🕹・game-discussion

[floral mural]

even with const

so this is a terruble idea still i think

so i got 2 of the 3 remaining legendaries with gold stickers from lucky back to back souls on ante 7 and 8

the downside however is now soul on gold stake is gurranteed trib

[quartz ember]

well, at least you know to not sell sock for the soul next time you see it I guess

[floral mural]

soul is now a glorified can you carry the deadweight button usually which is annoying

[vale shale]

I started the black deck run like 20 minutes ago.

[willow frost]

or you can just play full house face cards instead

[floral mural]

id rather carry trib than die to not drawing a full house

or plant

and pivoting for trib is much more commital than pivoting for yorick or canio

chicot and perkeo arent stuff you pivot to they just help any run in a way

[calm epoch]

im currently down to 17 cards lmao, with one of them blue seal

[floral mural]

tribs ceiling doesnt mean much when getting high value from trib requires so many risks and deck fixing

[lunar zealot]

"aw, man, this run is going well but i'm gonna lose to violet vessel"
the humble x3 mult brothers:

[floral mural]

goodbye vessel apparently

is the drivers license active?

[lunar zealot]

yes

[manic talon]

its just cavendish

[lunar zealot]

1 round remaining

i am so lucky and smart and hot

[floral mural]

still kinda sad i got every legendary gold sticker besides trib

so now soul isnt fun and whimsy

im gonna have soul landmines in my packs now

[acoustic kettle]

Can we not

Automod

Stickers

[pale wolf]

no lol

they are disruptive as fuck

[soft vapor]

What is going on

Bro wants to send a scam image so badly

[pale wolf]

theyre trying to send a sticker

and theyre disabled on the server

[soft vapor]

Which

[pale wolf]

idfk

[soft vapor]

Oh lmao

The only stickers you should care about is stake stickers fr

[unreal iron]

What a save!

[hardy walrus]

Hello, can someone help me with my run ?
Should i ecto here knowing that i already used two. And do i try to get an high score on the serpent or can it comeback later ?

[unreal iron]

you need antimatter not another ecto

[pale wolf]

plant?

[unreal iron]

another ecto kills you

[pale wolf]

you mean serpent?

[hardy walrus]

Ye sorry

[soft vapor]

Decisions decisions...

[pale wolf]

green stake loss dont matter i go spectral

[soft vapor]

Ok but

The voucha...

[pale wolf]

nah

it would be good but It's not worth the money

[soft vapor]

But think about it

Wait how much money does big blind give

[hardy walrus]

Do you know if it can come back later in the run ?

[soft vapor]

3?

[pale wolf]

idk look

[pale wolf]

only once youve seen/rolled past every other boss blind once from the start of the game

[soft vapor]

If I get a good joker in the buffoonery pack I might get the voucher

[pale wolf]

it shows every boss in a random order, and then restarts the list in a different order

You need retcon, so you can reroll to serpent every time, but you also need much more money, so it prob isnt happening

[acoustic kettle]

[pale wolf]

beep

is anyone there

I'm gonna improve my Wurst card art made a while ago

[calm epoch]

@rancid niche what can i do from this point other than cloning plutos for an obsevatory later on

[leaden canopy]

Finally. FINALLY unlocked Astronomer today!

[solid garden]

I'm trying to go for the ante 32 and don't score enough for an ante 24 finisher. I'm scoring e72 with full steel hand and I need e77. I have 2 blueprints and 2 brainstorms so I add 4 cards each time. is turtle bean the only way to beat the boss now?

[proper turtle]

certificate for fib?

[solid garden]

IT GOT EATEN BY A NAT NEG DAGGER FMLLLLL

[cyan rain]

goated run.

@pale wolf zeba brrrr rate my holoholo :3

[pale wolf]

how

[cyan rain]

idk from one holo to ten holo

[barren wigeon]

1

actually no

5

[hardy fable]

is This used correctly

[pale wolf]

wouldnt a holoholo be holographic hologram

only 63 cards in deck, you mustve had a lot of removal if the holo is big

[tacit oasis]

Damn what an insane setup this one. Use bp and certificate for 2 new cards per round, use bp and burnt joker to increase double pair 2 levels per round.

Ante 6 and two pairs is at level 35. See me fuck this seed up

[warped moth]

This was such a default run

Idk how else to describe it

A simple synergy, pair and observatory for xmult

And ig the blueprint buut that wasn't a nat negative

Nothing as crazy as my usual gold stake runs

Lol

[terse vale]

7!

[hardy fable]

woah! 5040 is big!

not even in the scale

[terse vale]

😭

[honest dawn]

I don't think anyone knows I exist.

[calm epoch]

i feel like my endless run gonna die soon

[hardy fable]

you're a 6

[hardy fable]

get factorialed

[calm epoch]

at ante21 i can only score e75 but the requirement is e51

[worn pewter]

are the joker cards passive?

[tranquil steppe]

That is indeed a great setup

[terse vale]

wdym

[honest dawn]

I don't think I'm that active.

Okay, maybe so.

Ha ha

[worn pewter]

like they add +4 to all your cards

or just at the end

[hardy fable]

also cool profile picture

[worn pewter]

when they total up everything

[terse vale]

at the end

[worn pewter]

Oh okay sweet

[terse vale]

the joker itself gives the effect

[honest dawn]

Seriously though, most people on this server know who stuntgoat is.

[hardy fable]

I took a long break for some time because of reasons but now I'm back

[latent egret]

when are you going to learn English man

im waiting on speaking to you as a human

[hot plank]

i just lost a run with double trib, blueprint, brainstorm, sock and buskin, and with 2 of them being negative. and i lost ante 12 because of the plant

[bleak hemlock]

damn this gay card is expensive

[latent egret]

not a robot translated human

[hot plank]

i hate the plant

[latent egret]

just get nat neg luchador bro

it can happen

[honest dawn]

I don't know

[latent egret]

and did on my first gold stake red deck run

[hot plank]

i was rerolling so much in that last shop yet i found nothing 😢

had like $400 and probably got 5 or so max temperances in that last shop

[tacit oasis]

Easiest win and the most fun I had in a while.

Seed: 1UYB91K1

[latent egret]

@hot plank

[tacit oasis]

Double pair at level 65 by ante 8 boss

[hot plank]

what ante did you get with that

[latent egret]

sadly chad fucked me

probably 14 or so

[hot plank]

i was on white stake anyway

[calm epoch]

im definitely not making it past ante 24 ig-

[silk cobalt]

Should I sell something for blueprint or keep the joker lineup as is?

[red thistle]

Hello chat.

[calm epoch]

if you are playing face cards (not the ones from pareidolia) then sell pareidolia and get bp

[static whale]

Jokerless challenge done

[latent egret]

it was ante 16 or 17 actually

[lunar zealot]

Bye parei

[lunar zealot]

Sell parei

[silk cobalt]

I got tens from Ouija Board earlier

[lunar zealot]

then smiley and scary can go soon as well

[latent egret]

man why you taking ouija

and use strength you should be good you have enough face cards

[silk cobalt]

That was early into the run XD

[calm epoch]

yo guess what happened to me earlier today

i found a seed with 3 souls before endless lmao

yorick first, perkeo second and chicot third

[silk cobalt]

Selling parei was the good move, tnx guys

[calm epoch]

yw

[silk cobalt]

My run ended at ante 11 lol

[calm epoch]

w

[warped moth]

GG second golden page on my mobile save :D

[calm epoch]

@rancid niche it seems like i could only reach ante 26 at the naneinf seed you gave me

4e96 / 3.8e98 at the small blind

[worn pewter]

is there a multiplayer version of this game

[hardy fable]

yes

[frank cape]

guys best deck for $400?

[calm epoch]

anaglyph

[frank cape]

any tips?

[calm epoch]

just play normally and stack double tags, when you see an investment (or the one that doubles money) at antes between 6-8, skip that round and bam, ez

[shell dagger]

assuming this is a standard 4 copy joker no legendary setup then you need to skip to the boss after ante 25

[rigid forge]

so satisfying. didnt even have an use for Obelisk lol

[worn pewter]

Is it apart of the game? Or is it a mod

[hardy fable]

mod

dk how to set it up tho

[rigid forge]

Multiplayer is a Mod, though it has its own community/discord

[worn pewter]

Oh alright

[worn pewter]

Yeah I see

[hardy fable]

#⚙・modding-general #1209506514763522108

[worn pewter]

Thank Yer

[proud tree]

Imagine if we had a irl booster packs just like pokemon and could pull a polychrome spade king with seals

[rigid forge]

It has a github, I'm not sure if I can send links here but look up "balatro multiplayer mod" on google, should link you to a github

[worn pewter]

Yeah I saw that one

Can’t find a discord community though

[red thistle]

Pirate tongue.

[gritty falcon]

tempting...

[worn pewter]

Lmao

[red thistle]

Skip.

None of the options are beneficial for you.

[gritty falcon]

yeah i will

[gritty falcon]

i mean triboulet

[rigid forge]

you already got 5 copies of triboulet with idol... so

[rigid forge]

sent you the link

[gritty falcon]

yeah

[lilac meteor]

But it will look cool

[magic tree]

Yorick carried this run (X9) and don't ask why I have an eternal square joker

[proper turtle]

how do you unlock all challenge decks? I only have like 5 unlocked

[magic tree]

by winning previous challenges

[vale shale]

why would we ask

squoker is amazing

[magic tree]

yeah but not for straights

[paper echo]

1x mult or double it and give it to the next person

[magic tree]

double

[paper echo]

ok

now i have the tribe 🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳

[magic tree]

gg

[rigid forge]

canio when I dont get hanged man:

[paper echo]

istg the game starts ragebaiting you when you get canio

you will never pull a hanged man again dawg

[rigid forge]

I can't complain man

i got a Canio to X21 mult on ante 8

will always cherish that moment

[paper echo]

wha

[rigid forge]

but I understand what you mean lol sometimes people are like PAREIDOLIA AND CANIO OMG and the issue isn't not having face cards, it's not having the means to destroy them

[proper turtle]

building it up and then pivoting is normal tho

not the best scaling chips tho in this case, yeah

[rigid forge]

do you guys push crappy builds into endless on gold stakes? I think most builds I could force to ante 11 but never beat ante 12, is there even a point lol. I usually only go for endless if I like my build and I got setup for idol/sock/dusk etc

[silk cobalt]

First time zodiac deck win 🔥

Using a flush build

[shell dagger]

i dont

[hardy fable]

I never play endless outside of trying to get naninf

[shell dagger]

only time i did endless gold stake was when i was specifically trying for endless from the start

[rigid forge]

some builds it kinda feels like you just have to though

you don't always get the perfect idol setup with poly+red seals

[obsidian patrol]

i dont play endless at all on gold stake

[glossy kettle]

Thanks to tarot merchant, shoot the moon, and bornana, i beat double or nothing and now i got it down to just these last 4 challenges for the achievement. Which one is the easiest so i can get it out of the way first

[shell dagger]

inflation

[hollow ledge]

I find it kinda silly how legendary jokers are technically free

[honest dawn]

Pareidolia + Faceless Joker

I don't know if it was translated correctly

[vale shale]

Well. Yeah. Realistically. Nobody ends a run that hasn't ended yet.

[honest dawn]

Jokerless or cruelty

🗣️

[brisk mason]

just got a lucky seed didnt know it existed 3 legendary jokers :)

YWIHIAE1, Camio, Yorick and Chico 😂

[honest dawn]

I would say, without joking, that the easiest one is Golden Needle out of the ones you have left.

[silk cobalt]

This lost to just ante 10 lol

[obsidian patrol]

well they are rare enough they dont need price tags

[honest dawn]

No, in Endless I only play in White Stake

In gold stake, my setup would die most of the time in ante 9/10

[brave goblet]

or at best, ante 13(?)

going from 1b to 100b be like

[honest dawn]

I once did a run of Trivoulet and Idol in gold stake

Should I send the photo?

[white zodiac]

should you

[serene forge]

I hate Bloodstone

[mild scroll]

[honest dawn]

Ante14

I remember why I created the account I'm playing now.

That's why it was my record haha

[serene forge]

NO

[gritty falcon]

rip, my best run by far

[brave goblet]

checked balatro reddit
a bunch of people doubting eternal hallucination

[verbal oak]

That was close

[paper echo]

eternal hallucination sounds

kinda shitty

[brave goblet]

Mods, off with his head

[paper echo]

WOAH

not cool dude

[white zodiac]

they're known to be neurotypical

[brave goblet]

Real

[paper echo]

i read reddit as edit and my brain immediate"y assumed u were talking about tiktok. kill me

[brave goblet]

Lmfao

[fringe crest]

good morning guys

[paper echo]

morning

[verbal oak]

How did I even manage to do that??

[paper echo]

why do you need two mail ins

[verbal oak]

Invis hit my rebate

[white zodiac]

two is better than one

[paper echo]

ah

[vagrant shore]

Am i tripping or is this not right?

[barren wigeon]

yo that joker lineup isn't right

but yeah thats a strush

[vagrant shore]

Im new to the game , still learning :)

[barren wigeon]

okay, one tip

almost never skip

unless theres an investment skip tag

do not skip

[soft vapor]

Shit or ass

[vagrant shore]

Thanks!

[barren wigeon]

fastest scaling xmult vs ass

[verbal oak]

I have had 3 obelisk runs in my life and they were all good

[barren wigeon]

well, usually the fastest scaling xmult

[white zodiac]

as expected

[alpine halo]

The only thing about obelisk is that it puts your xmult on a timer lmao

[verbal oak]

Once I got an obelisk when my most played hand was played 3 times and managed to grow it until every hand except strush and ff had been played 3 times

[barren wigeon]

there are some improbable situations that could lead to hologram or canio scaling faster

[verbal oak]

This was also a fullskip run

[white zodiac]

dkwym

[barren wigeon]

not really

i mean, yes

but it should last your whole run if you do it right

[white zodiac]

well I've tried worse things

[soft vapor]

Yeah but can obelisk nanein- oww someone punched me in the face

[barren wigeon]

well technically anything can naneinf

just take that joker and put it in a perkeo observatory build

boom

naneinf

[alpine halo]

Lmfao living on the edge

[barren wigeon]

i have to hold it in

im not gonna say it

[white zodiac]

what u need to shit or something

[barren wigeon]

s

s

[white zodiac]

[verbal oak]

Perkeo + ankh + ectoplasm = 500 obelisks and the big number

[barren wigeon]

six

seven?

[alpine halo]

Do the perkeo joker printing thing and use baseball card naneinf

[alpine halo]

Die

[soft vapor]

Ok im taking baron

[barren wigeon]

you can lose if you wanna

go right ahead

its your run not mine

[white zodiac]

3 times I've done this

2 of them being unintentional

[barren wigeon]

dj babyface is in da house

[brave stirrup]

Oh ..😅

[barren wigeon]

what does this mean

oh what

[brave stirrup]

Well I just started too and I low-key skip all the time

[barren wigeon]

uhh

dont

[brave stirrup]

Why!

[alpine halo]

No shops type shit

[proper turtle]

drop runner here? its at 210, straights are lvl5

[barren wigeon]

you see less shops, get less interest, less money, less scaling, for things that arent that worth it

[alpine halo]

I’d take the xmult over runner yeah

[barren wigeon]

sure

[alpine halo]

You just gotta really lock in on planets

[brave stirrup]

Idk sometimes I be getting hella jokers from ts

[barren wigeon]

are the jokers good

I highly doubt they are

[brave stirrup]

Good enough to keep 😭

[barren wigeon]

i highly doubt they are

[brave stirrup]

But I'll follow your words oh wise one

[vocal rose]

yeah and you can get more jokers from the shop

with the money you earn from the small and big blinds

that you'll get WITHOUT skipping

[barren wigeon]

antes

[vocal rose]

my fault

[white zodiac]

they call me bud cause I'm weiser

[torpid ibex]

hi! someone knows how to solve my problem? i can't see "MODS" butto in menu. i try win and mac 🙁

[brave stirrup]

The whole thing is that when you skip it'll give the next cards holographic and foil

[shell dagger]

minor typo spotted, mods annihilate this individual

[floral mural]

photo and pareidolia sticker with level 17 pair

[barren wigeon]

yeah you'll get a bad foil joker

nice

[vocal rose]

stop skipping

dont justify it

its ass

[barren wigeon]

foil delgrat

[shell dagger]

next time you skip a skip, peek the first joker that appears in the shop and decide if you would’ve picked it up without the edition

usually it doesn’t fit your build

[floral mural]

also another late michel that died in one round holy shit game stop it

[brave stirrup]

But it gave me a negative one 😢

[proper turtle]

those are the worst skips, I've learnt from my mistakes

[white zodiac]

now imagine that with rental/perishable/eternal stickers

[alpine halo]

What stake are you on?

[shell dagger]

was it useful to your build?

[brave stirrup]

Well not really

So I guess you right

[barren wigeon]

negative family in a pair build

[proper turtle]

easy, the order made it a lot easier

[brave stirrup]

What's a stake..?

[shell dagger]

the difficulty setting

[brave stirrup]

Ohh

It's the base difficulty!

I started playing like yesterday

[brave stirrup]

Chill off me son.

[vocal rose]

you poor soul

[white zodiac]

just have fun discovering stuff first

[pale wolf]

i was playing on wingdings whats a joker

[brave stirrup]

What's an ante

[shell dagger]

the thing consisting of the small blind, big blind and boss blind

[brave stirrup]

Ok I was joking

[white zodiac]

what's a joke

[brave stirrup]

BRO STOP

[pale wolf]

it bothers me still

[alpine halo]

Youre good man lmao

[pale wolf]

that rounds arent confined to their antes

[neat ore]

New deck idea! Combine all decks together into one :3

[alpine halo]

Stakes are the difficultly setting

[alpine halo]

What does this imply?

[shell dagger]

nah it’s fine like this imo

confining rounds to their antes hides information

[white zodiac]

wdym antes aren't divided by rounds of 3

[opal delta]

dang I really want this burnt joker but I dont really want to sell anything either ☹️

[proper turtle]

you are saying a single round for a whole ante?

round 1 covering all of ante 1?

[white zodiac]

youre a few antes too late to consider much scaling options

[shell dagger]

Rerolling for chariots is probably more helpful

[alpine halo]

So basically rounds and antes should be the exact same thing

[shell dagger]

Parking let’s u do that

[alpine halo]

That’s kinda redundant

[opal delta]

[alpine halo]

Stm is interesting can I see your deck?

[opal delta]

shoot the moon is starting to become my favorite common joker

[alpine halo]

Really

You have to really kit out your deck for queens though

On average youre gonna get 13/26 mult without like a hella fixed deck

[pale wolf]

you advance to the next round upon selecting the blind, but you advance to the next ante upon defeating a boss blind

so the round bleeds into the next ante for the shop phase

[white zodiac]

obv

[proper turtle]

its a very okaish joker to get early

[opal delta]

nah I havent been able to find any hanged men the entire time but im still winning

[floral mural]

god damn it

im tired of getting good scalers with rental ante 1

[proper turtle]

I'd take it

[alpine halo]

Oh that is really weird

[sinful plaza]

[floral mural]

i wanna take this itll carry me but it is rental so i will die anye 3 with no money

[alpine halo]

Is that like a logic bug?

[pale wolf]

no, it's just how the game is

[floral mural]

im seriously considering it but thats throwing right?

[shell dagger]

oh I misunderstood what u meant

[alpine halo]

That bothers me too

[floral mural]

spare trousers so good...

[white zodiac]

that's just how she is

[alpine halo]

Good job man

[half flint]

LEGIT

Golden Needle sucks more than Jokerless

SCREW THAT CHALLENGE

[floral mural]

so i did the bad decision and apparently its an oops all rentals early game anyways so uhh

good i did that?

[honest dawn]

Three more stickers

I had to sell Chicot

To get one more sticker because Chicot already had it with Gold Stake

[honest dawn]

Golden Needle is totally overrated for its difficulty

It's not that difficult.

I literally made myself a Jokerless in that challenge

Simply OneShot the hand

Instead of playing with small hands

[acoustic kettle]

I love using multiple hands in the golden needle

[half flint]

I got through with a bunch of straights

I only won tho because a late game Hit the Road came up

so I just skipped the last few antes and won

[brave stirrup]

Got a Polychrome card but I am too poor to afford it 🫩.

[brave stirrup]

Aura btw

Straights and flushes got aura.

[half flint]

I had a hologram egg early game

and that one joker that gives u tarots for straights with an Ace in it

That kept my economy stable throughout the run

[sinful plaza]

[brave stirrup]

Wait lemme write this method down

[half flint]

Yeah cuz any time a temperance came

which feels like a lot in Golden Needle

I just brought it back to a managable state

and then I just kept building my planets and Supernova

Supernova is actually busted

[brave stirrup]

Genuinely

[half flint]

Scary face and photograph helped keep my score up midrun

[shell dagger]

It’s good in normal games but it’s pretty bad in golden needle

[olive basin]

I agree and I believe the most difficult challenge is joker-less

[half flint]

That's where the hologram egg came in clutch!

Because I had that to fall off on while I built up my Supernova

And then I sold the egg last hand with a banana

and then just got anything I could in shop

[half flint]

Idk Jokerless is fine if you just like, get a lot of planets. Took me longer to beat Golden Needle.

Jokerless is hard as balls dont get me wrong

But deck fixing and planets are massive in that challenge

[honest dawn]

I literally beat Golden Needle on my first try

[olive basin]

Same

[honest dawn]

Cruelty is also much harder than Golden Needle

And for me, inflation is also more difficult.

[half flint]

Cruelty was piss easy lol

I beat that on my first try :p

[honest dawn]

Literally, if Golden Needle seems difficult for you because of the cost, then Cruelty is too, and even more so.

Lol

[half flint]

I got a baseball card, burglar, and some other uncommon I forgor 💀

[olive basin]

Lol I literally spammed high card and won cruelty first try

[half flint]

And just went through that in a breeze

[alpine halo]

What is this

A challenge yes

But what does it do

[olive basin]

It challenges you

Lol

[acoustic kettle]

When i play a challenge deck and it's challenging

[olive basin]

It like Balatro was cut down into different pieces each with something unique

[acoustic kettle]

[half flint]

Speaking of cheesing challenges tho

Did anyone else just

Ignore Obelisk and play a stone card run?

[white zodiac]

I'm not disrespectful no

[half flint]

LOL

[honest dawn]

In that challenge, the idea is to start by playing a pair and then switch to a high card.

[twin lantern]

hiiiii

im yumi

[honest dawn]

Hello

[proper turtle]

what do I remove here?

[half flint]

Your apendix.

[proper turtle]

fullhouse build

[olive basin]

That is exactly what I did

[honest dawn]

Acrobat

[twin lantern]

i will take acrobat

[alpine halo]

Literally what does golden needle do

[white zodiac]

i will take you to Palermo's

[half flint]

lemme screenshot

[olive basin]

Oh he wants the challenge itself

[honest dawn]

You have three more discards, but only one hand to play and by discarding they take one money from you (not a discarded card, but the discard itself).

[alpine halo]

Oh fuck that

[half flint]

Right?????????

😭😭

[honest dawn]

He simply makes one-shots with straights or four of a kind.

[olive basin]

It one dollar per discard

it not that bad

[honest dawn]

And the game would be won

[alpine halo]

Atleast the credit card Isnt eternal

[young kestrel]

This is a build

[honest dawn]

No

[young kestrel]

One of the builds of all time

[honest dawn]

You can sell the credit card

[half flint]

[honest dawn]

Yeah, I read that the letter of credit was eternal haha

[sinful plaza]

[alpine halo]

That is what I said yeah

[honest dawn]

So it can be sold

I'm feeling bad, haha

[alpine halo]

Eternal jimbo frying me

[sinful plaza]

face cards are being burnt

[lunar zealot]

wHAT THE FUCK?

[young kestrel]

We were desperate alright😭✌️

And it was funny

[olive basin]

Golden needle almost guarantees searching for good hands. Having the ability to discard 6 times is amazing

[alpine halo]

Also you have photochad so pretty much anything you put w/ it will work

[floral mural]

yo you can time travel how does localthunk nerf rebate in the updste

[alpine halo]

Hello 8x base mult

[half flint]

He's lonely.

[obsidian patrol]

You take what you get

[young kestrel]

Desperation and funny

[lunar zealot]

im literally in the past right now

[honest dawn]

Exact

That's why it's not that difficult

[sinful plaza]

which one

[shell dagger]

revate

[obsidian patrol]

Rebat

[young kestrel]

Pareidolia

[honest dawn]

Rebate

[sinful plaza]

I'm making straights but also discard

[desert quiver]

Relate

[white zodiac]

rimbate

[half flint]

Reprobate

[desert quiver]

Rosland

[honest dawn]

XD

[olive basin]

However if you’re discarding more than two or 3 times ante 1 and 2 then you will most likely survive, but be too poor to buy decent jokers

[sinful plaza]

OK I choose rehabilitate

[olive basin]

Money management and financial responsibility the basics of Balatro

[shell dagger]

I got ancient joker and acrobat in my golden needle win and it was a free run

[brave stirrup]

Nah, WE are gambling

[half flint]

I had an ancient joker in my first run of Golden Needle, but I got the 0 Discards boss blind on Ante 2 😭

[olive basin]

Listen hear me out, you need money to gamble

But you still need money to start

[pale wolf]

that would mean ur from the future

[opal delta]

I havent done a run with vagabond in a while, should I

[olive basin]

Because they know they’re in the past?

[acoustic kettle]

Gay homeless man

[pale wolf]

if you are in the past, then you had to have come from the future

unless you're talking in reference to something that's not yourself

[white zodiac]

did the past really happen

[sinful plaza]

what happens if you use blueprint on ceremonial dagger 💀

[pale wolf]

you copy its mult?

[sinful plaza]

[sinful plaza]

the ability though

[pale wolf]

blueprint doesnt copy detrimental effects or passive effects

[white zodiac]

top 10 questions

[shell dagger]

number 6 will SHOCK you

[sinful plaza]

blueprint destroys ceremonial dagger

[olive basin]

Blue print looks to right think about how that would work

And why it be bad for the game

[sinful plaza]

🗡️

🗣️ 🔫

[olive basin]

Should take absolutely no questions

[sinful plaza]

[sinful plaza]

what's the move

sell rebate ?

[olive basin]

I mean it depends if you’re playing with short cut

Honestly this line is questionable

[sinful plaza]

15 minute city

it won't let me sell shortcut or bus

[olive basin]

When I played this challenge I won with 4 jokers

[tranquil steppe]

Pray

[olive basin]

To the moon good with the voucher for increase interest cap but rebate is good if you have good deck building

It a matter of consistency and consideration based on your build

[sinful plaza]

the deck in question

[white zodiac]

rebate is good regardless of what your deck composition is

[olive basin]

Rebate

[sinful plaza]

I need less face cards

challenge deck comes with eternal bus joker and lots of face cards

[honest dawn]

I won with a pair at level 7, which is a bit low.

But since I had three xmultis, it made sense.

[sinful plaza]

golden banana

[soft vapor]

Petroglyph SAVE ME

Why isn't there a joker that makes face cards not considered face cards

[opal delta]

which one should I ankh

[soft vapor]

Rebate most likely

[white zodiac]

preferably neither

[uncut matrix]

how do you have 3 hand size

[opal delta]

immolate

[tranquil steppe]

Immolate

[soft vapor]

MR BONES MY GOAT

[uncut matrix]

oh true

[soft vapor]

SAVE ME

SAVE ME MR BONES

[tranquil steppe]

Mistaaaaaa bones!!!!

[tranquil steppe]

Mime out of those. You’re cooking with econ already

[stark karma]

I HAVE NINE JACKS NOOOOO

[lunar zealot]

If it makes you feel better

9 isn't enough anyway

[stark karma]

HOLD

[soft vapor]

There's a staaaaarrrmaaaaan

[stark karma]

shoot the moon angle

[obsidian patrol]

that rebate better be nat neg

[opal delta]

trying to find baron right now

interesting

[soft vapor]

Ecto hit it 😭

[opal delta]

should I do a shoot the moon build for now and find baron later

[obsidian patrol]

that is why you sell it before using ecto

[soft vapor]

I know it's not a naneinf run yet but it's good

I mean what yet

It's not a naneinf run

[soft vapor]

Yeah but I was quite broke at the time

[stark karma]

eh no point when you're not on plasma lol

it's still great for money

but yeah sad

[soft vapor]

Wow

Ectoplasm is too risky

[opal delta]

rebate or parking

[soft vapor]

Oh it's -2 hand size now

I almost forgot it scales

[obsidian patrol]

Rebate is probably still better

[opal delta]

okay

[soft vapor]

Wrath is just not really worth it

Even though I have debate

I mean rebate

Fuck

But wait

[opal delta]

wow future baron build

[soft vapor]

Can't I just activate it and then quit

To bypass

[opal delta]

I can either make the red seal gold or steel here

[white zodiac]

mmm nah

[opal delta]

maybe gold right now I think

[opal delta]

if I find the baron though

☹️

[soft vapor]

It was ancient joker lmao

Finally man

Finally some xmult

[white zodiac]

its not meant to be

[soft vapor]

Also how many ectos do you take in a naneinf run

[royal ore]

dude why is gluttonous joker always holographic

[hasty elbow]

If your new and trying to complete a run on white stake, any advice? Like what jokers to go for etc

[ashen schooner]

Skipped the first blind for polychrome

[latent egret]

dont skip

like ever

eventually you'll learn when you can (very rarely)

[ashen schooner]

Like I did 🙂

[latent egret]

it can work for white stake

[tranquil steppe]

Skipping on anaglyph is allowed

[ashen schooner]

After this run I felt that enhancing the cards are very important

[latent egret]

we could go into specifics but for a really new player its better to have to learn to skip later on, than have the bad habit of skipping too much

[opal delta]

wow

[latent egret]

also square joker is great

[hasty elbow]

havent skipped before the blind I get messes me up most of the time

[opal delta]

yeah I have no idea what to sell here please help

[tranquil steppe]

New players will learn on their own what works best for them. In general, yea skipping a lot is bad. Skips have their place

[ashen schooner]

Damn!! The money

[latent egret]

probably you dont need to get it and will just win anyways

you need to get more steel

and less cards in the deck

[tranquil steppe]

Kill rebate

Or booster pack boi. But probs rebate. You have tons of cheddar

[ashen schooner]

How to decide which card to enhance ?

[latent egret]

card enhacements are not really reliable to score

because you dont know if you will draw them

[opal delta]

I grabbed some red steel jacks, trying to find a strength for it right now

[latent egret]

its better to find jokers that score consistently

like square or green joker

[tranquil steppe]

Any red steel card is nice

[patent prairie]

fix thy deck

[tranquil steppe]

Or supernova

[opal delta]

so uhhh

dont sell anything?

or sell something

[tranquil steppe]

Kill rebate

[latent egret]

you should be able to win without selling

but if you wanna go for fun kill rebate and try hard on the deckfixing

[opal delta]

rebate is sad

im so sorry 😭

[tranquil steppe]

Lmao

[opal delta]

got mime

[tranquil steppe]

You’re golden

[opal delta]

also we have a small problem

[white zodiac]

that's fine

[tranquil steppe]

Now just rack up steels for the easy win

[latent egret]

sell halu

[tranquil steppe]

Sell the useless booster boi

[spark canyon]

beautiful ending

[light dome]

Two pair my beloved

[tranquil steppe]

Congrats!!

[light dome]

Thanks cruiser - 1.1 beta tester

[serene forge]

I hate Bloodstone

[wary flicker]

valid

[tranquil steppe]

Bloodstone forgives your sins

[opal delta]

triboulet

[tranquil steppe]

Yorick

[wary flicker]

yorick goated

[tranquil steppe]

Or lord Canio

[serene forge]

chicken nuggets

[wary flicker]

helped me get my first and only gold stake

[opal delta]

no its triboulet

I savescummed

[serene forge]

booooo

[tranquil steppe]

Sadge

[opal delta]

wow

[tranquil steppe]

Might as well kill shoot the moon

Copy trib if you play kings or queens

You should be fine

[wary flicker]

Triboulet is boring

[opal delta]

I already sold triboulet 😭

[tranquil steppe]

Not as boring as the turd Chicot

[wary flicker]

???

[tranquil steppe]

Omg

[wary flicker]

Fair

[tranquil steppe]

RIP

[wary flicker]

Why did you sell Trib?

[opal delta]

also I dont have enough levels invested into it

[white zodiac]

based department 🤙

[opal delta]

because I love stm runs

[tranquil steppe]

Welp

[light dome]

Just give trib to me instead

[wary flicker]

Whats stm

[tranquil steppe]

Shooting of the moon

The lady queen

Her highness

The +13 gal

[white zodiac]

the miss of the swiss

[wary flicker]

stm is not that great though altho I get the commiment with mimes

holy

[tranquil steppe]

Correct

[wary flicker]

Obelisk 419 💔

[white zodiac]

it's decent enough to speculatively play on its own without much general gameplay drawbacks

[white zodiac]

the only rare to warrant it's spot

[wary flicker]

blueprint?

brainstorm?

[white zodiac]

of unconditional scoring

[wary flicker]

fair

[white zodiac]

nope

[wary flicker]

Burnt joker?

burnt joker god

[white zodiac]

burnt can be discarded

[wary flicker]

yeah I know but its good

lemme get the list of rares

lol

[white zodiac]

doesnt get along with obby licks

unfortunately

[wary flicker]

campfire

[opal delta]

rebate still not worth it here?

[wary flicker]

lol

167 dollars moment

and I love stuntman cause it got me goldstake win but

campfire better

[opal delta]

@white zodiac what do you think

[white zodiac]

huh

what's the end goal

[white zodiac]

campfire is in my black++ profile

[opal delta]

I miss rebate….

[wary flicker]

approved

[white zodiac]

i mean you don't really lose atp

[wary flicker]

yeah but picking rebate only makes sense if youre going for 400dollars achievement

e

[opal delta]

I just went through two ante 8 boss blinds because it kept giving me that hieroglyph voucher

[wary flicker]

lol

[opal delta]

I would love to do that actually

[wary flicker]

I forgot how I did it onw

I think I had bull

and obv some money generator but idk what

[white zodiac]

should've kept rebait smh

[opal delta]

its not like im gonna stay on apple much longer though

[tranquil steppe]

You forgot about ancient and tribe, the order, duo, and hit the road

[opal delta]

and I dont know how to import mobile saves 😔

[white zodiac]

you're on my red seal list why should I listen to your approval

[opal delta]

is that not possible

[white zodiac]

well the neat thing is

you cant

saves are local

[wary flicker]

I dont like any of those lmao

[tranquil steppe]

Ancient is excellent for flush runs (and okay with straights)

[white zodiac]

which are not ideal in gs runs in general

[wary flicker]

yeah Ive never made Ancient work

[tranquil steppe]

Htrj can get to over 3x pretty quickly depending on how you’ve built your deck

[pliant jewel]

ancient isn't that bad on gold stake

[wary flicker]

I think Hit the Road is good if you get it in the beggining

[tranquil steppe]

That’s surprising. Ancient is a nice cheat code

[wary flicker]

but apart from that you dont usually build for Jacks

[shell dagger]

htr gets nuked by 2 bosses and has stm/scholar syndrome

[wary flicker]

I dont like the playstyle

maybe when wildcars are buffed

[tranquil steppe]

Fair. I don’t play how 90% of people here play

[wary flicker]

e

[white zodiac]

of those two, which do you think is more likely to be drawn

a specific suit flush or
any straight

[wary flicker]

any straight

[white zodiac]

statistically with an unfixed deck

[pliant jewel]

idk man but i don't recall being screwed by ancient often

i do remember not drawing a straight countless times though

of course straight runs are generally more common but still

[opal delta]

showman

[tranquil steppe]

Exactly

[opal delta]

I could maybe get another blueprint or brainstorm

[wary flicker]

youre getting there with the money

maybe I gotta do a wildcard ancient run

[opal delta]

I need that four hundred dollars though

[wary flicker]

but im scared of bosses

[white zodiac]

i could give you a couple aj seeds I won on black deck and have you pilot it to see how grueling it is to have the potential to whiff

[opal delta]

skip showman?

[white zodiac]

yeah

[wary flicker]

yh

[pliant jewel]

solution: don't play black deck

and im not saying that it cant whiff

[opal delta]

level of high card by the way

[pliant jewel]

im saying that i feel like it's consistent enough

[wary flicker]

high card lowkey op

[white zodiac]

im doing a streak run/gs black deck exclusive on it which usually highlights the consistency variance in in optimal situations

practice for c++ no losses

[wary flicker]

well im a noob lmao

[pliant jewel]

then die to painted deck because you're too used to having 6 jokers

[white zodiac]

being statistically less consistent than regular straights is a questionable feat

[pliant jewel]

is it?

[white zodiac]

I have a higher streak on painted currently

[shell dagger]

well that’s a start

[tranquil steppe]

Painted deck may be one of the 3 easiest decks in the game

[white zodiac]

yes

[white zodiac]

no

quite the opposite

[tranquil steppe]

Yes

[soft vapor]

Well

[tranquil steppe]

Lmao

It’s the only deck I’ve swept so far

[wary flicker]

Ive only done red deck gold stake

[shell dagger]

anecdotal across 8 runs

[wary flicker]

kinda struggling with higher stakes

[white zodiac]

i mean you could try to exceed my gs streak if u wanna prove a point through anecdotal bias

[wary flicker]

crazy to me yall are trying no losses

[tranquil steppe]

I beat white - gold on painted my first try with no deaths

[white zodiac]

well I've played enough

[pliant jewel]

i wouldnt call painted deck one of the easiest but it's not bad

[soft vapor]

I knew I couldn't naneinf

[tranquil steppe]

What’s your streak

[white zodiac]

white to gold is not a feat

[soft vapor]

Due to ecto hitting mail

[white zodiac]

7

[soft vapor]

But I'm happy with the new high score

[tranquil steppe]

I’m just saying it was easy my first go round

[white zodiac]

without repeating

[tranquil steppe]

Got it. I will attempt one day

[white zodiac]

you didn't say that though, you said it was top 3 based on anecdotal bias

[white zodiac]

no you wont

[tranquil steppe]

No based on my experience

[white zodiac]

nobody has whenever I've asked

[white zodiac]

aka anecdotal experience

[pliant jewel]

I'll get 8 streak trust

[tranquil steppe]

I don’t have doll hairs to pay thousands for a study

I’m so sorry

[red thistle]

Biased data by low sample size.

[pliant jewel]

since you didn't ask me to that means i 100% will get the streak

[tranquil steppe]

I need subjects

[shell dagger]

look around

[tranquil steppe]

Please help me with my hypothesis

Let’s all play painted

[wary flicker]

should I play painted now

lol

ok

[tranquil steppe]

And see how easy it is

[pliant jewel]

also

to be fair

[white zodiac]

true, I've asked 4 ppl who've left me on read

[pliant jewel]

even if you did 1000 gold stake runs

[wary flicker]

I didnt play much of painted though I think I only beat white so far

[pliant jewel]

if all of those are yours

that would still be anecdotal evidence

since it's still your experience

[tranquil steppe]

Anecdotes are the best evidence

[wary flicker]

imma go red stake painted to confirm/deny

[tranquil steppe]

Checkered is also really easy

[hidden pewter]

wtf is this

[white zodiac]

not how the game works sadly

[red thistle]

What are we confirming.

[pliant jewel]

whether painted deck is top 3 easiest deck or not

[tranquil steppe]

Just play painted on gold

[white zodiac]

painted being a top 3 contender in comparison to decks like blue, yellow, abandoned

[red thistle]

I disagree with that.

[pliant jewel]

ghost too

[tranquil steppe]

Painted is nice because of the large hand size

[wary flicker]

we love large hand size

[tranquil steppe]

Easier to get flushes and straights to work and easier to find cards you need

[white zodiac]

ghost is less of a true upside in consistency and more of a shop playground

[tranquil steppe]

Yes we do

[shell dagger]

actual good incantation

[red thistle]

Listen it won't do much with regular mult scalers and the 4 jokers aren't really helping.

[white zodiac]

nobody told me you were doing another plasma++ run

[pliant jewel]

the hex does make the early game a bit easier

[red thistle]

It's an overall average deck.

[wary flicker]

blueprint in ante 2 hallelujah

[white zodiac]

cards are not the main consistency of scoring

[wary flicker]

and I get stm

lol

[white zodiac]

you technically see less jokers/tarots/planets in shop with the added spectral weight btw

[shell dagger]

nah im just bored

[red thistle]

Woah what a good example of an average painted run you can get everyday.

[wary flicker]

I know right

[shell dagger]

threw a blue deck run (or maybe i just didn’t draw my queens for stm)

[white zodiac]

while minimal, does have a weight in comparison to the actual advantage you gain on ghost

[pliant jewel]

well yes but some spectrals are good enough for that to probably be worth it

[shell dagger]

I made $60 in one round

[white zodiac]

fair

[red thistle]

She shoots on my moon til i mult.

[wary flicker]

what

[pliant jewel]

early enough trance or immolate just wins the entire run

[wary flicker]

bean for painted

lol

[white zodiac]

one day we'll race for the first no Ls c++

[white zodiac]

cherry picking in a consistency argument wonderful

also not how that works

[pale wolf]

ghost is still good

[white zodiac]

yeah

its in the top half

[wary flicker]

well I lost

painted deck sucks (i suck)

[pale wolf]

the "downside" isn't truly a downside bc of how unlikely good things are already

[pliant jewel]

i wasn't saying that the spectrals were what made ghost deck consistent...

[white zodiac]

and the spectral weight is 2 which is whatever

[white zodiac]

ok

[pale wolf]

yeah they're pretty rare, and it ends up being mostly just a neutral deck with a hex at the start

[pliant jewel]

i did not say that that was something that happens every single run

[pale wolf]

How much more likely does Ghost deck make it to see immolate or trance in the first 2 antes

[white zodiac]

uhh

1/16 shop spectrals
in a 2/30 per slot
for 12 slots/6 rounds/2 antes
(1/16)(1/15)(12)

[shell dagger]

16

that can appear in shop slots

[pale wolf]

and then the chance to see it from spectral packs

[north spindle]

being able to hold certain spectrals also feels relevant to ghost deck to me

particularly ankh

[white zodiac]

its ok

[north spindle]

i think the ability to just see them without purchasing the pack is also sort of valuable in the early game

[brave stirrup]

I won my first game. Ever.

See guys I am learning.

[north spindle]

like buying a spectral pack ante 1 r1 is not great i think but there are spectral cards i take

[pale wolf]

only for like the first 2 shops really

[wary flicker]

good job man

[north spindle]

unless you get like rebate or something
usually i feel like it takes 2/3 antes to build up econ fully

[pale wolf]

but yea valid i guess, although idk if spectrals are an overall improvement of the shop slots

[wary flicker]

with time more vwins will come

[brave stirrup]

Ty red panda

[white zodiac]

like for consistency purposes I can think of 5 decks that are better in versatility than ghost on average

[opal delta]

stm hit naneinf

[white zodiac]

well

close enough

[shell dagger]

almost naneinf only naneinf points to go

[wary flicker]

got the cash tho nice

[opal delta]

btw this is my deck now

[patent prairie]

am i tripping or do you have blueprint

[pliant jewel]

could be wrathful?

[wary flicker]

invis joker going hard

[heady narwhal]

that wouldn't be very possible

blueprint is unlocked when you win a run

[patent prairie]

i know its not possible

thats why i’m tripping

it looks like blueprint but i know that it cant be so i’m tripping

[pliant jewel]

oh no
can you stand up

[patent prairie]

no 💔

[opal delta]

gg

[patent prairie]

i sprained my ankle in the fall

[pliant jewel]

looks like we're gonna have to chop it off

[patent prairie]

yeah💔

[patent prairie]

also ong anaglyph enjoyer

i like tou

i love you anaglyph

[pliant jewel]

tanks

i love anaglyph too

[gloomy swallow]

this run is so fucking stupid

[patent prairie]

i’m trying to gold stake it, it will be my first

[opal delta]

gg

[pliant jewel]

that's like
almost naninf i think

[gloomy swallow]

I have to take polychrome skip tags just to be able to get more jokers

and i somehow still fucking win because space joker is the goat

two more jokers under my belt

including fucking jimbo

[opal delta]

not even close 😭

[pliant jewel]

it's like

[shell dagger]

it’s only a couple queens away

[pliant jewel]

yeah

maybe if you had a few more jokers

[gloomy swallow]

Gold sticker progress

[white zodiac]

christmas
just a couple queens away