🕹・game-discussion

[cold moon]

Square joker is disgusting and smells like fish

[wintry ice]

+4 chips for playing 4 cards

[jagged pier]

Yes can confirm

[wintry ice]

it's good enough because chips are scarce

[jagged pier]

Palnet card

[calm sapphire]

square is just an average common joker

[shell dagger]

It’s above average

So many commons are doo doo

[white zodiac]

flint/eye/needle/water/arm

[jagged pier]

Yes like sqare

[calm sapphire]

yea i guess that's true lol

most are poo

[wintry ice]

those are only effective if you're able to play the desired hand

[jagged pier]

Only one that's bad for planets out of those is flint

[wintry ice]

and there are a lot of bosses that mess with specific hand builds

[calm sapphire]

worst shit ever

[wintry ice]

eye and needle only let you play your desired hand once

[cold moon]

Let’s all agree the mail in rebate is kinda buns

[jagged pier]

Hi hello this is not trueth

[cold moon]

Hear me out

[wintry ice]

water prevents you from drawing the larger hands and arm decreses planet levels

[white zodiac]

you’re telling me eye is desired for a planet build

[calm sapphire]

when you get hit with a boss that targets you specifically lol

[jagged pier]

Yes i love the eye

It's so easy

[calm sapphire]

i feel like the current boss system is kinda fun but it actually promotes monotonic builds instead of variety

[tawny grove]

i have seed money. should i take bull and kill square?

[orchid comet]

it promotes rerolling boss blind when stuff doesn't go ur way

[wintry ice]

you already have castle for chips

could go either way

[jagged pier]

KILL SQUARE NOW

[shell dagger]

What’s square at

[jagged pier]

KILL HIM

[alpine nest]

Tbh kill square

[serene forge]

I hate Photograph

[jagged pier]

KILL THE SQUARE

[tawny grove]

168

[alpine nest]

You have room to kill square i think

[jagged pier]

SQUARE DOESN'T DESERVE TO LIVE

[shell dagger]

You probably aren’t making 40 bucks this ante

[wintry ice]

that does more than bull i'm pretty sure

[jagged pier]

KILL HIM

PLEASE KILL

[alpine nest]

It does but bull scales faster

Wait what's castle at

[serene forge]

does it even matter at this point

[wintry ice]

i don't think they'll make it in 2 rounds

[cloud sinew]

bull scales faster in theory, but that means not spending money

[jagged pier]

Or skip for red card value

[tawny grove]

castle's around 300

[alpine nest]

True

[wintry ice]

i'd skip and wait until i get xmult to grab anything

[shell dagger]

2 +mults and 2 + chips isn’t ideal

[tawny grove]

yea i aint getting xmult yet

[alpine nest]

It's white stake they're probably gonna be okay

[jagged pier]

It is i love +2 cips

[tawny grove]

but if i do get one, I'll murder square

[balmy ridge]

negative supernova looks pretty cool i tihnk

[jagged pier]

No it doesn't yro'ue is wrong

[wintry ice]

reverse time universe

[balmy ridge]

ok evil fun hater

[tawny grove]

have you seen neg vagabond

it's cool as shit

[balmy ridge]

you hate evil fun which means you like good fun?

[jagged pier]

No i am evil AND hate fun

[balmy ridge]

your name is silly and doesn't make sense

it seems like you hate evil fun

[jagged pier]

Is that to difficult to grasp for you mortals?

[tawny grove]

nah you're 2013

[balmy ridge]

like you hate people who do bad things for fun

[cloud sinew]

being hateful is cringe

[wintry ice]

least obvious ragebait 2013

[pale wolf]

justin bieber for life

#yolo

[jagged pier]

Yro'ue are cringe

[white zodiac]

[pale wolf]

true jb is a religious figure

my religious figure

[wintry ice]

btd6 emote

[pale wolf]

i can swing that

[cloud sinew]

okay

[white zodiac]

first fl*sh build on black

[misty atlas]

ha ha very funny legendary

[pale wolf]

That's still a good hit

[misty atlas]

(deck has no face cards)

[pale wolf]

you have 4 10s to strength and standard packs

[white zodiac]

you have a standard pack right there

[pale wolf]

its at least as good as glass joker

[misty atlas]

this is true

[white zodiac]

unlike a certain other face card legendary

[misty atlas]

and what do ya know

[pale wolf]

ding ding

[white zodiac]

eureka

[misty atlas]

now to kill it

[pale wolf]

not glass faces tbh hold r

[white zodiac]

[misty atlas]

haha r meme

[pale wolf]

I genuinely think the glass might be a better choice here because I have Chad and obelisk

[pale wolf]

🙄

[white zodiac]

no base mult though

[pale wolf]

riff raff saves the day /s

[white zodiac]

o

[pale wolf]

base chips and base mult are basically the same

oh you mean with glass

[vocal rose]

if we have scaling chips do we need scaling mult

[pale wolf]

immaculate

perfect underscoring, perfect draws, perfect selling delayed

[balmy ridge]

where go D:

[pale wolf]

i win i guess

ugh

[vocal rose]

do we sell obelisk

[white zodiac]

yay wed card

this would be a great litmus test

[pale wolf]

no we die

[vocal rose]

triple rental

[pale wolf]

I mean I'm not going to lie I sort of forgot that I was on abandoned when I took that photo

[vocal rose]

you took photo??

[pale wolf]

I did have three face cards in the deck but I'm so used to playing blue for the past month

[vocal rose]

oh lord

[white zodiac]

damn

[pale wolf]

and like that was the first decision I made after going into the run again today

lmfao

[white zodiac]

you weren’t lying when you said boredom kills your runs

[pale wolf]

My win rate would probably go up 50% if I just didn't take breaks in the middle of a run

[white zodiac]

same probably

[pale wolf]

or sorry, my loss rate would go down 50%

[pale grotto]

Photochad!!!!

[white zodiac]

[pale grotto]

A rental eternal riff raff is good?

[white zodiac]

yeah i’ll take one

[vocal rose]

yes

[buoyant ridge]

loosing again

i hate straights

and i hate plasma deck, playing plasma for 16 hours

[scenic mortar]

play gays instead

[buoyant ridge]

and i cant stand it anymore

plasma is by far the worst deck

maybe i shoudlnt have picked runner late

the problem with plasma is, if you dont get at least 400 chips, your scred on ante 5

why just cant the game be easier on gold stake

for example one deck with only kings would be cool, would make the game lot easier

[warped moth]

Because it is gold stake 👍

[buoyant ridge]

like everyone here can beat gold stake in a streak and i cant even make a double streak

at least with plasma deck

[lyric shore]

most people struggle with plasma its tough

[warped moth]

You'll get there 😌
I beat C++ and took a lot of time to reach the point of gold stake streaks

It is really not easy

[warped moth]

Also yea plasma is like, definitely in the top 3 hardest gold stake decks

[fathom badger]

https://youtu.be/gB0begpTOdQ?si=upC2Sl1nVvroZhZS

NOW WAY

[warped moth]

YEAH I JUST JOINED CHAT TO SAY THAT ACTUSLLY

I'M SOOO EXCITED, WE'RE SO FUCKING BAAVK

Balatro and VS are both games so addictive I spent almost an entire summer on

I got ultra hyped when the first friends of jimbo came out and included VS Clubs and now it's that same hype again

[cosmic sun]

no shot

[buoyant ridge]

never straights again

[cosmic sun]

also ew the naninf ability

[buoyant ridge]

banner is also extremely weak and useless

[cosmic sun]

the planet one looks cool though

[warped moth]

What straights were you aiming for?

[buoyant ridge]

i got runner early but banner destroyed it

because RNG

[warped moth]

Why did you get banner then 😅

That's an antisynergy there, true

[buoyant ridge]

because its the only thing that spawned first

as i saidf gold stake is purely RNG

[warped moth]

Ohhh

[warped moth]

I mean you did just search for edge straights instead of going for the center :P

[hearty mulch]

is this a good joker lineup?

[warped moth]

Looks good, might need more mult tho

Gl on invis hitting hologram

[hearty mulch]

Yeah XD

It got the purple lil guy

[wintry ice]

you have 2 hands for digging still

[buoyant ridge]

but my runner had 0 chips

im so dumb in this game plasma, should i go next ?

[uncut slate]

unless you see something really good in ante 1 plasma you usually do want to try to get your money up yes

[cosmic sun]

riff raff is right there...

[shell dagger]

nope

[hearty mulch]

Uhh I should I buy smth?

[cosmic sun]

come on man you can't say the game is rng if you can't even see a good joker in front of your eyes

[hearty mulch]

Or sell

[shell dagger]

Photo over wrathful

[tawny grove]

bruh

[shell dagger]

Actually ditch misprint

[buoyant ridge]

the problem is i dont want to reroll because most of the early jokers are eternal or rental

[valid berry]

i finished my collection finally

[white zodiac]

what’s wrong with eternal jokers that let you live

[shell dagger]

Idk if id take eternal riffraff on plasma, earlygame doesn’t need score but it is econ after all

The voucher there is good

[valid berry]

it took 5 runs on anaglyph farming voucher tags to finally get that magic trick upgrade voucher

[shell dagger]

Since you want to do big hands

[ivory sun]

i would like some xmult on xmult action

[valid berry]

photo

[ivory sun]

67 cards in deck

[tawny grove]

switch their positions trust

it wields more

[shell dagger]

dawg forgot about the commutativity of multiplication

[valid berry]

splug forgot

[ivory sun]

67 cards i n deck

[tawny grove]

brb bout to kill myself

[safe moat]

So WTH is black deck ++ or whatever

[indigo vigil]

you could play pairs

[white zodiac]

for my definition it’s just c++ while only playing black deck for wins

[tawny grove]

ts is level 1

[safe moat]

That’s hard

[tawny grove]

i died

[lyric shore]

715 dollars and nothing better than nova

[white zodiac]

it’s a steady challenge yeah

my goal atm is just a win every day on average

not a lot of time to try like 3 or something

[shell dagger]

Do plasma

[white zodiac]

i will not do that

[shell dagger]

I thought it would be boring af but it’s forcing me to pivot more often

Which is fun

[white zodiac]

i’ve done it before but it just pissed me off

black is interesting while forcing me to play differently too

[rancid widget]

what do i kill for vagabussy

[white zodiac]

the stupid rock

[rancid widget]

no

it's an abusive relationship but i will not refuse it

[white zodiac]

welp that’s your choice

[rancid widget]

do i just kill both chad and photo

[shell dagger]

Zany joker ain’t that good

[rancid widget]

probably just chad right because photo still gives me some value regardless of chad

[white zodiac]

[white zodiac]

plasma taught me how bullshit flint is

[eternal flame]

don't

[rancid widget]

too late

[shell dagger]

yessss

[latent egret]

% of plant in ante 7 ?

my guess is 98%

[terse vale]

plant ante 4 pls

[shell dagger]

about 1/23 but also not really

[rancid widget]

Vagabussy is literally the best econ joker wym

[latent egret]

no ante 7 in funnier, makes me waste more time

[shell dagger]

actually way more likely

[lyric shore]

yk you could try to beat it, dont have to lay down and die

[latent egret]

balatro be like 1/4 is actually a 1/181818 if it's a positive event and 1/23 is actually 1/2 if it's bad

[latent egret]

oh yeah im preparing for it

[white zodiac]

ante 1/ante 6 events

[shell dagger]

ugh i want all 3

immolate trust

[latent egret]

hell yeah, photo is not needed anymore

[late helm]

how do I get trib on a run like this smh

[latent egret]

same, i had perfect setup for pair spam and then comes trib+photo

[white zodiac]

trost

[late helm]

🥲

[latent egret]

first gold stake on red deck lol

[late helm]

holy moly W

[latent egret]

man

i might regret taking chad smh

[white zodiac]

the things I have to do to make fl*sh work

[lyric shore]

no chad is the plant counter

drop the photo

[rancid widget]

FUCK YOU BLOODSTONE

FUCK YOU BLOODSTONE

[white zodiac]

[rancid widget]

I WAS COPYING YOU 2 TIMES

3 TIMES YOU TRIGERRED 3 TIMES OUT OF 15

YOU NEEDED 4 TO WIN

[latent egret]

yeah for sure i just meant if i wanted to go far into endless

chad is gonna be my first bad joker for sure

[latent egret]

wanna see something funny ?

this is actual madness

[lyric shore]

whoa

[latent egret]

feels like streamer luck

[serene forge]

top mind of r/balatro encounters a conflict in shop 1

[buoyant ridge]

why isnt this working on plasma deck

[serene forge]

because chipmaxxing on gold stake isn't consistent

[buoyant ridge]

especially with strights its terrible

[white zodiac]

local innocent gamer experiences the worst thing known to mankind

[buoyant ridge]

balatro is too complicated for me

[cosmic sun]

@buoyant ridge high stakes plasma means pivoting to xmult, not staying on chips

[steel chasm]

Speculative oops all 6

[cosmic sun]

(we mentioned this before)

[willow frost]

im also a big fan of 50 more chips

[white zodiac]

and partially missing the flint

[buoyant ridge]

yeah but i didnt get anything x mult

[serene forge]

chip build on gold plasma requires a really really good wee or bull and probably like blueprint too

[mint jetty]

+30 chips? 🤔

[buoyant ridge]

why is no one playing on plasma ?

[cosmic sun]

cause it sucks

[white zodiac]

because it’s stinky

[cosmic sun]

jinx

[shell dagger]

I’m doing c++ on plasma

[white zodiac]

parking dice

[pale wolf]

definitely the best decision I made that run

[white zodiac]

oh joy

[latent egret]

when it's time to pivot to xmult, right at this time, you're just faced with 2x blind size for no benefit

[mint jetty]

Didnt even notice

[late helm]

8 obelisks incoming

[pale wolf]

few people play gold stake plasma after they c+ it

[white zodiac]

if only

[late helm]

not too bad showman, not too bad

goated seed so mad I took the walkie talkie

[white zodiac]

why is no one playing on black?

[shell dagger]

Keep showman for the orange sticker 😋

[latent egret]

we got the busted seeds man

nat neg luchador

[late helm]

fr so much potential

[white zodiac]

mmm orange

[late helm]

the plant incoming

[pale wolf]

still waiting for someone to waste hundreds of hours getting every joker stake sticker in sequence (all white stickers, then red, etc)
to make a video for 50k views

[late helm]

TN73NZCC ante 2 trib, u also get chad and sock pretty quickly, if u have showman u can get double brainstorm in the last ante

[pale wolf]

#1156061354076155944

[late helm]

a

[latent egret]

man this is getting ridiculous

[white zodiac]

what’s your joker use rates looking like so far

[elder trail]

What would be the best drop for bp? I’m playing red seal lucky/glass kings

[unborn cliff]

dusk

no

chad

[elder trail]

The #1 photochad fan says drop Chad 😱

[unborn cliff]

photochad isnt good here

like it helps but its not carrying

if anything sell photo if you have lucky cards

[latent egret]

get this man a true

[white zodiac]

[fading cobalt]

Is this winnable?

[high magnet]

I’m sure this has been asked, but I’m new here. Curious to know everyone’s favorite starting deck to generate the highest score possible.

[latent egret]

yes

you need 500

so 125with your jokers

[fading cobalt]

I think I die next boss tho ngl

[latent egret]

unless ramen is used, you should be good

[latent egret]

you got a decent econ and joker space

[late helm]

lol

[white zodiac]

for highest scores, plasma is the default

[latent egret]

just replace midas

[fading cobalt]

I'm praying for vampire build

[latent egret]

it's plasma, there is no alternative

[white zodiac]

favorite atm probably black despite some questionable gameplay

[latent egret]

prayers usually result is losses

ofc it'd be fun af wut since you're not on white stake going for fun runs

[fading cobalt]

😭🙏

[white zodiac]

although it’s technically the third best deck to naneinf with if that’s what you want to do

[high magnet]

Naneinf?

[elder trail]

And I just found a brainstorm right after 😂

Kind of a goated seed tbh

[winter pike]

scoring over 1.7e308

[elder trail]

Lots of cryptids too

[winter pike]

ish

[fading cobalt]

LETS GO SMILEY FACE

[wintry ice]

scoring enough to break lua's number limit

[orchid comet]

hello

[white zodiac]

big number

[high magnet]

I’ve been playing this game wrong since day one I’ve never even gotten that close to that type of score

[orchid comet]

open the pack or save for overstock?

[winter pike]

not really lua's, a lot of things use the same way of storing numbers

[winter pike]

if youre having fun youre playing it right

[wintry ice]

yeah but i was being more specific

[orchid comet]

kinda same I'm trying to change my usual joker set too

[white zodiac]

there is no wrong way to have fun

[orchid comet]

and play style

[silver rampart]

Oh my God vampire survivors DLC

[rancid widget]

yay? i have a little scaling?tf am i supposed to do with a perkeo

[winter pike]

murder

[high magnet]

I think my problem is for some reason I always play for a flush. I don’t know why in my brain I can’t get off of that.

[latent egret]

it takes a really special set of circumstaces to get over e30

[orchid comet]

me with full house

[latent egret]

like really special

not even talking about e300...

[wintry ice]

i go for straights and 4oak when possible

[white zodiac]

humans when basic pattern recognition

[orchid comet]

what's 4oak

[wintry ice]

4 of a kind

[latent egret]

you can defo get e15 on almost all seeds on white stake

[orchid comet]

recently I realised level 3 straight is higher than level 3 flush and it changed me 💔

[fading cobalt]

Would've preferred trib....

[heady narwhal]

i think that you have to play the game wrong in order to get that type of score. i don't like endless at all

[wintry ice]

works fine still

[orchid comet]

almost forgot what I was here for

[heady narwhal]

temperance for $0

[wintry ice]

should i take supernova or look inside a celestial pack

[orchid comet]

take me instead

[wintry ice]

you can probably still affoard overstock after buying buffoon pack

[orchid comet]

next round?

[wintry ice]

idk if i'd take it this early though

maybe if i got an early rebate

or whatever

[orchid comet]

I love overstock

it's my fav

[wintry ice]

same

[white zodiac]

or +3 sell value joker

[wintry ice]

it's why i love zodiac

[orchid comet]

zodiac?

[wintry ice]

anyways do i take supernova

[heady narwhal]

i think the only voucher i'd take ante 1 is grabber

[white zodiac]

uh

[fading cobalt]

God I hate when I misclick buttons

[winter pike]

i would take overstock and grabber ante 1

[wintry ice]

starts with zodiac and the 2 consumable vouchers

[orchid comet]

really?

[winter pike]

possibly paintbrush too

[fading cobalt]

I meant to buy showman but accidentally rerolled

[orchid comet]

real

[lyric shore]

i like nova over a planet card

[white zodiac]

have you been playing 2 2oak or 5 card hands

i’ll take it as temporary safety

[wintry ice]

mostly 5 card hands

[white zodiac]

i’ll take it temporarily

[wintry ice]

if the reason is temporary safety i could take planet packs instead

[latent egret]

that's it im stopping there

[heady narwhal]

i'm a big fan of having econ online early and grabber is the only voucher that gives an immediate econ benefit (as well as survivability)

[latent egret]

i should be studying when this happens

[white zodiac]

are you facing flint/arm/needle/wall?

[wintry ice]

arm

[unreal iron]

my 2nd c++ starts now

[wintry ice]

yea i'm taking supernova

[orchid comet]

nice

[wintry ice]

there's no long term benefit when the arm takes it away

[unreal iron]

first 5 jokers off the list :3

[white zodiac]

the round 4 decision point everyone should know more about

[glad sequoia]

Fun fun run

[orchid comet]

is the last joker worth unlocking

[wintry ice]

i'll take this incase i get the econ to get it online

[orchid comet]

I should probably unlock jokers

I got caught up in unlocking decks

[wintry ice]

might take director's

[unreal iron]

yes

[heady narwhal]

eternal rental forklift >

[unreal iron]

10$ a round is no joke bro

[orchid comet]

and how is it unlocked...

[shell dagger]

lol

[unreal iron]

get 400$

[white zodiac]

in case of pair/ante 8 threats

[shell dagger]

im like 45% though c++

[orchid comet]

oh that one

damm

tips?

[white zodiac]

damn when did you start

[latent egret]

sorry for reposting but i don't know what i should actually do

[shell dagger]

Maybe 2 weeks ago

[white zodiac]

you’re faster than me

[latent egret]

like sell abstact

[orchid comet]

BLUEPRINT

[heady narwhal]

emperor if crystal ball was good: fill consumable slots with random tarot cards

[unreal iron]

get good econ 🤓

[latent egret]

but then what

[winter pike]

sell hallucination for blueprint

[unreal iron]

that doesnt really help ummmm

[wintry ice]

it won't take long until rocket gives me +5

[orchid comet]

is any set deck good for it

[wintry ice]

(1 round)

[latent egret]

my head hurts its too much luck in one run

[orchid comet]

oh wait blue probably

[unreal iron]

well you need to horde up money

[orchid comet]

cuz +1 hand +1 money

[unreal iron]

try blue maybe

[winter pike]

blue and yellow

[orchid comet]

yeee

[wintry ice]

do i just stay with riff raff because of chaos

[latent egret]

the nat neg luchador actually killed me

[white zodiac]

i have similar joker number counts at the top and i’m at 31%

[orchid comet]

I js started a run with yellow imma try that

hope for good rng

[wintry ice]

also taking vamp for xmult probably

[glad sequoia]

LMAO thanks wheel. Halloween is really in the air

[heady narwhal]

i'd take grimbo here

[wintry ice]

space joker my beloved

[shell dagger]

black deck is significantly harder and i did get a 3 win streak in a small sample size of runs which isn’t normal for me on plasma

[white zodiac]

riff raff?

[wintry ice]

flash

[winter pike]

no its riff raff now

[white zodiac]

um

[orchid comet]

sad

[white zodiac]

what’s your nova peaking at

[wintry ice]

6

[white zodiac]

walkie !

[wintry ice]

on pairs

[unreal iron]

aint no fucking way bro

[orchid comet]

oki

[unreal iron]

this is going to be a BANGERRRRR

[heady narwhal]

"flash card sucks" insane take. 2 free stickerless common jokers per round is like one of the best possible things you can have early

[white zodiac]

if you don’t need the +6 i would argue taking nova out maybe

[wintry ice]

thinking i'll sell nova and flash or nova and chaos for grimbo and vamp

[white zodiac]

that’s what i was thinking

discarding for your odd todd hand

on winning hand

[wintry ice]

i'll sell chaos because it's safer

[white zodiac]

yeah

rocket can still make Jj do something

arcana if you need to kill boss blinds with more things

[wintry ice]

i could have discarded before playing

oops

[white zodiac]

i don’t remember this lore

rip

[orchid comet]

what's the certificate for

doesn't it js ruin ur

[white zodiac]

value gen

[orchid comet]

thingy

catds

cards

[white zodiac]

it gives you high value cards in your deck

[wintry ice]

makes seals easier to get

[glad sequoia]

Pain 🥲

[winter pike]

no

[wintry ice]

purple and blue seals are very good

[winter pike]

you can get blue seals and purple seals

and even gold seals

[orchid comet]

do I get it if I want good econ

[winter pike]

yes

[orchid comet]

ok

thank you

[white zodiac]

you get it if you want deck fixing and planets

[winter pike]

if you get a red seal make it a gold card

[orchid comet]

but since the cards are random

[white zodiac]

they’re basically long term arcana/planet packs

[orchid comet]

hmm

okay

[winter pike]

you can play pairs since theyre always easy to draw

[wintry ice]

they're still guarranteed to be good

[latent egret]

blue seal = won run a lot of a time

[warm raft]

should i take baseball card or no

[orchid comet]

okok I buy it

[white zodiac]

the way you play the game for consistency usually revolves around pairs as the default hand to play around for jokers and cards

[latent egret]

ofc, instead of fist

[orchid comet]

I did not know that actually

I usually go for flush or full house

[winter pike]

what stake?

[white zodiac]

it’s not explicitly stated but comes with more play time

[wintry ice]

flush is good enough on lower stakes

[orchid comet]

highest unlocked?

[wintry ice]

full house kinda sucks though

[latent egret]

full house is the worst hand in the game and you can't convince me otherwise

[wintry ice]

actually not just kinda yeah

[winter pike]

yh ig

what stake are you playing on rn?

[white zodiac]

so just play the game in hopes you discover some cool interactions

[wintry ice]

the only competitor is 5oak

[orchid comet]

just red on blue

[winter pike]

okay so you dont need to play pairs necessarily

[orchid comet]

but I haven't gotten past green yet I died last time on ante 8 cuz of very large blind

[winter pike]

usually pairs are better on higher stakes

[orchid comet]

small break to unlock jokers

[wintry ice]

violet vessel

[orchid comet]

I'll keep that in mind

[white zodiac]

do you look at 5oak more on its scaling, joker synergies, or boss blind vulnerability when comparing it to other poker hands?

[winter pike]

3 of a kind is my least favourite hand

[west hemlock]

Just realized you can use madness with eternals

[wintry ice]

scaling

[white zodiac]

planet scaling

[west hemlock]

I’ve gotta be honest I’m on blue stake and I’ve never used it 😭

[wintry ice]

being able to stockpile mars makes it a lot better as an emergency hand

[winter pike]

maybe second least favourite after full house

[white zodiac]

ight that makes sense

[west hemlock]

In fact there’s several jokers I just haven’t used at all

[orchid comet]

joker synergies is a good way to look at it (right?)

duo trio and the four of a kind one

[wintry ice]

depends on how realistic those synergies are

[orchid comet]

real

[white zodiac]

that’s probably the main reason you should unlock the hand in the sense you don’t need the chip scaling the planet tied to the poker hand needs

like wee for example

or fh for fib todd or pants but 2 pair exists

[warm raft]

oh my god

[wintry ice]

yeah wee could just go either way

[winter pike]

how many kings do you have

[warm raft]

only 8 :/

but can try to get strength for all the queens i have

[wintry ice]

the

[winter pike]

red seals as well or?

how many queens

[warm raft]

a couple

[white zodiac]

the cut

[warm raft]

6 queens 4 jacks all hearts

[wintry ice]

shortcut my beloved

[warm raft]

strength been hard to find though

[orchid comet]

and what's that

I searched my jokers I don't think I have it 💔

[white zodiac]

a joker you unlock by doing nefarious acts (skipping)

[winter pike]

you have to win in 12 rounds (?)

[orchid comet]

oh that one

[white zodiac]

to win in under 18 rounds

[orchid comet]

yes yes

[winter pike]

o

[white zodiac]

merry andrew

[winter pike]

is 12 merry andy?

[white zodiac]

yeah

[winter pike]

mb mb

[orchid comet]

I'll try that after the 400$ I suppose

[latent egret]

do i buy the voucher, i don't know if it'll be detrimental

[winter pike]

probably enough with a mime and blueprint

[winter pike]

yes

[unreal iron]

indeed it is a banger

[winter pike]

i would

[latent egret]

i am without words as of this seed ngl

[wintry ice]

this sounds good for straights

i think i'm selling jimbo because superposition is easy to trigger with shortcut

[white zodiac]

how easy is it to control that thing

[wintry ice]

you move it to the left on a red light

[orchid comet]

that's very confusing to me

[white zodiac]

oh that’s some cool tech

[latent egret]

it does 2.5x, then 1.5x, then 0.5x

and resets

[orchid comet]

yes but more than that the rental

[unreal iron]

5 stickers down!!! (yes i did sell bus for jimbo so i dont have it later)

[latent egret]

works """like""" loyalty card

[wintry ice]

it challenges your econ management

[white zodiac]

it’s a higher stake difficulty sticker

[latent egret]

rental is gold stake, the joker costs 3$ a round

its like the trading card effect, except its at the end of the round and takes away 3 dollars

[orchid comet]

what if u go in debt

[white zodiac]

good luck buying stuff

[orchid comet]

can u js not buy anything till u get back up

[white zodiac]

that’s how it works

[orchid comet]

sounds like it sucks

[vocal rose]

balatro dont allow overdrafts 😭

[white zodiac]

it challenges your decision making skills

[wintry ice]

neat

[latent egret]

it's not always bad

[white zodiac]

what the sigma

[white zodiac]

not even once

[white zodiac]

certain jokers have benefits to certain stickers

you'll figure it out in time

[glad sequoia]

Extra credit mod is a lot of fun

[wintry ice]

scuffed the order (flower pot) except it's actually good

[orchid comet]

hm

[white zodiac]

is this the six seven joker

[latent egret]

the joker always costs 1$ at first, no matter the rarity so like you can buy the clown, reroll one then sell it and you've got a reroll for free

[orchid comet]

I forgot what I was told to do when I got a red seal

[orchid comet]

oh I see

[white zodiac]

preferably a gold enhancement

[glad sequoia]

Campfire is incredible on gold stake with rentals

[orchid comet]

yess that was it I think

[heady tiger]

Should I sell Cat for HS? Just going for A8

[orchid comet]

it slipped my mind cuz I imagine red seal differently

[winter pike]

hs?

[white zodiac]

or buy expensive jokers that generate more value than it's initial price for a scenario you wouldn't be able to afford it in the first place (black deck rental riff raff r1-2)

[heady tiger]

Heartstone

[winter pike]

o

no

[glad sequoia]

Hearthstone

[heady tiger]

Oh it's Bloodstone

Oops god I want Oops

[latent egret]

lol, third invis this seed

[winter pike]

least bait invisible joker

[white zodiac]

just going for a8
has baron
has a 5 card build

[wintry ice]

using baron with high card is just flexing at this point

[dreamy creek]

gyh

[wintry ice]

gyh

[heady narwhal]

i love seeing double 2

[latent egret]

the lasts one gave me trib and bs, cant complain

[wintry ice]

this is going to be awesome for my straight build

[vocal rose]

can you hanging chad a wild high card for seeing double

[dreamy creek]

extra creddit looking ahh joker lineup

[heady narwhal]

no

[white zodiac]

requires 2 unique scoring cards

(no)

[vocal rose]

sad

[white zodiac]

1.1 sneak peek

[wintry ice]

seeing traffic card turn my fire into not fire is

weird

[heady narwhal]

i hope 1.1 makes baron an uncommon chips joker

[wintry ice]

would be an odd direction to take it
todd

[heady narwhal]

i mean you'd get

• shoot the moon: common +mult
• hit the road: rare xmult
• baron: uncommon +chips
  for basically the same genre of effect

[latent egret]

do i just take it, it's a net neutral for my peak score but is less of a pain

[rancid widget]

FUCK bs or mega spectral

[winter pike]

i would

just because dusk is annoying to play

[glad sequoia]

Immolate in the spectral pack 😮

[heady narwhal]

also perkeoless naneinf is already going to be shot dead by serpent buff, bean bug fix, chicot bug fix

[rancid widget]

i will blame you in my loss if it isn't there

[wintry ice]

shortcut straights still feel mildly weird to use

[rancid widget]

i love you bro

[glad sequoia]

Got a like, %30 chance

[wintry ice]

i would take this if i wasn't doing c++ for the 10th time

[glad sequoia]

I love you too

I'd take the wraith and then immolate

[fervent wolf]

Browser: $6 Uncommon

This joker gains +6 mult and +10 chips if no money is spent in the shop earn $3 if no money is spent in the shop

[winter pike]

when was serpent ever mentioned to be getting a buff

[alpine escarp]

how tf are you doing c++ another time?

[heady narwhal]

thunk chat (unfalsifiable)

[zinc karma]

YEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS (if someone asks: yes, im playing jokerless flushes)

[rancid widget]

i did too it was hit the road and i murdered it immediately

[heady narwhal]

after play or discard, draw at most 3 cards

[glad sequoia]

Wouldn't be too bad for a bit with drunkard and BS

[winter pike]

so you cant go above your max hand size?

[wintry ice]

to try out the extra credit jokers

[heady narwhal]

yeah

[rancid widget]

too bad it's dead

[glad sequoia]

Rip

[tawny grove]

can somebody do the math for me lmao which joker should i blueprint (after copying burnt), square or bus? it should yield the same numbers but blueprint is polychrome.

[wintry ice]

shortcut my beloved

[unreal iron]

man stm IS cracked #neverpunished

i somehow managed to pull that blackboard since i needed xmult

[white zodiac]

mhm

[unreal iron]

and observatory

[wintry ice]

putting blueprint after bus yields more results probably

[tawny grove]

yea probably since it's polychrome

AIGHT

[white zodiac]

depends on your base chips/mult

[tawny grove]

160 32

[winter pike]

whats bus at

[tawny grove]

bus kinda late

[winter pike]

i love getting an answer

[tawny grove]

i just said 160 32 respectively

[fading cobalt]

I really need to start checking what boss I'm fighting bro this is the third time I've lost to the mouth cuz I accidentally played a hand that isnt my build

[winter pike]

oh is that the square and bus?

[tawny grove]

yea

[white zodiac]

i meant planet/base scoring

[winter pike]

i thought it was your base chips/mult

mb

[white zodiac]

and then the joker score

[tawny grove]

planet is uhhh

115 x 12

[white zodiac]

bus copy

[tawny grove]

AIGHT

[fading cobalt]

Imagine I got midas mask 💔

[shell dagger]

Surely square copy bc then u get full poly value

[tawny grove]

oh fuckin hell im against the eye

im cooked

[white zodiac]

the logic here is square is slightly contributing to above double total chips while bus is effectively triple and on the lower number of the chip mult balance

[winter pike]

it's less mult

[empty seal]

im an idiot

[white zodiac]

and the poly cule too ig

[empty seal]

i just rerolled on hologram while having dna

[zinc karma]

Hihihi

[lucid plank]

Oh my god, you are going infinite

[winter pike]

hmm

[latent egret]

not one rental/perishable joker

[empty seal]

nvm im good

[latent egret]

it's the polychrome that makes it worth

[shell dagger]

The jokers have the correct numbers

[white zodiac]

fist/boots/planets

o

[shell dagger]

I did say poly should make the diff

[winter pike]

i forgot the first two, i did the last one

dont slander me incorrectly

:)

[zinc karma]

Now i can finally get back to my gs grind

[wintry ice]

yea that's what i guessed

[white zodiac]

i didn’t

i was just flat out wrong

[empty seal]

what do i sell for hologram

[winter pike]

nothing

[shell dagger]

Take a screenshot where u dont crop anything

[winter pike]

maybe

[winter pike]

sock is x4

maybe socky busky

how much are you scoring

[shell dagger]

U can do whatever the games almost done

[white zodiac]

whats the worst econ joker you would still take as an eternal rental from a1

[empty seal]

well over what i need

i think best hand was 600k?

but i just picked the sock up

[winter pike]

socky busky goes

its x4 rn

[shell dagger]

Nothing worse than rocket and rocket only gets in because its best as an ante 1 pickup

[winter pike]

holo can go higher than that

[empty seal]

mhm

[shell dagger]

But idk if id take eternal rental rocket in the first place

[winter pike]

might be more with glass actually

[empty seal]

although i doubt ill make it far on endless

[winter pike]

are you using glass

[lucid plank]

I had a similar photo run with 2 chads, sock, and dusk

[shell dagger]

Probably riffraff

[lucid plank]

[empty seal]

dont think ive seen a single Justice card all run

[winter pike]

i would sell socky busky then

[rancid widget]

the crossroads
either i go ff or hc

i have red seal heart kings

baron has betrayed me less than the goddamn stone

[white zodiac]

implying riff raff is the worst rental eternal

[empty seal]

deckfixing for photochad and baron on abandoned is certainly a choice

[wintry ice]

i'd take a rental golden joker on the first round because it's technically net neutral

[rancid widget]

it's just a prethinned deck

[wintry ice]

and then probably sell it if it interferes with interedt

[shell dagger]

I think id only take riffraff rebate Midas as eternal rental econ

And imo riffraff is the worst out of those

[white zodiac]

what about c9

[shell dagger]

Tru

[pale wolf]

i take pics every time

[flat rock]

Yorick
Rick: yo

[white zodiac]

omgguh

[wintry ice]

i'd consider c9 and parking

[white zodiac]

or maybe chaos

parking i’ll take :3

[wintry ice]

i'd take chaos for 1 round

[white zodiac]

eternal rental

[rancid widget]

Chaos?

the binding of isaac reference

[latent egret]

WELL WELL WELL

[wintry ice]

idk if i'd take chaos eternal rental

[latent egret]

how could one have predicted this

[white zodiac]

idk either

it’s technically money positive but not ideal early

[latent egret]

it's very expensive early

and meh long term

only good with flash card ngl

[pale wolf]

eternal rental chaos seems like a fake decision

[plush osprey]

eternal rental chaos is bad

[pale wolf]

converting real money into fake money

[empty seal]

2$ each round

i see no problems

[plush osprey]

a reroll is worth less than 5$ early game

[pale wolf]

bc its not a real $2

[empty seal]

not with that attitude it isnt

[white zodiac]

it’s highest reroll - $2

[unreal iron]

2nd c++ is so addicting

[white zodiac]

and is overpriced early game

[unreal iron]

oh god

[wintry ice]

2-4$ per round is mediocre ig

[latent egret]

id say it's prob barely worth 1

[plush osprey]

…

[terse dock]

...

[wintry ice]

...

[white zodiac]

i’ll say no

[wintry ice]

the fool tarot card

[terse dock]

[plush osprey]

are yall selling a fool on magic deck round 1???????????

i am

[white zodiac]

no

[wintry ice]

depends on what's in the shop

usually using them matters more

[plush osprey]

before the shop

[strong rapids]

Maybe legless if i get lucky

[wintry ice]

like if you get early hermit or saturn or whatever

[empty seal]

i js found out if i select a stake (say, purple) and then move over to another deck i can play on that stake even if i dont have it unlocked

[plush osprey]

that’s a very high roll

[shy abyss]

or mercury or devil

[glad sinew]

is this even worth grabbing 😭

[wintry ice]

it is if you were using bus

[white zodiac]

a dollar extra interest isn’t gonna kill you if you miss it

[plush osprey]

it literally could

2$ extra round one is very valuable

[white zodiac]

the odds of that are dramatically low to speculate all the time when better decks can do without

[terse dock]

If it does then the seed is impossible on most other decks and there are no impossible seeds

[wintry ice]

very rarely

[glad sinew]

meh im really not now that i have red card

never imagined a run where getting soul is actually a sell 😭

[lyric shore]

most consumables are worth more than 2 that early

and its easy to get one worth copying

[plush osprey]

highly disagree

[white zodiac]

planets/emperor/money

[plush osprey]

if you beat the small blind in 1 hand, you get up to 9

[white zodiac]

ok

[terse dock]

Even A hierophant or empress can save you two dollars later

[plush osprey]

so the interest compounds after buffoon pack

[latent egret]

it's never felt better

i cant stop winning

[lyric shore]

yeah an empress or planet card wins the next 3 blinds in one hand

[plush osprey]

you still have the other fool

[shy abyss]

i mean no seed is impossible with foresight or retrospect but there are definitely seeds that kill you in ante 1/2 for making objectively correct plays

[plush osprey]

you don’t need 3 empresses

[lyric shore]

ok use 2 and you have another fool

[terse dock]

Yuh huh

[white zodiac]

some ante 2 boss blinds could use three empresses

[plush osprey]

buying empress feels like a trap tbh

[shy abyss]

empress in a tarot pack maybe, empress in a consumable slot can be a really big deal early game

[plush osprey]

yeah but probably not worth 3$

[lost vault]

depends on whether or not you need it to survive

[white zodiac]

how so? you have access to a potential boss blind answer in your consumable slot in which the same amount of money accumulated from +2 dollars couldn’t achieve

[rancid widget]

i have zero idea what im doing lmao

[solid tapir]

$3 for empress is something I would be interested in

early game

[lyric shore]

empress in the shop beats next 3 blinds which is more money than you gain by selling a fool

[rancid widget]

do i need that invis

[lucid plank]

If your deck is fixed for Barron then photo should be okay to drop.

[plush osprey]

i mean with money you could open an extra buffoon pack which would probably have something better

[solid tapir]

You need to go next

[rancid widget]

i don't have enough money lmao

[white zodiac]

you could do that anyways without spending/selling anything

[rancid widget]

although... vagabussy...

do i really need him

[solid tapir]

ante 11 vagabond

[wintry ice]

that doesn't matter as much when it could just have econ

[rancid widget]

yeah you're right murder is always the answer

[solid tapir]

yess

[winter pike]

what if i murder myself

[obsidian cargo]

WOOOO
Beat green stake for the first time

[rancid widget]

that won't be good

[lucid plank]

Then it's not murder

[shy abyss]

like obviously if you have any decent amount of +mult from jokers you arent spending 3$ on it

[rancid widget]

and that isn't murder

[wintry ice]

ante 1 empress probably only costs 1-2$ if you can't 1 shot the big or boss blinds

[lyric shore]

if theres an empress in the shop im not opening the buffoon pack

[obsidian cargo]

And on green deck 🔥

[lucid plank]

Nice

[rancid widget]

now beat black stake on black deck

[lucid plank]

I'm finally making the push through the stakes on erratic

[wintry ice]

you can buy both half of the time

[obsidian cargo]

I haven’t even beat white stake on black deck

[lucid plank]

Black deck is just brutal, it's like the hard mode of the early antes

Im much more comfortable on ghost deck where I can casually ahnk an eternal 6 times

[solid tapir]

I would open buffoon pack most times

can't risk missing on value generators or scoring

[lyric shore]

maybe

[plush osprey]

i believe this is incorrect

[lyric shore]

just thinking about it i dont want to go to 0 when empress is enough for a while

[solid tapir]

if the buffoon pack has any useful value generator, like golden joker, to-do list, vagabond, etc I think its much better than an empress which will get outscaled pretty soon

besides that, the buffoon pack can always have scoring that will just be better than an empress

[plush osprey]

yeah

[lyric shore]

either way the fool is never getting sold

[plush osprey]

even a rental is better than empress a lot of the time

[solid tapir]

early rental perhaps not

but maybe mid-game rental is better than an empress for sure

[plush osprey]

mid game empress is usually worth nothing

[solid tapir]

usually

yeah

[lyric shore]

are we not talking shop 1

[plush osprey]

we are

wait guys

huge brain play

sell BOTH fools

and then you have 10$

[cursive lion]

doomed yuri

[lyric shore]

this could be it

[cursive lion]

cgf for life man.... 🐱🙏

[grizzled jetty]

is there like a known and tested strat to this game?

[lyric shore]

consistent hands and scaling jokers

[white zodiac]

win

[grizzled jetty]

wow

[rancid widget]

o7 did not get that one mime in ante 1

or like in ante 4

[grizzled jetty]

a little help?

[rancid widget]

chad

hope for a photo prolly

[lyric shore]

both good options

[grizzled jetty]

ok

[pale wolf]

nothing that could fit in a discord message, but people have gold stake streaks dozens of runs long

so theres definitely a method

[grizzled jetty]

damn

[pale wolf]

watch balatro university

[winter pike]

shouldve made more gold cards

[pale wolf]

hes the best at the game and also the best educational content

[winter pike]

dont need steel with the baron

[grizzled jetty]

will do

[tacit quail]

rahhhh cookie cutter face card build raahhh

[winter pike]

and gold cards are more money to find mime

[rancid widget]

i did need it there and the previous ante cuz i wouldn't live without steel

[winter pike]

how many gold cards did you have before?

[white zodiac]

a polychrome naked ace costs 6 dollars

[winter pike]

ideally you should have a full hand of gold cards

[rancid widget]

My deck WAS full of gold red seal kings, i had like 400 dollars per round

including mr proper

[winter pike]

hmm fair enough then

[rancid widget]

what

mail in rebate

what the fuck

[winter pike]

nah mr proper

[rancid widget]

wym mr proper

[brave goblet]

All this but no 8 ball

[full lantern]

I've been working away at each deck on gold stake, and this has maybe been my weirdest run yet. this is a flush build. (I just wanted to share)

[rancid widget]

first time in history someone tried building towards 8ball

[brave goblet]

nah it was for fib lol

idr how I got the gold seal 8 but it was like might as well

[valid berry]

how do i explain to someone why skipping is bad

[white zodiac]

i’ve built for 8 ball a good few times

[tacit quail]

less shops idk

[grizzled jetty]

got a smily face

[tacit quail]

its not that bad

[valid berry]

he complains aboyt how he keeps losing, i tell him to stop skipping HALF OF THE BLINDS (yes genuinely that many) and he just dont

[tacit quail]

many worse habits in the game you could get into than skipping imo

[brave goblet]

hand money isn't as important as farming money via gold cards or economy jokers per round

[tacit quail]

especially sb skipping which is 200% more worth than other skip

esp early

[rancid widget]

i remember a certain someone kept skipping twice in first ante because it worked 1 time and he got a stuntman on plasma

[lyric shore]

like what

[tacit quail]

if you're low on econ/poor as shit skips are your way to get anything from a smallblind for example

[valid berry]

atleast he understands the goatedness of investment

[tacit quail]

since hand money is barely anything

[willow frost]

selling everything to buy baron, 100% of the time

[lyric shore]

if youre broke 3 is a lot

[grizzled jetty]

what should i take?

[tacit quail]

yeh but its not enough to buy anything to improve score

[rancid widget]

when i saw him do it i just came over and hit that dude till he passed out
although i was sad on his funeral that was justified imo

[winter pike]

i would take faceless, red card is good but you have no money

maybe not

since you have smiley tho

[tacit quail]

for example

or 2

[rancid widget]

i could take that out of context yk

[white zodiac]

um

[willow frost]

to be honest this is also not a good habit

[tacit quail]

because that 3$ doesn't buy me anything

[analog epoch]

Im so cooked

[white zodiac]

i wouldn’t do that

[willow frost]

how so

[tacit quail]

explain the usefulness of the shop when you have no money

[calm turtle]

What should I sell? Hologram is at x18.25

[shell dagger]

Hologram

[willow frost]

probably hologram

[white zodiac]

explain increasing your scoring requirements for no reason

[rancid widget]

like it's stupid but i technically can like "hey guys check this dumbass out he says you need to sell everything for baron 100% of the time"

[tacit quail]

all you gain is at best 0-3$ depending on strength and no jokers before going to the same blind you would have done if you skipped
with 0$ skip can get you something

[white zodiac]

and 30% eternal/perishable/rental

[willow frost]

lmao

i condone this behaviour