze]

quadruple photochad

[north schooner]

Why sock and Baron?

[bronze rune]

i dont have red tags

[north schooner]

Baron not online yet?

[bronze rune]

yeah

[north schooner]

Probably wait then

[bronze rune]

im bad at this game

[north schooner]

I mean, it's only ante 4

[bronze rune]

so skip the invis?

[north schooner]

yeah, if it hits cartomancer, you're screwed

[bronze rune]

carto huh?

oh wait

[north schooner]

The eternal arcana generator there

[bronze rune]

yeah

thats what i was afraid of

thanks

[warm kindle]

plasma deck is actually so ass

I think ive been at this longer than black deck atp

[cursive lion]

+8 MULT

[warm kindle]

tbf I did get super lucky on my black deck run

[spring dragon]

Uncommon means common when conveniently bad

[north schooner]

When do you usually die?

[warm kindle]

ante 6 or 7 (not meant to be a joke)

sometimes earlier

[spring dragon]

YESSS

[bronze rune]

bull

[north schooner]

are you holding out on chips or trying to pivot to mult that kills you?

[warm kindle]

holding onto chips usually

unless I get some good xmult

[bronze rune]

oh no

[shell rock]

i’m never disrespecting 8ball again in my life

[north schooner]

It sounds like you should try pivoting until you get the hang of it. I don't really remember when is best because it was my second deck to gold and I haven't been back.

[shell rock]

who knew hanging chad, oops, fibonacci, 8 ball, and ice cream could win a run

[warm kindle]

first time I did it I beat it with basically only chips (had to restart cause my stickers are bugged)

[lost vault]

good.

[shell rock]

even if 3 of them were polychrome

[north schooner]

It's certainly possible

but harder I think

[warm kindle]

thing is I usually need all of my jokers by ante 5

especially on that run

the last one

wher i had the negative mime

[north schooner]

Get multiple sources of chips early, and maybe get one mult scaler and scale it up on the way. Around ante 4 or 5 if you can pickup a good xMult, then dump everything into more xMult

[bronze rune]

i lwk just lost the run

but ive learned more

so

onto the next

[north schooner]

adding steel cards when you can along the way can help

but start planning for the pivot from ante 1

[finite palm]

HOW am i still alive??

I should've died rounds ago

[left spire]

GUYS LOOK AT THIS START

[lost vault]

you cant exactly guarantee any of these things will happen

[north schooner]

sure

[finite palm]

Money machine or score machine

[lost vault]

oh plasmar

i see

[left spire]

Photo Chad pivot

Nvm guys

[simple bronze]

is this ggs?

[north schooner]

with plasma you can coast early game for longer and build up $$$ until you find a first joker that works, too

[lost vault]

bussy pivot

[rustic aspen]

oh my god

(there was no credit card in buffoon pack)

[north schooner]

The Balatro Experience

[lost vault]

please copy photo with brainstorm

or rough gem if you’re moneymaxxing

[left spire]

Why

[lost vault]

better score

[warm kindle]

happens to me all the time

[north schooner]

3x2 vs 5x1

[lost vault]

ermm 6x1 vs 4x2 actually

[north schooner]

4x2 vs 6x1 if dusk

[lost vault]

you forgot dusk

[north schooner]

not always active

[lost vault]

well yeah

[tawdry spade]

Should I:

1. not sell and risk it for the sticker
2. sell
3. sell Fortune Teller first, then sell to guarantee a third pants

[lost vault]

but if you jave it you play into it

especailly with rg

[left spire]

Actually it was always active

I was playing green needle

[lost vault]

green needle 😭

[left spire]

^

Idk what it called

Pls don't beat me

[lost vault]

im gonna

wahaha

[finite palm]

MR BONES I FORGOT ABOUT YOU MAN

[north schooner]

no it's fine but the "2^" is elided

[finite palm]

😭😭😭

[warm kindle]

bro this run couldve been so good but I didnt draw enough face cards 😭

I had dagger and black board

[warm kindle]

chad and scary face

[simple bronze]

sigh

i guess i buy blueprint and copy holo

[north schooner]

2^(2x4) vs 2^(6x1)

having the base there just complicates the comparison

[lost vault]

thank you ralsei

[worldly sphinx]

Does the order of your jokers matter?

[simple bronze]

LETS GOOOO

Green deck is so much easier then anal gylph

[finite palm]

I have no idea how i ended up so far in the run lmao

When most of my runs don't really get past ante 4

[lost vault]

yea

the game says so iirc

[worldly sphinx]

Should I have jokers that add chips first or multiply first?

[finite palm]

Green deck gave me my first win, i remember it clearly

[tawdry spade]

+mult to the left of xmult

chips can be wherever

though I usually do chips to the left of +mult to the left of xmult

[simple bronze]

tbh that and ghost are only deck i can win consistently on gold stake

oh and zodiac too

[finite palm]

My first balatro win ❤️‍🩹

Tell you what, i don't know what i was cooking with that build

But two pair was my to go hand

[tawdry spade]

I have seven rocks in my deck please give me stone joker

[simple bronze]

is this ggs?

[lunar zealot]

save money and get xmult

that overstock looks juicy

Probably buy it

[simple bronze]

i have x mult

the pants

[lunar zealot]

like immediately

[tawdry spade]

close enough

Stone Joker will be the final jonkler

[lunar zealot]

not enough

hologram here would be good

[floral mural]

why do i get the coolest runs on green stake runs i do to raise the stakes on a deck

[simple bronze]

blackboard would be better

[tall sky]

because gold stake is cruel and unusual

[zinc karma]

Wtf?

[tawdry spade]

That's a lot of face cards

[vestal fern]

Guys UNINSTALL Balatro you got me instead

Score requirement is uhhh 3000 and uhhh you have a bunch of spades cards in your hand

uhhhh boss blind is uhhh The Psychic right

[warm kindle]

lowkey I think this run is cooked

vampire only at 1.5x mult 😭

cant take vagabond or I die

[tranquil locust]

HELL YEA

[warm kindle]

to the next blind

and card sharp only has 3 rounds left

also idk if taking the packs is worth it since I kinda need hokers not extra hand levels

[tranquil locust]

you have 70$ why are we talking about vagabond

xd

[warm kindle]

obv I would have to roll down

but like it would be great with vampire

which is my only source of scaling xmult atm

[icy wigeon]

yo

i need some help with modding this

[warm kindle]

and have not had any other options appear

[autumn matrix]

What is that blueprint

[tranquil locust]

yuri blueprint

google it

[autumn matrix]

[cosmic sun]

bean sticker.

[unborn cliff]

is it chad over cavendish 💔

[twin lantern]

After a long balatro vacations
It's time to wear the mask once again

[tranquil locust]

ye

[unborn cliff]

no regerts

[analog mulch]

Hmmm.....

[twin lantern]

Whit this things ima gold stake all decks that i have left

Wish me luck
Ima do erratic gold stake

[tranquil locust]

if you play flush 5 or 5 of a kind its gg

[unborn cliff]

painted deck sucks

photochad for the win baby

[tawdry spade]

Stone Joker please show up

[tranquil locust]

wtf with this draw

[serene forge]

I hate Bloodstone

[unborn cliff]

we know

[tawdry spade]

😔

[mild scaffold]

What do you not hate

[serene forge]

blackboard

[unborn cliff]

red seal pog

[tawdry spade]

Run won, but at what cost

I played both of my rocks too

[warm kindle]

this pack is my last chance to save this run

[tranquil locust]

bro, can you appear earlier?

[warm kindle]

chances are I die to crimson anyways

💀

[unborn cliff]

bro i hate you

[unborn cliff]

i wanted my mercury.

[warm kindle]

if I manage to play 6 two pairs back to back I might survive

well rip

got 3

wait I legit could not play 6 two pairs anyways

[pale grotto]

Guys i have two eternal rental polychrome missprint in ante 1 i cooked or im cooked?

[warm kindle]

actually no I couldve if i got super lucky

[unborn cliff]

hold r bro

[pale grotto]

I have faith

Dw

Should i buy a eternal rental bull to?

[zinc karma]

I like how i just lost this run cuz i forgot to get the blueprint on chad for a glass 10 (in the ante 8 big blind)

[tranquil locust]

shine ice cream, who want to taste it?

[zinc karma]

That blueprint probably wants to taste the gay ice cream

[analog mulch]

My current hand size is 6

[quick wyvern]

How do I get to ~Ante 15 on unmodded balatro

Even my best runs have fallen short of 10 million

[zinc karma]

Know how to build your deck and be lucky

[tranquil cargo]

needs some form of repeatable/spammable xmult (baron, trebuchet, perkeo, etc)

[quick wyvern]

Any tips? From my understanding you want something like +chips (foil, ice cream, etc), +mult (half joker, supernova, etc), and x mult (card shark, throwback, etc)

[tranquil locust]

holy, imagine its polychrome

[tranquil cargo]

that's how you win a normal ante 8 run, ante 15 is way different

[pale grotto]

Im in ante 6 hold on i can win this?

I have stunt man blueprint the tribe and the two missprints and -3$

[quick wyvern]

I’ve been able to get to ante 10-12 with pairs

[zinc karma]

Xmult
The most common naneinf build is many king+red seal+steel
Baron, perkeo, blueprintS, brainstormS and mime
+Observatory

[tranquil locust]

I think you should set up your economy first, and then look for synergies between jokers that give +mult and jokers that give xmult

[pale grotto]

Nop, i lost

[zinc karma]

My best was around 15 or 17 with basically yorick and brainstorm ig

For some reason i dont have any prints

So i dont really remember

I just know i had yorick

[tranquil locust]

you can also get a +mult just by having a planet level, and then you don't need a +mult joker, so you can get another xmult

[quick wyvern]

My best I think was ante 12 with two jokers that gave times 2 mult on played face cards and kings and queens, hanging chad, smiley face, pareidolia, and scary face

One of them was legendary

[terse dock]

yall fw balatro

[serene forge]

I hate DNA

[modest spade]

That's fine for the most part but you could've dropped Smiley Face, Scary Face and Pareidolia in this scenario

You don't need Pareidolia if you fix your deck to have a lot of Kings or Queens

[zinc karma]

The easiest to get ante 12 might be photochad with many levels on anything ur playing and leveling

[modest spade]

And Smiley/Scary Face fall off later cuz they give flat chips and mult

[tranquil locust]

The biggest thing that beginners miss out on is building the right deck. You wouldn't need a pareidolia if your deck consisted mostly of kings and queens.

[modest spade]

Basically just get xMult

[quick wyvern]

I didn’t have a lot of kings and queens

[tranquil locust]

deck fixing is the answer

[quick wyvern]

What’s deck fixing

[modest spade]

Modifying/Adding/Removing the cards that you play

[tranquil locust]

with tarot cards

tarot cards is so powerful

[modest spade]

Yes!

[quick wyvern]

Like with those spectral cards that say “destroy one card in hand and add 3-4 enhanced cards”

Or cryptid?

[tranquil locust]

beginners often don't see the power in them and mostly choose hermit or temperance

[modest spade]

Kinda but you're better off using tarot cards so you can actually choose what enhancements you get

[quick wyvern]

Wait how does hanged man work

[tranquil cargo]

even if you do see the power in them, hermit and temperance are often great

[tranquil locust]

tarot, like death, hanged man, etc

[tranquil cargo]

hermit is easily the best tarot

[modest spade]

It destroys two playing cards of your choice

[tranquil locust]

nooo fool is the best

[zinc karma]

From spectrals u might look for immolate and cryptid only, the others are mid

[wet wolf]

i wish i was playing balatro right now 💔

[tranquil locust]

yep

[tranquil cargo]

ah yes, fool into hermit > hermit since you might get fortune teller later

[tranquil locust]

pareidolia typing... im scared

[pale grotto]

Okay how i play obelisk, i just beat the first blind boss and i can buy obelisk

[pale grotto]

Dw

[warm kindle]

every minute I play plasma deck I hate it more and more 😭

[zinc karma]

U dont

[modest spade]

Play a lot of pairs, then pivot to every other hand

[pale grotto]

Oh :(

[warm kindle]

not easily imo

close between temperance and hermit

[pale grotto]

Okay

[warm kindle]

but hermit is better

in most cases

[tranquil locust]

fool the king brothers what are you talking about

[pale grotto]

Death?

[warm kindle]

nah

top 5

[wet wolf]

basically just depends on what jokers you have and how much money you have lol

[zinc karma]

Depends on what ur playing, sometimes death and hang man are better than 20 dollars

[warm kindle]

20 dollars is almost always useful tho

but true

[pale grotto]

Ty, But i lost

[quick wyvern]

Would it be a good idea for fool to be able to copy spectral cards

[modest spade]

Depends

[pale grotto]

No

To Broken i think

[tranquil locust]

fool does not copying spectral cards

[pale grotto]

Perhaps if a joker enables that

[quick wyvern]

I mean like hypothetically

[tranquil locust]

oh i see

[quick wyvern]

Ehh, a lot of spectral cards kinda suck

[wet wolf]

whats yalls fav joker just based solely on art, not on the abilities

[tranquil locust]

i agree with Pareidolia

[wet wolf]

i think mine is throwback

[pale grotto]

Let me immolate all my deck amd die

[modest spade]

Fool'ing Immolate would go stupid

[tranquil locust]

but if you can destroy like 10 cards from your deck

its too powerful

[zinc karma]

Prob hit the road cuz its the most different one i can remember now and is a reference to "hit the road jack" which is cool

[wet wolf]

that one is pretty

[modest spade]

Between Dusk and Flower Pot

[wet wolf]

ooooo

[eternal pumice]

Bnana

[tranquil locust]

hallucination

[eternal pumice]

: D

[wet wolf]

funnn

[tranquil locust]

ye it looks pretty

[warm kindle]

dusk, obelisk, castle and campfire

[tranquil locust]

campfire reminds me to eldenring

[pale grotto]

Dusk is pretty

[tranquil locust]

wait, its early hook

[pale grotto]

But my fav is probably vagabond

[tranquil locust]

this maybe the run

[devout sun]

Guys for the golden stick in all jokers, can i use seeds? Or it's a random run?

[wet wolf]

oooo i forgot about castle!

[tranquil cargo]

has to be random seed

[devout sun]

Bruh, who is the best deck to do this?

[tranquil cargo]

probably anaglyph, since you can skip for several negative tags

[round nexus]

got me 3 gold stickers with this lol

[tranquil locust]

OKEY

OKEY

[modest spade]

Whichever one you're more comfortable with

[tranquil locust]

hold up you,game

[modest spade]

The good ones are Blue Yellow and Ghost

And my goat Abandoned Deck

[sand lily]

Should I get blueprint instead of sock and buskin or?

[tranquil locust]

its seeded right?

[round nexus]

this has to be a seeded run right?

[vestal fern]

for people who aren't in modding chat this is the typa shit happening there

[sand lily]

Yes, seed ALEEB

[vestal fern]

modding chat is a whole other world dude

[tranquil locust]

xd)

[sand lily]

I'm scared to get rid of sock and buskin but blueprint on triboulet is probably better?

[round nexus]

had a polychrome chaos from ante 1 up until the last boss. I was forced to sell it for leaf since all my scoring came from steel cards

[tranquil cargo]

better to get rid of yorick

[sand lily]

Okay, I'll take your advice

[warm kindle]

crazy trio pull right before the boss

im still omega cooked tho

[sand lily]

Yorick is at ×20 though...?

I don't know math but that seems pretty good

[tranquil locust]

really? dumbest boss

[round nexus]

up until ante 3, my only scoring was a foil drunkard and a polychrome chaos. Hallucination got me like 5 hanged man, which allwed me to easily make flushes for the first 3 antes. But then i got a red seal steel, death, fool, and space joker in the same shop so i went all in on high card

[tranquil cargo]

triboulet is x32, sock is another x32, copying one of them is x1024

[round nexus]

it paid off, got 3 gold stickers as a result

[pale grotto]

How can i change 26 Diamonds into Hearts? I just buy a eternal bloodstone

[analog mulch]

1 in 8 huh,
I LIKE THOSE ODDS

[tranquil locust]

nevermind.

[round nexus]

why would you buy bloodstone with 26 diamonds is the real question

[analog mulch]

Sun cards, Lucky sigil,

[round nexus]

smeared joker

is the easiest one

[tranquil locust]

ok now im good but give me the ecto pls

[pale grotto]

Idk i was hopeing for the blurry joker that fuse both

I lost i think

[warm kindle]

I CANT AFFORD IT 😭

idk if that would even save me tbh

[pale grotto]

Photochad cant save me here

[sand lily]

I wonder if I should ditch perkeo and take polychrome mime

But wheel of fortune go brrr so probably not

[round nexus]

funny i still dont have gold stickers on photo chad lol

i have stickers on eight ball, throwback, and other notoriously bad jokers, but not on the easiest combo to do in the game

dont have a gold sticker on baron either

[warm kindle]

baron is ass tho

outside of nan inf runs

[tranquil locust]

🙂

[warm kindle]

it basically just makes ur kings into steels which is not usually very useful without good deck fixing

[round nexus]

baron is way better than something like throwback. You dont need to 30 kings to make baron good enough for ante 8. You just need 3-4 kings, preferably with steel, red seal, or mime and you win ante 8'

[warm kindle]

thats quite a lot

[tranquil locust]

no one takes baron without deck fixing

[warm kindle]

red seal steel kings and mime?

[round nexus]

or

blind

[warm kindle]

good luck getting that on anything other than blue or yellow deck

[shell rock]

preferably with this one specific joker and a specific enhancement and a seal that is already very conditional

[tranquil locust]

its just bumb decision

[warm kindle]

or zodiac deck

[simple bronze]

man i hate constellation

[warm kindle]

same

[shell rock]

i love constellation

[warm kindle]

its good but I dont like it

[tranquil locust]

ye me too

[warm kindle]

when I have astronomer I like it tho

[simple bronze]

i only like if i get i shop 1

[warm kindle]

astronomer is one of my fav jokers

[warm kindle]

I dont take it shop 1

cause interest

[simple bronze]

i don't need interst

i got credit card

[round nexus]

I said OR. If you have any decent amount of base mult +3-4 kings, mime, steel, OR red seal baron wins ante 8. Its not that hard to pull off

[warm kindle]

good luck affording not just planet cards, affording literally anthing

[simple bronze]

hey i beat all decks on gold stake

i know what i am talking aboot

[warm kindle]

it is

baron is dead weight 90% of the time

the 10% is if you get lucky or are on zodiac deck

[simple bronze]

hmm do i take throwback?

[tranquil locust]

its hard if your baron apears on like ante 5

[round nexus]

You dont need to dedicate your whole build to baron either. You can have raised fist/shoot the moon to compliment it, or if you manage to copy a couple blue seals, then the planets make up for the lack of kings. There's alot of ways to win with baron

[shell rock]

it would be funny

[tranquil locust]

so its hard for 99% random runs

[round nexus]

nvm i do have gold sticker on baron

[formal abyss]

throwback wouldve been better if it scaled by tags used imo

(by that i mean exclusively on that ond deck)

[round nexus]

or, you know, getting more than 0.25 for skipping lol

[formal abyss]

uhh you still need a crap ton of pluto levels

[round nexus]

that said, throwback getting even as little as x1.5 has clutched some runs for me

i literally just won with this build, didnt even have baron

[warm kindle]

not necessarily pluto

[formal abyss]

or mercury but you get my point

[lean spade]

what do i ank?

[formal abyss]

probably half

[round nexus]

yes, baron wont get you 3.56e47 without good deck fixing. But it can get you x2-4 mult with some deck fixing and good use of discards. And that's enough to beat ante 8

[tranquil cargo]

I can't imagine castle is that big in ante 2, I'd ankh half joker

[lean spade]

castle is at 0

sounds good

[round nexus]

why not ankh the obelisk

way more potential there

[tranquil cargo]

there can never be more than 1 obelisk

[lean spade]

obelisk isn't good until ante 6

[round nexus]

ok, you can take flat mult jokers until ante 6, then when you start building up obelisk you'll scale twice as fat

[warm kindle]

u can start scaling it earlier than that

[tranquil cargo]

it's black deck

[lean spade]

with 1$ in ante 2?

[tranquil cargo]

you go all in on obelisk scaling in ante 2, you die

[manic talon]

The answer is to not ankh, grim is actually nice

[lean spade]

yeah thats probably true

[formal abyss]

that obelisk isnt scaling anytime soon 😭

[manic talon]

Grim is a direction to pivot to with obby

Like 3oak/4oak aces

[round nexus]

the game doesnt story run history

does it?

[warm kindle]

ok ive definitely spent more time on plasma deck now than black deck

since its 3am now lol

and I was up around the same time doing black deck yesterday

[round nexus]

i love me a foil stuntman

the only thing better than +250 chips is +300 chips

[tranquil cargo]

pre-nerf stuntman

[manic talon]

It dont, it only really records wins and loss a joker has in each stake

Like thats it

[pale grotto]

Wee chad is great

Just wanted to say that srry bye

[round nexus]

bc i thought i got gold sticker on rocket a couple days ago, but just now i checked and apparently i didnt

[warm kindle]

why cant I find chips jokers anymore 😭

[wet wolf]

PLEASE BE MY LAST JOKER

[shrewd night]

Jskskskkdjdkkxkso

[wet wolf]

Twas not 😔

[vast cloud]

noooo :(

[round nexus]

isnt it guaranteed to give you a legendary without a gold sticker if you use it in gold stake?

[tranquil cargo]

it is

[wet wolf]

I’m not on a gold stake

And none of my legendary jokers have a gold sticker so that wouldn’t help me anyways lol

[round nexus]

the hardest jokers to gold sticker for me are the ones i always sell

like sixth sense

and the food jokers

[serene forge]

I hate Blodstone

[tranquil cargo]

wait until you find the hardest one

gros michel

[unborn cliff]

which is why i thank jimbo i got bean on a won run because its one of the harder ones to sticker

[unborn cliff]

popcorn

[serene forge]

gros michel can be perished

[round nexus]

i just looked through my collection and like 80% of the jokers i need to sticker are either food or ones i sell. I just got a gold sticker on jimbo a couple days ago so im not worried about him

[serene forge]

turtle bean and popcorn cannot

turtle bean is also an uncommon

[simple bronze]

bean and popcorn is the hardest

[round nexus]

alright abandoned deck, im picking you to gold sticker the straight jokers, dont let me down

[plush hearth]

Hi, am I stupid? Can you change individual card faces with the customisation or just the whole suit?

[manic talon]

On vanilla its per suit

You can probably do more with a modded client but idk

[plush hearth]

Thx, its been my new train game on my phone to pass the time

Ye. Cant mod lol

[steady tulip]

vanilla 8x speed 🥺🙏

[plush hearth]

Its more a math game than poker. But annoyed I only just picked it up. Mini metro was getting stale

[simple bronze]

when i use hirogpuph does the skips change?

[vast cloud]

i dont think so, but idk for sure

[north schooner]

Nothing changes in the current round

[tranquil locust]

just one time

please

unlucky

[north schooner]

If you heiro on ante8 you have an ante 8 boss on ante 7, then another when you go back to 8

[lean spade]

gotem

[shrewd night]

explosion

[north schooner]

he's just a little baby obelisk

[lean spade]

oh yeah i didnt bother to play more than one hand a round

[spring dragon]

Skibidi, skibidi, Hawk tuah Hawk

[tranquil locust]

oh, im dead as hell

[tranquil cargo]

maybe the boss reroll will save you

[night turret]

Finally hit my first 5 of a kind

[tranquil locust]

nope

i dont have it

[tranquil cargo]

the small blind's tag

[tranquil locust]

fck, forgot about that

[spring dragon]

In the arcana pack, there will be a Canio. But there's a brainstorm

[tranquil cargo]

unironically jolly joker is better here

I know jolly joker is a meme in the cryptid mod, but it's genuinely better at this point in the game

[tranquil locust]

im alive!

[vast cloud]

yo

[tranquil locust]

yo

[simple bronze]

i win here right?

[tranquil locust]

i hate this game

[tranquil cargo]

oh no, what a waste of $6

you're poor now

[serene forge]

I hate Negative Tag

[slow iris]

Always Immolate

[serene forge]

hex

[warm kindle]

do I take card sharp over gift card or ramen

[tranquil cargo]

trance one of the purple seal kings

[tranquil locust]

only 40 cards so its bad in my opinion

[warm kindle]

supernova is at 28 on two pair atm

[tranquil locust]

xd

[warm kindle]

and vampire is 2.7x

[serene forge]

card sharp over swishborkler

[warm kindle]

my supernova is only at 28 tho

oh ig its 38

[serene forge]

its holo

[warm kindle]

cause of holo

[serene forge]

the xmult will be better

[tranquil locust]

why no ramen

[serene forge]

because its good

[warm kindle]

also do I take hieroglpyh

[warm kindle]

it is at 1.95x tho

[tranquil cargo]

ramen is only 2x, card sharp is better

[serene forge]

your swishborkler will also be lower than what is said because you're selling something to get the card sharp

[warm kindle]

cause I had to discard for a boss

[warm kindle]

yeah

[serene forge]

use both

lol

[warm kindle]

would be 16 less

[tranquil locust]

but ramen makes you not throw away your cards

[serene forge]

i wouldn't

[warm kindle]

so supernova is the same actually lol, but if I keep gift card it would scale faster than supernova

[spring dragon]

Then don't take it

[serene forge]

who cares

[tranquil locust]

card sharp 10 times better

[tranquil cargo]

the math ain't mathing

[serene forge]

i don't take it because it is Bad

[tranquil cargo]

most tags are bad

[warm kindle]

wait lowkey I shouldve just sold gift card idk why I didnt do that

but I should be fine

[tranquil locust]

gop[fdigiopdfu[pogi[gsgds

[slow iris]

not too much of an issue on pair/high card builds

[tranquil locust]

NOOOO

🫡

[surreal spruce]

Why the ramen hate

Ramen is good

[tranquil locust]

i think its my first time die to the mark

[north schooner]

oh hi

[hearty warren]

mmmm ramen

hi brooke 👀

[tranquil locust]

hi

[simple bronze]

am i cooked?

didn't find any decent jokers and its ante 3

[hearty warren]

planet time

[tranquil cargo]

raised fist and a chariot in shop, seems decent to me

[analog mulch]

Rip

[north schooner]

Saturn in the celestial pack

[simple bronze]

there was saturn but i don't see how that helps me

[hearty warren]

planet is chips and that should be enough

[tranquil cargo]

can't get mercury in the pack unless you use that one first

[hearty warren]

use mercury and hold chariot maybe

[vestal fern]

ramen is overrated

it tastes like shit

I ate it and it's js sodium

[surreal spruce]

POOKIE

[hearty warren]

HIIII

haven't seen you in so long 😭

[warm kindle]

got another swashbuckler lol

boss will be easy tho

[north schooner]

It's just saying sodium?

[hearty warren]

lowkey the egg is my fav part of ramen

[surreal spruce]

Me

[warm kindle]

finally

gold stake on plasma

[fervent wolf]

With mime, green Joker, and baseball card, it's peak

[warm kindle]

never again

[hearty warren]

💀

[vestal fern]

oh balatro ramen

balatro ramen is good

[vestal fern]

js = just

in this context atleast

[hearty warren]

javascript

[vestal fern]

js c++

[north schooner]

kids these days

[vestal fern]

(just completionist++)

[hearty warren]

i think communication is about reading what things mean in their context and using words with intention

[simple bronze]

okay this is ggs right?

[vestal fern]

unc

[hearty warren]

js can mean so many things

wtf (where the food)

[simple bronze]

um

[north schooner]

congrats on the win

[simple bronze]

do i play pairs or high card?

[north schooner]

sure

[simple bronze]

i mean im kinda cooked early game

if i do hjgh card

[north schooner]

I'd do pairs but 🤷

and if cant discard a pair play hc until you can

[simple bronze]

hmm

[north schooner]

you've already got +10 free mult

[simple bronze]

hc is more consistent but +mult doesn't scale well

[north schooner]

scales as fast as pairs, but you need chips

[simple bronze]

thats what burnt joker for

[hearty warren]

pairs are consistent Enough

[north schooner]

pairs scale chips faster

[hearty warren]

and if you're taking tarots consistently anyways you might as well deckfix for basically 100% consistent pairs when you don't pull econ

[fervent wolf]

I mean burglar btw, not mime lol

[north schooner]

and delete ranks as needed to ensure more pairs

[simple bronze]

i guess i don't need x mult huh

[hearty warren]

strength and booster packs

[north schooner]

I was wondering about that

They both wear stripes I guess

[serene forge]

I hate Negative Tag

[simple bronze]

negative tag is goated

[stark anchor]

How do you play magic deck

[serene forge]

this is why you keep losing

[simple bronze]

bros in the middle

[serene forge]

strawman final boss:

[tranquil cargo]

it's good for sticker farming, it's not good for actually winning

[serene forge]

also garbage tag lmfao

[north schooner]

early deck fixing

[stark anchor]

and

[serene forge]

hermit

[north schooner]

blue seals

[stark anchor]

magic deck seems pretty trash isnt it?

[tranquil cargo]

hermit and judgement are the magic deck high rolls one hopes for

[serene forge]

also two of these can be true at the same time

[tranquil cargo]

maybe a planet

[icy swift]

So real

[olive escarp]

ab wanna vc and help me get decent at game

[north schooner]

voucher skip is arguably the worst one here

[icy swift]

Only rly good for endless

[simple bronze]

do i skip for planets?

[stark anchor]

no

[north schooner]

In this case yes

[stark anchor]

nvm

yes

[dry sail]

I just got my last gold sticker for C++... but I don't have the achievement??? What do I do 😭

[stark anchor]

i didnt see

[simple bronze]

its either i get 1 more level on burnt or .2 on constellation

no wai

.4

[terse vale]

voucher skip is crazy

[north schooner]

1.2

[simple bronze]

oh right so its 1 + 2 more skips

[north schooner]

That's why it's the rare case where skipping is the best move

[simple bronze]

oh i have telecope 2

so this is better then burnt

plus i have zero dollars lmao

[north schooner]

You literally just posted an anaglyph skip meme... how did you not notice???

[simple bronze]

i only use the negative skip

[north schooner]

smh my head

[serene forge]

anaglyph deck makes skips good sometimes because obviously if you're getting a 50 dollar skip 7 times you're going to get a lot of money (who woulda thunk), the issue is that many skips are still garbage with or without doubles, and the fact that anaglyph is considerably worse than other decks simply because it has a mediocre early game, the doubles do nothing until you find something actually good to skip for (which is rng based mind you, you could go an entire run while only seeing shit like d6 tags), it's not like the econ boost from yellow deck, free deckfixing from abandoned, free hex on ghost, etc, so i think most good players will agree that anaglyph is pretty middle of the road all things considered since it's not as offensive as black/plasma/green but also doesn't particularly excel in anything either

[north schooner]

#🕹・game-discussion message

[tranquil cargo]

whoa, putting green and plasma down there with black deck

sheer blasphemy

[hybrid tendon]

I love black deck

[simple bronze]

aint no way you said green is same level as black deck. i have the most consistent win rate with green

[serene forge]

plasma is pretty garbage

maybe green is a bit harsh but its still pretty bad

[hybrid tendon]

green is so trash

[simple bronze]

econ is not needed

[serene forge]

why would i trust someone who loses in ante 3 with poly pants and blueprint then blames rng for it?

[simple bronze]

because that was on nebula deck and that deck is no good

[serene forge]

no it wasn't you goddamn liar

[north schooner]

what does that even what

[tranquil cargo]

just because someone who lost with a strong start says a deck is good, doesn't make it bad

green is a strong deck, it builds econ fast (similar to yellow deck, but differently)

[serene forge]

you do not know of this person's track record do you

[tranquil cargo]

their track record has nothing to do with whether green deck is good or not

[serene forge]

i'm convinced this is just high level trolling at this point

because they do play on gold stakes

but who knows

[north schooner]

it's honestly an amazing bit

[tranquil cargo]

funny, I've been convinced you're trolling for a while now

[north schooner]

well yeah, but in a more sincere way

[serene forge]

why

[tranquil cargo]

but if credentials are somehow relevant here (which they shouldn't be), then as someone with c++ I'll say it: green deck is strong

[stark anchor]

what

[tranquil cargo]

not only are your deck classifications weird in many places, you often say "I hate [insert joker here]"

and a lot of the time it's a strong joker

[serene forge]

put simply

interest good

green deck no interest

[tranquil cargo]

granted, half the time it's also bloodstone

[serene forge]

green deck bad

👍

[hybrid tendon]

aren't you the guy who thinks fist is better than red card ?

[north schooner]

if you can't adapt to modified rules, that's a you problem

[tranquil cargo]

I stand by that, a frontloaded +20 mult that scales multiplicatively with steel is a strong joker

[serene forge]

2/10 ragebait

[tranquil cargo]

did you prepare specifically to react with all 4 horses? they all appeared in under a second

[north schooner]

sincerely, can I see your top 10?

[serene forge]

no i just click fast

lmao

[tranquil cargo]

top 10 jokers in-game?

[north schooner]

"Recently used emoji"

[north schooner]

Yeah

from the stats page

[random delta]

Is troubadour worth it?

[simple bronze]

ooooo negative skip

[serene forge]

context needed

[simple bronze]

lets gooo

[north schooner]

it depends

[random delta]

Cause my hand gets lower everytime no?

[white zodiac]

makes pairs more expensive so I cannot concur

[serene forge]

baron top 10 lmaooooooooooooo

[tranquil cargo]

it's gonna be a little skewed by a recent endless scores competition

[stark anchor]

Natural

[tranquil cargo]

I don't go for baron frequently in gold stake, I assure you

[naive jolt]

The funni joke

[serene forge]

i sure hope so

banner is a little shocking tbh

[north schooner]

no fist though?

[random delta]

What’s this

[tranquil cargo]

those runs were with plasma deck so chips jokers are gonna be skewed in there too

[serene forge]

its pretty bad

[north schooner]

Be warned, you can go over the joker limit with that, but you won't be able to sell/buy after that

[tranquil cargo]

which is why top 10 in-game stat isn't a good metric for which jokers are actually the best

[stark anchor]

so like an eternal joker?

[stark anchor]

[naive jolt]

My soul usage has fallen a bit, i should reroll for it again
It's also cause i started playing ghost deck

[serene forge]

unless the top 2 is hanging chad and photograph

oh

[north schooner]

No, you'll have 6/5 jokers, and won't be able to buy one unless you sell 2

For example

[serene forge]

no shade julien sorry

[frank light]

i think chad is most people most played joker lol

[serene forge]

mine is red card

[frank light]

or is at least in the top 10

easily

[stark anchor]

Oh

[frank light]

it just works so well with many different builds

[stark anchor]

its pretty mid then

[north schooner]

no +mult?

[naive jolt]

Chad is unironically so cool

[hybrid tendon]

chad is decent

[frank light]

its in the name

[crisp estuary]

Lol "what if you got a natural negative invisible joker?"

[frank light]

hes the chad

[serene forge]

tre

true

[frank light]

of all chads

[naive jolt]

Emoji joker

[white zodiac]

👅

[hybrid tendon]

problem is photograph

[serene forge]

meh it aint good anyways

SHOOT THE MOON USER YOOOOO

[frank light]

makes it super easy to gold sticker him lol

lucky bastard

[hybrid tendon]

haven't played for as long as a lot of y'all

[simple bronze]

i love anaglyph now

[naive jolt]

Buy it for sticker

[serene forge]

maddylove

[white zodiac]

how original

[north schooner]

ironically, I haven't played photochad in months. Usually just one or the other

[naive jolt]

It'll come

[random delta]

Everyone likes the retriigger I see

[serene forge]

hanging chad good