🕹・game-discussion

[solid tapir]

so no para value

[burnt topaz]

I don’t even have any reason to grab pareidolia, I only play face cards anyways

[calm turtle]

Can we get 5 chat

[solid tapir]

I like this line up

[supple yarrow]

yes

[burnt topaz]

I’ll still take devil, I might get a face card somewhere else that isn’t gold that I can make gold even without Midas

[fluid nova]

100%

[earnest pelican]

But it's The Trio

You're perfectly balanced

[tropic umbra]

uuugh the eye is just the needle without the leisure of the blind size being at 1x

[burnt topaz]

What do I copy and do I take smiley? I’m assuming not but just wanna make sure

[solid tapir]

I've found myself having a varied experience

the smaller scoring requirement from the needle is nice

[shell current]

copy ticket

[solid tapir]

if I can draw my hand

[burnt topaz]

Actually now that scoring isn’t as relevant with trio, ticket makes more logical sense now

[solid tapir]

copy ticket fs, idt smiley is neccesary at this stage

[burnt topaz]

Yeah

[solid tapir]

unless you've noticed that ur scoring low

[burnt topaz]

Nah my scores are fine

[solid tapir]

then copy ticket yah

[earnest pelican]

Oh god, your pfp just gave me a winter soldier moment

I had forgotten

[burnt topaz]

In all reality, is there a rare card that tops what I have going?

[solid tapir]

trib perhaps

[burnt topaz]

Trib isn’t rare

[earnest pelican]

Trib is a legendary lol

[solid tapir]

wait no

you said rare

mb

[shell current]

apologies I am a cognitohazard

[burnt topaz]

I’m not getting Trib from a wraith

[solid tapir]

I don't wraith regardless

[burnt topaz]

Yeah

Not a chance

I’ll post seed when done

[solid tapir]

cool

[earnest pelican]

You really just want Hanging Chad instead of Trio if you can find it, at least until you have more joker slots

[solid tapir]

true

[burnt topaz]

Oh by the way, the whole problem of “Maybe you aren’t scoring high enough” IM ON ANTE FOUR, I THINK ILL BE FINE

[earnest pelican]

Lately it feels like Hanging Chad was made into a rare because the dude never shows up when I want him lol

[solid tapir]

didn't notice the stake either

you should be cruising

[cloud sinew]

with that much econ you can just coast on planet levels tbf

[stiff fjord]

first gold stake win 🥳

[earnest pelican]

Heck yeah, congrats!

[cosmic sun]

gg

[earnest pelican]

Yellow is my favorite deck

[burnt topaz]

Ah shoot

[solid tapir]

nice

[burnt topaz]

Eh I’ll be fine

[solid tapir]

what hand r u playing

[balmy ridge]

how is your name like that its cool

bubble letters

[supple yarrow]

i love how people can have a worse joker setup than me sometimes and get 5x the score bc im bad with money and deck fixing

[earnest pelican]

It's a Nitro feature, apparently it's in chats now too

[burnt topaz]

4oak, full house, anything works as long as I play a lot of face cards

[earnest pelican]

I'm on my phone since I'm moving this weekend, so I can't even see it lol

[balmy ridge]

sigh im too broke to justify nitro ;c

[nova mantle]

ive never been so blessed with a run before

[solid tapir]

I don't see no fancy letters

[balmy ridge]

it might just be on desktop

[earnest pelican]

Oh that's cool

[solid tapir]

Im on desktop

[earnest pelican]

Yeah I think so

[balmy ridge]

on an alt client like vencord?

[earnest pelican]

Update is likely rolling out

[unreal island]

have fun with black deck

[solid tapir]

nah normal discord

[solid tapir]

mayhaps

[balmy ridge]

idk then probably update i guess

also @solid tapir remember i was asking you earlier about how to do orange stake

and u said do pairs

[solid tapir]

mhm

[stiff fjord]

might be the next deck i go for

[burnt topaz]

So…

[balmy ridge]

im still struggling, not sure how to make pairs work

[stiff fjord]

just to get it out of the way

[supple yarrow]

isnt discord supposed to auto update?

[earnest pelican]

My gf just buys me a year every birthday so I don't worry about it tbh

[solid tapir]

you need to prioritize econ early and find a scaling +mult or +chips joker

[earnest pelican]

It is but certain features are rolled out in waves

[solid tapir]

then build around it

[earnest pelican]

This is likely one since it's newer

[supple yarrow]

ah okok

[solid tapir]

pairs won't auto win orange stake

[balmy ridge]

mrrrp alright

[solid tapir]

they just make it easier

[balmy ridge]

no i know i just mean like i couldn't find any joker synergies for pairs

[solid tapir]

could you share the seeds you lose with

[unreal island]

Glorious

[solid tapir]

cuz I gurantee I can make pairs work

[unreal island]

I never have to buy jokers ever again!

[solid tapir]

on gold stake for that matter

[supple yarrow]

free money

[burnt topaz]

Do I take vampire?

[balmy ridge]

alright sure, i did start playing this game like a week ago though so obviously im not very good lol

[solid tapir]

its an option

but it cuts your money engine

[burnt topaz]

Yeah

[solid tapir]

that's understandable

[burnt topaz]

And I’m fine on scoring

[grand tinsel]

It’s anaglyph deck, I have to right?

[solid tapir]

you will get better with more practice fish

[uncut slate]

yeah i did this

[burnt topaz]

If I’m desperate for score I copy sock or photograph

[solid tapir]

no

[balmy ridge]

B8LRUA1Z this was the last one i lost with despite having ancient, sock and baron 💀

[earnest pelican]

Pairs don't need joker synergy because most jokers work fine with Pairs. You typically wanna go for a scaling mult joker if possible like Ride the Bus or Green Joker. But also you've been playing for a week, so experimenting is natural and you'll find your groove, so don't be discouraged.

[supple yarrow]

i didnt get better with practice, 17 hours of gameplay over a month or 2 and im still trash

[grand tinsel]

I’m gonna

[solid tapir]

alright I'll give this one a whirl

what deck were u on

[solid tapir]

your run your choice

[balmy ridge]

ok! also you typed this like an AI lol

[balmy ridge]

spectral

or

ghost

[burnt topaz]

Look what I got!

[solid tapir]

ghost ?

alr

[earnest pelican]

I tend to be really proper when I type because I'm a hobby writer lol

[balmy ridge]

hobby writer? what does that mean?

[earnest pelican]

I write in my spare time

[burnt topaz]

Once I take Chad the only thing worth taking for me is gonna be Trib at this rate

[balmy ridge]

oh you write as a hobby... lol i'm stupid

thats cool though

[earnest pelican]

But I ain't making money for it, sadly

Maybe one day though

[balmy ridge]

try fiverr people do all sorts on there

[earnest pelican]

I'll look into it, ty :)

[burnt topaz]

There’s nothing like consistently gaining $114 per round.

[earnest pelican]

Also, should I go for C++ on mobile, I have it on PC already

[grand tinsel]

Yeah it killed me immediately after 😔

Like I knew that was gonna happen, but that’s still sad

[solid tapir]

ofc it did

😭

[grand tinsel]

I wanted to gamble okay

[unreal island]

Lmfao

thank you invisible joker

natneg farm

[grand tinsel]

When does one ever get a double double tag skip on anaglyph deck option ante 1

[balmy ridge]

might not be possible

[north schooner]

you mfer

[balmy ridge]

i mean it'd make sense

[earnest pelican]

Oh I know this one

6 minutes ago

[grand tinsel]

A

[balmy ridge]

o

[burnt topaz]

How confident am I?

[supple yarrow]

balatro but you always have to get a higher score

[grand tinsel]

I’d screw myself with an early lucky card proc or something and die

[burnt topaz]

Do I take ecto?

[supple yarrow]

oh yeah lucky cards become run killers

[balmy ridge]

maybe dont ecto

cus you have +13 mult for each queen in hand

and with a smaller hand its worse

[burnt topaz]

True

[balmy ridge]

perhaps

[cloud sinew]

well STM doesnt really matter here

[supple yarrow]

so do glass cards

[cloud sinew]

because photo's xmult triggers before STM's +mult

[slender creek]

found this channel on youtube this kid’s like 9-10

[burnt topaz]

I fixed the joker order

[zinc karma]

Uhh

[burnt topaz]

Sell the perishable

[balmy ridge]

balatro university ❌
balatro elementary ✅

[north schooner]

New multiplayer mod: The Price is Balatro

Get as close to the target score as possible without going over

[zinc karma]

Nah

[supple yarrow]

and hes better than me BRUH

[grand tinsel]

Not the moneystorm

Permamoneystorm

[supple yarrow]

balatro but the boss blind IS your highest scored hand

[balmy ridge]

OH also am i right in saying that jokers from the judgement tarot can't be perishable or rental or anything?

[north schooner]

Correct!

[balmy ridge]

im so smart

[modern otter]

peak

[grand tinsel]

Balatro but the ante 8 boss blind is Jimbo

[north schooner]

Same goes for riffraff, but they can have editions including negative

[slender creek]

WE are ALL watching balatro elementary

[grand tinsel]

Double Nanner

[supple yarrow]

ante 8 but you have to get naneinf to win

[balmy ridge]

CORNIFER PFP MY GOAT

[unreal island]

25/36 chance both dont go extinct

[earnest pelican]

Take it easy man it's a card game not a Soulslike

[unreal island]

or a little over 2/3

[grand tinsel]

I love when I grab a Nanner, it lasts one round and then immediately dies

[burnt topaz]

OK WHAT DO I COPY NOW?!?!?!

[modern otter]

both have survived two rounds

[modern otter]

fr fr

[zinc karma]

Fuck

[north schooner]

Have both kinds of bananas challenge

[balmy ridge]

https://efhiii.github.io/balatro-calculator/?
someone showed me this site earlier

you can use it to find the best order

[grand tinsel]

I wish food jokers could be eternal

[balmy ridge]

haven't tried it yet myself

[supple yarrow]

i mean thatd cause a paradox

[cloud sinew]

then their description would be a lie, yeah.

[grand tinsel]

Well yeah

[supple yarrow]

or itd set their mult to 0

[tranquil cargo]

most forms of self-destructing jokers (including food jokers) don't check for eternal before dying

[balmy ridge]

egg can be eternal

[tranquil cargo]

it just doesn't come up in vanilla because they're all eternal-incompatible

[wintry ice]

that doesn't do anything

[grand tinsel]

Eternal Egg actually based ngl-

[supple yarrow]

i wish i could play modded 💔

[cloud sinew]

joker order doesnt change what i said

[warm kindle]

well yeah

temperance value

and swashbuckler

[burnt topaz]

Yeah I know

[cloud sinew]

STM activates before photograph regardless of joker order

[burnt topaz]

But joker Order matters now I wanna know what to copy

[warm kindle]

although id always prefer a non eternal egg

unless im using like madness or something

[grand tinsel]

Just in case you need to sell, yeah

[balmy ridge]

egg + swashbuckler is good i think and its funny

[grand tinsel]

In case of emergency, break egg

[warm kindle]

cause then u can also just randomly get a +100 dagger or something out of nowhere

and ofc u can sell it if u need to

[supple yarrow]

amazon gift card

[grand tinsel]

I wanna see someone showman their way to a full egg roster and a buccaneer

Buccaneer > Swashbuckler

[warm kindle]

is this close enough

[tranquil cargo]

there's a challenge that does that for you but without the swashbuckler

[grand tinsel]

So close

[unreal island]

not getting past ante 10 🥀

[balmy ridge]

legendary

[warm kindle]

I needed the constellation tho

[languid pecan]

idol isnt online but this gold stake run is going interesting so far

[warm kindle]

idc

[burnt topaz]

Smiley or scary?

[warm kindle]

I ended on ante 8

[supple yarrow]

jokerless:

[grand tinsel]

I want a neggative

[warm kindle]

jokerless gold stake is wild

[supple yarrow]

its wild but possible

[warm kindle]

possible, but barely

unless u get really lucky

[burnt topaz]

Smiley or scary I would like an answer please

[balmy ridge]

square joker good?

[warm kindle]

no swash buckler 🥀

[languid pecan]

why do you have 3 eternal eggs but nothing to use them on

[warm kindle]

shop 1 brainstorm but I died anyways 🥀

[warm kindle]

yeah

[languid pecan]

just 1 egg gives temperance value 🥀

[warm kindle]

its a good chips scaling joker

[cloud sinew]

it was the winning line /gen

this was during my black stake gauntlet

[grand tinsel]

3 speedruns temperance value

[burnt topaz]

I NEED TO KNOW PLEASE SMILEY OR SCARY 😭

[serene forge]

I hate Bloodstone

[cloud sinew]

scary > smiley here

[burnt topaz]

Thank you

[cloud sinew]

smiley only matters for the first trigger*, scary matters for every trigger

[balmy ridge]

uhh so i have square joker ante 1, should i be throwing hands to scale him up? or saving hands for econ

[cloud sinew]

scaling

[balmy ridge]

awesome sauce

[fierce pewter]

JIMBO WHERE ARE THE RISK OF RAIN CARDS

[languid pecan]

should i strengthen aces into 2s for potential hack value?

[warm kindle]

eternal idol 😭

[languid pecan]

?

[warm kindle]

idk if ur gonna be able to turn them all into twos in time

before u die

[cloud sinew]

eternal idol in endless is fine

[cursive lion]

I click on your profile and was jumpscared by csh 😨

[uncut slate]

twos mog aces

[alpine nest]

I'm still tryna grind naneinf

Also anyone remember Amy's baking company

[supple yarrow]

we need a spoopy joker

[half plover]

the real ''duo''

[warm kindle]

whos profile

[alpine nest]

Wb blue print and brainstorm

[cursive lion]

Yours

But it cancels out since Bloons is awesome

[grand tinsel]

Pareidolia 🤮

[warm kindle]

do u listen to them

[cursive lion]

No not really

[fluid nova]

Chicot and luchador or what he’s called

[nova mantle]

my brotha DNA is here again, should i cop him now? second pic's my deck

[warm kindle]

true

[cursive lion]

Me and bro 🗣️

[half plover]

[alpine nest]

Is ur pfp chiaki?

[cloud sinew]

even on a base flush, smiley is still worse. keeping scary was the right decision

[balmy ridge]

swashbuckler

[plush osprey]

you ordered it wrong

[fluid nova]

Idk I’m just impersonating a friend but I think je from the horror game thing

[cloud sinew]

no i didnt

[nova mantle]

ik im nowhere near running outta glass but i just wanna make sure lol, also it boosts idol rate

[cloud sinew]

thats the optimal order for scoring

[languid pecan]

ok i ripped ecto and if i sold trading card i prolly wouldve died anyways due to lack of deck fixing so now i give up this run

[cosmic sun]

stickers

[grand tinsel]

Smiley is good if you already have solid chip options prior, though

[balmy ridge]

@balmy ridge

heh

[warm kindle]

oh wait yeah u cant put smiley behind photograph

[burnt topaz]

The earth was the fuel of this run.

[half plover]

hey guys, guess what

[cosmic sun]

idol actually being relevant only because poly

[warm kindle]

cause then brainstorm would hit it

[burnt topaz]

And the earth will be the one to kill the run

[grand tinsel]

And since photo is independent

It don’t matter

[jagged torrent]

Orang steak lokks indide photochaf

[uncut slate]

just kill the plant

[grand tinsel]

Retcon that plant friend

Cut them from the movie

[burnt topaz]

Haven’t gotten retcon yet

[half plover]

also

[cloud sinew]

smiley is actually worse, proportionally, than scary face the higher your hand level

[warm kindle]

whats the third joker

[balmy ridge]

if you open a mega pack with red card and skip it, red card gets +6 or +3?

[burnt topaz]

Baron and Midas mask are both back, I mean I did add 2 non-gold cards to my deck

[cosmic sun]

+3 but with mega packs you get to pick one

[half plover]

i lost that run btw

[warm kindle]

how 😭

[balmy ridge]

ok so pick one then skip and its the same redcard value?

[burnt topaz]

I mean Baron was never here but looks alright

[grand tinsel]

Then Chicot or Luchador is your only failsafe

[warm kindle]

gotta have had some crazy negative luck after that

[cosmic sun]

yep

[half plover]

no XMult Joker

[warm kindle]

or before that

[burnt topaz]

I haven’t gotten plant yet, I might get it in time

Anyways do I take Baron? Presumably not right?

[cosmic sun]

mhm

[cosmic sun]

midas mask 🫦

[burnt topaz]

I have 2 non-gold face cards

[grand tinsel]

If you already got scary and can’t get copies, might as well tho

[burnt topaz]

Midas mask has surpassed its usefulness

[half plover]

the wheel doing it's thing bro 🙏

[warm kindle]

were all of those from wheel hits

[grand tinsel]

You probably want to be playing your kings, unless you don’t have too many but also not too little?

[balmy ridge]

omg yorick best joker in the game

[grand tinsel]

Actually I foresee a Jack playing build

[burnt topaz]

6 kings, 5 of which gold.
8 queens, 7 of which gold.
9 jacks, all of which gold.
49 cards in deck.

[fathom pagoda]

But what about wee?

[grand tinsel]

Keep queens and kings in hand, play your jacks for face card value

[balmy ridge]

i actually found out some yorick lore today

[grand tinsel]

Maybe get more tho-

[burnt topaz]

And take Baron?

[balmy ridge]

its based on a court jester from hamlet by william shakespeare

whos name was yorick

[burnt topaz]

I think every legendary is based off of literature

[half plover]

hell yeah man this is heaven

[grand tinsel]

Don’t know what would be good to replace with it tho

Well I do

[uncut slate]

i think therefore

[grand tinsel]

Golden Ticket can probably go now

[burnt topaz]

It’s given me at least $1000 dollars by now, it would suck to part but I understand

It might come back negative you never know

[supple yarrow]

it would be so funny if there was a wee deck where it was 2 2's of every suit and the cards were tiny

[grand tinsel]

It’s put in good work then, I think it can rest lol

[balmy ridge]

probably but yorick the goat

[grand tinsel]

It’s not often you see a build that only wants to play jacks and not kings or queens(not simultaneously, anyway)

[burnt topaz]

Let’s play another round of everybody’s favorite game: WHAT DO I
BRAINSTORM?!?!?!

[supple yarrow]

lebron

[burnt topaz]

da fuq?

[grand tinsel]

Perchance chad

[warm kindle]

youll prob survive anyways

[manic talon]

strongest luchador in the world

[burnt topaz]

Weird color scheme but ok

[balmy ridge]

how u change colors?

[grand tinsel]

Not side character luchador

[cosmic sun]

bro is fighting the equivalent of glass joe

[manic talon]

get mods

[balmy ridge]

DAMMIT

[pale wolf]

pfff

[supple yarrow]

leaf but youre doing eternals only

[solid tapir]

@balmy ridge

[balmy ridge]

did you make it though?

[solid tapir]

the blue boss was extra stinky

[burnt topaz]

Such a weird shop

[solid tapir]

easily

[balmy ridge]

man...

[manic talon]

i dont think i need to sell luchador, but its funnier to do it

[cosmic sun]

seeded gs?

[solid tapir]

no levels in high card

[solid tapir]

the run I just shared ?

[cosmic sun]

ya I noticed a sticker was still red

[solid tapir]

yeah

fish shared the seed

they lost on it so I wanted to show them it was possible with pairs

[cosmic sun]

the other fish

[solid tapir]

@balmy ridge carp

this fish

[supple yarrow]

black deck ante 39 gold stake jokerless no lucky cards

[solid tapir]

the only thing with B8LRUA1Z is that direction was pretty much immediate when I got the wee

that was pretty early on

baron was giga bait so I sold him immediately after getting him

[burnt topaz]

Well that was easy

[solid tapir]

another blue boss

[burnt topaz]

And just as I got excited…

[solid tapir]

shut down

[cosmic sun]

you won anyway

[burnt topaz]

I said earth fuels this run and it will be the reason it ends

[cosmic sun]

🗣️

[balmy ridge]

wat

[supple yarrow]

ive never had an issue with plant

[balmy ridge]

yes i change name

[solid tapir]

yes I noticed

[balmy ridge]

to show my love for the greatest joker

[cosmic sun]

yea its called playing big boy builds

[solid tapir]

but I hope my win on gold stake inspired you

[balmy ridge]

swashbuckler i hardly know her amirite

[supple yarrow]

but ive also never played high card

[burnt topaz]

I just have to try and find luchador

[balmy ridge]

im on a pretty good run now

alsooo do i take smiley? hand is flush house k/q

[solid tapir]

I could have very easily not have ankhed wee and would have been completely fine because I had bus and econ jokers

but it was funny

so I did

[solid tapir]

nice

you've got scaling chips with the square joker

[balmy ridge]

i hate bus

[solid tapir]

negative rebate is great

[supple yarrow]

seed but oops, all negative

[balmy ridge]

ya he's only 64 though

[solid tapir]

it's an amazing +mult joker

[cosmic sun]

lol

[solid tapir]

if you want to win high stakes then get comfortable using bus

[burnt topaz]

Actually I might not care about plant

[solid tapir]

scale him with each hand

[vocal rose]

buddy hates winning

[burnt topaz]

I picked up a holographic drivers licenses that I can use

[balmy ridge]

idk i dont think bus is bad just annoying and hard to play around i guess

[solid tapir]

two pair and pair work great with square joker

[cosmic sun]

doesn't help that they skip

[balmy ridge]

been playing high cards though just to clear hand

[cosmic sun]

if you skip then less rounds to scale jokers like bus

[solid tapir]

skipping is EXTREMELY situational on high stakes

[cosmic sun]

notice my win is ante 8 round 24

that's a lot of time to scale bus

[balmy ridge]

i don't skip much

[solid tapir]

why specifically high card

[balmy ridge]

i skipped 2 i think

[vocal rose]

cap

[balmy ridge]

i skipped for free poly joker and rerol boss blind i tihnk thats all

[solid tapir]

this is a perfect run to be playing pairs or two pairs

[balmy ridge]

idk just found alot of plutos

[solid tapir]

never do this fr

reroll boss blind skip can be helpful if the boss is going to kill your run

poly skip is not worth 99% of the time

[balmy ridge]

but boss was spades debuffed and my deck has 6 non-spade cards

[cosmic sun]

boss reroll skip is something I should look out for more often ngl

[north schooner]

Sometimes greed pays off

[solid tapir]

in which case I can understand

[cosmic sun]

devil ahh discard

[solid tapir]

but poly skip is just mid asf

[burnt topaz]

Here goes nothing…

[balmy ridge]

ok i'll keep that in mind, it was ante 1 small blind which doesn't reward money anyway so i thought it was fine

[cosmic sun]

eh, you still miss a shop

[solid tapir]

yeah

[cosmic sun]

even ante 1 shops can be nice

[solid tapir]

missing shops is a lot of missed value

[balmy ridge]

also do i take smiley?

[solid tapir]

imagine if you got a bus in shop one and square in shop two

[burnt topaz]

WERE BACK BABY, PLANT IS DEAD IN THE WATER

[balmy ridge]

for shoot the moon?

[solid tapir]

thats a winning run

[balmy ridge]

i saw a bus pretty early on.... ante 2 i think and square was ante 1

[solid tapir]

yeah that's a winning line up

[balmy ridge]

nice

[solid tapir]

scaling mult and scaling chips

[north schooner]

All econ, no score

[solid tapir]

esp cuz you'd be playing two pair for square

easy to scale bus

[grand tinsel]

Only time I go for any kind of suit build is when it’s the first suit a boss blind debuffs, because I’ll win the run before it’s an issue again

[balmy ridge]

yeah i understand i just struggle with bus

[burnt topaz]

And as if this run couldn’t get any better, now I’m getting completionist, this was the last thing I needed

[cosmic sun]

if it helps you can just play pairs and put face cards in your hands in a way that they won't score

[solid tapir]

get comfortable with playing the seed, entering with a fixed plan will end your runs on higher stakes. You shouldn't be struggling with bus if you don't place face cards on a pedestal

[cosmic sun]

clears them out without having to actually discard

[grand tinsel]

Yeah people tend to forget the face cards have to score to reset bus

[solid tapir]

^ this is important

[balmy ridge]

but using a seed doesn't count as clearing the stake

[balmy ridge]

oh i didn't know that.. shrimpteresting

[cosmic sun]

also not one shotting with bus

[solid tapir]

well I don't mean seeded runs, I just meant playing the seed how its given to you by the balatro gods

[balmy ridge]

so bus is good with pairs because you can use the pairs to clear face cards?

[cosmic sun]

the reason I got bus to 80 is because high card was level 1 and pair was level god knows what

[solid tapir]

if you got bus early and square early this is a very easy two pair or pair run

[balmy ridge]

idk if i worded that righgt

[solid tapir]

you can use pairs to easily scale the bus

and you can "play" face cards in such a way that they dont score

so its a psuedo discard

[balmy ridge]

yeah thats what i mean

like play a pair and face card and the pair cards take priority

im bad at words

[burnt topaz]

Care for another round of what do I brainstorm?

[cosmic sun]

so if you find yourself one shotting too much with bus or any hand scaler (except nova) then play a weaker hand until you can beat the blind with the last hand

there easy 70+ bus

[solid tapir]

you can play something like this for the bus

[grand tinsel]

The Serpent always felt like it actively helps you be broken

Because it does

[balmy ridge]

ya that's what i was trying to describe

[solid tapir]

ye

[balmy ridge]

this run is looking good tho im gonna focus on it but i'll keep in mind that i should consider taking bus more often lol

[north schooner]

Round 5, still no mult in sight

[solid tapir]

bus isn't a "You MUST take this NOW" jonkler but it just makes forming a run winning plan easy

[serene forge]

I hate Baron

[solid tapir]

odd todd

[plush osprey]

bro got polychrome rebate and is still complaining

[solid tapir]

I didnt even notice poly rebate

you're fine

[burnt topaz]

WAIT A SECONDDDDD

[cosmic sun]

ngl he can dig down further than $25

a little past

[north schooner]

Todd is chips

[solid tapir]

and chips is chips

aka scoring

also you have $42

[north schooner]

I made my own poly, thank you very much

[burnt topaz]

What do I sell for invis jokers

[north schooner]

I said what I said

[solid tapir]

scary face ?

and ur negatives

[solid tapir]

I also said what I said

[burnt topaz]

None of the negatives are honestly that bad

[balmy ridge]

should i always take it if i find it super early and have the money?

[solid tapir]

would you want invis to hit them

[solid tapir]

I would say yes, because pairs win runs

I will personally always take bus early game

[burnt topaz]

I don’t think it would be worth selling them

And also don’t you dare try and make me sell brainstorm

[balmy ridge]

gotcha ill remember that

[solid tapir]

no one in their right mind would convince someone to do that

[balmy ridge]

also should i even take invis? i feel like nothing i have is worth copying

[solid tapir]

square is worth, but I'd say not to take it because squash is a meh hit, only really worth if you have egg

[balmy ridge]

swashbuckler > brainstorm

[cosmic sun]

I think people struggle with keeping jokers like bus at a certain pace, where you use all your hands but still beat the blind, so it's good to learn doing this

[solid tapir]

if I have an econ joker and bus then I will be kissing my hands goodbye

[cosmic sun]

Cause either they die from overestimating their score or not scaling it very much due to buying too many scoring jokers

[north schooner]

Saturn scaling keeping me alive.

Eternal acrobat? Ugh...

[solid tapir]

well you gotta take it

its scoring

[cosmic sun]

more time to dig for rebate greed

[solid tapir]

yup

[burnt topaz]

I think taking invis was a bad idea

[cosmic sun]

[burnt topaz]

I got rid of only drunkard, losing a discard, and no longer have scary face

[north schooner]

fortune teller at a whopping +2

[burnt topaz]

That is what I believe is going to lose this run here

[plush osprey]

acrobat is really good with straights

[solid tapir]

ship it

[solid tapir]

pog

[shrewd night]

This pisses me off on an ungodly level

[plush osprey]

acrobat underrated tbh

[north schooner]

The rare decent skip...

[burnt topaz]

Yeah the hand was like 20k

[balmy ridge]

DAMMIT i suck i died to big blind

[solid tapir]

did u greed any cards

[burnt topaz]

Getting invis joker cut the run off a round or 2 short

[solid tapir]

rip

[burnt topaz]

Greed?

[shrewd night]

90001 on a 90000 blind

[solid tapir]

did you full discard or keep some cards like gold/steel

[balmy ridge]

i might reset until i get an early bus, just to get better at using it

is that scummy?

nahhh...

[solid tapir]

dont do that, learn to play seeds as they come

[north schooner]

I dunno why people don't like them, straights are easy to play, you just get them first draw

[cosmic sun]

green joker, pants, and supernova exist too

[burnt topaz]

Gold cards are just most face cards, and the steel wasn’t really around when I had discards

[solid tapir]

I had to get over the hurdle of resetting cuz I didn't get a one shot in ante 1 small blind

[burnt topaz]

So greed wasn’t an option

[cosmic sun]

they all have their own quirks

[solid tapir]

alright, just unlucky

[balmy ridge]

ill throw the run if its going well but i always ruin bus after like a few hands

[solid tapir]

ask for help here fr

[cosmic sun]

just be deliberate with your hands

[solid tapir]

most people here are nice

and don't bite

[cosmic sun]

and you should never reset bus

[solid tapir]

^

[balmy ridge]

ya people are hjelpful

[solid tapir]

some people are helpful

[cosmic sun]

but yeah try any other hand scaler

[balmy ridge]

yeah obviously i dont do it intentionally lol

ok i wont reset

[cosmic sun]

Just slow down like how BU would for Bus runs

[solid tapir]

also just watch Dr. Spectred

he is the goat

[balmy ridge]

them j's..

[balmy ridge]

he kinda annoys me but i watch roffle

[cosmic sun]

roffle gold stake is okay

[solid tapir]

gasp

😔

[balmy ridge]

roffle doesn't really explain shit though which kinda sucks

[cosmic sun]

he can actually play slow when his chat isn't ragebaiting him

[terse dock]

I dont like roffle but i like BU

[balmy ridge]

he just plays the game in silence and insults chatters every so often

[solid tapir]

this is gonna surprise you, Dr. Spectred explains everything

[balmy ridge]

i knoww but his voice is just grating idk how to explain it

maybe ill watch muted with subs lol

[solid tapir]

his voice is so calming to me 😭

[vocal rose]

his videos aren’t meant to be educational im fairly sure

[solid tapir]

they aren't

[cosmic sun]

dr spectred be like what if I spend 30 seconds per choice in the shop to talk about them

[balmy ridge]

i know that

[solid tapir]

roffle makes videos for pure entertainment

[burnt topaz]

In this run I:
Purchased almost 100 cards
Obtained over $1000 Econ jokers
Got Completionist
Got Extreme Couponer
Got a face cards build past both plant and mark without luchador, chicot, rerolls, anything.

And I don’t even remember what I used my fools on

[balmy ridge]

yeah ok ill watch dr spectred

[solid tapir]

watch his gold stake lesson videos

[vocal rose]

drspectred is too slow for me but he’s slow for a reason and I understand why 🙂

[nova mantle]

i proudly present to all of you, the perfect deck: king of spades 53 times

[balmy ridge]

these ones?

[solid tapir]

Doc is the only reason I am more consistently able to first try gold stake runs

he is my goat

[balmy ridge]

or the play along lessons

[solid tapir]

yez

[cosmic sun]

I kinda just take after him a bit and take time to think about some choices every now and then

[balmy ridge]

ok

[solid tapir]

actually no

[grand tinsel]

You better have a Baron I stg

[vocal rose]

I think the biggest lesson people learn from BU is to play slow

[burnt topaz]

If this isn’t my best Balatro run ever, then I don’t know what is

[cosmic sun]

Just not every time which is why I autopilot and throw

[solid tapir]

the video title should have gold stake lessons

[balmy ridge]

god damn dude

[vocal rose]

I’m confident the biggest mistake people consistently do in balatro is just go too fast

[solid tapir]

these ones

[nova mantle]

wym baron bruh 😭 im running trib

[mint jetty]

Is it worth stoping to square up for 2x mult?

[jagged torrent]

Barron is gonna be better long run

[nova mantle]

best build ive ever gotten

[jagged torrent]

Oh nvm

[burnt topaz]

Also like 31 screenshots

[nova mantle]

and the last hand im also gonna play

[jagged torrent]

You can't switch

[solid tapir]

just sell lusty

[grand tinsel]

Yeah I stand corrected

[nova mantle]

the small blind outscores me

[burnt topaz]

There’s 10 more

[balmy ridge]

dude stop

[solid tapir]

erm

[mint jetty]

I dont wanna sell it, just asking if i should stop scaling it

[solid tapir]

why dont u wanna sell lusty

you have scaling mult and chips

[balmy ridge]

so dr spectred is like john balatro?

[mint jetty]

I dont wanna sell square

[solid tapir]

Im not telling u to sell square

Im telling you to sell lusty

[mint jetty]

I know

[solid tapir]

yes

[mint jetty]

Wtf is going on

[solid tapir]

Im confused

[mint jetty]

What i meant is

If i take tribe should i play flushes non stop or keep scaling square?

[solid tapir]

keep scaling square

sell lusty for 2x

[balmy ridge]

i think someone told me earlier to always take the first buffoon pack in a run? true? seems questionable

[mint jetty]

Depends

[nova mantle]

best run oat, i cooked, served, then burnt the kitchen

[solid tapir]

not always but its good to check if there's nothing good in the shop

[balmy ridge]

alright

can sell anyway if its bad

[mint jetty]

In plasma deck you should be skipping it for example

[solid tapir]

you ideally want either an econ, plus mult, or plus chips joker in ante 1

[solid tapir]

in most situations yeah

cuz you can beat ante 1 with no jokers

[nova mantle]

triboulet is so fun frfr

[balmy ridge]

uhhh so for pairs specifically, what rank should i try fixing my deck to? or maybe dont deckfix?

[solid tapir]

doesnt matter

[balmy ridge]

or i guess its situational depending on your jokers

[solid tapir]

that's the advantage

[balmy ridge]

yeah stupid question my bad

[solid tapir]

not really a stupid question

if you have photochad

you would be playing face card pairs

[cosmic sun]

copy devils and blue seals

[balmy ridge]

ya

got scholar from pack so i guess its an ace run

[solid tapir]

but with pairs you dont need aggressive deck fixing

[balmy ridge]

ya that makes sense

[solid tapir]

I'd say its more important to copy purple seals and blue seals

more purple is more deck fixing

[cosmic sun]

purples are also good, devils are a good choice in tarot packs tho

[mint jetty]

More purple is more blue

[solid tapir]

if nothing better is there devil is great

[balmy ridge]

ok im locking in for this run i WILL beat orange stake tonight

[solid tapir]

scholar doesn't neccesarily mean its gonna be an ace run

however

[terse gyro]

lmfao

[solid tapir]

I got an early scholar here

and decided to go aces

[valid abyss]

my god

[tranquil steppe]

You’re cooking

[valid abyss]

how do you guys deckfix so well

i Struggle

[tranquil steppe]

Holy aces

[solid tapir]

econ

[terse gyro]

if only that was on gold stake

[valid abyss]

fair enough yeah okay

[solid tapir]

holy aces indeed

[tranquil steppe]

One day

[quaint token]

erm talk about a good run

[balmy ridge]

holy balls... ante 1 btw

[solid tapir]

all the deck fixing in the world and my idol will still hit the one jack of clubs in my deck versus the 30 of one suit

[solid tapir]

take it

[balmy ridge]

chicot

[solid tapir]

amazing joker

[quaint token]

😔

[solid tapir]

you dont have to worry about the boss blinds now

[balmy ridge]

nahhh i'd rather use cryptid on my 2 of hearts

[cosmic sun]

I don't really fix that much aside from copying useful cards, they're mostly golds and 9s and blue seals

[terse dock]

Misplaced matadot

[solid tapir]

did u take it or save scum

[balmy ridge]

i took it lol

[solid tapir]

okay good

[balmy ridge]

how else would i know it was chicot

[random ice]

This build is cooked

[solid tapir]

😭

[solid tapir]

save scum

[random ice]

3 tarots every first hand

[balmy ridge]

what does this mean

[valid abyss]

i love balatro

okay bye now

[solid tapir]

you take the card, then if you don't like it, go back to menu

[balmy ridge]

whats a balatro?

[solid tapir]

and then you wont have it when you load back in

[solid tapir]

same

goodbye

[cloud sinew]

if you go back to the main menu before the game finishes closing the pack then you can "undo" the action

[balmy ridge]

oh you can reset it for a different legendary?

[solid tapir]

no

Lilo worded it better

[balmy ridge]

but why would you want to do that

like why would i not want a legendary joker?

[solid tapir]

well if you got canio

[quaint token]

all foils now lol

[empty glacier]

I could’ve had five…I was so close but I don’t think I can make it…

[solid tapir]

or perkeo and you dont want a perkalator run

[balmy ridge]

ok i get it

also...

[solid tapir]

balatro is very situational

[balmy ridge]

dont talk crap about my goat...

[solid tapir]

eheh

[balmy ridge]

canio got me my first white stake win

[grand tinsel]

The hell-

[solid tapir]

I've done many gold stake runs but

[balmy ridge]

where swashbuckler

[unreal island]

i fucking hate perkeo

[solid tapir]

here

[solid tapir]

I feel that

[cosmic sun]

Trib was my last Legendary sticker

[balmy ridge]

such a cutie

[cosmic sun]

It got carried as usual

[solid tapir]

chicot was my first legendary gold sticker

[unreal island]

as he should

the most consistent legendary

[cloud sinew]

chicot the goat

[solid tapir]

indeed

he is so goated

[balmy ridge]

do you only get those stickers for gold stake? or do you have to enable them

[solid tapir]

you get stickers for all stakes

but you can enable/disable them in the settings

[unreal island]

you enable them in the settings

[empty glacier]

Ok, if the game bothered to give me my other wild cards, I probably could have at least made it to ante 12, but oh well. Love having 4 ancient jokers. Probably my fav run

[balmy ridge]

oh i found the setting

[cloud sinew]

you get stickers for every stake, but if you get a sticker it counts for all stakes below that stake (so a gold sticker counts as giving white, red, green... etc)

[balmy ridge]

awesome this is cool

[unreal island]

you could also have a retrigger joker :3

[gaunt folio]

Orange stake black deck has me on my longest losing streak of all time

[cloud sinew]

its okay, i have 800+ hours and I'm on a 7 loss streak on nebula purple stake on Switch

[gaunt folio]

It’s the constant dilemma of not enough money and not enough strength on black deck

[cedar shell]

baseball card eating good

[solid tapir]

nice line up

[gaunt folio]

I need to spend money to get stronger, but I need to not spend so I can actually gain money

[cloud sinew]

nebula is just so boring to play imo that i just cant lock in

[gaunt folio]

But the money gain is also slower because black deck

[earnest bison]

Chat, which Jonkler should I try and paint with my amateur drawing skills?

[cloud sinew]

red card

[earnest bison]

Too easy.

[cloud sinew]

abstract joker

[cosmic sun]

Sometimes you need to spend down just to live, which is pretty common on black deck

[floral jackal]

This run was just insane... I wanted to do high card build, but I began to realize that 80% of my deck was spades due to excess amounts of world tarots. I can consistently play 2+ flush 5 or flush houses whenever I feel like it, never had to use acrobat because it's just there chilling

[cedar shell]

woah calm down there

[gaunt folio]

If I spend NOTHING on ante 1 and 2 shops outside of a single good flat mult joker, I BARELY get past interest when ante 3 starts

[earnest bison]

Screw off.

[gaunt folio]

Yeah and it sucks on black deck because it’s so hard to gain that money back

[cloud sinew]

black deck sucks so much

[gaunt folio]

True

But it’s the last thing standing between me and c+

[cedar shell]

just copy temperance with perkeo every run

[cosmic sun]

arrowhead

[solid tapir]

do stencil

[cedar shell]

6 jonklers = muhney

does it ever feel like on lower stakes the game just kind of bends to your will

[ivory sun]

honestly what else should i even take

[cosmic sun]

ya cause you can beat the blind requirements with a stiff breeze

[solid tapir]

it always does

[floral jackal]

Black deck was my most recent gold stake finisher, I did not have fun (you can have C++ early because it does not require C+)

[cedar shell]

ankh

[solid tapir]

anything below purple stake feels easy as hell

[mint jetty]

Thoughts on my canio?

[solid tapir]

very useful contributor to the final build

a whopping 1x

[cedar shell]

id have to assume he wasnt gold stickered before

doing just about as much as a stencil could there

[mint jetty]

Sure after completing the game so many times it feels very easy, but back in the day, man it was hard

[cosmic sun]

the tribe and checkered tells me a very bad omen

[solid tapir]

oh yeah fs

when I was ass the game was really hard

[tranquil cargo]

canio is just there to distract from square joker

[cosmic sun]

first timing black deck gold stake was hell

[mint jetty]

Wdym

[cosmic sun]

but I've had 2 more platforms to beat it

[cosmic sun]

fluh

[tranquil cargo]

it's clearly a flush build since you have the tribe on checkered, but you played 4 card hands a lot?

[mint jetty]

Hey, you do what you gotta do

[mint jetty]

4 card hands to scale flush to finish

[cosmic sun]

I don't think I have tribe stickered yet

[floral jackal]

Difference between what purple stake and gold stake feel like in comparison

[cosmic sun]

but it's gonna sit there and do nothing while I play pairs and get a gold sticker

[balmy ridge]

worth taking diet cola? big blind has negative tag?

[solid tapir]

real

[solid tapir]

dont take the negative skip

[mint jetty]

Negative tag is a no

[solid tapir]

it is not worth

[balmy ridge]

oh ok

[echo tartan]

not worth for that but you could still pick it up

[solid tapir]

use cola on voucher tags/$25 econ tags

[balmy ridge]

so should i generally skip all tags that have free jokers?

[balmy ridge]

gotcha

[solid tapir]

rare skip is a choice you can make

[mint jetty]

I played 3 throw away 4 card hands and 2 flushes every round

[tranquil cargo]

very few tags are worth skipping for

[solid tapir]

I've never taken it ever

but it can work out

[cosmic sun]

I think people just take that for fun

[solid tapir]

the problem with skipping is the amount of value you lose because of it

[cosmic sun]

then get the tribe and regret it deeply

[balmy ridge]

wdym by rare skip? sorry

[mint jetty]

D6 tag

[solid tapir]

there is a skip that gives a free rare joker in the next shop

[balmy ridge]

oh yeah

ok

[floral jackal]

I've taken uncommon skips, but ONLY FOR COMPLETION PURPOSES

[cosmic sun]

ive never really cared for that

[balmy ridge]

i've taken rare skip a few times but i keep getting the ones that are like 3x mult for three of a kind and its never the hand im playing

[mint jetty]

Honestly, i'd take an uncommon tag over a rare tag

[cosmic sun]

there's no guarantee you get the unstickered joker, I just find it myself and run it because you only need a few slots to win at times

[mint jetty]

If i would ever skip for them for any reason

[cosmic sun]

which is a weird misconception about stuff like anaglyph for c++

[solid tapir]

you can take a rare skip in like ante 1 or 2 I guess

[mint jetty]

Cause i don mt see a reason to

[solid tapir]

if you're searching for immediate direction

[cosmic sun]

just keep winning you'll sticker stuff that way

[solid tapir]

but its not worth it most of the time

[balmy ridge]

1 buck short...

[solid tapir]

yikes

that's painful with a SN

[balmy ridge]

ignore supertf

[mint jetty]

Credit card in the reroll

[tranquil cargo]

temperance in the arcana pack

[cosmic sun]

probably for the best

[floral jackal]

Yeah, but at the beginning I valued things differently because I was new to the game

[balmy ridge]

found this guy in buffoon pack not as bad i guess

[solid tapir]

take him and go next

[cosmic sun]

then again chipless nova might still just win using all hands

[balmy ridge]

ya i did lol

[solid tapir]

play all ur hands

to scale nova

[floral jackal]

One of my first jokers to get a gold sticker was invis

[solid tapir]

pairs ideally

I accidentally gold stickered invis

wasn't even thinking about it

[balmy ridge]

im doin it!!

[solid tapir]

gl

[cosmic sun]

poly nova, pray jolly isn't making you score too fast

[mint jetty]

What was your hardest gold stake win? This was mine

[balmy ridge]

"i'm workin on it!!" says christian weston chandler

[solid tapir]

I would have personally went next on that shop and conserved my $8

[solar solar]

build so fun i tossed myself into endless

[cosmic sun]

the decision is already made

well jolly is free money if that was the case

[autumn forge]

Ante 1 rare skip goes hard I think. If you get something good, awesome. If you don't literally just restart a new run

[floral jackal]

Any time I want to attempt a baron-mime naneinf, I just keep getting brainstorms and eventually can no longer balance my baron and mime and lose earlier than what I would have liked

[solid tapir]

why restart when you can suffer for the decisions you've made

[balmy ridge]

wow this is a depressiing screenshot lol

everything's so dark

[vocal rose]

this

[cosmic sun]

idk but this was a recent one

[solar solar]

balatro dark mode :3

[solid tapir]

I didnt screenshot my hardest gold stake win

but it was one of the seeds doc tried

[autumn forge]

Touche

[cosmic sun]

maybe this.

notice how it's either cheart or vv

[solid tapir]

Y67LIZ9G this was the seed

[cosmic sun]

Nah the crimson heart one definitely takes precedent

[mint jetty]

The perishable balckboard coming in the last second

[solid tapir]

I wouldn't say it was hard, I just played poorly so winning was tough

[cosmic sun]

With Crimson Heart it's harder to say

[floral jackal]

If I get bored, I will sometimes reroll for round 1 charm tag skips and play the tarot gamble

[cosmic sun]

With Violet Vessel I knew that I at least had Acrobat at the end

[balmy ridge]

sorry i know this is probably pretty minor but should i fool hermit or hold fool

[echo tartan]

fool hermit

[floral jackal]

... for what

[mint jetty]

Fool hermit and reroll

[cosmic sun]

fool hermit, get devil

[balmy ridge]

okily dokily

[floral jackal]

why would you hold here? That's a question you have to ask yourself

[balmy ridge]

vagabond

[cosmic sun]

with vagabond it would be a good idea to start copying devils with death

[floral jackal]

Oh wait

Didn't see the vagabond

[balmy ridge]

roger that

[floral jackal]

I meant this more as a general thing you should do, but vagabond is just something else entirely

[balmy ridge]

does it matter what i devil?

thinking kings just incase i get baron

[floral jackal]

Kinda, but not really

[balmy ridge]

ok

[mint jetty]

Baron's bad bro

[floral jackal]

Hard to get set up by ante 8

[cosmic sun]

ive just put it on 9s if I can

[balmy ridge]

i guess

[cosmic sun]

speculative cloud 9

[balmy ridge]

can i ask why?

ohh

smart

[mint jetty]

I put it on whatever card i feel like i should be playing

[cosmic sun]

which would be nice for vagabond, with vagabond you can still spend a lot cause you don't have to stop past interest cap

[balmy ridge]

but why would i play gold cards

[cosmic sun]

idk you might need to, or get golden ticket

[balmy ridge]

without golden ticket

[cosmic sun]

well don't feel too bad cause sometimes you just need to play that card to live

[balmy ridge]

speak of the devil holy shit????????

[mint jetty]

Cause you dont wanna discard them, so if you have gold on cards you want to play you wont be in a bad situation for just holding them in your hand

[cosmic sun]

goat

though this fucks with vagabond

[balmy ridge]

u right

[cosmic sun]

I guess keep that in mind if you get it

[balmy ridge]

i did

[cosmic sun]

You could play your golds at the end

[balmy ridge]

i only have 3 golds rn so it should be fine in the meantime

[mint jetty]

Its better to play gold cards then dying holding them

[terse dock]

I understand it now

[north schooner]

That should be good enough right?

[balmy ridge]

"contains a pair" - 3oak counts?

[mint jetty]

Obelisk setup?

[cosmic sun]

pair stays winning

[mint jetty]

Yes

[north schooner]

The suspense...

[cosmic sun]

mhm, keep in mind you have supernova so 3oak would probably be really weak

[cosmic sun]

that hurts.

[vocal rose]

insane start

[echo tartan]

please turn high contrast cards on
you will not regret it

[cosmic sun]

I like high contrast but I feel like it doesn't matter that much if you play slow

[north schooner]

There's at least 3 fives and a glass 6 in the bottom 16 cards too...

I did everything I could

[mint jetty]

Spacebond 🔥

[north schooner]

Blue clubs are ugly

[echo tartan]

sure

[cosmic sun]

yeah the first time I turned on high contrast it was ugly af

had to get used to it

[mint jetty]

Clubs are ugly in general

[mint jetty]

I like both

[echo tartan]

better than playing a spade by accident because you aren’t paying attention

[north schooner]

It really depends which ones you visit

[mint jetty]

Huh

[cosmic sun]

some of them have really great food

[terse gyro]

5 new jokers on gold stake

[echo tartan]

other way around ._.

[earnest bison]

Sure.

[north schooner]

I didn't play a spade by accident?

[cosmic sun]

why he built like a don't starve character

[echo tartan]

i mean generally

[mint jetty]

Fr

[earnest bison]

Like I said, my art skills are subpar at best.

[cosmic sun]

but very cool