🕹・game-discussion

[valid abyss]

i love when judgement gives me buskin

so i can sock em with it

[twin lantern]

GET OUT 🗣️

[uncut slate]

what does sock and buskin even mean

what's a buskin

is that like a furry

[plucky agate]

I love when judgement gives me castle so I can sell it

[twin lantern]

peak 🗣️

[tacit quail]

bet

[pale grotto]

What

[valid abyss]

🎭

[twin lantern]

I love it when judgement gives me chicot 🗣️🔥 /j

[uncut slate]

like someone who is a buskin

[pale grotto]

I love judgement

[uncut slate]

you know

[twin lantern]

confession 🗣️🔥

[valid abyss]

well you're gonna love dying

[pale grotto]

Indeed

[uncut slate]

yeah after you die i judge you

[pale grotto]

Im the run crasher

[twin lantern]

nah i have totem of undyings

[valid abyss]

sorry i ate them

[pale grotto]

Ñom

[twin lantern]

it's solid gold bruh how 😭

[valid abyss]

i have a big appetite

[pale grotto]

Wait there is no ñ in english, how you can spell it?

[plucky agate]

Me when my heart is being weighed on the scales by Anubis

[twin lantern]

then I'll just hold you so i get the totem effects

[twin lantern]

ん

[pale grotto]

Lol

[pale grotto]

Ohhhh

[twin lantern]

-# that's a japanese character which means /n/

[tacit quail]

i love lv2 high card pulling a milly

[plucky agate]

#japan

[uncut slate]

i love japan period.

[pale grotto]

Nope, ん is my new ñ

[twin lantern]

#日本

-# tr: #japan

[uncut slate]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XP5lz2CYNR4

[plucky agate]

I can read Japanese I know

[twin lantern]

for others

I'm just learning japanese

[pale grotto]

I ♥ 日本

[plucky agate]

Okay peak

[uncut slate]

ri ben that's almost my name

[twin lantern]

i have a vocab of 300 words

[twin lantern]

it's read /nihon/🙏

[plucky agate]

I have a vocab of like 20

[pale grotto]

I dont have a japanese vocab

[valid abyss]

i have a vocab

[twin lantern]

how can you read kanji themn 😭

[valid abyss]

hope this helps

[twin lantern]

english 🗣️

[left juniper]

Back in my day this was peak

[uncut slate]

in chinese it's ri ben

[twin lantern]

BACK IN MY DAY MENTIONED 🗣️

[orchid comet]

rest in peace

[twin lantern]

ow

[uncut slate]

but my chinese is terrible

[twin lantern]

luchador in shop trust

[uncut slate]

and it's way past my bedtime

[twin lantern]

go sleep yes

gn

[valid abyss]

you should really really hope theres a luchador in one of those shops

or a chicot or some shit

this run CAN be saved

[orchid comet]

😭

[twin lantern]

although the odds are insanely high 🗣️

-# to.. to die..

[valid abyss]

HA

[uncut slate]

nah you should skip for the negative tag

[orchid comet]

if it was any other boss blind I would've gotten the negative tag

[valid abyss]

format fail

[uncut slate]

don't need shops ahyway

[valid abyss]

everyone laugh at this user

[twin lantern]

YOU SAW NOTHING

SHUT UP 😭

[tacit quail]

throwback thinks hes safe

[uncut slate]

-# did i do it right laugh at this user if i didn't

[orchid comet]

no

[plucky agate]

I can read very few kanji 日本 are some of the few I can read. I can read kana though

[valid abyss]

**youdi # it right__

everyone laugh at me now

[uncut slate]

nothing to laugh about in my life

[orchid comet]

😭 wth
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[tacit quail]

green deck is just so funny

[valid abyss]

this is so 1984

[uncut slate]

this is so interpol

[valid abyss]

why cant we take and kill hostages like in the good old days

[uncut slate]

turn on the bright lights

[plucky agate]

Israel:

[orchid comet]

💀

[valid abyss]

fire emoji and all but you've probably started a gigantic argument with like 23 people looking for this word in chat

[twin lantern]

そお？こるをよんでもらえますか？

||tr: oh? can you read this?||

[orchid comet]

いいえ、できません
tr: ||no, I cannot||

[valid abyss]

rude D:

[orchid comet]

oh woah

I meant I cannot

[plucky agate]

Soo? Noruoyondemoraemasuka

Is that correct?

[orchid comet]

so real

[valid abyss]

yeah yeah kame kame ha or some shit whaterver

[orchid comet]

love it when I noruoyondemoraemasuka on these birches

[twin lantern]

soo? kore o yonde moraemasuka?

That's not fully correct

[plucky agate]

Wdym?

[orchid comet]

😭

[valid abyss]

politics

hope this helps

[twin lantern]

translator understand no context is always so funny 🙏

[plucky agate]

Why did I read ko as no 💀💀 I know those kana. Re I mess up sometimes so I'm not mad

[twin lantern]

you mess up る(re) and ろ(ro) right? i had that trouble too

I'm from india so i know a similar character from hindi and the curve in re was easy to catch hence

[valid abyss]

3 with a loop vs 3 without a loop

i think i got it

[plucky agate]

Yeah the re ru ro mess me up

[twin lantern]

now pronounce it 🗣️

[valid abyss]

re and ro

thanks for listening

[twin lantern]

i think you can kinda type numbers in kana

ろム

[plucky agate]

I would if I could send a voice message

[twin lantern]

crazy

[twin lantern]

oh no i was just making a joke

[cloud sinew]

balatro

[twin lantern]

34 🗣️

[twin lantern]

no

japanese 🙏

[plucky agate]

Balatro Japan

[twin lantern]

wait shit i forgot this ain't survev.io 😭

😭

[twin lantern]

we're talking about the in-game language settings so it's still in context 🗣️

[valid abyss]

this is balatro dot io

not japan dot io

[twin lantern]

balatro.io 🗣️

[tacit quail]

im feelin kinda bonus

[soft dock]

Due after like two days I finally got my jokerless challenge done

[twin lantern]

sus

[olive portal]

based

[tacit quail]

showman for like 5 shops and a shit load of rerolls and didnt give me ANY duplicate jokers in the shop except it fuckings self

[twin lantern]

showmen gambit 🗣️

[tacit quail]

didnt work, im dead

[valid abyss]

showman with me every fucking time

[twin lantern]

the game played showmen gambit declined: dead variation

[north schooner]

Not really sure what goes here...

I got mime, so of course I haven't seen a single blue seal in all the standard packs.

I have directors cut (and already skipped The Club) so I'm not super worried about boss blinds

[valid abyss]

banana goes

[twin lantern]

I'd personally say banana

[valid abyss]

that or scary face

[north schooner]

Mimes honestly not doing much, but the holo is nice

[twin lantern]

cus banana will die at some point and it's not worth the risk

take something that stays

[north schooner]

Banana is for the chance at x3

[twin lantern]

yeah but chance

[tacit quail]

my seltzer popped 😭

[valid abyss]

seltzers tend to do that

[twin lantern]

fuck 😭

[tacit quail]

fake ass

[north schooner]

True, a6 is a little late for that

[twin lantern]

seasoning 🗣️

[twin lantern]

no one saw anything okay

stfu

[tacit quail]

time for blue stake :/

[valid abyss]

i saw anything

[tacit quail]

i can see anything

play

2 buffoons and a temperance imo

[twin lantern]

"here. win."

[tacit quail]

hmmmmmm

[twin lantern]

profit insane

[twin lantern]

holy choice

[tacit quail]

its ante 1 this can run shape

[north schooner]

oh no.. is this a photo run?

[valid abyss]

Where the fuck is the brainstorm

[tacit quail]

do these sell for the same amount i want to buy then pop temperance then sell (or not sell, i dont need interest)

[north schooner]

Still in the shop

[valid abyss]

tAKE IT

[valid abyss]

everyone needs interest, take it and sell it

[north schooner]

But scoring

[valid abyss]

youll get more scoring with it

sell banan

or scary face

[north schooner]

What scoring is it going to copy, huh?

[valid abyss]

i recommend selling banan

[valid abyss]

sock, scary face

literally anythning

[north schooner]

I guess photo is something, with flush at 22 mult

[tacit quail]

explain

[valid abyss]

can you add more red arrows i cant understand

i didnt see the GREEN deck okay

[valid abyss]

thats a blue arrow i still dont understand

[tacit quail]

need i say more

[shell current]

If you buy one banana and sell it each round you are earning $2 of banana interest

[tacit quail]

explained

[valid abyss]

thanks this cleared it up

[shell current]

You can write off the $5 on your taxes as capital losses

[tacit quail]

ah.. a lil of everything ahh run

[plucky agate]

Me when I need CASH

[shell current]

You should probably get out of 4 fingers and try to pick up an econ joker at some point

[plucky agate]

Golden joker or rebate would be great here

[quartz ember]

wait where did the conste go

[tacit quail]

nah bro i just played high card on the mouth

gg

[north schooner]

Ok yeah I guess that works

[tacit quail]

bro hallucinated

i never bought that

constellations washed joker

[plucky agate]

....

[tacit quail]

.1 isnt enough

its like the first thing i sell once i get any other form of mult going

[plucky agate]

Perhaps this is why U don't have c+

[tacit quail]

nah just time

[plucky agate]

Constellation is an amazing scaling x mult joker. It's very easy to scale

Planet cards are ridiculously abundant

[tacit quail]

yeah but every other scaling joker got me

[plucky agate]

Me looking for the scaling x mult in this run

[tacit quail]

by the time i have literally used 10 planet cards to get 2x or so i get some other xmult thats just better

in the shop

[plucky agate]

But that's not guaranteed

[tacit quail]

or a diff setup

[plucky agate]

Take what you're offered

[tacit quail]

i mean i only really run constellation if i have a planet farm method like i get blue seals or smth going

[plucky agate]

That's how you win gold stake

[tacit quail]

or free planets

otherwise it sometimes lingers on low xmult jus sitting there

[plucky agate]

That's honestly a skill issue

[tacit quail]

i think when i have to buy the planets and theyre not even hands im playing its not worth the money to xmult ratio

when i get like 6 3oak planets in a row and im playing straights or smth

[plucky agate]

$3 for .1x is pretty good

[tacit quail]

etc

anyways real jokers are in the room 👋 lemme do my run

[shell current]

Ayo! That’s a whole 1x

[tacit quail]

i said lemme do my run

[plucky agate]

And there isn't the opportunity cost of bloating your deck like with hologram or removing enhancements like vampire

[tacit quail]

balatros a very simple game i pull photo then i pull chad and blueprint and if i dont i reset

jk

[shell current]

On nooow it’s 7.5x better lmao

[plucky agate]

If the head is avoided and hearts are drawn consistently

[tacit quail]

ohhh its rolling together

[plucky agate]

The head coming for ur ass

[valid abyss]

-# you know what nevermind ive been timed out too many times
this sounds like something else entirely

slash jay

[shell current]

Benjamin button ass run

[vernal bay]

EZ PZ

[tacit quail]

Run dead i was too focused looking at your comment that i forgot the pillar

[north schooner]

The run that keeps on giving.

... sorry, @fading cobalt

[plucky agate]

I didn't think about it whole typing the sentence but yeah ur right

[vernal bay]

4goat

[plucky agate]

Hehe told ya

[tacit quail]

Interfering with my peak decisions

For example, i buy the discard one here and pull a straight flush next round

[north schooner]

it me

[tacit quail]

yk close enough Let's keep gambling

you KNOW what i do on this start

[north schooner]

my man literally drawing to an inside straight flush?!

[shell current]

Nah you gotta buy the idol so then next shop is a spectral with a ouija and you just draw the flush 5 every round

[tacit quail]

Peak

im not taking this

we skip again

this might be goated

[cloud sinew]

blue streak of 2 :3

[errant brook]

Me: "YE- NO"

[shell current]

Two holographics! For sure you make it to ante 3 this time

[cloud sinew]

perishable is annoying but a perishable blueprint is still very good

[north schooner]

Just take it. Do you know the odds of drawing the same thing without the perishable tag?

[errant brook]

I'm in ante 19 lol

[valid abyss]

afterall you're a perishable human

[errant brook]

I'm not concerned about winning anymore

[tacit quail]

you KNOW i skipping

[cloud sinew]

the odds of drawing it at all x 0.7
:3

[valid abyss]

honestly if orbital tag hits the hand i want then im taking it

[tacit quail]

yeah

tbh

[valid abyss]

its worth 3 of the same planet card which otherwise costs a lot to reroll and get

[errant brook]

So taking it means I can't find a regular blueprint. So not taking it and hoping

nat negative reserved parking is making this possible

[cloud sinew]

5 rounds of no blueprint in shop, in exchange you get...
Blueprint for 5 rounds

[north schooner]

Exactly

[errant brook]

I don't need it to win

So I'd rather go 5 rounds without it than 5 shops without it

If I can find Blueprint, Antimatter, and Ecto in theory this becomes possible

[cloud sinew]

you trying to naneinf?

[errant brook]

on gold stake lol

[cloud sinew]

why is burglar/serpent not in your shopping list

[errant brook]

This is the first run I've had that was even remotely okay

It is eventually

Serpent doesn't help right now

[cloud sinew]

serpent gives more money

[errant brook]

prior to right now I'd win too easily otherwise

in fact I may win too easily even with serpent

[errant brook]

owned

Also this now has legs...

[north schooner]

I mean it would be if you bought it

[errant brook]

Antimatter + Ecto makes this possible. Although I need way more cards in deck

I saw a DNA earlier but it was eternal so I skipped

[tacit quail]

CANIO please

die

[left juniper]

Flushes? Chigoat

actually best hit. Maybe 2nd best

[tacit quail]

i guess yeah

but

its specifically only spades atp tbh or diamonds

at a stretch

i needed scoring

[manic zealot]

seance does not want my gold sticker

):

[left juniper]

Make the painful decision to sell Trading Card for more scoring

[tacit quail]

no, hes my scaling

and money

[tacit quail]

erosion scale

[left juniper]

I might be blind

[tacit quail]

and chicot is literally -2x

cuz of stencil

0.5 x even

whatever

[cloud sinew]

also trading is +10 itself

it's +4 a round via erosion and it's +10

[left juniper]

True true

Honestly you might need to sell either Chicot or Stencil lol

[tacit quail]

literally

i dont want chicot

[left juniper]

+$10

[cloud sinew]

true!

[tacit quail]

ok so whats the play

sell both, if it copies trading card i might be goated

well no shit it would destroy trading card nvm

[left juniper]

This is the most fun option

[quartz ember]

ankh chicot ofc

[left juniper]

It wouldn't destroy it if it copied it though

you'd just lose the sell value if it misses

[tacit quail]

ok so if it copies stencil im goated

if it copies chicot its Funny

[quartz ember]

copied trading card does nothing

[tacit quail]

if it copies trading it does nothing ig

sell trading. and then do it

?

other 2 options also arent horrifying and i have slots

[left juniper]

Gambling on the Stencil makes the most sense for scoring

[tacit quail]

sell chicot and trading and pray?

[shell current]

If it copies chicot start stockpiling colas for voucher skip tag cause we going 39 baby!

[left juniper]

yep

[amber vigil]

Lowkey abandoned deck 4oak is my favourite type of build

[tacit quail]

Peak?

[left juniper]

Walkie Talkie on Abandoned is some stupid fun

[left juniper]

Good shit

[manic talon]

Best hit possible

[tacit quail]

nice

[cloud sinew]

copying stencil would be ideal

[cloud sinew]

double stencil is peak yes

[manic talon]

Abandoned 3oak chad idol

[tacit quail]

btw the deck

[left juniper]

mfw idol 🤢

[left juniper]

Bro has a cute window for his house

[shell current]

Painted 3oak steel mime

[tacit quail]

peak wheel

game HATES me

[manic talon]

Mf just lock in man

[amber vigil]

Oh yea, idol gets kinda consistent then right?

[manic talon]

Its still ass

But doable

[amber vigil]

True, fibonacci too

[manic talon]

The theory is, you can always draw your whole deck, basically, so you can just pump 3oak levels, and play idol chad with the card idol picked

[tacit quail]

i hope i can tank this score for 2 rounds

[last cradle]

just won my first game on my phone, had two pairs at level 19

[amber vigil]

With some score supplement and some good econ you could also delete a few ranks outright no?

[tacit quail]

eyah i can

[last cradle]

got 299k with one hand

[tacit quail]

sure

i wanted another stencil Mad

its ok still good

[manic talon]

That gets real risky, its better to turn a whole rank into one suit than destroying ranks, because if idol picks that rank and you dont have 3 cards of that rank you just die

[left juniper]

You've seen me play though. So you know I'm bad stop bullying me

[manic talon]

So you better get 2 hung men or hung men and strength

[amber vigil]

Thats why i said supplements, like an emerjency hustice

[amber vigil]

Justice

[manic talon]

I mean justice is always good

[cloud sinew]

me when I cherry pick out the 1 run every 500:

[amber vigil]

Hung men and fool

[manic talon]

Yea but its a one in a million build

[tacit quail]

blind dont know i got this card in my hand rn 🔥

[manic talon]

And we were talking about fav builds

Not good builds

[tacit quail]

ok at least it worked

double erosion double stencil was NOT what i thought id be playing today

[left juniper]

wtf a 2nd erosion lmao. Amazing

[tacit quail]

really weird setup

[manic talon]

Isnt a second erosion unironically worse than one erosion lmao

[tacit quail]

yeh but it was invis gamble

so

is what it is

[manic talon]

Oh, fair

You have to gamble

[tacit quail]

i coulda got a 3rd stencil

[amber vigil]

If it hit the stencil imagine

[tacit quail]

yeh

[manic talon]

X27

[tacit quail]

either way time for purple

i dont play out past ante 8 on these grindy ass runs

Run it back..............................

[north schooner]

Hmm, for some reason I decided The Mouth was the right time to unlock flush five

[vernal bay]

Chips only plasma (planets allowed)

[tacit quail]

it might be trading card run 2

nvm round 2 draws sucked

[north schooner]

At least I still pulled it off

[manic talon]

Never punished

[manic talon]

2 runners can even beat gold stake plasma

[shell current]

Bull and any one of runner, square, castle, blueprint, brainstorm can duo plasma deck without any mult

[tacit quail]

we might be peak

[vernal bay]

I mean yeah can it beat VV though?

That was the tense part of the run, the oh shit moment

My fault for not fucking buying the reroll voucher lmao

[manic talon]

It can beat 1.2 mil VV

[vernal bay]

Yeah I don't doubt it

Because I did just that

[manic talon]

Honestly probably could beat 2.4 mil VV too, iirc one of the runner got disabled on my crimson heart run

[errant brook]

Found antimatter. Question now is can I find ecto plus the right jokers to do this. I'm doubting it but we'll see

[shell current]

As a wise baron once said, draft the sixes

[slate lance]

Chat do i take obelisk here

If so im unsure what to exhange it for

The swashbucklers eavh give me +23, and the burglar + loyalty caed are keeping me alive atm

[shell current]

Over supernova every time

[acoustic kettle]

Supernova

[slate lance]

U sure?

Yea ok my hand types are all over the place 😭 makes sense

[shell current]

Nova will never be close to +23 doing obe

[acoustic kettle]

Obby burger is amazing

[uneven hinge]

Burger

[shell current]

Just gas up one hand type and switch off when it’s 8-10 higher than high card

[slate lance]

My only problem is

For loyalty card

I need to kind of stall

And my most played rn is high cards

[somber monolith]

The fabled loyalty card build

[north schooner]

8 ball just slept through a brainstorm and chad...

[acoustic kettle]

How close is the second one

[slate lance]

😭 honestly first time ive ever genuinely used this joker lol

[slate lance]

Two pair at 5 uses
High card at 8

[somber monolith]

😭 😭

[slate lance]

Im only at round 11

So ive not hqd too much time

[shell current]

Never mind lol

[slate lance]

What does burger mean

;-;

[acoustic kettle]

Burgeler

[shell current]

8 isn’t that many you still got time to play the 2pairs

[slate lance]

Like im gonna be fine for the next couple rounds where i might get a different x mult

[slate lance]

So i take obelisk and play two pairs as much as i can?

[shell current]

But obelisk on high card is like… I got trust issues

[slate lance]

Remembwr i have no discards so i gotta work with what i get

[errant brook]

Run ends at ante 24. Needed Turtle Bean to survive and once again couldn't find it. Would have had a honest chance if I lived

[shell current]

o7

[errant brook]

Didn't find Overstock+

but will have to see after if Turtle Bean evne existed

card 315 was bean

Without Overstock+ that means over 100 re-rolls

With Overstock+ still not enough $. Oh well

[amber vigil]

No context or deck fixing, which is better on average: Todd or Steven?

[shell current]

It kind of comes down to you either get out of the burglar and do the obelisk or you do burglar nova with that set up

[vernal bay]

Do I sell for wee?

[quartz ember]

nah

just take it

oh

lol

[vernal bay]

$1

[quartz ember]

yes probably sell

[shell current]

Or if you have a ton of time then it’s drop nova play burglar pairs and then sell burglar to do obe but the pants are a little sad

[quartz ember]

theres not much that counters wee

[vernal bay]

But what if I hit the goad?

Wee needs to be ~500 for no impact to be felt

[winter pike]

pair not two pair

[vernal bay]

But that's one boss blind out of 19

[winter pike]

unless you have a reason not to do pair

[slate lance]

Not rn

[winter pike]

what are your pair and two pair at?

[slate lance]

I think the runs a bit fucked 😭

[slate lance]

Two pair is at 13
High card at 16

[shell current]

Wait you’re goated

Now just sell burglar and play pairs

[winter pike]

and pair?

[slate lance]

3

[winter pike]

oh

wait

[shell current]

and the odd flush and 3oak or whatever

[slate lance]

But the thing is i cant sell burglar
Loyaltys rhe only reason im not dead rn

[winter pike]

playing pairs as your scoring hand with obelisk??

never heard of it

once in a lifetime

[slate lance]

I just got shortcut so i was rhinking
What if i do straights and pairs

[dire crater]

obelisk sucks

[slate lance]

Like sell swash here or smt

[dire crater]

Pants and obelisk?

idk

[slate lance]

Its double rental but i can always get out of econ hell qith my doubel tag

[slate lance]

Dude i took what was given ok

💔

[dire crater]

Rental and eternal in obelisk?

omg bro

[winter pike]

obelisk is good

[dire crater]

Never

[winter pike]

you just dont know how to play it

and neither do i

[quartz ember]

thats fine

[shell current]

Pants and obelisk is goated and burglar obelisk is goated but pants burglar obelisk is strange things afoot lol

[slate lance]

So what do u think shortcut here to maybe make it easier to play diff hands?

[winter pike]

i lose every obelisk run i do but i know its good

[dire crater]

in what situation youre gonna switch hands so many times to keep the xmult

[winter pike]

many

[dire crater]

thats why you lose using it

[quartz ember]

in the situation where you have obelisk lol

[winter pike]

i lose because i suck

not because obelisk sucks

[slate lance]

No dude its a good joker
Just requires very elaborate thinking and planning

[dire crater]

explain better

[shell current]

Shortcut over one of the swashes for sure

[winter pike]

you play a bunch of pairs with a +chips and +mult joker to survive

[quartz ember]

if you get obelisk you play around it cause 10x mult is good

[north schooner]

Todd

[winter pike]

then you stop around 14-16 pairs

[slate lance]

I'll go for it

[winter pike]

and start playing other hand types

[quartz ember]

you dont try to make obelisk work for your build, you build around obelisk

[dire crater]

why not just

errr i forgot the name

Water

All card counts joker

[winter pike]

❓

huh

[dire crater]

Errrrrrr

Puddle

Idk

[quartz ember]

why?

[shell current]

Splash doesn’t affect hand type

[dire crater]

yeah

Splash

[winter pike]

oh that one

[dire crater]

you can make many high card hands

and getting the

Chips

[winter pike]

you dont play high card with obelisk

[dire crater]

shut up justin

[winter pike]

you risk only drawing high card and resetting it

[slate lance]

Ok i tot through the small blind

Im at x2.6 right now with obelisk

[north schooner]

No, you don't have a scoring hand for obelisk, you play whatever you can that isn't your most common

[shell current]

Goatbelisk

[slate lance]

I wish i hadnt 💔

[north schooner]

Wrong

[slate lance]

I wasn't plannibg for obelisk at first so

I couldnt have known

I just played high cards to stall for loyalty

[dire crater]

right

Yorick vs burglar

fight to death

[winter pike]

it's a bit rough but i believe

[north schooner]

Burgular wins by siege tactics

[slate lance]

God i hope 😭

[north schooner]

At least you have pair as an emergency hand. Not as safe as hc, but decent

[slate lance]

Ok i think i lost...

Play only 1 hand type this round

Playing only pairs will make obelisk reset

[dire crater]

"Obelisk is good"

[slate lance]

Man sybau 😭

[dire crater]

yeah, i see that now

[shell current]

Can you get out of burglar and play straights?

[north schooner]

Pants and obelisk is great because you already have the flat mult for obby to xMult, and you can play whatever hands you want and win without planets

[slate lance]

I already played a pair in the boss

💔

[dire crater]

thanks obelisk-

[north schooner]

I thought you only had 3 pairs?

[dire crater]

If only we had some sort of

Joker

[slate lance]

Yea but i played them a lot

💔

I had burglar

[dire crater]

why

[slate lance]

Oh well

To get my x mult up

I couldnt have done anything else

With my setup

[north schooner]

but that was your emergency hand

[shell current]

o7

[slate lance]

If i played high card

I wouldnt hace gotten through

Cus it qas my number 1

[dire crater]

lel

[north schooner]

So it goes

[slate lance]

Oh well new run

[dire crater]

ghost deck

Play ghost deck

nothing like buying espectrals

[slate lance]

Dude no ones talking to u

Shut up

[vernal bay]

EZ PZ

[slate lance]

Im doing black deck

[north schooner]

Obby my beloved

[amber vigil]

Another day, another run i forget that stone cards disables blackboard

[dire crater]

Wow natierhu, thats not very nice, thats rude.... 😔

[slate lance]

Having legendaries up there is insane 💔

[amber vigil]

Im so goddamn mad

[slate lance]

My most played is hanging chad

[vernal bay]

Get rules lawyered lmao

[north schooner]

Indeed. This was a single run on a fresh profile and it was fucking insane

[shell current]

What da hell do you have like 1 seeded run on this profile

[north schooner]

and shop 1 pack was obelisk

[dire crater]

I think its more runs win

[north schooner]

Unseeded

[amber vigil]

“Um akshually, the condition for blackboard is not ‘no red cards’ but rather ‘only black cards’. As usual reading the card explains the card.” IM FUMING

[slate lance]

Rlly? 😭

Question guys does flower pot activate with wild cards

[amber vigil]

Pulled a run with 2 legendaries on abandoned deck. Lets play a silly little game of guessing which ones they were?😀

[amber vigil]

Yes

[slate lance]

So if i build a qild card build it could be good?

[north schooner]

Tribio, of course

[shell current]

You have to play at least 2 pair for flowerpot

[dire crater]

Idk

[north schooner]

Yes and no

[amber vigil]

B-b-b-bingo, you get 3 dabloons

[valid abyss]

yorick and trib

[turbid reef]

Why is spare trouser so good

[slate lance]

How?

[mortal nimbus]

wild cards can count as any one suit for the purposes of flower pot

[slate lance]

Oh 🥲

[dire crater]

Only works like 1 card

[slate lance]

Ok so flower pots just shit

[mortal nimbus]

situational

[dire crater]

Its actually good

[mortal nimbus]

not shit

[slate lance]

NO ONES TALKING TO U

[vernal bay]

Yeah lmao

It's the worst x mult in the game

[turbid reef]

It’s so bad

[slate lance]

Very situational then

[latent egret]

[dire crater]

Why you are so mean

Noelle is actually nice

[shell current]

Also debuffed wild cards don’t count as any suit for flowerpot (including their base suit)

[vernal bay]

Noelle is a wet cat

[dire crater]

deer

[turbid reef]

I can only see it working with splash. 2 joker slots for 3x mult

[shell current]

Which is definitely a bug

[slate lance]

Idols right there...

[dire crater]

Im trying to help and i just got yelled, what a country

[north schooner]

Each wild card counts for one suit you're missing, but you still need four cards minimum.

Also suit bosses will disable your Wild cards and they won't even count for the base suit for flowerpot. But a disabled (non-Wild) club still counts as a club. It's likely an oversight/bug, and it makes flowerpot the worst.

[mortal nimbus]

a bug leftover from when flower pot didn't work with any debuffed cards

[vernal bay]

Splash, smeared, and too many wild cards are the only way to make it work

[dire crater]

What about that tiki statue

[vernal bay]

Sorry, worst flat x mult

[latent egret]

if you're deck is a little fixed, you can get idol to work semi reliably

[slate lance]

Yuhh :3

[dire crater]

or blackboard

[vernal bay]

"A little"

[slate lance]

Same with flower pot tho...

[manic talon]

Its kinda like the monkey paw but for balatro

[vernal bay]

Blackboard is goated, play pairs

[winter pike]

blackboard is good

[slate lance]

Card sharp is probably my favorite flat x mult

[dire crater]

Again, wrong

[slate lance]

Well other than cavendish ofc

[dire crater]

ok

[winter pike]

youre just wrong what are you smoking

[manic talon]

Bboard is good wtf are you smoking

[vernal bay]

Stats for consistently winning your games

[latent egret]

except idol does not die to suit debuff bosses

[valid abyss]

looks inside

[manic talon]

Flower pot also doesnt die to suit debuff

[valid abyss]

that's 7 spacesc

[vernal bay]

I have like a 50% above winrate on this profile

[winter pike]

mfw idol hits a suit thats debuffed

[slate lance]

What if it debuff the suit of ur one card

[north schooner]

Blackboard is great what are you talking about

[shell current]

If you think blackboard is bad you must be… stoned

[latent egret]

we're talking about trash and trasher xmult jokers, idol just aint bottom 3 jokers

[winter pike]

idol is ass

[manic talon]

Idol is bottom 2

[vernal bay]

Blackboard is one of the most consistent flat x mults that isn't driver's liscensce or the duo

[dire crater]

if you have the deck full of spades or clubs yeah

i guess

[shell current]

Bloodstone: exists

[winter pike]

no? just play all your red cards in one hand

[north schooner]

Yeah, but that's only one suit boss, not all four

[vernal bay]

or holo or constellation

[dire crater]

So its only useful with pairs?

[manic talon]

Bloodstone is not worse than idol lets be real

[vernal bay]

Bloodstone is better that idol c'mon chat

[vernal bay]

I mean you can also fix your deck

[winter pike]

the humble oops

[vernal bay]

that's an option

[dire crater]

Synergy godly

[north schooner]

Bloodstone is worse than idol because it requires oops to be consistent

[shell current]

You can lead a bloodstone to hearts but you can’t make it hit.

You can reliably coerce a single card into being the rank and suit that idol hits

[turbid reef]

Bloodstone requires wayyyy less deck fixing than idol. Just dice and a few suns

[vernal bay]

Idol requires your entire fucking deck to be gone to be consistent

[turbid reef]

Bloodstone is okay

[vernal bay]

Lets be real

[winter pike]

you really cant do that fast enough on most runs

[latent egret]

"just another joker"

[vernal bay]

Ante 8 without a perkeo your deck is not going to be fixed that heavily

[manic talon]

Even if half your deck is one rank and suit, idol will still be a 1 in 2

[dire crater]

Or smeared joker

[turbid reef]

Just another joker compared to making your entire deck a single card

[north schooner]

Same goes for bloodstone. It's effectively a 1x joker, eventually

[turbid reef]

One requirement is much lower than the other

[shell current]

It’s still more than a 1x, which is bloodstone without oops

[vernal bay]

Bloodstone is on average a 3x mult anyways

Barely better than a glass card

[latent egret]

or having small enough deck that you can find that card reliably

[pale wolf]

apparently gros michel is not what artificial banana flavor tastes like

[vernal bay]

A glass polychrome card is better than bloodstone without oops

[manic talon]

Idol needs more than "just another joker" it needs the endless antes

[vernal bay]

[north schooner]

Heresy

[shell current]

On average doesn’t matter when One low roll can end your run

[random ice]

I see it differently, if you are desperate and have no other path to winning and the Bloodstone ceiling exceeds 1.2m, I sometimes fullskip to the end

[vernal bay]

Fix your deck better

[random ice]

It's not pretty

[north schooner]

Nah, just Vagabond, if you want to be pedantic

[vernal bay]

It is not that hard to play 2 flushes

[random ice]

But it has sometimes won me out runs when I've totally screwed myself

[manic talon]

What about not drawing your idol rank or idol not hitting your target rank, this is the same argument

[shell current]

You have control over that

[winter pike]

how

[manic talon]

You dont have control on what idol hits

[vernal bay]

Bloodstone is one of the quintessential bellcurve jokers lmao

[random ice]

Idol can actually be used in Abandoned with Merry Andy (as a shitty photo), but otherwise it's basically useless

[shell current]

Evaluating bloodstone as if you have oops is like evaluating idol as if your deck is only one rank and suit

[random ice]

I once had Merry Andy, Idol and a Death and made it win for me lmao. Real shit though

[dire crater]

Whos merry andy

[vernal bay]

Or that bugged Erratic deck

[random ice]

Lmao

[vernal bay]

-1 hand size +2 discards

[random ice]

Merry Andy so good

[winter pike]

if i dont have oops and i dont have a good deck for idol id rather take a bloodstone even if it's still shit

[vernal bay]

yeah I fw merry andy

[manic talon]

Having oops and bloodstone is easier than fixing your deck until you have 1 rank and suit

[random ice]

If you get Rebate and Merry Andy you basically have infinite money

[vernal bay]

I don't have her unlocked on this profile yet though lmao

[random ice]

I mean Bloodstone > Idol

[dire crater]

Yes

Finally a good opinion

[vernal bay]

Idol is literally f tier, bloodstone is okay

[dire crater]

idol sucks so bad

[manic talon]

Insane that this is even a debate

[random ice]

Mail In Debate

[vernal bay]

bad players be bad players

[vernal bay]

There's no debate about Mail in; our Econ god

[turbid reef]

Getting both bloodstone and dice is much easier than trying to fix a deck for idol to work.

And since bloodstone only needs dice to work. I’ve had plenty of runs where I did get both heartstone and dice even when I wasn’t looking for it. You have to do so much shit after getting an idol

[north schooner]

Bloodstone players be bloodstone players

[random ice]

I don't think I've lost a run where I get Rebate ante 1

[manic talon]

Genuinely one of the worst builds i ever made

[vernal bay]

Pain

Just

[dire crater]

148/150 and still thinking bloodstone is bad

[random ice]

I love that I'm not the only person to pull this bullshit

[vernal bay]

pain

[valid abyss]

what the Fuck

[north schooner]

It's garbo

[dire crater]

Hi garbo

[manic talon]

3oak idol chad turbo

[vernal bay]

what does /150 mean?

[random ice]

The Merry Andy Abandoned Idol meta

[shell current]

It’s literally just photochad

[dire crater]

Idk, people trying to fit

[random ice]

Photochad but worse

[turbid reef]

And you didn’t even deck fix? Can’t think of a more miserable build

[manic talon]

Photochad if it was dogshit

[random ice]

You don't need to with Merry Andy

[manic talon]

Deckfixing would actually make the build worse

[random ice]

It just finds the card

[winter pike]

bloodstone without oops is just ass, bloodstone with oops is ancient joker but two slots

[vernal bay]

2/3rds of the way there less gooooo

[dire crater]

a very lucky guy doesnt need deck fix, thats for the weak, let my guy alone

[manic talon]

You need to go through your whole deck, get the 3oak with the idol card, play it

[random ice]

The other fun less talked about thing with Idol is it can land on a card disabled by a boss

[shell current]

If photochad had a 1 in 2 chance to give 1.5x and card about a specific suit rather than face cards you’d be spitting

[random ice]

So EVEN IF YOU HAVE ALL THE RIGHT CONDITIONS

A boss can still end your run

You'd have to skip FOR it

Like Ancient

[vernal bay]

I mean that's one of the two scenarios where skipping a blind is okay

[random ice]

BUT WORSE

[north schooner]

number of gold stickers towards c++

[winter pike]

what are your two left?

[vernal bay]

How long did 148 take you?

[random ice]

• juggle tag ante 8
• Investment tag and coupon tag ante 1
• Negative Tag to get leaf insurance
• Perishable tags when you score > 400,000 and just need to get to the finish line
• Boss reroll on hard counters

• AJ obviously

[vernal bay]

Is that boccher???

[winter pike]

it is indeed

[vernal bay]

[pale wolf]

from my first gold sticker to my last took 69h of gameplay, 45 gold wins

[manic talon]

If this was bloodstone instead of idol the run would be way easier

[random ice]

Skips are useful, just hard to calculate when they're good

[north schooner]

Sixth sense and perkeo

[random ice]

Most of the time they're useless lmao

[north schooner]

And only because I kept skipping perkeo

[random ice]

Also Buffoon Pack Ante 2

[dire crater]

bloodstone sticking with only one color makes it actually better

[vernal bay]

I have 80 hours but so much of that is just background running while I chat in here

[dire crater]

I forgot the word of the colors thing

[manic talon]

Suit

[dire crater]

Im not a english guy

[vernal bay]

suit

[dire crater]

Yeah thanks

the suit

[random ice]

Disagree, makes it countered by a Boss Blind. AJ is strictly better for this reason even if probabilities weren't a factor

[north schooner]

Hard to say... maybe a month?

[stiff fjord]

the humble reroll tag

[winter pike]

it's one, still two joker slots, not one, two, not that hard to make a deck where you can quite consistently draw a flush of the suit (with wild cards), and three, not countered by the head

[dire crater]

You had more chances of hitting with bloodstone than finding that bossblind

also

1/4 vs 1/2?

[winter pike]

whats 1/4?

[random ice]

Wait are you really claiming Bloods is better then AJ?

[dire crater]

Ancient joker

[winter pike]

how

[random ice]

You know the odds aren't 1/4

[dire crater]

suits

[pale wolf]

one in 4 of what

lol

[dire crater]

oh yeah i forgot

[random ice]

That's not how draw works

[winter pike]

just draw the suit

[pale wolf]

You're not looking for a specific suit throughout the run so it's not a chance to fail

[manic talon]

AJ is just the same joker as bloodstone

[winter pike]

make wild cards

cut cards

[random ice]

AJ is very easy to deckfix for

[winter pike]

it becomes fairly easy to draw the right flush

[random ice]

Smaller deck better, add wilds

Get Handsize

Get Juggler

Get Troub

Get Drunkard

Get Dis.... YOU GET THE IDEA

[dire crater]

Bloodstone its still more easy to deck fix

[random ice]

No

[dire crater]

yes

[random ice]

Because you can literally just die

[shell current]

AJ is c-tier except on painted deck where it’s b-tier

[dire crater]

retrigger and done

[pale wolf]

lol wht

[winter pike]

sometimes you just die because bloodstone falls asleep

it can be good

but it's just inconsistent

[random ice]

Retriggers are harder to find than Handsize and Discards lmao

[pale wolf]

aj is prob like a low A tier

[random ice]

Drunkard and Juggler are common

[winter pike]

and inconsistency is an awful thing for a joker

[dire crater]

Really?

omg bro

[random ice]

Yes they are

[dire crater]

nooooooooo

Dont tell me

[steady tundra]

AJ is actually just bloodstone on checkered deck but the 1 in 2 chance comes from which suit a card is

[turbid reef]

Which is why loyalty card is the best joker in the game

[random ice]

Even ignoring all the Handsize tech to improve consistency, wilds literally exist

[north schooner]

The takes at this time of day...

[shell current]

AJ is idol on checkered deck because you can use tarot cards to control what the suits become

[dire crater]

The best joker is delayed retribution

[winter pike]

i wake up, go to the balatro server, and this is what greets me

[dire crater]

I got screamed and insulted 3 times already

[random ice]

Guys Bloodstone is good because I grabbed a Dusk once and it scored 80 gazillion on the small blind... Then I died to The Fish

[winter pike]

guys baron is good

i got naneinf with it

must be good, right???

[steady tundra]

The fish comes for us all eventually

[turbid reef]

Trueeeeee. Idol is also great I got e40 with it

[manic talon]

Baron best joker clearly

[random ice]

People don't take The Fish seriously enough as a threat

[dire crater]

it sucks

Just like idol

[random ice]

Get good

[waxen vine]

sell anything for the blueprint?

[dire crater]

And obelisk

[turbid reef]

Baron is objectively a joker

[random ice]

Obelisk good wdym

[dire crater]

The comedy thing

[steady tundra]

You’re good

[winter pike]

indeed

[dire crater]

Sell jock

[random ice]

Obelisk isn't a big brain joker, just spam Pairs and pivot to literally any other hand

[manic talon]

Its only a threat for a fake hand like straight

[dire crater]

Sell jock

[random ice]

It's really that simple

[turbid reef]

Too hard

[winter pike]

what hand are you playing and are you playing glass

[waxen vine]

flush five lucky red seal kings

no glass

[dire crater]

Its better a new hanging than a simple 1 retrigger

[stiff fjord]

i hate the fish

[steady tundra]

Oh wait true

I retract my ❌ reaction

[manic talon]

If you dont have glass a sock is just half a chad

[turbid reef]

I’ve only ever used obelisk one time in gold stake and tbf he was pretty good. But I never have a setup where I can pivot to another hand

[winter pike]

probably a photo or a chad and keep the sock for when you use glass

because you might not find it again

[steady tundra]

Dude I love Sock and Buskin so much

[winter pike]

could find as well dusk ig

[turbid reef]

If obelisk started with some xmult it would be easier to use it

[waxen vine]

just passed it

[north schooner]

half chad is now an official measurement

ha'chad for short

[steady tundra]

Dw I’m pretty sure you’re still good

That does suck a tiny bit tho

[random ice]

Sock and Pare is a whole deck retrigger, just don't get the Plont

Sock is one of those multi tool jokers that DOES IT ALL

Like Chad and Mime

[turbid reef]

Honestly I like the idea of loyalty card not being reworked at all but giving insane xmult. If you buff it enough its eventually gonna be good

[turbid reef]

7x mult or something stupid

[north schooner]

You don't pivot to another hand, you pivot to ALL THE OTHER HANDS whatever is available

[random ice]

Exactly, you just play ANY other hand when it shows up

[shell current]

Blatant dusk erasure

[random ice]

I'm aware of Dusk

[north schooner]

The rarer the better

[random ice]

It's good money

Real chads play Obe without even looking at their Hand Plays

And just know what they're doing

[steady tundra]

Dusk but instead of doing it’s shtick once it does it every hand

[north schooner]

because you already played 30 pairs

[steady tundra]

That’s parisock

Just don’t get the plant

[random ice]

I love the point with Obe it becomes Mathematically Impossible to reset it before Ante 8 ends

[north schooner]

pareidolia bottom 3 jokers

don't @ me

[valid abyss]

i can't do this anymore

i can't deny myself

i dislike obelisk

[shell current]

But then I have no room for my oops! And my business card and my chad and my 8-ball

[steady tundra]

I think we can leave 8 ball behind

It’s ok

[shell current]

But how do I make more lucky cards

[north schooner]

negative 8 ball can live

[steady tundra]

Vagabond

[north schooner]

Hallucination ofc

[manic talon]

Seltzer is retrigger for all cards for the whole run if you just lock in

[shell current]

Excellent, now I have room for lucky cat and dusk

[steady tundra]

You get more lucky cards with vagabond

[fading cobalt]

Balala time

[waxen vine]

[north schooner]

Did you get my message?

[fading cobalt]

NOOOOOOOOOOO

GIVE ME THE SEED

[fading cobalt]

Do you have the seed?

[turbid reef]

This run was fun. At ante 5 or 6 I got a perishable cavendish. Started skipping everything

[shell current]

But vagabond only procs once when I get the +$20

[north schooner]

probably not sorry

[steady tundra]

What the hell are you talking about

[fading cobalt]

[steady tundra]

Oh

[fading cobalt]

You thought of me to ping but not to save the seed

[turbid reef]

When lucky card procs

[fading cobalt]

I see how it is 💔

[steady tundra]

Wait I’m stupid

[pale wolf]

when you build a 5oak stack and then reduce your deck back to 4 cards per rank

[steady tundra]

Yeah no I reread the sentence and it clicked

[north schooner]

I forgot ppl play seeded runs

[steady tundra]

Then you waste money

[fading cobalt]

Well I dont often but that seed looks like sm fun

[north schooner]

If I find one, I'll let you know.

[steady tundra]

WAIT YOU STILL SUFFER THIS PROBLEM WITH 8BALL

[shell current]

Retcon voucher so I’m always fighting the ox lmao

[steady tundra]

YOU SUFFER IT WORSE

[north schooner]

Also I'm playing on a not-everything-unlocked profile, so it could be wildly different for real

[random ice]

Vagabond is really really good

Even excluding the whole, "it makes Golds and luckys which fix the loss in income"

The tarots themselves are worth more than the interest lost

[north schooner]

Vagabond makes idol ante 8 viable

usually

[pale wolf]

disagree

[random ice]

Also Vaga is one of those "buy and sell" jokers like Midas Mask Which permanently improve the deck

[random ice]

Perkeo is the only joker that can do this

[north schooner]

Nah

[random ice]

You need an ante 1 Perkeo and you need to find Immo in the shop

[north schooner]

Nah

[random ice]

Or grab a six sense