🕹・game-discussion

[languid pecan]

well shucks...

honestly i dont think i do lmao

[dark cairn]

i want someone to do a deep dive and make an entire documentary about what makes this game so satisfying

could use it in both game development and psychology classes maybe

[lunar zealot]

most of it is sound design

[dark cairn]

true but the visuals are amazing too

i especially love the background that appears for each of the bosses

[languid pecan]

yay

[languid pecan]

id say im lucky but tbf ive done a lot of rerolls

over 79 rerolls\

[hybrid tendon]

took an ecto already, do I all in on -hand size ?

[crystal field]

yea its good

one of the best

[languid pecan]

gg

[fading cobalt]

Blackboard the real mvp here

[crystal field]

blue deck ❤️

[lunar zealot]

if anything it's rebate

i even got hiero petro and still got a fuck ton of rebate money

[languid pecan]

blue deck is so easy

it does a little bit of everything

[gray plaza]

Lol, lmao even

[vocal quartz]

just beat gold stake for the first time

[lunar zealot]

quadruple rental

[heavy hare]

on EVERYONES soul

[gray plaza]

I'll just get econ lol

[crystal field]

its so good

[north schooner]

look what I picked up on the ante where it doesn't matter 😭😭😭

[languid pecan]

i sincerely hope youre just doing high card

[hybrid tendon]

yeh

[crystal field]

whenever im feeling like an angry little chud monster for being bad at harder decks i just play blue deck

[lunar zealot]

lol

[naive marten]

What a lineup for plasma

Yo the synergy!!!! That strengths gonna save the run!!!!

[gray plaza]

Wait hang on you're right it's stack up 😭

[hybrid tendon]

black deck never stops being my favourite it's crazy

[serene forge]

Hey Guys I Picked Up Hanging Chad And PhotoGraph (I Think This is Called Photo Chad Combo) But Then My Hanging Chad Died To Nothing? Is My Game Bugged Or Something ?

[vocal quartz]

this is just a tragedy 😔

do i take it and hope it’s not chico

*chicot

[vocal quartz]

😭😭 damn

that was so fast how

[naive marten]

I just found my 4th invis this run!

[vocal quartz]

i savescummed and saw it was yorick

i think i take yorick

[naive marten]

I love yorick

[vocal quartz]

it scales better i just need to find short term score

[serene forge]

2

scales faster than madness btw

madness is 1x an ante

yorick is ~1.3x on blue stake

[wintry ice]

i'm pretty sure any of them are just 10$ if you keep madness

[lunar zealot]

you know what scales faster than yorick and madness combined

obelisk

[serene forge]

it's ante 3 though

[wintry ice]

hit the road

[serene forge]

i think you die if you don't keep the madness

[wintry ice]

(it resets every round but shh)

[vocal quartz]

me too i just want my boy

[serene forge]

NEGATIVE 43 DOLLAR

[gray plaza]

Yeah

But hey I won

And I have a blue and purple seal

[hybrid tendon]

GIRLYPOP WHAT ?????

[serene forge]

tbf they picked up blueprint in ante 6

[naive marten]

I guess 4 rentals will do that to ya, you are bolder than I good sir

[serene forge]

its possible scoring was just good enough

[gray plaza]

Yeah

[gray plaza]

It was a bold move but man did it pay off

And boy was it fun

[naive marten]

I bet

[indigo elbow]

just a multiplier and I win this, right?

[naive marten]

Probably

Spare trousers is probably my favorite joker, idk why I just love it

[gray plaza]

It was fun while it lasted

[lunar zealot]

defo

[gray plaza]

The lowest money I've ever had

In that one challenge I would've had such a huge handsize

[naive marten]

Oh yeah I forgot about that challenge lol, I never thought about how it would interact with debt

It’d be cool if Balatro kept record in the stats of what jokers you used to first beat a deck in gold stake

[serene forge]

I hate Bloodstone

[wicked warren]

was gonna end this run after ante 8 boss but i feel obligated to keep playing now

[jagged valve]

Didn't play today

[twin lantern]

im in an oven

[jagged valve]

[tawny bough]

first nan e inf :3

[jagged valve]

Was it seed or graft?

[tawny bough]

what?

[crystal field]

the puppies after i adopted them

ok sorry

[tawny bough]

its not seed but whats graft

[jagged valve]

[twin lantern]

what

:<

[jagged valve]

Technique to grow plants

[crystal field]

i was just jk i love puppies kitties and bunnies

🫶

[tawny bough]

this is the secret 😭

[jagged valve]

How tf

[tawny bough]

lmao

[jagged valve]

Oh. Mod

[twin lantern]

wha t card is aat

[tawny bough]

yeah i used banner lmao

[jagged valve]

Juggler

[tawny bough]

okay well now i need to get my first naneing without banner

:D

[crystal field]

i wish irl money worked like balatro money

[jagged valve]

Fr

Imma do a late night first run

[tawny bough]

intelligence

[crystal field]

thank you

[tawny bough]

this is peak(i accidentally sold one :( )

[lunar zealot]

OH COME ON

jesus

[tawny bough]

I BEAT THE ROUND LMAO

[humble dune]

Shop 1 is blessing me today

Do I wraith or ankh

[tranquil cargo]

I'd ankh that

[humble dune]

Bars

I'll update yall on how the run goes

[tawny bough]

ankh easily

[humble dune]

Oh my lord

Maybe another ankh? 0_0

🤑🤑🤑

Yeah I'm gonna lose this run

[languid pecan]

and so the flint strikes again

[humble dune]

KFFM3IH4

[terse vale]

immo pls

pl

B

[humble dune]

I lost it ❤️‍🩹

[terse vale]

😭

[languid pecan]

im gonna be roughly 6-8k off

hey look 6-8k

[haughty widget]

i might like anaglyph

[wintry ice]

lol!

[wintry ice]

lol!

[wicked warren]

got to e45 with this

e22 or something without plasma

[proper turtle]

got so lucky with the early photo and credit card

what do I do here

1st purple stake less gooo

[final briar]

Down to 10 Jokers remaining in the C++ grind

Failed to adjust to Plasma deck for a while, then got a good setup with Wee Joker

Chad, Hack and Hiker also joined the party for a while before I had to sell them for stickerable Jokers

[tiny harbor]

[warped crown]

muscle memory went so hard i tried to buy baron on ancient deck

[hoary bronze]

Baron build on ancient deck when?

[north schooner]

Ah yes, the two genders

[warped crown]

after i get tiny hands

while trying to get that sht i accidentally made a straight flush build

[hoary bronze]

That's real

[north schooner]

Sell mime for sock, what's he doing anyway

[hoary bronze]

Photochad full house build on ancient deck

[proper turtle]

yeah got that since I didn't have many blue seals and steels anyway

[proper turtle]

died on ante 12

[sand lily]

I feel like my joker placement is wrong or something

[proper turtle]

fun run tho

[north schooner]

seems fine?

[sand lily]

It's giving me ×2 three times

But is ×3 twice better?

[hoary bronze]

The blueprint needs to copy the blueprint

[proper turtle]

2 x 2 x 2 =8

3x3 = 9

[sand lily]

I can't do math I'm a balatro player

[proper turtle]

try to get your blueprints negative

or even the pants

stencil will have more room them

oh yeah mb

[hoary bronze]

Sell both blueprints and go photochad

[proper turtle]

its more than x8

[sand lily]

This is abandoned deck brother

I stupidly took photo earlier and sold it

[hoary bronze]

Hasn't stopped me before

[sand lily]

Lol

[hoary bronze]

Photochad forever

[proper turtle]

photochad is just realy fun to use

[warped crown]

no one plays photo chad

[sand lily]

There was eternal paradoleia I was thinking of getting but I didn't have chad

[proper turtle]

you breeze through the early antes

[sand lily]

So I sold photo

[proper turtle]

I got a negative one on my last run lol

[proper turtle]

. this one

[hoary bronze]

Photochad is just the funniest, and more fun kind of runs you can make imo

They are so easy to set up

[proper turtle]

unlocked orange, so gold introduces rentals

[hoary bronze]

Imo, orange is worse than blue

Because blueprint/brainstorm is always perishable

Without fail

[warped crown]

hmmmmmmmmm

[hoary bronze]

I used to play alot of checkered deck runs, and it's the only way I would do straight flush builds

4 fingers and shortcut are so fun

[haughty widget]

do i copy photograph or chad here

[warped crown]

why do steel aces look so cleannnn

[warped crown]

chad cuz u have AJ

[hoary bronze]

I think photo gives more scoring than Chad would

[hoary bronze]

Oh yeah he does

Ancient is just invisible to me

[warped crown]

only reason i noticed is cuz i have one rn lol

[hoary bronze]

Every time I want to do a funny wild card build never to be seen

[wintry ice]

yeah you should balance scoring and retriggers

[hoary bronze]

Now that you say it

Why do they look better than the others?

[warped crown]

seeee

they look slick as fuck

[wintry ice]

3 triggers of 6x vs 5 triggers of 3x

[warped crown]

guys i need help

my face cards are being drawn face down

my run is finished

[wintry ice]

216 vs 243

[hoary bronze]

Dear God

I can't tell

Ummm

[hoary bronze]

Balatro player does math?

I didn't think that was possible

[warped crown]

the only time ill ever be able to actually use this lmao

[wintry ice]

this is a numbers game

[wintry ice]

first use of seance found

[wintry ice]

(it's still bad)

[hoary bronze]

Get nat neg shortcut 100%

[warped crown]

who's nat neg

[viral raft]

-> just plays Anaglyph because of Negatives
-> play high stakes
-> almost all the negative jokers are useless and/or have a terrible sticker
-> dies because skipped infront of boss blind

I hate Anaglyph idk

is so boring

[warped crown]

there's no fucking way my AJ is on clubs

[warped crown]

cuz ur not stacking the skips and having like 20 jokers

[hoary bronze]

When I play anaglyph I get decent skip luck

And it's ONLY on that deck

[wintry ice]

20 jokers that add 12 mult when i play a straight

[hoary bronze]

Every other time it's trash

[viral raft]

theres like 2 tags that anaglyph is useful lmao

is just bad

[wintry ice]

i mean yeah skips are usually bad outside of it

[hoary bronze]

Worlds best abstract

[tranquil cargo]

negative tag is useful for sticker farming, that's about it

[hoary bronze]

True

[slim sky]

Brand new here. Seems like a great game. Lots to learn it looks like. 👍

[viral raft]

and after a good % is just better to play a op deck like Yellow, Aband or Ghost

[warped crown]

i just played 2 stragith flushes back to back lol

[viral raft]

Negatives are cool until you realice that 90% of them are common and mostly useful

[hoary bronze]

I honestly love to play erratic deck

[viral raft]

nice, i hope you have fun in the game is really fun :D

[haughty widget]

tbf

[hoary bronze]

Call me crazy, but erratic deck is funny

[haughty widget]

I just started playing anaglyph

it could suck on higher stakes

[haughty widget]

oops all ten of spades

[viral raft]

is okay, is not bad at all but weird the deck display, i mostly just like to play with the default deck or aband

[hoary bronze]

I have that seed saved in my notes just to play it every once in a while lol

[warped crown]

should i do the funny thing (im gonna break my screen my deck will be 21 and not 20 cards

[viral raft]

i don't like erratic but is not awful tbh

[hoary bronze]

Do it

[viral raft]

is kinda underrated tbf

[warped crown]

i might actually be able to win tho

or

wait leme

[hoary bronze]

But funny

[warped crown]

leme count

[warped crown]

fair

yeah its not doable imma do the funny

1 card off from tiny hands

without trading card btw

[hoary bronze]

Listen to Christmas Jimbo
(How did Christmas correct to charisma???)

[hoary bronze]

I feel like erratic deck doesn't get the love it deserves

[bleak seal]

This is true

[viral raft]

is kinda annoying to get random pool of cards but tbh that shit doesn't even care when you play lowpoker hands

[bleak seal]

I've seen like 1 or 2 non perishable bp bs

[viral raft]

i hate when people just said that Erratic is good just because of the R SPAM strat

[bleak seal]

It's a easy path to 4oak it's so fun

[viral raft]

like dude i'm not bad at the game

[hoary bronze]

It's funny playing a five of a kind with 2s in anti 1

[viral raft]

i don't need to spam R to win

[viral raft]

5oak is kinda trash but yeah

i'd rather 4oak

[hoary bronze]

I get that

[bleak seal]

As a playstation player, I can't

[hoary bronze]

But I love funny

[bleak seal]

It's done me well at times

[hoary bronze]

Unless I'm doing a serious run on like ghost, I'm 100% fucking around

[viral raft]

5oak is just 4oak with +5 chips

[bleak seal]

4oak is better though most of the time

[viral raft]

like dude thats kinda useless

sometime it works when you're playing like mass retriggers

but in early antes and without build made is just trash

[bleak seal]

Well I mean, 5oak starts with 4 extra mult. If you need early scoring it's good

[hoary bronze]

Plus with erratic you just need 2 color change tarot and boom flush 5

Or flush house

[viral raft]

you're just activating a secret planet that could be actually useless in the run

[bleak seal]

I'm not a huge fan of flush house

[hoary bronze]

That's a future problem

[viral raft]

Base 5oak is good, the problem is the fact that you also unlock the secret planet

[bleak seal]

True true

[viral raft]

so you're just filling the pool with crap

[idle haven]

baron mime yeahhhhhhhhhhh

[bleak seal]

What deck should I play gang

[hoary bronze]

I will die on the hill of flush house not getting the respect it deserves

[viral raft]

Yellow

or Magic

[wicked warren]

one can never have too much blue

[hoary bronze]

Nebula

[bleak seal]

Yellow aight, I've been tryna get more yellow wins recently

[hoary bronze]

Never enough

[bleak seal]

my favorite deck dont @ me

[hoary bronze]

Fair

[viral raft]

the trick is just play like usual, not buying yo much stuff early, the interest of Yellow in early is big

[wicked warren]

anyone else almost at completionist+ but don’t want to gold stake black deck cause i can’t beat green stake

[viral raft]

so play as usual first ante 1 and 2

[warped crown]

this can work i just want smeared for straight flushes

[wicked warren]

black deck too hard

[viral raft]

and then you're rick

[bleak seal]

For sure

[lunar zealot]

HOLY FUCK I LOVE YOU 8 BALL

[hoary bronze]

Black deck is bashing your head against a wall repeatedly

[north schooner]

What do I sell here?

[viral raft]

you mean obelisk?

[bleak seal]

I think yellow was like the 3rd or 4th deck I gold staked

[lunar zealot]

NO SHOT DUDE

[hoary bronze]

8 BALL BEING USEFUL???

This isn't possible

[viral raft]

how many kind are in the deck?

8 ball isn't trash tbh

but kinda incosistent imo

[warped crown]

@hoary bronze I CAN DO IT

[viral raft]

still can works

[minor portal]

You cannot have the hand size and kings needed for that I don't believe you.

[bleak seal]

I got a polychrome banana on yellow today that didnt break until like ante 6 mouth that ruined me

[warped crown]

I CAN DO THE FACE CARD ANCIENT DECK BUILD

[hoary bronze]

I'm my time of playing balatro it's hit like 5 times

[hoary bronze]

YESSS

[viral raft]

nah Baron just sucks

[warped crown]

i got it

[bleak seal]

Yessshhh

[warped crown]

time to cook

[hoary bronze]

Photochad on ancient deck

[north schooner]

More than bloodstone though?

[hoary bronze]

Keep me posted

[fringe crest]

just me that doesnt want an update for balatro

[hoary bronze]

I want an update, but I don't want too much changed

[viral raft]

the point of Baron is having hand size and level up poker hands

[north schooner]

Nah I'm in that camp too

[hoary bronze]

Everything needs an update at some point

[bleak seal]

I would like one

[hoary bronze]

But I get it tbh

[viral raft]

are we dead ass? 😭

[fringe crest]

id rather a quality of life update than a full on game revamp

[hoary bronze]

It won't be either if I'm not mistaken, it's just additions

[north schooner]

thunk should take the money and run (retire to a quiet life)

[lunar zealot]

+48 fortune teller

x5.8 obelisk

[viral raft]

Balatro 100% needs more stuff

[lunar zealot]

what the fuck was this run

why was 8 ball mvp

[modest spade]

Hey I'll take the Blue Stake rework

[fringe crest]

oh he said that?

when

[modest spade]

-1 discard stinky

[viral raft]

Hi arach

[modest spade]

Hi Papu

[fringe crest]

no red seal

[exotic orchid]

Game is complete. It doesn't need anything. Anything we get is a bonus.

[hoary bronze]

In tweets I think he said that there will be more jokers but take it with a grain of salt this was a bit ago

[lunar zealot]

dude

holy shit

foil and polychrome were from wheel

like im so deadass

8 ball is so fucking clutch

what the fuck

[modest spade]

Agree

[lunar zealot]

i skipped vagabond this run because 8 ball was better

[fringe crest]

theres deff gonna be tweeks

[lunar zealot]

I HAD 14 8S LMAOOOOOO

[hoary bronze]

Wild cards are getting a buff

[viral raft]

true, but still it would be great buff/reworks to some stuff

[modest spade]

Obviously more content for my favorite game is always cool but even if Balala were to not gegt updated again I'd be fine with it

[hoary bronze]

That's all that's 100% confirmed

[fringe crest]

yeah prob js 2 instead of 1

[modest spade]

As it is the game is fully complete and infinitely replayable

[fringe crest]

i heard that

[north schooner]

The risk is pissing off half the fan base because they don't like the changes. Not worth it imo

[fringe crest]

ok time to worsen my mental state with black deck stake grinding!

[viral raft]

btw Arach i was making this Sprites 15x15 from items of Tboi, what's your opinion?

[modest spade]

Cold as fuck

[viral raft]

Blue stake and Matador

[viral raft]

Cold???

😭

[bleak seal]

Stencil start you love to see it. Beat a run with nothing but negative grimbo and stencil (and like an ante 7 bp)

[modest spade]

Cold as in cool

[viral raft]

ahh okok

nice

[fringe crest]

buy hermit?

[minor portal]

pay to win and money = power anti synergy

[dark cairn]

can someone tell triboulet to stop avoiding me so i can get completionist already

[minor portal]

ask it nicely

[modest spade]

What

[north schooner]

I'm playing 1, maybe 2, hearts at a time. I could certainly guarantee a single king in hand and beat that.

In the other hand the post-multiply 1.5x from baseball card kinda makes bloodstone worth it

[fringe crest]

i had to get like 80 souls for completionist

i had really bad luck

[dark cairn]

wtf

[hoary bronze]

Buy the family

[viral raft]

Buffon

[bleak seal]

I have crazy soul luck

[fringe crest]

good thinking

[modest spade]

That's because Baseball makes every uncommon joker good ❤️

[dark cairn]

theres no way it took you 80 soul cards to see all 5 legendaries

[north schooner]

Play gold stake and he will come

[dark cairn]

that would be like a 1/100m chance

[fringe crest]

but i dont need it to win next blind and ill get more profit if i buy and wait

[fringe crest]

not really

[dark cairn]

i have 5 decks done on gold stake already

[hoary bronze]

I will stand by baseball being underrated

[fringe crest]

but uhh

[viral raft]

so hermit to use it later

[bleak seal]

I've played maybe like 10-20 runs in the last few days, genuinely like 8 of them had a soul, 2 of them had 2. And I think 4 were canio

[north schooner]

That sounds about right to me, but it was perkeo holding out

[fringe crest]

there was a run where i got 4 souls

[hoary bronze]

I love uncommon jokers because they are just funny

[dark cairn]

(4/5)^80

[fringe crest]

i dont think thats correct

[modest spade]

Idk if it falls in underrated category I don't see people hating on Baseball

It's like perfectly rated I think

[hoary bronze]

I've seen a few baseball haters

[modest spade]

wtf...

[dark cairn]

baseball card is one of my favourites what

[fringe crest]

and if it was it would be even less likely due to multiple soul cards in a single run

[dark cairn]

it basically makes all your uncommons polychrome

and polychrome is goated

[modest spade]

I agree!

[hoary bronze]

The argument is "you have to build into trash uncommons" so idk what they are on

[modest spade]

I guess?

[dark cairn]

ah yes because jokers like constellation and hologram are soooo baaad

[modest spade]

Weirdass argument lmao

It's like people who hate on Cloud 9

[hoary bronze]

It's like arguing with a brick wall

[dark cairn]

cloud 9 + erratic deck = very funny

[hoary bronze]

YES

[dark cairn]

i had cloud 9 giving me 10 dollars per round from ante 1 on my gold stake erratic deck win

[modest spade]

Golden Joker > Cloud 9 is a real take that some people have

I don't get it

[north schooner]

Face-card brained

[viral raft]

literally the best Xmults are uncommons lmao

[hoary bronze]

"gold joker is a common and you don't need to build into trash 9s 🤓"

[dark cairn]

white stake players trying to idolmax/baronmax

[viral raft]

i blame face builds for the White stake mindset

[dark cairn]

i do want to do an unseeded naneinf one day

but im going for c+ first

[hoary bronze]

I feel like people who only do baron or idol aren't trying to actually have fun

[compact gazelle]

their logic is 10% "it costs $1 less" + another 10% "it's common instead of uncommon" + 80% "I WANNA MAKE MY 9S INTO FACE CARDS NOWWW"

[viral raft]

just luck and try to not lose your mind

[hoary bronze]

I've been trying to do that for a good bit

Horrible luck late game with the plant and no reroll voucher

[compact gazelle]

let the white stake warriors do their own thing honestly
they can hate a good joker and think baron is the best thing in the world for all i care

[dark cairn]

thats why i dont like going into endless much, its eithier just baron + mime or idol/triboulet + sock and buskin/hack + dusk
there's literally 0 variety

[hidden basalt]

New to balatro, what is best thing to do with ghost deck

[dark cairn]

because teh endless scaling is so brutal taht those are the only 2 ways to make it far into endless

[hoary bronze]

Have fun

[compact gazelle]

tip 1: hex a joker that isnt gonna disappear
that's about it

[hoary bronze]

Hex the bannan

[hidden basalt]

What spectral cards to buy?

[modest spade]

Get a good joker to polychrome it, also more Immolates and Blue Seals 😋

[hidden basalt]

Come on I’m not that stupid

[dark cairn]

you know whatd be funny

[hoary bronze]

Do it

[hidden basalt]

but ill buy dice if i had that :)

[dark cairn]

play ghost deck gold stake, get a joker stencil from first shop, hex it
next shop get an ankh

[hoary bronze]

Dice are my goat

[hoary bronze]

Happened to me once

I died to the flint

[dark cairn]

double stencil was the strat i used for orange stake abandoned deck iirc

[modest spade]

Get an Ancient Joker Hex it then Ankh it

ggs

[dark cairn]

lemme check my clips

[hoary bronze]

I will never forgive ancient joker

[dark cairn]

yep https://medal.tv/games/balatro/clips/lj0ShU9YPOC_Zbul-?invite=cr-MSxZbFksMzg1MjQ0MTcy&v=60

[hoary bronze]

Costed me my gold stake run

[modest spade]

I've had this start on black deck once

Guess who died ante 1 because they couldn't draw the corresponding flush

[tiny harbor]

didn't get a single blueprint

[terse vale]

you

[hoary bronze]

Gotta love that

[terse vale]

I think

[modest spade]

Yes!

Hi Eridan

[dark cairn]

i dont like ancient joker because i feel like the only way to get good use out of it is to play flushes
but because it can pick suits that you dont have you cant just build your deck into 1 suit, you have to keep all 4

[hidden basalt]

Joker stencil the goat, perkeo can make more joker stencil = become naneinf

[modest spade]

That's kinda the point yeah

[hoary bronze]

Better idea

[dark cairn]

and if you have all 4 suits and not a billion hand size/discards then it can be problematic

[modest spade]

When you have Ancient Joker you want to thin down your deck while keeping all 4 suits fairly even

[hoary bronze]

Naneinf with photochad

[hidden basalt]

How

[terse vale]

Hello aranea

[dark cairn]

i guess you could build into wild cards but like wild cards suck

[hidden basalt]

my best photochad was only 10 million

[north schooner]

I didn't realize I played a flush house until Ceres popped up 😂

[tiny harbor]

hopes of using invisible joker slowly decreasing

[modest spade]

You don't rely on wild cards with Ancient

You can throw in a few wild cards but not too many

[north schooner]

It's mostly about deleting cards proportionately

[dark cairn]

i think there should be a joker that specifically works with wild cards, like golden ticket, stone joker, glass joker, steel joker, etc

[hoary bronze]

Black stake, perkeo copies an ankh and ectoplasm until it's stupid high

[hidden basalt]

Eternal yoker

[hoary bronze]

Then with an eternal photo and chad

Sell everything else and copy

[hidden basalt]

More chad = better

[north schooner]

A few wild cards can help, but too many and you die to suit bosses

[hoary bronze]

Yes

[hidden basalt]

photograph is not as good as chad

[hoary bronze]

But you can't have photochad without photo

Photo is trash without retriggering

[north schooner]

There're a couple in that one mod

[dark cairn]

the one that starts with a c and ends with a d?

[north schooner]

Paperback?

[hoary bronze]

Welp I'm going to bed

[uncut matrix]

what an uninteresting 5 minute run that gave me all my jokers at the start and allowed me to fullskip

[hoary bronze]

Gn everyone have fun

[dark cairn]

i dont know many mods for this game

pretty much the only ones i know are cryptid mod and whatever qol mods drspectred uses in his vids

[floral osprey]

pokermon is a pretty fun one with some unique stuff

[dark cairn]

dw the challenges get a lot more... INTERESTING.

I still haven't fully recovered from doing jokerless

[floral osprey]

and cardsauce is made to synergize with cryptid surprisingly well

[uncut matrix]

i have 8 challenges left

[dark cairn]

baen

[dark cairn]

the final 3 challenges are the worst

[haughty widget]

using blueprint on chad instead of photo to farm luckycat ftw

[hidden basalt]

Yep so more chad = better

[north schooner]

paperback and the roffle one look like interesting additions

[fringe crest]

it was fun while it lasted

[floral osprey]

i would have combined it with the radioactive symbol, since that normally inverts colors, but it doesn't do that for this one for some reason

[fringe crest]

depends

[floral osprey]

like if you had gotten a nat negative scholar i'd post this

[vale wharf]

Chat, how exactly does certificate work?

Does it increase your full deck size?

[floral osprey]

when you start a round it shoves a random card with a random seal into your hand and it stays in your deck

[vale wharf]

I see

My deck size hasn't increased, though

[floral osprey]

it will fix itself, don't worry about it

[heady narwhal]

certificate + erosion synergy

[sonic nexus]

Fuck the walkie talkie

[vale wharf]

Heart stone has to be one of the worst jokers ever

Ancient joker is heart joker without the downside of luck

[tranquil cargo]

hearthstone has to be one of the worst jokers ever

[marsh goblet]

is this bait

yummy bait ig

[wintry ice]

you could sell it for a refund

what do you have in the shop slots

[vale wharf]

But then you'd just pick popcorn

[heady narwhal]

if it was gold stake i'd probably take the popcorn

[tranquil cargo]

it's a good xmult joker long term

[wintry ice]

popcorn is the safe option if they don't have generic +mult or chips in the shop

[tranquil cargo]

you just still need a +mult if you take it (not that popcorn won't also make you eventually need another one)

[vale wharf]

New strategy: ancient storm

It's kinda broken

[wintry ice]

whuh

[marsh goblet]

i think greed was the play

wouldn't have worked on gold stake but eh

[wintry ice]

welp

[burnt topaz]

What if everything retriggers?

[lunar zealot]

you have no scoring

[heady narwhal]

what if they sold the two fools to the campfire just now

[lunar zealot]

then uhhh uhhhh uhhhh uhhh

uhh ummm ermmm uhmmmm

[wintry ice]

freddy fasbear???

[tiny harbor]

blueprint-less seed

[vale wharf]

Satellite thinks they're part of the team

[tiny harbor]

lmao

waaaa

finally

do i sell a mime

or adn

[vale wharf]

Dna

For sure

Right?

[tiny harbor]

15 card deck

[vale wharf]

Oh 💀

[heady narwhal]

foil red card is s+ tier

baron is f tier

the choice is obvious

[vale wharf]

I messed up the brainstorm copying
FUCKKKKKKKK

[hidden basalt]

tbh its not new

[lunar zealot]

38 dollars is crazy

[vale wharf]

Is baseball card really good?

[hidden basalt]

Ive seen alot of players use that already so yea

[wintry ice]

i would sell a mime

[hidden basalt]

meh, baron and mime better

[wintry ice]

baron doesn't do much until ante 9

baseball is atleast pretty much unconditional and works with the game's most consistent jokers

[heady narwhal]

it's pretty nice. i personally prefer blackboard since not every setup can fit 3 uncommons but it's pretty easy and versatile in general

[hidden basalt]

Tf you mean ❌

I mean

Yea

[wintry ice]

baron is potential man

[heady narwhal]

mime is good but not baron

[wintry ice]

doesn't help for actually winning

[heady narwhal]

(for a8 gold stake)

[hidden basalt]

Ahh alr

i play white stake alot so different opinions bc of different aspects of the game

[wintry ice]

most setups that can affoard to use baron can also just burst down the blinds with 4oak

[heady narwhal]

for gold stake shoot the moon is just better almost all the time

and shoot the moon is like. not the best joker

it's my favorite joker though

[vale wharf]

Is baron the king counterpart for shoot the moon?

[hidden basalt]

Baron is more potential if you scale a fuck ton

done in white stake

a lot more potential

[wintry ice]

the bad part is accessing it

give me 10 kings, lvl 10 high card and red seals or i retire

[hidden basalt]

yes

thats why he is not viable in gold stake

At ALL

[humble gulch]

Three stickers out of the way

[heady narwhal]

spade flush build

[humble gulch]

Seven more left

[hidden basalt]

Nice deck

But no dice :(

[humble gulch]

I don't need it

Rough gem carried the build

🔥

[wicked warren]

i forgot to get steel in hand and went from like 5e37 to 6e36

actually wait no this isn’t my fault

[vale wharf]

Fire joker feels like cheating

[wicked warren]

cause i couldn’t get the dna

nvm this run was dying either way

[wicked warren]

i was wrong again it was e39

[supple veldt]

if you're scaling runner for pairs, when do you usually pivot?

[heady narwhal]

i don't usually pivot

i just play straights when i can

[humble gulch]

If you can make straights easily then you don't. Personally i think you should pivot when you find a good joker for pairs

[heady narwhal]

the thing about scaling +chips jokers is that they sort of make pivoting a non-issue

usually the reason you stick with one handtype is that you need the chips from planets

but with a scaling +chips joker you'll score a decent amount no matter what hand you play

[hidden basalt]

Yall how do i unlock shoot the moon

i kinda forgot

[wintry ice]

there's also not as much of a reason to keep runner if you're actively playing straights to score

the planet gives a ton of chips itself

[heady narwhal]

play every heart in your deck in a single round

[marsh goblet]

the todd is too powerful

[heady narwhal]

it's easiest to just do it on abandoned deck white stake first round

[wintry ice]

squished nebula deck

[hidden basalt]

so abandoned deck i go?

[hidden basalt]

Lol

I just saw this message after i replied

[wicked warren]

the todd doesn’t concern himself with amber acorn’s

[humble gulch]

I think it's in one run

[humble gulch]

Why

[hidden basalt]

That’d be very easy then but no

[humble gulch]

I did it by accident

[supple veldt]

uh does luchador do anything to the wall lol

[humble gulch]

No

I read Matador

[heady narwhal]

selling luchador on the needle should double the blind requirement

[humble gulch]

Okay

[hidden basalt]

This is usage of brainstorm mod trust

[humble gulch]

Mobile

[hidden basalt]

Cope 💔

[humble gulch]

Bro, what are you talking about, did you even noticed that To do list?

[humble gulch]

English is not my first language 🥀

[warped crown]

gotta love muscle memory-

ykw

im keeping it

ill find paredolia

im quitting this game fck this

[hidden basalt]

See there, photochad

Gotta love photochad

[warped crown]

check the pic i sent in #🎙・server-chat

[alpine basalt]

well now I was lowkey throwing this run for fun but now I gotta lock in

[ionic jasper]

finally beat gold stake!

[alpine basalt]

trib

fuck

welp all in it is

[signal frigate]

Amazing voucher

[alpine basalt]

we are already all in and the game pushes us even further into the hole

[barren wigeon]

now wraith

youre gonna get a blueprint

trust me

[alpine basalt]

it was a DL

but tbh still worth it to give it a shot (I rolled down to 0 beforehand)

[barren wigeon]

i did not know that those were in balatro

[alpine basalt]

was almost a banger in the rolldown with dusk but it was perishable sadly

[signal frigate]

Watch out for Plant

[barren wigeon]

OH DRIVERS LICENSE

[vale wharf]

How do y'all pronounce chicot?

[serene forge]

bro has green joker and is complaining that they cant use fucking photochad

[wintry ice]

chee cote

[tranquil cargo]

I swear this community is obsessed with photochad

[warped crown]

i got a perfect baron set up in ancient deck

[tranquil cargo]

it's like if slay the spire players thought dropkick infinite was ironclad's only viable build

[serene forge]

the perfect baron setup is to not use it because it fucking sucks

[alpine basalt]

I know

[serene forge]

to be fair that kind of how it is a lot of the time with rushdown infinite for watcher

[alpine basalt]

as of right now I have no counter to plant so I merely pray

[serene forge]

but that's just watcher being watcher lmao

[signal frigate]

Oh hey, Slay the Spire mentioned

If you really want an Infinite, just get corruption and branch.

[serene forge]

god i love dead branch

dead branch shivs

[signal frigate]

You get to play his entire goddamn pool of cards with that setup

[signal frigate]

I actually don't like that on Silent

On Ironclad, absolutely will take it

[alpine basalt]

NO PLANT WE ARE GOOD

uhhhh

I may have fumbled the bag potentially

[hidden basalt]

my deck is rock hard
-Roffle Lite

[heady narwhal]

polychrome bloker w

[alpine basalt]

wow I got lucky as shit with a lucky card saving my ass

[hidden basalt]

Called lucky card for a reason

[alpine basalt]

now I calculate if I can delete a trib to smuggle one extra joker through

[proper flame]

Diet Cola + Investment Tag = Win

And sure enough, yep.

[hidden basalt]

No photo ❌

[proper flame]

I saw photo but decided against it

Ive gotten too many wins with it

[hidden basalt]

Sees money
-> looks inside
-> no photo
-> disappointment

[alpine basalt]

wow A black hole actually just clutched up to allow me to sell a trib here

[hidden basalt]

What does black hole do i forgot

Oh yea

Levels up all hand type

[alpine basalt]

anddddd I pull a dusk anyways lmao

[unreal island]

together... we are... balatro

[alpine basalt]

I could smuggle a showman

[signal frigate]

Why are you talking like you're committing a crime?

[proper flame]

crazy that I always get the good seeds when im doing a for-fun red/white stakes run but never when im on higher stakes

[hidden basalt]

[alpine basalt]

I am the luckiest man alive

that is 8 stickers in one gold stake, including trib

actually massive

I also have some of the harder stickers done already

[lunar zealot]

I have returned

[lunar zealot]

please do not die

[alpine basalt]

I did not

[haughty widget]

incredibly based build btw

[alpine basalt]

I won the run and got 8 gold stickers

[plucky shuttle]

<@&1133519078540185692> ?

[alpine basalt]

apologies for the double ping there

[haughty widget]

nuked

[lunar zealot]

God i missed being able to use gifs

[austere escarp]

Me too

[jagged torrent]

back in my day we could use gifs 😔

[proper flame]

Thank you. It’s fun enough

[marsh dove]

current build is money printer

[upper pike]

should add pareidolia and midas mask

[marsh dove]

i alr have red seal gold kings

i sold photo for the free reroll guy tho i didnt need

[vale wharf]

What are the chances of finding a legendary on any random run?

[marsh dove]

i remember it being 1 in 6 or something

from when i calculated

[floral osprey]

pareidolia+midas mask+vampire=synergy

[marsh dove]

its such an ass synergy tho 🥀

so much setup for one scaling joker to scale pretty well

[proper turtle]

3 slots for some mid synergy

[tidal pumice]

I LOVE TV

[marsh goblet]

1 DOLLAR OFF BECAUSE I DIDN'T SEE THE STRAIGHT FLUSH NOOOOOOOO

im resetting im so mad

[heavy hare]

that looks like three dollars off idk

also elphelt spotted !!!!!

[marsh goblet]

hex sells for two

[marsh dove]

spectral is2

[heavy hare]

ahhh

i'm dumb nvm

[wintry river]

some kind of 15-minute city

oh my god bruh 😭

[slow iris]

credit card in voucher

[wintry river]

no, i couldn't have saved enough money to buy brainstorm if i hadn't used my hands to scale bus btw

[marsh dove]

simply win the round playing 0 hands no?

skill issue ngl

also was anyone else confused when they first started playing how retriggers worked with glass

[wintry river]

... no?

[lunar zealot]

no not really

[marsh dove]

i figured every retrigger was an extra 1/4

[marsh dove]

the 1/4 chance to break is written in the same space as the x2 and +chips, which both actually retriggers

[wintry river]

is that not how it works?

[marsh dove]

so i figured the chance to break would retrigger when i started

[marsh dove]

glad someone else was confused by this

[wintry river]

ok i haven't looked at the glass description in a while

[wintry river]

yeah it should say 1 in 4 chance to "destroy card when played" for rigor

[slow iris]

after played would be better i think

or after scored

[wintry river]

hmmmm

after scoring finishes?

cuz it's not "after scored", that'd imply every time it scores it has 1/4 chance to break

like it can break during the first retrigger of hanging chad e.g.

[vale wharf]

This run is going very well

[lunar zealot]

no it ain't

[marsh goblet]

there he is

hmm

i don't think there's anything i want from this

[hardy fable]

hey look

me

free win

[jagged torrent]

Hi John stuntgoat

[hardy fable]

sup😎

[coarse garnet]

Im coincidentally in a very similar spot

I want it so bad but realistically idk if there’s anything of value besides Chicot

What the hell can I even get rid of

[jagged torrent]

Stunt man mentioned?

[coarse garnet]

Stuntman vs soul part 2

[coarse garnet]

How high is your hologram?

[marsh goblet]

twas either 1.25x or 1.5x

but it was ghost deck

so by the end of the run it was 4x

[coarse garnet]

Oh nice. Figured it would’ve been worth a sack to try to spring for triboilet if it wasn’t high enough

[vale wharf]

Baron is fun

[vale shale]

Blowman.

[unreal iron]

blowman blows

[manic talon]

First ever good showman

[unreal iron]

using showman to keep getting fools and hanged men off of 6 charm skips so you can win against vv

and all you have is blackboard and erosion for scoring (+burger)

[proper flame]

Another day another hologram flush run

[vale wharf]

Any tips for nebula deck?

I don't like having just one consumable slot

[latent egret]

guess

[manic talon]

Nothing

[latent egret]

it’s always pairs

[manic talon]

It has no ranks or suit, it also disables blackboard

How else would it work

[bleak seal]

Hologram is great

My 2nd gold stake was with em

My 1st was with my dearly beloved Ancient Jonkler

[proper flame]

finished analglyph deck

white stake

[flint tapir]

w build for ranked?

[jovial plinth]

This is one of the worst setups ive made bro

Its actually kinda working

[flint tapir]

i hate how my build is winning too

found a bp so it did go down to 4x but now its 3x 4x

[unreal iron]

pairs pairs pairs pairs

[flint tapir]

instead of a basicly 25x i now have like a 64x + the 1.5s

(144x total after poly)

[jovial plinth]

Oh my god

Stupidest deck in the world

I might actually fucking win

Ive spent 2 days trying to beat blue stake

And this stupid deck might be how i win

[exotic silo]

Had a shop that had The Order, Saturn and Paint Brush voucher all at once, it was the winning strat

[icy hollow]

ok idk why i decided to ankh square instead of blackboard

might be a legendary throw

[jovial plinth]

Oh shit sock and buskin doesnt repeat baron

[icy hollow]

nvm. i got bailed out by lucky ass shop lmao

[jovial plinth]

FINALLY I BEAT BLUE STAKE

[vale shale]

Alright lads, 1 take gold stake run any deck. What we thinking bout.

[icy hollow]

yellow

[vale shale]

Alright alright.

[icy hollow]

ty shop for sparing me 🙏 on my no econ no scoring no good joker no skill run 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏

[sick sable]

Blackboard...

[icy hollow]

i couldve ankhed it

but i ankhed the square joker that was unscaled that i instantly sold anyways

✍️ 🔥 highest skill play of all time surely

[sick sable]

[hot leaf]

wait

stuntman is

actually good for plasma deck?

[mortal nimbus]

It’s generally pretty solid, and quite effective on plasma for a while

[floral mural]

stuntman is a strong effect with a major downside its generally good for high card and pair builds

[vale shale]

Hmmm. Idk 20 dollars and deckfix is 20 dollars and deckfix.

[icy hollow]

fuck it we ball

[haughty widget]

(Balatrodle spoilers)

[icy hollow]

ouija all in

true

[haughty widget]

quickest one

[wooden magnet]

life's good

[hot leaf]

huh

i thought stuntman would be kinda ass

[icy hollow]

stuntman is great

[trail hemlock]

Im crashing out

[ebon zephyr]

best luck i've ever had in a run holy crap

[wooden magnet]

DAMMIT

[wooden magnet]

could i borrow some of your luck

[hardy fable]

keyword thought

reality I'm the best yk

[ebon zephyr]

you can have it i got the dub

holy crap easiest win of my life

i love yorick

[manic talon]

I LOVE BLOODSTONE GRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH (the only Xmult i found other than observatory lmao)

[twin lantern]

dammn so clean run golden needle sometimes you just get lucky throwback x3.25, dagger +44 xd

[warped crown]

red and blue decks are so boring

[manic talon]

yorick finally useful, you just need another legendary

[ebon zephyr]

LMAOOOO

[warped crown]

i think im going for the 8 ball play

fck it lets limit test 8 ball

2 8 balls and four of a kind lolll

I DISCARDED

IM GONNA BREAK THIS SCREEN

got another one

[vale shale]

Alright good run.

[icy hollow]

hoooly

[empty seal]

playing mad world what do I sell for Chad

[icy hollow]

shouldve sold chicot to disable the boss... true 🗣️ 🔥 am i cooking

[vale shale]

Another win in the 1 take gold stake episode.

[empty seal]

im playing full houses which is why the duo and trio are there

[glass swallow]

how big is red card, what level is your full house??

[empty seal]

+12 red card

lvl 2 full house

[glass swallow]

hmmm, I'd think you can survive without red card??

[empty seal]

havent been too lucky with planet cards

[median spade]

posting in mourning of this absoloute unit of a run which is definitely about to die. o7

[glass swallow]

getting a chad would be insane economy for deckfixing to go into flush houses, and ceres scaling is very strong

[median spade]

(my hands and size are low bc of hiero and ecto)

[glass swallow]

how big is cat??

[empty seal]

thanks!

[median spade]

manekineko is currently at x6.25, not huge but i got her around ante 6-7 and i don't have oops

[glass swallow]

big chungus, as the youngins say

[median spade]

i almost exchanged bloodstone for photograph, but decided against it

[glass swallow]

you're welcome :3
when I did mad world, I ended up getting so much deckfixing I removed my entire deck I think x3

ante 11 or something, I removed the last card and died

[icy hollow]

😭

[median spade]

oh i think i got a mime that carried me through madworld

[icy hollow]

photo wouldve been way better

[median spade]

my logic was that bloodstone can mult cards later post-trib

[icy hollow]

what

[median spade]

and it can potentially get more triggers even with chad

i'm a gambling woman

[median spade]

SORRY I MEANT POST-LUCKY

i know post-trib won't make a dif

i meant post-20mult trigger

[icy hollow]

+20 mult is insignificant after the first card

[empty seal]

lmfao i went into the needle thinking "im scoring 50k with one hand every round thisll be piss easy" and the game proceeded to give me anything but a full house

[icy hollow]

photo wouldve been quite big

[median spade]

yeah i shouldve taken the photo tbh

[icy hollow]

but mainly you shouldve taken it out of princple

🗣️ 🔥 never take bloodstone

[median spade]

i'm a bloodstone-6s truther

if i survive this i'm gonna reroll for 6s until i'm out of cash

[icy hollow]

falser

🙏

[median spade]

i know it's a shit play

i'm just tryna be silly and fuck around at this point

but also.

if only

if only i had consulted the wisdom of my opps

(/gen, i need to get out of the strategies i'm used to playing)

[warped crown]

LMAOOO

[median spade]

manacle is so nice to you you'd think she's flirting

-1 hand size, but here, have the exact cards you need

[warped crown]

ong

[pale wolf]

whered the hermit come from

[neat ore]

High card is absolutely horrible in like 90% of situations

[pale wolf]

high card is slightly worse than pairs

[median spade]

i'd say 90% of NATURAL/RANDOM situations, high card CAN be powerful but you have to explicitly and intentionally build around it

and that type of building almost always requires a mime

the problem is it's so fucking hard to level up your base scoring on it

[pale wolf]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1379214645742796911/1441900445651173617/screen-20251122-161558.mp4?ex=692422af&is=6922d12f&hm=7dd7dac4b2e96bae9959d50f3622d9edee12553973b8f84c37ddaf225859cc63&

high card focused game

[median spade]

flush five/flush house scale brilliantly in terms of base planet levelling, but they die quickly if something goes wrong (boss blind, can't find the right joker, etc)

[neat ore]

Exactly that's the problem with high card for me the scaling absolutely sucks

[warped crown]

i just got my earliest flush five

[neat ore]

That's why I mostly just do either a two pair build or a three of a kind

[median spade]

connie is a unique case. she's honestly one of the most powerful jimbos in the game

[warped crown]

round 4

[median spade]

(constellation)

[pale wolf]

what

the biggest thing high card lacks over pairs are chips and 2 jokers

with a decent chunk of chips you can play much more nicely with high card and not worry about draws in the slightest

[median spade]

constellation was scaling on every pluto use

[pale wolf]

the const would work in any build

[glass swallow]

noooo

that sucks

[median spade]

it absolutely would, which is why i'm saying it carried the same as it would on any build, not just high card

[pale wolf]

it would have just been a bunch of pairs instead

[neat ore]

Eh it's just opinion tbh

[pale wolf]

I won very easily because of constellation, but it's not the reason I won, it came after the wee

[calm furnace]

balatronis a beautiful game

[median spade]

ahh, so you were doing a chips build around a specific rank rather than relying on connie

that makes way more sense tysm

[calm furnace]

historically the most useless double hack

also had 4 glass cards 3 broke first use and one lasted 2 rounds

[median spade]

6 joker slots. smh not living up to your nickname

[calm furnace]

I quit playing painted after getting 7 wins in a row

i can never top that

retire at top

[pale wolf]

i couldn't safely do pairs earlier in the run bc my econ was parking and i had eternal rtb

[calm furnace]

i would love abandoned deck way more if the early game didn't suck

tfw you cant skip for money tags on first ante

[median spade]

oh yeah, pairs vs high card imo is basically "slightly better scaling but you lose one potential held-in-hand card"

(steels/baron/shoot the moon/etc)

[calm furnace]

duo jolly and few things make pairs better

[median spade]

ohh actually true point

[pale wolf]

I'd thought that was the run where i had midas for a lil and so i wanted more golds, but that was the previous one

and i did end up playing pairs there

[median spade]

god. i think i ended up surviving the fragile challenge (two neg etrn 6s, entire deck glass) with pairs

baron also carried but i digress

[pale wolf]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1379214645742796911/1441458746373967882/screen-20251121-105211.mp4?ex=6923d8d2&is=69228752&hm=43a4411811eb72d97c9089c23100e7c91acb29e35b501fa810183ee52adc93e9&

[median spade]

skipping constellation when you could easily scale it past card sharp is a crime

[pale wolf]

on the final round??

[median spade]

oh hang on i'm too endlessbrained