🕹・game-discussion

[manic talon]

why are you using splash and bus

[calm furnace]

you can sell any joker there and be ok

i guess splash is there for the 50+ chip from being foil

[haughty widget]

keep showman for oops all bananas

[latent egret]

superposition is almost uselss

[haughty widget]

go full united fruit company

do you see banana man

[latent egret]

cause how you gonna play straights witha 58 card deck

[haughty widget]

actually tho @latent egret

is right

[cold remnant]

Lowk the useless ones are there for stickers

[manic talon]

splash and bus in the same build is just asking to crash

[cold remnant]

I just thought double banana was funny

[manic talon]

sticker dont matter until gold stake

[latent egret]

you dont have to get 150 stickers for each stake

if you get gold stake all the other ones are counted as done

[signal frigate]

Probably oops for long term value

I'm way too late

[cold remnant]

Bus is at +60

Only 4 face cards in deck

[haughty widget]

here he come w some for me

[calm furnace]

how is bus 60 at ante 7

[sonic nexus]

Beat the blue deck without playing flushes, straights, foaks, toaks

The trick is to use two pair

plus two pair jokers

[latent egret]

foak you too

[sonic nexus]

ACTIONABLE PUN DETECTED

MAXIMUM VOLTAGE

[north schooner]

Round 22, 6 hands per round

[latent egret]

that makes for 132

[north schooner]

Well obviously you're not going to play all of them, but 60 is easy

[cold remnant]

Wtf

[hardy fable]

one more

[cold remnant]

One of my bananas expired

[north schooner]

Crazy...

[latent egret]

happened to me on my first round ever with a cavendish

after michelle left in one round too

i was sad

[hardy fable]

my best run yet

[north schooner]

what are the odds??

1 in 500 because redundancy means lower mttf

[cold remnant]

Oh no

How do I play with only 2 discards

[latent egret]

always pairs

unless you get shortcut

[wooden magnet]

what should i sell for oops

[primal grotto]

won anaglyph gold stake by maximising money while renting a banana

[north schooner]

Greedy

[primal grotto]

what's fortune teller at?

[north schooner]

+50 chips 😁

[wooden magnet]

25

[quartz ember]

what hand you playing

[lunar zealot]

greedy

[wooden magnet]

i sold diamond

[wooden magnet]

take a guess

[quartz ember]

level 20 flush

[north schooner]

pairs?

[lunar zealot]

💔

[wooden magnet]

🥀

[north schooner]

oh white stake nm

[hardy fable]

3oak

[ripe iris]

obviously playing that club flush

[eternal estuary]

natty negative triboulet but I've already gotten rid of most queens and kings ;_;

[ripe iris]

15$ sell value

[latent egret]

that's why nat neg perkeo is better

[eternal estuary]

a paltry 12 evidently

temperance value

[ripe iris]

i swear negative was +5

maybe im just stupid

[quartz ember]

its +5 cost

[ripe iris]

i see

[quartz ember]

so sells for +2 or3

[ripe iris]

so +2 sell value

since rounded won

down

[eternal estuary]

Jokerless is shockingly fun when there's no pressure

[ripe iris]

yk its a peak game when u can remove 90% of the gameplay and it's still fun

[placid swift]

is this saveable

prob not

[latent egret]

nah

[placid swift]

tried to get a A 2 3 4 5 straight for superposition

[latent egret]

playing straights with no deckfixing will do that to ya

[placid swift]

yeah lmao

[latent egret]

playing a single specific straights not on abandoned will guarantee it

[calm furnace]

balatro is a simple game you play 3oak and you win

[lunar zealot]

did you even discard correctly

[placid swift]

i discarded anything that wasnt a 2?? fym correctly

i literally didnt get a single 2

[placid swift]

looks inside

[calm furnace]

shortcut***

[placid swift]

yeah i didnt get a shortcut neither

[latent egret]

if you got a 25 card deck you can play any straight you want

[quartz ember]

still dies with bus

[placid swift]

i dont do straight runs often

[calm furnace]

if you deck fixing for 25 cards you can deck fix for a better hand like flush five or any other hand

[calm furnace]

i only do straights if i see shortcut or if i get the 3x straight joker

[placid swift]

i just got order and superposition so i said "fuck it straight time)

[latent egret]

if you had a blue seal ad decent draws during the game it's reasonable to start to play straights ealy

[placid swift]

order

[calm furnace]

blue seals are harder to get value from with straights

[latent egret]

or any straight synergy joker

[calm furnace]

if you have blue seals just for flushes which are more reliable

or 3oak

or 4oak

[latent egret]

flushes scale like ass

[calm furnace]

reddit opinion

[placid swift]

biggest 3 oak glazer over here

(based honestly)

[latent egret]

you gotta be ragebaiting, flushes are worse than lots of other hands

they're easy

but you need a more specific setup for them to work

[calm furnace]

yeah then explain how i win gold rush without mult or chips with only flushes

[latent egret]

comparend to pairs, 3oa, straights...

[placid swift]

yeah flushes straight up upgrade slower than straights

[placid swift]

they get 10 chips and 3 mult no?

i dont remember

[latent egret]

15 and +2

[calm furnace]

15 chip and 2 mult starting at 35 and 4

[placid swift]

oh thx

[calm furnace]

which is enough to win gold stake without any mult or chip joker

xmult is enough

[latent egret]

which you defo don't find every game

[calm furnace]

you can beat gold stake with only madness and blue seals

[placid swift]

yeah flushes scale slowly but they are really easy to do

straight scales faster but is harder

[latent egret]

flushes are bad with blue seals too lol

[placid swift]

easy risk-reward

[calm furnace]

it doesnt matter if it scales slow, its a 5 hand card that is easy to repeat

[calm furnace]

absolutely not

[latent egret]

you are on crack

[placid swift]

thats what i said

[calm furnace]

flushes are the easiest 5 card hand to use blue seals with

[latent egret]

you need to play a 5 card hand multiple times

[calm furnace]

i dunno i get at worst 70% win ratio on gold just playing flushes

[latent egret]

how can you hold onto a card durting these multiple hands

[calm furnace]

if flushes are bad i wouldnt be winning

[placid swift]

a five card hand thats easy to get

[latent egret]

at least with straights you only play one hand with the seal in hands

[calm furnace]

and easy to deck fix with tarots

[placid swift]

yes

[latent egret]

sure but if you need to play 2 of them how are you gonna hold a blue seal without hand size

[calm furnace]

and what do you do when the blue seal is inside the straight itself?

[placid swift]

then get hand size lmao

[pale wolf]

beep

[latent egret]

i play it if i cant dig anymore, the better scaling allows me to do that from time to time

[placid swift]

fix a problem to make them more effective

[pale wolf]

play it anyways
unless you can afford to dig

[latent egret]

sure "just get blueprint and you'll win bro"

[calm furnace]

the better scaling (+1 mult btw) doesnt matter when you die because straights are ass

[latent egret]

2x as many chips

1.5x the mult

[pale wolf]

that means 3x scaling

[latent egret]

on painted deck too straights are insane

[placid swift]

not the same thing, many things give/take away hand size, avoid ones that take hand size

[calm furnace]

its borderline insanity to suggest that straights are even in the same conversation as flushes on gold stake

[unreal iron]

i might actually be goated chat

(balatrordle spoilers)

2 tries

[pale wolf]

unlabeled spoilers cool

[unreal iron]

i just labeled it whar

[latent egret]

too late

[placid swift]

yeah flushes are low risk and reward but straight are high risk and reward

[latent egret]

gotta label it before posting

[pale wolf]

yea 5 seconds after i nearly clicked the thing

😭

[calm furnace]

and thats exactly why flushes are better. pairs scale like ass but they win you gold stake

[unreal iron]

go ahead then

win

[buoyant fog]

LETS GO

[placid swift]

balatrordle?? might get on that, sounds fun

[latent egret]

but you can hold so many cards and play so many pairs

[calm furnace]

very fun

[latent egret]

flushes are 3 more cards for +1 mult

insane

[calm furnace]

same logic applies to flushes. you can leave 3 cards to be gold steel and blue

[placid swift]

when will this mf pissing race end i gotta finish my shit bruh

[latent egret]

3 vs 6 lol

and you can dig more

so you find them so much easier

[placid swift]

i agree, pairs are powerful

with the right jokers

[latent egret]

how can you argue for flushes instead of pairs is

[calm furnace]

pairs are the most powerful

but flushes aint that far behind

[eternal estuary]

I don't think flushes are a terrible hand or w/e but saying they're stronger than straights on gold stake seems crazy to me

[idle haven]

Hello my latro friends

[placid swift]

its pair, 2 pair and flush for me

[eternal estuary]

like in 1.0 sure but post buff?

[buoyant fog]

holy cow

[placid swift]

hi tenna

[pale wolf]

https://www.balatrodle.com/ spoilers in 2, i matched you

[latent egret]

lol im not gonna argue anymore

[placid swift]

finally

[placid swift]

ill see you guys later

[calm furnace]

no need to argue

[latent egret]

this does not matter tho

[calm furnace]

flushes are my most played hand

[calm furnace]

it matters when i win

mars and venus are above straights too

[latent egret]

it does not matter when everyone that ever played 500+ hours says that pairs are better than flushes by a very large margin

[pale wolf]

you literally just dont know how to play straights

[hardy fable]

concerning

[latent egret]

im arguing with a flush addict

[calm furnace]

i just rather play better hands lol

if im deck fixing im go for 4oak

[pale wolf]

this isn't logic, it's circular

[buoyant fog]

guys wtf is this run

[unreal iron]

yay

[latent egret]

im saving that cause for someone serious it's the worst take ive heard on this server

[hardy fable]

I'm serious when I say stuntman is the best

[manic talon]

I LOVE BLOODSTONE GRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH, finally back to 5+ streak holy shit idk what happened last week i was washed

[latent egret]

joker discussion is separate from hand discussion

but yeah

[calm furnace]

flushes are bad im i rite?

[hardy fable]

used to belive hc was the best when I was new smh

[pale wolf]

asking the person that only plays checkered

[calm furnace]

one of a king*

[manic talon]

i only play checkered deck, my views are very biased

[calm furnace]

he knows whats up

[latent egret]

got the 2nf most powerful flush specific joker lol

[manic talon]

she

[calm furnace]

oh its like the game has like 10 different jokers that synergize with flushes who would have guessed

[calm furnace]

my bad

[pale wolf]

when you're on checkered flushes are as common as pairs
that doesnt work on other decks where flushes are only slightly easier to draw than straights and get 1/3 the output

[latent egret]

how many bosses can end your run for flush vs straights

[calm furnace]

flushes are braindead to deck fix for

[pale wolf]

if you happen to find a bunch of suit tarots

[latent egret]

not sufficent to make them good

[pale wolf]

if not, what are you gonna do?

[manic talon]

honestly smeared joker kinda slept on

[pale wolf]

for castle perhaps

[latent egret]

sadly it's bad for bosses

[calm furnace]

bosses that affect flushes affect straights more

[latent egret]

same as wild cards

[pale wolf]

and rough gem

[floral mural]

if you find a lot of those why not go for flush house then

[latent egret]

lol 4 specific suit bosses

[pale wolf]

this too

[manic talon]

it still lets you play flushes, even if theyre all disabled, you can still play the disabled half as one suit

its not as bad as you might think

[calm furnace]

good luck making a straight with the Mark or The Fish and the House

[calm furnace]

these are ass ngl

[latent egret]

playing face cards is dum, you gotta play at worst J high straights

[pale wolf]

good luck making a straight with face cards
yea, you too?

why are we fixing for less likely straights

[latent egret]

man idek anymore

[calm furnace]

please tell me how do you deck fix so easily for straights on gold stake

[pale wolf]

you wanna cut the ends of the deck and build the middle

[calm furnace]

you talk as if hang man is guaranteed

[pale wolf]

strength A23

[hardy fable]

savescum savescum and savescum

still mark, straights are viable without face cards, it's optimal to do 6-j as it still has synergy with face cards, fish is play hand draw face down? with straight builds you prob only need 2 so it's fine and for the house,idk still pretty non threatening, just find suit changer and or enhancement to see what cards you have

[latent egret]

you're gonna end up playing straights on less that 10% of winnign runs, even if you try to force them

but flushes ?

[calm furnace]

i dont force any build ever

[floral mural]

you never force builds on gold stakes if you wanna win. you just use what the game gives you. if game gives you shortcut ,four fingers or a lot of deckfixing straights are really nice

[calm furnace]

yeah def. im always playing straights if i get shortcut

or the 3x straight joker

[latent egret]

if you're playing that many flushes you're forcing them

cause pairs are that much better

[floral mural]

4 of a kind is similar where it has a time and place

[calm furnace]

save scum on bosses?

[hardy fable]

play hand see cards save and quit

[calm furnace]

pairs are boring

[pale wolf]

the circumstances you go straights are potentially hand size increases, shortcut, getting an early saturn for scoring, the order, perhaps four fingers
the circumstances to go flushes are... ancient joker and arrowhead?

[latent egret]

mayebe, but don't argue that they're barely better than flushes when its just not true

[calm furnace]

pairs are the best hand

[calm furnace]

i abused pairs to C+ the game

[latent egret]

they are that far behind

soooooo far

straights are just a little bit less far behind

[floral mural]

flushes are overall worse than 2 pairs as well id say since 2 pairs could be used a lot even early on

[latent egret]

but still very situational

[pale wolf]

2pairs are underrated heavily

[calm furnace]

if they are that far behind why do i keep winning with flushes?

[calm furnace]

3oak underrated

everyone loves 2 pairs especially because of pants

[pale wolf]

whats your streak

[calm furnace]

7 win streak twice

[latent egret]

your experience does not matter when there are 50 other people with better stats than you telling you the same thing i am

if you're using your experience as an argument then listen to the experience of the many better than you

[pale wolf]

on checkered?

[hardy fable]

prob

[latent egret]

(and so much better than me)

[calm furnace]

7 on checkered, 7 on painted

[floral mural]

flushes arent unusable its just theyre almost always outclassed by other hands unless you have very specific jokers

[calm furnace]

would have broke my win streak with ghost deck if i didnt gamble on ankh

[floral mural]

i like 2 pair because theyre easy to make and work well to use on score effects if needed. also the planet is nice

[calm furnace]

the only hand i advise against is full house tbh

[floral mural]

the only hands i truly dont see a use in is like full house and 5oak and most of the time flush

5oak is honestly just outclassed by 4oak

like severely outclassed by 4oak and flush five

[calm furnace]

if you are deck fixing for 5oak might as well for flush five

its one one sun/world away

[latent egret]

checkered talk

[calm furnace]

applies to any deck lol.

[latent egret]

why would it be sun or world

[floral mural]

even then 4oak requires 1 less card to play and you can start leveling it from the start

[calm furnace]

if you already copying one card to have more than 5 of it might as well just use a suit change on it

[latent egret]

im just noticing how you mentioned only 2 of the 4 suit changing tarots

[calm furnace]

yeah 4oak can be levelled up from the start

[calm furnace]

ngl dont remember the name of clubs and diamonds suit change

i also have an issue with diamon cards personally

diamonds always kill my runs

[floral mural]

funny because diamonds are the good red suit

rough gem do be good

otherwise black suits are generally better

[calm furnace]

the number of times i discard for diamonds in first ante and never get the flush just made me hate diamonds

[floral mural]

that applies to every suit tho?

[calm furnace]

yeah its just personal

its luck after all

but few times i had 4 diamonds on first draw and never got the flush to one shot the small bind first ante

made me resent diamonds

[dense stag]

i just got a invis joker from judgement wtf

[calm furnace]

judgement ❤️

he will get double oops and glass cards trust

[dense stag]

i love double tags and mega buffon pack

id kill rocket for dna rn

[calm furnace]

whats canio at

[dense stag]

x3

[calm furnace]

can kill swash if the hand you are playing is levelled up

[dense stag]

yea

[calm furnace]

rocket generating money will make you find better jokers

[dense stag]

ok so i should bef ine

its at x5 now

[calm furnace]

x5*3 nothing stopping you now

[dense stag]

linkin park and balatro

living the life rn

and my ipads running windows 10

dude i played a lv 1 high card and scored a million lol

[calm furnace]

your score is being multiplied by 5 to the power of 3

[dense stag]

yea ik

[calm furnace]

this is not counting the 1.5 to the power of two

im not good at math

[dense stag]

neither am i

[calm furnace]

i just remembered i fumbled a 9x canio run yesterday

[dense stag]

i fumbled a run once bc i had dusk and didnt look properly and you can guess what happened next

[calm furnace]

dusk and acrobat runs do be like that

[dense stag]

it was a trib run

[abstract light]

pls new uppdate 😭 😭

[void trail]

DLC is coming

Set for early to mid 2026 I'm pretty sure

[calm furnace]

dlc?

[abstract light]

"2026" and ofc,the fucking december 😭

[void trail]

Free but yes

[dense stag]

rip run

i saved the seed dw

[abstract light]

a freaking time gaps

[calm furnace]

i hate delayed gratification

[dense stag]

i struggled on it for a while

rip

[void trail]

DLC was announced a while back and was delayed to 2026 because it's meant to be a major update

[dense stag]

im gonna do a casual anaglyph plasma sleeve run

a little break from grinding stakes

[calm furnace]

i just want blue stake changed asking for nothing more

matador change too

thunk also mentioned something about matador

i think

[void trail]

I wonder if we get any more decks in the DLC

[dense stag]

i just got hanging chad dna and death from a single shop

crazy

[calm furnace]

oh right one more thing

change black deck

-2 hand size + 1 joker slot, make it the opposite of painted deck

[pale wolf]

all of Balatro is dlc

[void trail]

I don't feel like black deck is that bad if you get a good first shop voucher

[calm furnace]

how do you even buy that voucher

with what money

[pale wolf]

you shouldn't buy the first voucher of black if you want to live

[void trail]

I just reroll for money to be fair on black deck so I get more money and hope I can beat first boss blind

[latent egret]

gold stake used to be -1 handsize and it was changed for a reason

it's very punishing

[dense stag]

it started with one shop, i didnt know why it didnt even matter how hard i tried

[latent egret]

mankes the manacle even more of a threat

[calm furnace]

it is punishing but so is -1 hands

[latent egret]

and stunt man is barely usable

[latent egret]

a little less than -2 handsize

the real problem in blue stake, makes the black deck so bad

if you had 3 discards it woul'nt be as unusable

[calm furnace]

i dunno i find black deck ass even on lower stakes

the +1 joker slot aint that useful in the first place

[ripe iris]

i think black deck is only really best below black stake

[calm furnace]

black is which stake?

[ripe iris]

eternals

[calm furnace]

oh yeah

[ripe iris]

past black stake you often have to take bad eternals to get by bc of bad econ and low hands

[calm furnace]

i mean the one good thing about black os that the extra joker slot allows you to tank one situational eternal

thats about it

[dense stag]

i should change my name back to plant hater

WAIT NO WTF MR BONES SAVED ME

[obsidian patrol]

the ever so trusty mr bones

[calm furnace]

never run photochad (or anything similar) without a glass card

[dense stag]

I LOVE YOU MR BONES

[obsidian patrol]

also yeah

get a glass card

[dense stag]

ok

i KNEW i saved that mr bones for some reason

[calm furnace]

the only run the plant can kill is meme baron

i swear people on that subreddit only play endless plasma white stake and nothing else

btw is it normal for balatro to overheat the pc?

[dense stag]

no

[calm furnace]

my macbook hits 70c when i run balatro

[dense stag]

is it a macbook air

[ripe iris]

only on cryptid

[lyric shore]

jeez

[calm furnace]

no pro

[dense stag]

that isnt normal then

[obsidian patrol]

some of yall need a better pc

[calm furnace]

yeah its weird, no game i ran on my macbook pushed it above 60

[lyric shore]

ok 70 is not that hot tho

[latent egret]

what does fortnite griefer even mean

[lyric shore]

not even hot at all

[dense stag]

yeah but for balatro? crazy

[calm furnace]

yeah its just weird that a 2d game does that

[dense stag]

@calm furnace what year was the macbook made?

[lyric shore]

maybe turn shadows off

[dense stag]

also is it intel or m1

[calm furnace]

disco elysium ran at 60c

[calm furnace]

m1 pro late 2021

[calm furnace]

i should try that

[dense stag]

oh

[obsidian patrol]

its tuff

[calm furnace]

mabye its because its running at the screen reslution

[latent egret]

reslution

funny typo

[void trail]

My phone runs the game completely fine for hours even when I mainly play on pc, seems weird if your pc struggles then

[calm furnace]

yeah same

my phone sometimes framedrops when its charging and im playing thats about it

[void trail]

Try minimizing the balatro window to see if it runs smoother then

To test

[buoyant fog]

NOOOOOOOO

[vale wharf]

What's the biggest hand size you can get "naturally"?

[vale wharf]

Fym no 😭

[latent egret]

painted deck =10

[buoyant fog]

check money

[latent egret]

+3 from troub and juggler

+5 from bean

+2 from vouchers

[vale wharf]

Sell summit and stencil

[latent egret]

so 20 it looks like

[vale wharf]

Heck, just sell stencil

[buoyant fog]

ah yes

the best play ever

[latent egret]

not counting dna/certificate card generation

[buoyant fog]

I'm just gonna sell stencil and hope for the best

[void trail]

You can get more with the draw 3 boss blind

Although not natural

[manic talon]

what counts as natural

does ankh count

[calm furnace]

yeah ima test that and test if i can run it at lower res

[calm furnace]

i think 15

[vale wharf]

Permanent additions
No joker or skip tags

[latent egret]

it's not your "true" hand size tho

[latent egret]

then not counting bean glitch

it's 12

[calm furnace]

2 vouchers and +1 hand size joker and the +2 handsize joker

[manic talon]

12, painted + 2 vouchers

[calm furnace]

oh without jokers?

[vale wharf]

What's da bean glitch

[calm furnace]

i dont know the bean glitch but i know there is a double chicot glitch

for hand size

[void trail]

True but allowed me to reach naneinf my first time because my setup was sub par

[calm furnace]

serpant burglar is one of the most reliable naneinfs

[manic talon]

crimson heart and turtle bean (any handsize related joker honestly), will give permanent handsize increase (or decrease if you do it wrong), if you exit the run and resume the run on specific conditions

[vale wharf]

I think that's intended

[manic talon]

its not

[latent egret]

maybe not for it to be permanent lol

[manic talon]

its one of the things that we know is not intended, directly from

[vale wharf]

Oh, I thought it was just the multiple chicot tech where the logic is that it reverses boss blind abilities

So if you have 2, it gives you back your hands twice for example

[ripe iris]

tbf otherwise chicot would be the only legendary where getting copies wouldnt help

so i think its nice to have

[shell dagger]

that might be intended, what’s definitely not intended is the fact that it’s permanent

oops someone already said that

[pale wolf]

every time I think of a cool change I realize it would make the game easier and then there would need to be compensation somewhere else

[ripe iris]

buff obelisk but then nerf seance so it evens out

[latent egret]

obelisk is the way

no need for buffs

it’s already perfect and he who doesn’t accept it will face great retaliation

[vale shale]

Blug primg

[ripe iris]

no just make it create a random planet

[vale shale]

Alright alright. Let's start over the win streak, 1 take gold stake any deck. What we thinking bout.

[ripe iris]

black

[vale shale]

Fortunately. Painted was first before black.

[ripe iris]

unfortunately

who doesnt like a good challenge

[vale shale]

And another fortunately. I just did black like 2 decks ago.

Or 3

Either way I lost with black deck.

[ripe iris]

you can never get enough of black deck

[vale shale]

Ok painted deck. Let's see.

[ripe iris]

i found it pretty fun

definitely had more fun than doing painted but maybe that was just burnout

[calm furnace]

omg painted deck mentioned

[calm furnace]

the only problem i have with painted

is that if you play it a lot in a row

and go back to the other decks

it feels weird

[dire crater]

How good is that deck

[latent egret]

that’s for any deck tbh

[calm furnace]

not really

+2 hand size feels way more different

[dire crater]

nah

Sounds like something good for baron players

Rate this deck

[calm furnace]

no chicot 0/10

[ripe iris]

8/10

funny but the photochad brings it down

[marsh dove]

please please please

trib :(

tragic

[hoary bronze]

Darn

[safe flower]

Nice.

Take the madness and hold money to pick up overstock I think?

[ripe iris]

yeah thats what id do

[calm furnace]

is it possible to lose this run?

[ripe iris]

if you suck maybe

hopefully you dont

[calm furnace]

campfire is insane

[violet bear]

Idt so

[calm furnace]

just need the banana to die

so i can sell rental jokers

[violet bear]

Until you find cavendish

[calm furnace]

yeah could probably sell buss or square if i find cav

[marsh dove]

fr\

couldve been perkeo :(

or like chicot or something that isnt trib

[hoary bronze]

Its always trib when doing Baron

[calm furnace]

the banana is not dying

found an ecto tho

the ecto hard carried

banana can stay

[vale shale]

Alright. Win streak number 1. I was surprised.

It disabled cavendish last hand I thought I lost

But that extra stone card caved in.

[calm furnace]

losing with campfire is a choice

[vale shale]

Space joker is my goat genuinely.

[deft panther]

What deck did you lose on

[vale shale]

Green

[deft panther]

Sorry

[vale shale]

It's fine

[deft panther]

My deck recommendation killed the streak

[calm furnace]

not the biggest fan of it but one time against the Arm mr spaceman noped the arm each hand

i think i have a clip of it somehwere

[deft panther]

Im a painted deck enjoyer

[calm furnace]

cultured

[ripe iris]

damn

level 51

[calm furnace]

thats basically like having groker/bus + two squares in one

holy

actually two and half squares

loved that challenge

the only challenge i didnt like was golden needle

[vale shale]

speaking of fragile, I forgor what I did to beat fragile.

[calm furnace]

it took me like 6 tries in a row

got lucky with photochad

and just kept discarding until i get 3oak

yeah

wait i think i had acrobat too

ye

or dusk

[fair flower]

Infinite spectral generator:
Canio
6th Sense
DNA
Blueprint
Pareidolia
Brainstorm (optional)

[pale wolf]

you got chad and brainstorm tho

[pale wolf]

and presumably kings

[calm furnace]

yeah this was my needle

[marsh dove]

yep

[marsh dove]

yep

[fervent wolf]

Straights are so fun to build into

[calm furnace]

yeah it was acrobat + the 3x for 3oak joker

[calm furnace]

straight flush >>>>

[fair flower]

Flush Five >>>>

[calm furnace]

is a better hand but straight flush runs are so fun

[fair flower]

Never tried one, but the early game sounds like absolute hell

[calm furnace]

word of advice never do it on any deck that is not checkered

or maybe erratic

[fervent wolf]

Had those too

[calm furnace]

but you basically level up saturn until you start pulling strushes

[void trail]

Not too bad to do on ancient actually

Also easy to change suits since small deck

[fair flower]

Maybe abandoned cause it's easier to make straights there

[calm furnace]

i wish wild cards were better

[calm furnace]

yeah could work too

actually would be easy there if you get lucky enough with the tarots

[marsh dove]

u mean abandoned or?

[calm furnace]

this was my last strush

both 4f and shortcut made it a joke

[fair flower]

What about the jokers? What's the most optimal build?

[slate lance]

You...

😡

[calm furnace]

hello my enemy

[latent egret]

either 4f or shortcut are almost mandatory

[calm furnace]

neptune scales so hard that you only need to find an xmult and you gucci

[slate lance]

People like you dont deserve a hello >:[

[void trail]

Yeah I said wrong

[fair flower]

I'm thinking lucky cat or hologram

Maybe vamp if I'm doing an ante 8 run

[calm furnace]

holo kinda doesnt play nice with straights

because you gonna dilute the deck to scale it

[fair flower]

Oh yeah fair enough

So I just never open standard packs?

[calm furnace]

you can but if you going for strush you wanna be cutting cards not adding cards

[latent egret]

a blue seal is a win

[calm furnace]

neptune is +4 and 40 chips which is wild

[latent egret]

but you need to get to perfect draws asap

[calm furnace]

once blue stake changes im gonna try to do more strushes

[slate lance]

Dna can still work

[calm furnace]

yeah

also tbf since neptune scales great you only need holo to be at like 2x or 2.5x which wouldnt dilute the deck a lot

[hot leaf]

i....won using straight flush

[fair flower]

Does straight flush have any endless potential?

[calm furnace]

depends on which ante you wanna reach

[fair flower]

:c

[calm furnace]

strush + bloodstone can get like ante 14

[vale shale]

gg

[calm furnace]

but good luck getting strush and bloodstone

and make it work

since they both need support jokers

but in theory you could

[faint birch]

hey can someone help me?

i got softlocked in an arcana pack from a skip

[calm furnace]

shortcut + bloodstone + hack + oops + blueprint

[fair flower]

Negative Chad also

[shell dagger]

Only use is for seance lol

[faint birch]

i was just about to do ante 8 boss blind so

i quit and was gonna stream for my friends when free

and now it's borked.

cant skip at all

[hot leaf]

Smeared Joker and Shortcut somehow made Straight Flush actually playable

[calm furnace]

yeah shortcut on checkered is enough

[slate lance]

Ive genuinely never had a straight flush build

Seems like the hardest hand to make a run around

[calm furnace]

try it its fun

[slate lance]

Maybe when i goldstake checkered

[calm furnace]

yeah especially with -1 discard

it needs a lot of things to go in your favor

for it to work

early shortcut or 4f

[faint birch]

am i just screwed

[fair flower]

Hunting for that deck will be a nightmare honestly, cause I need very specific cards to make it work

[slate lance]

Yeah, im guessing the 2 suits the same joker helps too

[calm furnace]

yeah this is why i prefer it on checkered since smeared joker basically makes your deck like checkered

shortcut and/or 4f are the most important ones

[vapid nest]

Most useless perkeo of my life

First in This save

[faint birch]

please help me

[fair flower]

Free econ at least

[calm furnace]

quit and restart and see if it works

[vapid nest]

Look at The ante

[slate lance]

Altho on checkered u might get different suit cards if ur opening standard packs for ur seals, or things like certificate

[vapid nest]

It was skipping The big blind

[fair flower]

Oh damn

[faint birch]

doesn't help at all

[calm furnace]

yeah but you only want a blue seal that you not gonna play

[fair flower]

Then it's ggs

[calm furnace]

or a purple seal to fix the deck

[slate lance]

Idk gold and red seals are useful too lol

[calm furnace]

if you have hanging chad yeah

[slate lance]

But ig on that build a blue would be most important

[vale shale]

+10 dollars

[calm furnace]

otherwise a gold card is as good

[faint birch]

ok. how do i edit my save to add a gold seal to some jokers cos i had a sure win?

so legendarily pissed at that

[slate lance]

U gotta just restart it

Replay it

Its the classic balatro ragebait

[fair flower]

I don't think you get the gold seal on jokers when using seeded runs

[fair flower]

There's probably a way to do it, but I sure as hell have no idea how

[slate lance]

I meant complete a different goldstake run

[void trail]

This might be a dumb question but do you still get gold seal if you buy a joker after beating ante 8 and finishing antes after that?

[faint birch]

no

[calm furnace]

after the boss?

no

[unreal iron]

new run in the r button

[faint birch]

also im not redoing that

[unreal iron]

just go next please

[void trail]

Okay thank you both for the answer

[faint birch]

damn it

im so mad

[vale wharf]

Negatives never fit my build 😭

[calm furnace]

why

wym

[queen kindle]

i hate black

[calm furnace]

you just play flush house

of kings and 5s

ez

[vale wharf]

Why would I play 5s

[calm furnace]

because of hack

im joking

[latent egret]

woaw

you can’t just say that

[queen kindle]

round 1 blueprint in the buffoon pack was a trick

[fair flower]

I swear LocalThunk made the black deck a thing only to rage bait people

[calm furnace]

fr

i dunno what i hate more

black or plasma

[fair flower]

Plasma is fun WDYM?

[calm furnace]

they are both anti fun

[queen kindle]

plasma lets you chipmaxx which i love

[calm furnace]

plasma on gold is not fun

[fair flower]

I still haven't tried gold stake yet, so I'll have to find out lol

[calm furnace]

oh good luck with that

plasma gets less fun the higher the stake

[pale wolf]

idk why i made this

[unreal iron]

thats just

acrobat

[unreal iron]

oh

[vale shale]

I knew something was wrong

[fair flower]

Mandela effect go crazy

[vale wharf]

Well, it COULD work

I just need a paraglider

[ionic shore]

God, I love The Hiker. What is the highest Extra Chips y'all managed to get on a card?

Yes, it's a texture mod

[pale wolf]

lmfao @ the resolution being different

[ionic shore]

?

[calm furnace]

i used hiker like once to get it a gold sticker on it

👼

[pale wolf]

it looks like a flash game now

just random png asset on top of pixel art

[pale wolf]

im not sure what my biggest single card hiker was

[unreal iron]

rayquaza would be fire if it was sprite art

[ionic shore]

The only textures are on the face cards, none of the jokers have a texture change (except BP/BS look like whatever they are coping, I forget the mod name)

[humble hound]

its why i haven't used any of the Pokemon texture mods sadly

[pale wolf]

yeye i just think it could be done a million times better with some effort

[humble hound]

i really want too but it's so jarring

[pale wolf]

its only 3/12 face cards after all

[plucky dagger]

Stress

[vale shale]

🪳

[plucky dagger]

The burglar in the shop honestly saved my run

[pale wolf]

does mega rayquaza even have proper spritework or would you have to steal it from a romhack

theyve gotta have sprites for menu at least?

[ionic shore]

It's the only texture mod I liked tbh. It could 100% be better, because it's one where you can change the suits to whatever you want (to a degree), so I have Clubs as Rayquaza, Hearts as Groudon, and Spades as Kyogre, but nothing to match them for Diamonds, so I just went with Alakazam 😭

[ionic shore]

I'm pretty sure it has to have an official sprite because it was in gen 6/gen 7

[humble hound]

its not pixel art tho

[vale wharf]

Square joker and spare trousers are the only things keeping two pair relevant. Pair is soooooo much better than two pair ong fr fr

[pale wolf]

somebody doesnt play painted/black/plasma

[vale shale]

truthnuke

[ionic shore]

Nevermind, just checked Pokemon DB and it does not have an official pixel sprite

[vale wharf]

Gen what?

[pale wolf]

the extra chip scaling and relative ease of drawing 2pair boosts it above pair on some decks imo

[vale shale]

gen 6 7

[humble hound]

omg

[ionic shore]

Well, the brain rot has arrived, I'm gonna get some food, peace

[humble hound]

[pale wolf]

and two pair isnt even a 2pair build joker ideally so thats not a huge factor

[vale wharf]

🫲 🫱
6 7

[jade arch]

How do I arrange my current jokers? (Don't mind summit and gluttonous joker I'm trying to get a golden sticker)

[pale wolf]

if you scale with a hand you'd rather keep the hand level low so you can scale more often throughout the game

[calm furnace]

right order

[pale wolf]

you copy aj like you already are

[humble hound]

clash of clans has such an unfortunate server tag abbreviation lmao

[ionic shore]

You could use the Calculator site to check optimal Joker placements :-)

[unreal iron]

no idea if this is official

[jade arch]

There's a site?

Can you send a link?

[ionic shore]

https://efhiii.github.io/balatro-calculator/

[humble hound]

theres no official pixel sprite, its fanwork

[ionic shore]

No

[pale wolf]

its faithful enough tho

maybe too small scale

[unreal iron]

true

[humble hound]

true

[unreal iron]

off of showdown tbf

so its not great

[pale wolf]

theres these boys

[lunar zealot]

Are we discussing the logistics of balatrayquaza

[white zodiac]

i’m interested on whatever this topic is about

[pale wolf]

discussing how this could be not awful better https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1156721486288126023/1442502647914565703/image.png?ex=6925aac7&is=69245947&hm=c43b8834425d42f813deab9bcd4620d514e5999fdf66824bc44785a6e1346f5a&

[white zodiac]

oh

so evil stuntman if it scaled artificially

[pale wolf]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1379214645742796911/1440127769500455043/screen-20251117-185149.mp4?ex=692598c0&is=69244740&hm=1f73c2d0e2dc78f2985439e922a760e58b3a5fce61f96f819546e857c9c0e7a8&
i had a few hiker card highlights at the start of this clip but none at 270

[vale wharf]

Huh?!

[pale wolf]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1379214645742796911/1440127769500455043/screen-20251117-185149.mp4?ex=692598c0&is=69244740&hm=1f73c2d0e2dc78f2985439e922a760e58b3a5fce61f96f819546e857c9c0e7a8&

[pale wolf]

yea idk why this happens with some cards

[humble hound]

bookmarking this for when I've beaten each deck type once while on white stake

[jagged valve]

It goes like

Oooo blueprint ooo copy effect of card to its left ooo

[white zodiac]

it’s just a bunch of ping pong noises

[pale wolf]

and a deepening rumble

[pale wolf]

noo thats just their hiker value, we just talking the sprite

[jagged valve]

The "song" is a roffle video

[white zodiac]

oh
boo

[pale wolf]

boutta start uploading "FIRST LISTEN! <joker name> by Balatro [REACTION]" to game the algorithm

[jagged valve]

If we could Square the value of extra chips we could get insane numbers...

And hiker would become better

[white zodiac]

is there a sorting algorithm but with sound files pulled from balatro

[jagged valve]

I'm trying to make a mod with that concept

[jagged cliff]

Finally got it, finally naneinf

[vale shale]

gg

[jagged valve]

Unseeded

[jagged cliff]

unseeded indeed

the nat neg parking helped a LOT

made so much money with it

[jagged valve]

Probably a lot of naneinf possibilities I missed in my time

Just cuz I'm really bad with decisions

[barren wigeon]

left?

[jagged cliff]

it happens, ive also missed some opportunities where I know I could've, and there was one really good run I accidentally fumbled, this was my best run Ive ever had, Perkeo ante 1 or 2, cant remember, and I stacked up on plutos asap, but I accidentally went too far and ended up dying at the ante 32 boss, couldnt score enough with just observatory and baron mime, missed the serpent 😔

[vale shale]

deck gold staked

[barren wigeon]

dead chat xd

[solid garden]

ded cat

[jagged torrent]

Truth nuke

[twin lantern]

interesting start o,o

gonna die round 3 anyway

[pale wolf]

c+ is completionist+, gold staking all 15 decks
c++ is gold stickering 150 jokers

[swift tundra]

Must say I don’t enjoy nebula deck very much

[paper night]

i should do bonescast today

[pale wolf]

sometimes youll see 120 and thats for C but it's not common

[tawdry burrow]

Is checkered easy to gold

[pale wolf]

fairly

[swift tundra]

Yes

[tawdry burrow]

Black deck sounds like fucking hell to gold stake

[jagged torrent]

Close enough welcome back challenge deck

[twin lantern]

heh yea

[jagged torrent]

It can be fun tho ^-^

[tawdry burrow]

Fifteen minute city returns

[swift tundra]

Eh black deck ain’t too bad once you’ve developed good habits, only took a couple hours the most recent time to go from white to gold completion

[tawdry burrow]

You're stuck at like 1 hand by ante 3

[swift tundra]

Black deck can rock and roll pretty well once you get over the early-mid game hurdle

Nebula deck though, why the hell is orange stake giving me so much trouble

[white zodiac]

u say that like it doesn’t require an intense learning curve

[twin lantern]

well this might clear after all xd

[white zodiac]

um

[clear mulch]

holy money farm

on ante 3

[twin lantern]

yea already

[clear mulch]

next is oops all 6s

[white zodiac]

not on plasma, greed with what u have while u can

[calm furnace]

im sponsored by bus today

live love bus

[paper night]

"bus is an app that can spawn a bus to your location at anytime and anywhere"

[clear mulch]

i love the bus

[calm furnace]

its groker but good

[night turret]

FINALLY

HES HOME

[calm furnace]

swash + gift card is such a nice combo

[white zodiac]

grimbo if it was ever so slightly better

[clear mulch]

waow!! +10 mult on the swashbuckler

[swift tundra]

Bus makes me happy every time I discard

[night turret]

I know, it’s helping a lot. I would not do it if it wasn’t plasma/white stake

[calm furnace]

nah shit scales good on all stakes

[plain mirage]

i could go for the triple +mult gaming which seems like the play (i have telescope on pairs)

[night turret]

40*

[white zodiac]

rtb my favorite ace bus stm tech of all time

[clear mulch]

i meant from the yorick

[night turret]

Oh my dumbass

Then yes

[jade arch]

Well, which one should I get rid of for the blueprint? I wanna do at least one gold sticker

[swift tundra]

Bus also gives good feelings when up against the plant and the mark

[jagged valve]

I'm stupid dumb useless omg wtf

[paper night]

heres a better idea
dont get the bp if u want to be greedy
(ok jokes aside, kill the mystic)

[heavy heron]

probably summons

but if you feel spicy

delete chad

and keep both stickers

and copy bloodstone and proceed to die 😍

[jade arch]

But the mystic is foil so extra chips, while lusty gives me +mult which isn't necessary. Am I making sense?

[heavy heron]

what’s your flush level?

[paper night]

does mystic gives u x1.5 for every chip

[heavy heron]

i does + mult before bloodstone hits

[heavy heron]

is a big, BIG increase to your score

compared to 50 chips

[jade arch]

barely a 2

[heavy heron]

oh…

this can be an issue

[calm furnace]

i love gift card so much

[heavy heron]

honestly? not the best situation to be in

but it does seem chips might be more important

maybe it is lusty that goes

but the thing is like

bloodstone does very little at level 2

if you copy it….

you’re really playing with luck here

[calm furnace]

kill mystic and pray for jupiters

[paper night]

the BIGGEST prob u have with bloodstone is not having oa6

[heavy heron]

i’m ngl with all those double tags

if you see an orbital skip that levels jupiter?

take it

[calm furnace]

hell yeah

thats like 6 levels no?

makes bloodstone worth it

[heavy heron]

yup

9 levels

[calm furnace]

2-3 triggers enough to score 100k i think

[jade arch]

This is my deck

[calm furnace]

yeah if you are lucky enough thats 260k

this without chad

you just need to level up flushes

[swift tundra]

“This is my deck. There are many like it, but this one is mine.”

[calm furnace]

shoot for a blue seal if possible

[paper night]

heres the prob
thats IF u are lucky
if u want to ACTUALLY reach that, get oa6 asap

[calm furnace]

i mean the average is enough

that if they level up flush otherwise bloodstone is useless even with oops

[jade arch]

Now, glass or polychrome lucky?

which one should go first?

[calm furnace]

keep the glass if possible

since you dont have oops

keep the glass as emergency for scoring

[jade arch]

polychrome ace it is

[calm furnace]

2nd flush play the glass

with enough luck you could two shot this without glass

even one shot

https://efhiii.github.io/balatro-calculator/?h=IABpEcBACAoACh0CgFAKAYAA4A

save this website

[magic stone]

i ❤️ scholar on plasma deck

[swift tundra]

Space joker has actually hit the last 4/6 hands, shocking

[calm furnace]

trust in the space man

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

there is a hidden mechanic that doubles the space joker probability if you play this song in the background

[swift tundra]

Aight let’s see

It’s blocked in my country 🤣 guess we losing this one

[calm furnace]

ah shit

[night turret]

Oh Yippe I won

I love how I got fucking chariot AFTER winning

12 kings and counting

[austere escarp]

w start invis and pants

we two pairing in this bih

[white zodiac]

spare spare pants

[obsidian patrol]

we 2 pairing then switching to high card

[calm furnace]

no double pants

and win

wtf

[white zodiac]

or just pairs until they find the unconditional chip source

[obsidian patrol]

you should treat it agnostically at a point

[austere escarp]

im gonna hold off on using the invis to scale the pants a bit more

[calm furnace]

either level up double pants and invest in planet cards in something else

or go full 2p mode

and level uranus

[calm furnace]

good play

[austere escarp]

two pairs are fire when you get the right stuff

not much more difficult than pairs

[night turret]

What should I sell to possibly get a good legendary joker

[calm furnace]

the one behind yorick

what hand are you playing

[obsidian patrol]

whats your buckler at

[austere escarp]

I love this game

[calm furnace]

at ante 9 that buckler must be FAT

[calm furnace]

yeah can triple uranus but be careful you will scale less

you can buy the planet and sit on it

[austere escarp]

once again im gonna hold the uranus

[night turret]

Like 120

[obsidian patrol]

dayum

[austere escarp]

after ante 2 ill pop the invis and uranus

[obsidian patrol]

yeah

[night turret]

I might just say bye bye to two pair

[obsidian patrol]

clever joker goes

[night turret]

Two pair and full houre

But it don’t matter

I’ll sell it anyway

[swift tundra]

Goddamn spaceman actually trying to get to Pluto right now, only ante 5

[austere escarp]

needle forced me to use it early sadge

[night turret]

Welp I got Fabio

[austere escarp]

Coulda probably held off on the planets but I mean

meh

[night turret]

Not exactly what I was looking for

I’ll take it

[unreal island]

Stupid deck, anyway gg

[proper turtle]

1st orange stake beaten, photchad is truly the staple of good runs

[austere escarp]

Ohhhkaayy

[night turret]

I mean

[austere escarp]

gg

[night turret]

Oh that’s so good

[night turret]

Wait why do i recognize who this is

[austere escarp]

idk its the legendere joker mod

[swift tundra]

It’s good until neither decide to show up in the shop for twelve runs, they take a holiday or somethin

[austere escarp]

is cute

[obsidian patrol]

hi

ermmm

[austere escarp]

I love early rental cartomancer

[obsidian patrol]

i dont feel like it

[austere escarp]

just a free tarot

Not gonna lie I couldnt tell you one

I know Jolly is the pair mult but thats not chips

[calm furnace]

eyo whats up with your yorick

[austere escarp]

.

[obsidian patrol]

please give me a wee

[austere escarp]

the one run where clever is goated

sticker AND a two pair build

[next aspen]

Trying to naninf. What if anything do I sell for DNA? Haven’t seen an ecto yet an this is the first dna I’ve seen all run

[rocky helm]

guys balala is a fun game but im kind of getting bored. what should i do?

[floral mural]

take a break

[rocky helm]

i actually did

i came back yesterday from a 2month break