🕹・game-discussion

[last bolt]

I hate painted deck

[blissful cedar]

My glorious run lostcuz i was ignoring the plant

[crystal field]

but it so good tho

[last bolt]

I hate it

And I'm glad I'm done with it

[distant vault]

I love painted

[last bolt]

[blissful cedar]

The plant hasnt caused me trouble in so long i putb it in the pile with the other trash builds

[crystal field]

painted deck is goated

+2 handsize is no joke

[sacred trench]

What do you think of the brainstorms

[crystal field]

bery awesome thank u jimbo

[white zodiac]

it’s in the lower half of decks in terms of consistency

[distant vault]

🙄

Guys stop having fun

[white zodiac]

:3

[blissful cedar]

Does anhk take negative off of the copy too or does ankh keep it and invis takes it off

[last bolt]

-1 joker slot tho

[white zodiac]

negatives can never be copied

[crystal field]

painted was one of the first decks i gold staked i thinkz maybe im misremembering

[white zodiac]

cool

[blissful cedar]

Going to tun anaglpyh to make myself feel better

[white zodiac]

plasma was my first

[crystal field]

u dont need 4

[ashen mauve]

This is the first time it’s happened to me

[crystal field]

5

fuc

[distant vault]

Chicot watching boss blind murder me even though its disabled :

[white zodiac]

it’s nice to have as convenience of eternals and switch outs between value gen jokers, early game jokers, etc

[crystal field]

right

[unborn apex]

do ceremonial dagger and eternal jokers go hard?

[distant vault]

No

[crystal field]

maybe painted deck isnt good

[distant vault]

It is

[crystal field]

but zebra convinced me its fun

and its not that bad if its not good

[white zodiac]

its fun

[unborn apex]

why not? is it cuz the joker never gets destroyed?

[distant vault]

Exactly

[unborn apex]

fair enough

[distant vault]

Nebula is dog shit

[unborn apex]

it could be fun if you get the hermit

[crystal field]

100%

[shadow spruce]

oh hey i have all the ores gold stickered

[white zodiac]

the downside is more consistency oriented and your main method of econ/value gen greed via eternals/rentals are restricted on painted early and late game

[crystal field]

minecraft

[unborn apex]

what's the condition for unlocking brainstorm?

[distant vault]

True

[crystal field]

discard a royal flush

[distant vault]

What's next

[atomic trout]

What?? It's spoiled

[sacred trench]

What do you think if Blueprint

[distant vault]

Angry monkey run

[shadow spruce]

i'll try to gold sticker the page 1 jokers next

[crystal field]

very architectural

[distant vault]

Staying

[unborn apex]

wth, i never would have gotten that

if i didn't know

[pallid ferry]

should i baron pog baron or shoot thy moon

[crystal field]

the requirements are listed in the collection btw

[distant vault]

Hate those

[crystal field]

some of them are very annoying yes

[shadow spruce]

exactly

that's why i'm getting them out of the way early

[white zodiac]

hand size isn’t immediately beneficial for the permanent joker agnostic debilitating restrictions you have to work around with chip scoring and value gen greed. all effectively justifying painteds lower placement. if it was old gs this reasoning would be void

[distant vault]

I like big hands

[white zodiac]

i like value gen jokers

[distant vault]

Is blue joker stickered

[distant vault]

Like golden joker

[white zodiac]

too bad eternal golden is a considered pass

on painted

well not pass but a more debilitating choice long term

[last bolt]

The ones I already got on Gold were in this order
> > > > > > > > > > Currently going for

[crystal field]

plama

[last bolt]

plama

[crystal field]

after magic do green deck

[last bolt]

bet

I still got them on purple

so

I need to do orange first then gold

[opal delta]

[atomic trout]

Who knew the FISH was a scary boss when it comes to Straight Runs

It hates Straights

[unkempt marsh]

[odd plank]

welcome back to another balatro

today we'll be playing balatro

[sleek shore]

Nice pairs run

[slender prairie]

Need help quick

[sleek shore]

Sell brainstorm

[odd plank]

sell hanging chad for blueprint

trust

[sleek shore]

Actually what are you supposed to do?

[slender prairie]

Lemme send my deck rq

[potent tree]

seeing as it's negative, that wouldn't be too helpful

[sleek shore]

Just skip

[odd plank]

just trust the process

[sleek shore]

How strong is your lucky cat?

[slender prairie]

32x

[sleek shore]

Ok def sell photo

[odd plank]

it's eternal it doesn't matter

[sleek shore]

Photo is only 8x mult

[sleek shore]

No it does matter

[slender prairie]

Okay thank you

[odd plank]

oh for the bp

my bad

[slender prairie]

All I need is idol and this deck is gonna go crazy

And an antimatter, or a negative ig

[odd plank]

what if it hits queen of diamonds

[slender prairie]

Haha, I should probably hang that one

Okay I'll tell you all if that decision made me lose the run

I'm on ante 13 and I'm on the verge

Okay yes that was the right decision, I'm making slightly more at e12

[sleek shore]

Ok might have said photo is 8x mult. It’s 32x but either way it’s worse than your lucky cat since you don’t have red seals

[slender prairie]

True

[atomic trout]

Stop picking the wrong card! AAAGH

[misty rampart]

Average gold stake run ig

[pale wolf]

where am i

[sleek shore]

Bell is one of the less problematic bosses for me

[sleek shore]

In the balatro discord server

Specifically in #🕹・game-discussion

[pale wolf]

citation?

[ivory panther]

My wifi has been down all week so naturally I had to get 30 gold stickers to pass the time

[pale wolf]

did your progress sync up all right

[ivory panther]

I’ve (sadly) only ever played on mobile so it works out 🥀 🥀

[sleek shore]

Mobile sync is dogshit I don’t use it

[pale wolf]

actually it's worse on there

[ivory panther]

OH HAHA who knew

[pale wolf]

here I should say because I'm also Android exclusive

[slender prairie]

Need help one more time, I didn't find the idol 😭

[pale wolf]

although I haven't had any actual issues, it's still fairly rare

[sleek shore]

It’s also ass on iOS

I’ve turned it off because my stake wins literally didn’t count. I had to turn off cloud save in order to progress

[ivory panther]

I haven’t been tracking my gold sticker progress ingame, just been using a notebook to write every joker I get

[pale wolf]

weird

[ivory panther]

Now I’m worried I won’t get c++ when I actually achieve it

That would be devastating

[pale wolf]

??

[ivory panther]

With the progress syncing

Not rlly sure how it works

[crystal field]

does ios and android need the same victory lap thing for those achievements

[atomic trout]

How difficult is this difficulty? Just asking for a friend

[formal shadow]

will ankh destroy this one

[sleek shore]

What’s spectral stake

[crystal field]

yez

[atomic trout]

It's the new mod Pack and I couldn't help notice this shit.

[formal shadow]

so bad idea to take?

[atomic trout]

I can't beat Gold Stakes. LOL

[crystal field]

-$4 so yes

[sleek shore]

I’m guessing it’s hard because it’s a mod stake

Dunno

[formal shadow]

aw nuts

[atomic trout]

I'm scared to face it

[ivory panther]

Come to think of it I didn’t get c+ achievement until 2 wins after I had actually beaten all the decks

[pale wolf]

I'm pretty sure whatever you see in game will be registered, it's just that sometimes you'll win a run and not get any stickers

[sleek shore]

Turning it off after getting c++ is the best feeling ever

[crystal field]

on steam you need to do a victory lap run for the achievement to register on steam

[ivory panther]

PLS ITS BEEN AN OPTION IN MOBILE THIS WHOLE TIME????

[crystal field]

mildly annoying but not thr worst thing ever

[ivory panther]

Ohhhh maybe that was it then

[prisma egret]

got a double vampire out of a spectral pack but when i score a enchanted card only one of them triggers is this a bug or like a feature

[sleek shore]

Yeah that was the case for me for c+

[pale wolf]

every platform is identical besides the UI for buying/selling/using

[sleek shore]

But it took like 5 wins before I got c++

[crystal field]

its the same for c++

[ivory panther]

Well you changed my life today anyways so thank u

[crystal field]

freaked me out when i first got c+

[pale wolf]

yea the game is one game behind on that stuff

[sleek shore]

Like it took so long for c++ achievement to appear that I thought I had to 100% the game

[fading dome]

Feature, presumably. Just keep swapping them around and try to keep the number the same

[prisma egret]

ah alright gotcha

[atomic trout]

Brothers.

[acoustic kettle]

😀 😄

[pale wolf]

im still confused on why exactly it was made to work this way tbh

[crystal field]

yea feature since enhancements can only be removed once the 2nd one doesnt trigger

[sleek shore]

So only one of them scales?

[prisma egret]

thanku

[sleek shore]

It’s like trading card

[crystal field]

yea

[prisma egret]

ah

[crystal field]

and midas mask

[fading dome]

Cards can only get sucked dry once. They're marked with vampired or something in the code at that point

[crystal field]

2 midas masks cant make double gold cards

2 vampires cant doubly remove an enhancement

[pale wolf]

ye they can

[acoustic kettle]

Does midas vamp midas vamp work

[prisma egret]

[fading dome]

they can if you put a vamp between them

[pale wolf]

midas can reapply another Midas gold after vamp

[crystal field]

yes cuz joker trigger order

[sleek shore]

You need to order your cards correctly. Midas mask, vamp, Midas mask

[crystal field]

this is true

2 mask no vamp then

[fading dome]

No it doesn't. One vamp is the max regardless of the amount of midas masks

[sleek shore]

So if you have 2 masks and 2 vamps you can have both scale right?

[sleek shore]

Oh

That’s dumb

[potent tree]

as they say, the show must go on...

[pale wolf]

this is probably oversight imo

[fading dome]

it's a quirk of how it's implemented, I'm not sure if that's what Thunk intended

[crystal field]

vampire triggers and removes enhancement
midas triggers adds enhancement
vampire triggers removes enhancement
midas mask triggers adds enhancement

[sleek shore]

Can’t be

[crystal field]

it should be this way anyway

[pale wolf]

it still bothers me that because vampire and Midas mask are in the weird pre-hand phase of scoring, so brainstorm doesnt get to fill a cool niche for Midas-vamp-brainstorm

[fading dome]

Maybe it should, but it isn't

[crystal field]

do both midas masks trigger at the same time

[pale wolf]

Midas should be copyable even if it's only useful in one very specific circumstance

[atomic trout]

Question for all Balatro players, what's your hourages playing this game? 😄

[sleek shore]

No

[pale wolf]

nothing ever triggers at the same time

[crystal field]

this is what i thought

[fading dome]

No they all trigger in order. The 2nd vampire just doesn't do anything

[crystal field]

so why wouldnt it work

[sleek shore]

It’s like how when you have 2 madness only one of them gets consumed. Only one joker activates at a time

[crystal field]

interesting

[pale wolf]

because the game doesn't handle that case

[crystal field]

ah ok

[fading dome]

327 logged hours in vanilla, and about 200 hours of modded balatro

[pale wolf]

That is very surprisingly small

Even if there's unlogged larger part of the iceberg

[humble hound]

imp 👁️

[sleek shore]

Mobile can’t check. I have 190 wins so maybe 70 hours

I’m not sure

[pale wolf]

actually maybe not

[wheat lodge]

chat I've played too much how do I make game fresh again...

[sleek shore]

Mods

[crystal field]

tbf i dont think im at 300hrs

idk my playtime for balatro

[pale wolf]

i only recently passed 200

[wheat lodge]

android gamer

[sleek shore]

I guess you can try funny seeds

[wheat lodge]

true...

[sleek shore]

But there isn’t much to do

[atomic trout]

ewww...

[wheat lodge]

balaro...

[atomic trout]

I have no life. lol

[charred spruce]

all this just to realize I was on the wrong stake.

[odd plank]

the only game i have 300 in is like

the binding of isaac

[atomic trout]

Victoria 😄

[pale wolf]

take break, play different goal, try challenges, do doc vids and see how he play, get a 20 streak, take break

[crystal field]

i have thousands of hours in lots of other games

[wheat lodge]

I'm just coming out of break

lols

been a couple months

[odd plank]

i have 5k in dota but that was when i was messed up

[crystal field]

nintendo had me in a chokehold during covid

[prisma egret]

apple or android

[pale wolf]

ah then start streakin

[sleek shore]

Apple

[pallid ferry]

i’m only at 138 hours unfortunately

[charred spruce]

only #4?

[odd plank]

?

[charred spruce]

#4 8 ball lover

[potent tree]

sack a chad or showman for sock?

[fading dome]

I just checked my app monitor, it's about 200h of modded balatro. Combined with vanilla that's about 500 hours which is indeed less than I thought too lol

[odd plank]

oh

yeah

[crystal field]

but yeah i mean

[pale wolf]

well, theres plenty of balatro to be done elsewhere

[charred spruce]

showman but I'm biased against him because he was mean to me

[crystal field]

im kinda glad i was able to c++ under 300hrs

that woulda been a little embarrassing

[potent tree]

honestly fair point in any case

[pallid ferry]

well if i add in my switch hours it’s 163 hours

[prisma egret]

ah sad cause it shows on android i got 28 hours on mobile and 14.5 on pc

[fading dome]

oh wait I can't math

[sleek shore]

My most played game this year is probably getting over it. Again on mobile so can’t confirm

[fading dome]

500*

[prisma egret]

i started playing this month :>

[sleek shore]

Damn

[potent tree]

hard to it's been nearly 2 years since this game launched

[sleek shore]

It’s easy to think unless you are stupid

[pale wolf]

i had thousands of hours in Minecraft, and also smash bros

[crystal field]

congratulations balatro!

you are the youngest person ever!

[potent tree]

i have probably 6k hours across all different platforms and saves in terraria lol

[fading dome]

I cannot possibly imagine how many hours I have in minecraft lol, that was my shit

[pale wolf]

so balatro prob my next big one

[potent tree]

i know i have 2k on 2 different saves on my switch

balatro almost at 600 hours here

[odd plank]

"had" did you lose them

[crystal field]

terraria players are always like “yeah I have 6 billion hours in terraria”

[pale wolf]

i estimated it at over 10k hours for me 😭 just remembering my habits

[humble hound]

i started 4 weeks ago and im at 57 hrs

[pale wolf]

yea i dont rember

[potent tree]

i mean being the sweats we are (trying to find some drops is like hunting for copy jokers for a naneinf build)

[sleek shore]

Getting over could possibly be my most player game ever soon. The game is just so fucking good for when you are watching a video or something because you don’t have to focus on it much

[crystal field]

for me it was splatoon 2 i was real sweaty on there i had like 3k hours something like that

[pale wolf]

nice

[serene forge]

I hate Bloodstone

[potent tree]

me too forq

[pallid ferry]

if i had a nickel

[crystal field]

splatoon 3 so sad

[odd plank]

y

[serene forge]

its bad

[pale wolf]

thats what she said

[sleek shore]

Bloodstone is good an amount of time

[pallid ferry]

i am indifferent to bloodstone

[crystal field]

an amount

[pale wolf]

an amount of time that you arent privy to

[crystal field]

six oneeee

[serene forge]

you would have $61.55

[pallid ferry]

i would

[pale wolf]

[serene forge]

thats a lot of money

[pallid ferry]

thank you hornet silkskong

[serene forge]

i wish i could be paid a nickel every time i said that

[crystal field]

i wish the hermit was real

[pale wolf]

Henry silkson

[serene forge]

true

[pallid ferry]

[pale wolf]

i doxxed

[crystal field]

tarot cards are kinda gay

[sleek shore]

lol

[pale wolf]

[opal delta]

@white zodiac hi this is my new phone

[pallid ferry]

[atomic trout]

We need more money!

[sleek shore]

Hi my new phone

[atomic trout]

And damn, saved by Senor Huesos

[sleek shore]

I’m dad

[crystal field]

hanged man = hung man
hermit = $20 is $20

[pale wolf]

hello yes this is dog

[crystal field]

what else shall i add to this laughable

[pale wolf]

check this out

[crystal field]

that was smooth

[pale wolf]

trib is luchador

[sleek shore]

That was certainly a video

[pallid ferry]

i knew it….

[crystal field]

amazing

[atomic trout]

I love Senor Huesos 😄

[crystal field]

wait whats the chicot for

[pale wolf]

they have the same face

[formal shadow]

toss burnt? or face card

[pale wolf]

because I thought it would be Chaco in the mask for obvious reasons

[sleek shore]

Never toss burnt

[crystal field]

Tribulet wished she had a better ability

[sleek shore]

Burnt is second best joker behind blueprint

[crystal field]

cosplay trib

[pallid ferry]

i can’t wait to go as jimbo for halloween next year

[pale wolf]

luchador is about the same utility as trib normally is; getting sold

[atomic trout]

Hiker

[potent tree]

grimbo wants to know your location

[formal shadow]

its eternal

[crystal field]

atleast luchador has an interesting effect

[sleek shore]

Grimbo is soooo outclassed by ride the bus

[crystal field]

well yes

rtb is bae

[pallid ferry]

⚠️truth nuke inbound⚠️

[potent tree]

fuck i was forced to use a reroll skip to avoid

[atomic trout]

Choose one for the rest of the run.

[pale wolf]

some arrows before i go to bed

[humble hound]

it all makes sense now

[pale wolf]

chicot obv

[sleek shore]

There should be a stat for seeing beaten bosses

[atomic trout]

Nah, I like Senor Huesos 😄

[pallid ferry]

thank you i had no idea what i was looking at until i saw the arrows

[atomic trout]

At least I can die peacefully during the Big Blinds

[crystal field]

goodnight zebra

[sleek shore]

Knowing what bossses previously appeared would be so useful

[pale wolf]

buh

[sleek shore]

Bye

[pallid ferry]

[crystal field]

grad school gonna be the end of me

i just wanna major in balatro

[atomic trout]

Damn.

How does one lose to the Debuffing of Spades??

I get the Fish I flop when it flips the cards on each turn. But this? This is embarassing lol

[placid cave]

guys, i know im already on yellow deck, but...

[potent tree]

bruh. this would've been epic if it was black deck

and then brainstorm 2 antes later...

[atomic trout]

How the hell did you manage two Chads and two Photos?

[potent tree]

showman became useful for once

[atomic trout]

The Showman.

[tame sluice]

Well well well.

[atomic trout]

I thought so, the Slowman saves the day

[potent tree]

well not quite. we're facing the flint now

and i have a brainstorm in my shop, the existing jokers are unchanged

[atomic trout]

Eww

[potent tree]

i should survive if i can get at least one of my glass queens

[tame sluice]

Showforeheadman

[atomic trout]

Showmorehead

The Foreman, Hehe

[tame sluice]

Headahh

[potent tree]

oh we oneshot the flint without a glass queen

[atomic trout]

I found out that the Flint hates Planets,

The Needle hates Cardsharps.

The Water drowns Merry Andy and Yorick

The Psychic doesn't like Half Jokers. hehe

[potent tree]

how many of these are breaking? do we even survive the round?

[tame sluice]

2 of them

[potent tree]

so both glass are breaking you say

time to go gambling

[tame sluice]

✅

[atomic trout]

The rainbow Photo

[potent tree]

we hit e11 with this hand

epic

[tame sluice]

Yayy all me btw

[atomic trout]

Both the Ox and the Tooth hates anything with Bull and Boot Straps

[acoustic kettle]

The teeth

[potent tree]

can you go 2 for 2?

[tiny canyon]

Gotta love michel still taking 3 dollars from you due to rental even after it gets destroyed

[tame sluice]

Yea easy

[atomic trout]

What is the holy hell?

[potent tree]

incredible, nothing broke again

[tame sluice]

😂 😂

[atomic trout]

Oops All Sixes helps a lot 😄

[potent tree]

"does he know?"

[acoustic kettle]

||Jimbo||

[atomic trout]

I'm not sure, but it does give you the best chance to break such beautiful glass cards 😄

[serene forge]

I hate Bloodstone

[atomic trout]

But Lucky Cards become incredible.

also

I should stop for tonight, lol

[acoustic kettle]

||Oops all bloodstone||

[potent tree]

well, that was a satisfying run. showman means more than any copy joker fr

[atomic trout]

But with Oops All Sixes..

[atomic trout]

YAY! Now you can be poor 😄

[potent tree]

poor and run ending

[atomic trout]

The wizard of Ox usally kills my runs. I rely on High Card builds and a decent eco

[tiny canyon]

Sometimes silly things happen.

[rose gust]

I have a bad feeling about this

[potent tree]

i beat black deck gold stake with a fullskip throwback run, now lock in

[atomic trout]

Holy.

[potent tree]

and i didn't get blueprint until ante like 6 that run

[rose gust]

Mr stunt man over here god damn

[potent tree]

you've got super scaling as is

[tiny canyon]

I gold staked Plasma with chips. "Bad" builds are just ones that take require suboptimal plays to achieve, they aren't inheritly bad though

[potent tree]

free x.5 mult per ante, times 2, so your output increases exponentially

by the time my run ended (i think i used hiero?) my throwback was 6.25x

[tiny canyon]

If I can surivive early on

[potent tree]

so effectively i had almost 40 xmult

[atomic trout]

Black Deck is just the hardest start with that one less hand. I underestimate how many times my dry wall was bashed.

[tiny canyon]

Which I barely did

[rose gust]

Abstract joker gonna carry

[tiny canyon]

0 hands left

At least the econ issue is solved 😭

[potent tree]

now just keep skipping (if you see bp/bs, get em even if rental/perishable)

rerolls should be used as often as possible

[tiny canyon]

I'm def gonna have to Hieroglyph here

[potent tree]

if you find a flash card, gg

[atomic trout]

One less Discard? Go for it

[potent tree]

discard is petroglyph

[tiny canyon]

hand but yea

[atomic trout]

Wait. You're right

[rose gust]

That’s a petroglyph

Gosh Im slow

[tiny canyon]

I MEAN.... take all?

[rose gust]

We did it

[potent tree]

take both burglar and AJ honestly. or at least burglar

[atomic trout]

Petroglygh is the one with the cave painting

[potent tree]

burglar will help with your econ

[tiny canyon]

What a joke

[atomic trout]

I get the two confused.

[atomic trout]

Extra hands and no discards? Sweet

[potent tree]

"oh no, the pillar!"
me fullskipping with 2 throwbacks:

[rose gust]

Study history

[potent tree]

[atomic trout]

Can't, I can't read

[potent tree]

ah yes, because you are a balatro playetr

player. shoot

[atomic trout]

I"m the kind of Balatro player that keeps losing the Mouth, the Eye, the Psychic. lol

[hollow fossil]

chat what do I drop here? (+29 and x2.3 for the scalers)

[atomic trout]

The Eye because I can't remember what Hand I played, the Mouth I forgot he's one bite no other

[potent tree]

at least you're not a balatro player with 0 dollars on rich get richer challenge

[atomic trout]

Credit Cards are the best

[potent tree]

banner. chips aren't doing you much atp

also place your negative joker behind vamp

unless that's a "on scored" joker

[atomic trout]

Which one should I pick?

[rose gust]

Gluttonous

[potent tree]

reroll and crystal ball honestly

even if hiero is free blind it's not worth the one less hand imo.

[rose gust]

At least not yet

I’d take it personally

[potent tree]

also wait

how do you already have liquidation

did i miss something??

[hollow fossil]

brainstorm into baseball????

[rose gust]

It’s a multiplayer deck

Im pretty sure

[potent tree]

ah i don't play mods

[tiny canyon]

I've been unironically taking incantation in order to increase the odds of getting any one flush

[potent tree]

i'm as vanilla as you get.

[rose gust]

Thats

Not how it works

[tiny canyon]

Im in the all skip run

[potent tree]

you're building flushes? honestly with burglar better to scale pair

[tiny canyon]

I have ancient

[rose gust]

Aj

[hollow fossil]

I guess I'm dropping dna for baseball now

[potent tree]

true aj but like you're still not terribly likely to pick up a flush before like 4-5 hands have passed.

not saying you can't get the xmult boost from a suit for any hand

that's always helpful yes

[rose gust]

We are the Balatro community we can’t help ourselves but gamble

[tiny canyon]

Actually, if you made 5 copies of every card in the base deck, then you'd be more likely to get any hand than the normal deck.

OFC, thinning is better, but I cant really do that in all skip

[rose gust]

Math ain’t mathing

[tiny canyon]

Oh nooo not my discard

oh nooooo

[serene forge]

https://youtube.com/shorts/UTaPryG8ZGc?si=SXTcpm5_JFLouH0y

[potent tree]

you're set now

[potent tree]

i love showman

[tiny canyon]

Thats how it works. Not kidding. Sounds really weird, but it is. I'm pretty sure its similar to the birthday paradox.

[atomic trout]

Ohh my god! It's the one

[tiny canyon]

Oh boy

[rose gust]

I will need to research that more before I can participate in any sort of debacle regarding this topic

[tiny canyon]

Fair enough. I should cite my sources. But I forgot my sources.

So uh... 'trust me bro'

[rose gust]

Im not your bro

Im your they

[tiny canyon]

Rude

[rose gust]

Yippee

[rose gust]

Damn

[potent tree]

sunflower from pvz

[tiny canyon]

I'm not going to get into a 'bro' genderless debate not here 😭

[rose gust]

Sure sure

Just put the win in the bag

[tiny canyon]

Got retcon.
Nothin is going to stop me

except maybe the wall

Obviously we take

[potent tree]

w jimbo sticker

[tiny canyon]

I can't believe I finally gold staked nebula deck with a skip run of all things 😭

[acoustic kettle]

Should i sell the speculative nanners here for ramen

[tiny canyon]

Depends, how much are you scoring?

[patent prairie]

in my mind

[acoustic kettle]

Stupid i should just take syencil

[patent prairie]

when you take nana you commit to letting it pop so you can get cavendish

[quartz ember]

ante 7 is a bit late for michel

[tiny canyon]

oh wait yeah ante 7

[potent tree]

unless you wanna gold sticker it

the later you get michel in gold stake the better.

[tiny canyon]

you arent likely to get cav with the amount of shops you have left

[lunar zealot]

but what if you locked in

[charred vector]

i already bought 2 ectoplasm, does anyone know if this means it's goinig to further -3 from my current hand size or total of -3?

[potent tree]

further

[charred vector]

so from 5 --> 2 💀

[potent tree]

your handsize should already be -3 total

yep.

[acoustic kettle]

I took from 4

[hollow fossil]

ante 50 michael

[potent tree]

ante 50 is not currently reachable without using mods

[olive totem]

This is where I'd put my Smeared Joker!

IF I HAD ONE

(I don't have it unlocked)

[quartz ember]

or glitches

[potent tree]

i hate flushing, but it had to be done

[patent prairie]

why ar your hearts yellow

[wary flicker]

I mean it is green stake

[quartz ember]

??

[patent prairie]

their heart cards

are yellow

[molten thicket]

what

[patent prairie]

oh my god

nvm

im so sorry 😭

i had night light on my pc

so it was changing the colour

[molten thicket]

what nightlight setting changes red to yellow?????

[patent prairie]

thw default ubuntu one idk 😭

[potent tree]

ubuntu giving me flashbacks...(as a cybersecurity graduate)

[acoustic kettle]

I can totally burn a straight

[olive totem]

Good combo until you realise it goes before all the other +mult

I'm having an awsome run (played a single straight flush)

[heavy heron]

nice!

[olive totem]

Lost to the wall on ante 5... My greed was my down fall.

[quartz ember]

needed more planet levels, and chips in general

[olive totem]

I sold ballot and picture for smiling face and the card that makes every face card have a 1 in 2 chance to make $2

[quartz ember]

what?????

they synergize together...

[olive totem]

My greed was my downfall

[west perch]

okokokokok omg. i think this can win

[quartz ember]

no, you should have taken them, and replaced anything that was not those jokers

[vale wharf]

Getting both a chips and a mult scaler is a fuckin' amazing feeling

[olive totem]

Yeah, I should've dropped the club and spade jokers

[vale wharf]

Should I pick heiroglyph here?

[olive totem]

no it's worse than blank voucher

[vale wharf]

But why?

I can scale my square and green more

I'm far above my interest cap too

Nvm, I have seed money

[tight pike]

Heiroglyph is only good on a run where you have multiple eternal mult stackers like madness

Or atleast that's my experience

[hardy fable]

scenarios where hieroglyph being good is desperate or win more scenarios

[vale wharf]

Tell me what the downside is, though

[hardy fable]

you can but you're already winning

[vale wharf]

In my current case

[potent tree]

why is nebula deck black stake giving me hell? i thought i was only supposed to start struggling at orange stake

[tight pike]

What upside is there?

[hardy fable]

plus you run the risk of seeing a boss blind that counters your run

[vale wharf]

More scaling

More time to generate money and upgrade red card

[hardy fable]

yes but your winning

[tight pike]

Since u got 5 hands i'd say you can go for it

[vale wharf]

Such as?

I'm genuinely asking

[tight pike]

Flint

[vale wharf]

No hand levels anyways 😭

[tight pike]

Eternal Egg 💀

[tight pike]

Only good combined with the dagger or swashbuckler

[hardy fable]

eye or mouth then if youre not deckfixng or ur unlucky

[tight pike]

Deck building is something I need to learn how to effectively do istfg

[vale wharf]

Ouchhhh

[tight pike]

I'm always like, hanged man? Ugh that sucks

Although there is one tarot card I'll never use in a normal run

[grizzled plume]

is it tower?

[vale wharf]

@hardy fable 😭

[potent tree]

all roads...must lead...TO PHOTOCHAD...

do i just ditch rtb and go for it

i'm gonna do it.

free htr unlock

[vale wharf]

Red card ain't even did nothing the whole run (it is at 15 mult)

[lyric shore]

have you played abandoned at all

[vale wharf]

Square with grimbo or trousers is absurdly strong

[tight pike]

Yes

[grizzled plume]

same

under normal circumstances

😼

[abstract mesa]

tower is only useful in plasma

[lyric shore]

id rather tower than a suit changer usually

[grizzled plume]

I think it's solid if you're running a low chips hand or deck fixing tbh

[timber pecan]

jumpscare

[lyric shore]

itll always do more than sun

[abstract mesa]

why are your numbers so.. numbery

[grizzled plume]

true dat

the sun don't give 50 chips

[potent tree]

and now we get free golden ticket unlock

[vale wharf]

Day X of finishing every 🟣 stake
Today, I'm doing anaglyph deck
Any tips?

I end up hoarding all the tags

[manic talon]

just do it on a good enough money skip

[grizzled plume]

might be weird but doing rare skips when you have a few tags kinda helps give direction to the build

[tight pike]

Ew it looks so off

[manic talon]

thats the most common, otherwise you'll end up waiting for that one skip that wont show up in 8 antes

[grizzled plume]

true dat, it's a risk too cuz you might brick

but what isn't a risk in balatro

[vale wharf]

What about negative?

[abstract mesa]

negative jimbo

[manic talon]

its purple stake, i guess its... fine, but its not that great either, dont wait for it

[grizzled plume]

this guy knows ball

[west perch]

OKAYYYYYYYYYYYY

if i dont win this run imma actually do something drastic

[grizzled plume]

yikes

[vale wharf]

What a divine start

[west perch]

oh wait

its not eternal i'm an idiot

[grizzled plume]

💔

[manic talon]

theres like 24 skips and only one of them is a negative skip, holding out for one in anaglyph is just aint it

[grizzled plume]

nice

[potent tree]

i should not have survived as long as i did here

[grizzled plume]

always bet on photochad

[potent tree]

sadly no erosion during this run

pivoting from rtb to photochad ended up being the difference maker

i remember a run where i got to over 100 mult on erosion

[grizzled plume]

trading card?

[potent tree]

yes i did have that during said run

[grizzled plume]

gotta love it

[potent tree]

i didn't really see its power until that run

also would be funny if paired with burnt for hc build

[grizzled plume]

I've had a few hc builds that stemmed from early trading card

which is odd since usually you wanna fix towards a better hand

[wary flicker]

yh i got trading card really early once and erosion late

it was so good

[potent tree]

ideally both in same shop or a few rerolls apart

since erosion can scale with discards

[sleek shore]

Erosion is such a joker

[potent tree]

problem is yorick gets hampered due to lack of cards to discard!

[sleek shore]

Had an idea for yorick rework but felt it was too broken for an already strong joker. (Gains 0.05x mult for every discarded card)

Yorick scales slightly slower with this change but instantly getting mult would be super strong

[potent tree]

if it was 0.02x i think would be alright

[grizzled plume]

sounds like a better and more permanent hit the road

[potent tree]

still allows you to scale roughly 1x per ante, if you can get one more discard

[sleek shore]

I think 0.02 is too low

You are reducing yorick scaling to a third of its original strength

[lost vault]

i dont think yorick needs a rework

[grizzled plume]

yorick's solid where he's at but I do wish there were more interactions with him

more discard jokers I mean

[lost vault]

yeah you see with current yorick yoi dont need an extra discard to scale to 1x per ante

[lost vault]

even on blue stake…

[tame sluice]

E

[sleek shore]

Instantly getting the xmult is worth the slower scaling

But 0.02 is too low

[heady narwhal]

slightly faster

23 cards > 20 cards

[shadow spruce]

i freaking hate biolet bessel

[sleek shore]

Oh right

[heady narwhal]

i love violet vessel

[sleek shore]

0.04

[shadow spruce]

urinates on your shins

[grizzled plume]

I hate violet vessel

[sleek shore]

Fuck violet vessel

[heady narwhal]

bad number

[lost vault]

meh

thats basically all the last change did

we dont need to do it again

[heady narwhal]

jokers should generally use nice round numbers

[lost vault]

wouldnt really change him much

[heady narwhal]

x0.04 does not spark joy

[grizzled plume]

you're right, make it .1

[tame sluice]

x0.045 does

[sleek shore]

Most balanced joker

[grizzled plume]

of course

[heady narwhal]

this also gets rid of the theming

[sleek shore]

Idk square joker exists

[lost vault]

true!

[lost vault]

square has theming too?

[heady narwhal]

the only thing tying yorick (joker) to yorick ("character" from hamlet) is the number 23

[wary flicker]

yorick god btw

[heady narwhal]

what does this mean

[lost vault]

absolutely nothing

[grizzled plume]

every 23 years yorick is randomly given to every player's run

[wary flicker]

⬜

[proper turtle]

supernova (on 17) for blue? pairs lvl11

[vale wharf]

...🙁

Literally 2 chips would have made the difference

[proper turtle]

finally unlocked gold stake on black deck

[jade arch]

praying for the good invis luck

I was expecting perkeo but this is good too

[autumn sphinx]

Bwomp

[shell dagger]

my first ever

[vale wharf]

What was your lineup?

[proper turtle]

green, supernova, duo, card sharp, blackboard, cavendish

[wary flicker]

Xmult going hard for ass

[solid plover]

Orange stake is a pain rn

[grizzled plume]

gold stake moment

[solid plover]

Is there any tips on getting more consistent on high stake green deck or do I just keep hitting new run until I get good jokers in ante 1 or 3

[vale wharf]

What was your mult each hand? 💀

[grizzled plume]

oh wait you can't even see its gold

[solid plover]

Do you even really need vagabond there

[grizzled plume]

I just got a fortune teller lol

[quartz ember]

the same as any other deck, spend money wisely and play the strong hands based on your build (usually pairs)

you definitely dont need to reset runs in ante 1

[solid plover]

Are pairs really that good?

[quartz ember]

yes

I mean you still gotta know when you can play them but

[grizzled plume]

100%

[wary flicker]

pairs are easiest hand bar hc but have better scaling than them

they also have sly joker who is just easy 50chips everytime

[raw nymph]

would it be possible to find a legendary joker deep into endless?

[wary flicker]

easy sinergy

[quartz ember]

like if you have lvl 2 flush and a greedy joker you cant just spam pairs in ante 2 probably

[solid plover]

I feel like most jokers are on other kinds of hands

[quartz ember]

yes

infact "more likely"

[raw nymph]

oooo

I have a really good baron run going on in ghost deck and im curious if I can naneinf somehow

[quartz ember]

since theres more money and more time to get packs than 8 antes

[raw nymph]

perkeo plsssss

[quartz ember]

well legendaries arent really gonna help with that

unless you already have cryptid in consumables waiting

[raw nymph]

oh I thought perkeo would be needed for a naneinf outside of plasma deck

[quartz ember]

oh

outside plasma deck

well the thing is it is

(basically)

but

an ante 16 perkeo is not gonna have time to do anything for your run

[floral mural]

every joker to the left or bus is a new sticker here

done with legendaries lets go

[quartz ember]

you need to build up the consumables from the start

[frank grove]

and find a good consumable to copy

[raw nymph]

ah

sucks that im already in ante 13

I have a cryptid but I'll just use it instantly if I can't make good use of them

though I can easily find another one with ease cuz of ghost deck

[floral mural]

also that certificate hologram was ante 1 lmao

and to say either side was weak is lying

those gold seals purple seals and blue seals are so good

and getting xmult for them is too

[abstract rivet]

I find gold seals very underwhelming?

[red thistle]

They're neat.

[abstract rivet]

Like i find em much more useful if you have a way to retrigger them via chad

[floral mural]

gold seals are not the best seals but 3 dollars for playing a random ass card isnt bad

[abstract rivet]

But they are a gold card that forces you to use a hand on them

[floral mural]

especially in pair spam

[acoustic kettle]

Gold is like

[floral mural]

reds are probably the worst but theyre still fine

[acoustic kettle]

Gold

[lunar zealot]

jesus LMAO

[acoustic kettle]

Reds have a lot of synergy though

[frank grove]

yeah reds are good even if you just make them gold cards or steel

[dry dune]

Who do i sell?

[floral mural]

reds are like a seal version of hanging chad

[dry dune]

Swash and egg will go crazy

[floral mural]

if that makes sense?

also certificate bus sounds scary but overall it gives way more number cards than face cards

the real winner of that run is me not having to play escort the trib anymore whenever i get a soul

[dry dune]

Anyone?

[floral mural]

are you playing pairs or straights as a main hand there

because i wanna say you get rid of the common mult/chips straight joker (not runner)

[shell dagger]

Crazy

I think

[jade arch]

Okay, this is a good starting hand. What should I do with this now?

[solemn tide]

How should I be balancing my planet upgrades

[floral mural]

for each hands or with other elements in the game

[solemn tide]

Uh

[floral mural]

because the most youre gonna focus on leveling up is 2 hands at a time (3 of a kind as a transition hand into 4 of a kind for example)

[solemn tide]

Hm

Yeah I already do that. I always kinda felt I'm putting too much into a particular hand type

[floral mural]

that shouldnt matter usually

your best bet at every hand being equally good isnt planets anyways

its jokers

[acoustic kettle]

Jimbos

[vale wharf]

What's that joker which gives chips for stone cards in deck?

[shell dagger]

Stone joker

[jade arch]

Okay, I officially won this game. Beat this boss. Now I gotta be careful of the plant

[shell dagger]

Does photo last till the end?

[floral mural]

it does not

[jade arch]

Nope, I didn't want the photochad anyway

I got it in order to beat the goad

[floral mural]

oh sick

if youre not relying on onscore effects anyways plant shouldnt be an issue regardless

[jade arch]

I just need a lucky cat now

Bruh I'm so unlucky. Luckily I saved justice for this

[opal pine]

do I take four fingers here?

[idle haven]

what am i gonna do with three of these

[opal pine]

hanging chad obviously

[idle haven]

its not appearing im scared

heh

what a seed

[misty rampart]

I'm curious...

[idle haven]

THERE HE IS

[frank grove]

iirc it copys the invis but without the 2/2 done

[manic talon]

it resets the number

[jade arch]

Is this enough?

[manic talon]

i sure hope it does

[misty rampart]

Yea.
Did try it.
Got 8$ Tho

[jade arch]

That was close

[heady narwhal]

only hardcoded exception in the card copying code iirc

[manic talon]

they patched it, it was an infinite money exploit

but we still have tarot looping

[heady narwhal]

tarot looping is gonna get patched in 1.1 iirc

[misty rampart]

I see.

[heady narwhal]

which i'm not personally a big fan of

pool will be expanded to all tarots once fewer than 4 possible tarots remain, or something like that. i'm assuming it doesn't apply to other card types

[manic talon]

i mean, i just hope that would fix the actual game changing bugs like Flower pot and Glass Joker not working correctly first, i couldnt care less if tarot looping is "fixed" or not

[heady narwhal]

loyalty card is my #1 least favorite bug

[manic talon]

oh yea that one is such a troll

[heady narwhal]

the joker that helps you get through boss blinds breaks on some boss blinds

[manic talon]

its purely a visual bug and its so infuriating to come across for the first time

[idle haven]

gracias ecto

[manic talon]

well, i guess its not 100% a visual bug, if you'd count Loyalty not working if its debuffed on the turn it hits a bug

[gentle canopy]

Most ordered game of balatro I've played

[idle haven]

flush build isnt looking too good

[gentle canopy]

Yup

I have 9 jokers left for completionist++

Any advice

[soft oxide]

what are they

[jade arch]

they're modifiers for your game. You usually can only have five but they have several effects in the game.

[soft oxide]

hmm

[gentle canopy]

I can't tell if youre joking

[jade arch]

Pareidolia + midas mask + vampire though

[jade arch]

I'm being a jester

[gentle canopy]

Good

[soft oxide]

a jimbo

i have no idea

[jade arch]

And also, for the hack. Get an ancient joker and you're basically set

[gentle canopy]

The only issue is I'm not finding them within the goldstake run

Like I did 5 successful runs

[soft oxide]

hack could also be used with Wee on plasma but its very difficult to setup

same with stuntman

[gentle canopy]

And none

[jade arch]

Glass is the only one that's gonna be hard to find

[gentle canopy]

Why is glass so hard to find

[soft oxide]

i swear ive only seen it like maybe twice ever 😭

[gentle canopy]

I've seen it only once

[jade arch]

Honestly, for getting completionist ++ I tend to just go to anaglyph deck and pray for a negative tag

[gentle canopy]

The thing is I never get the nine jokers I have left

In the last like 10 ish runs I've gotten one joker

[soft oxide]

cloud 9 can really just go in any build as econ honestly

[jade arch]

You mean thiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiis joker on the bottom right corner?

[gentle canopy]

Yep

Wow

[soft oxide]

not great econ but its there

[jade arch]

well, you first need to have glass cards and reroll a lot

[gentle canopy]

I had a blueprint and mail in rebate last run

[jade arch]

You can also just use a hanged man to raise the multiplier, that counts too

[gentle canopy]

I rolled every shop multiple times

[idle haven]

Thanks for reminding me frank

[jade arch]

more

MORE

[gentle canopy]

Bro I spent like 500-1000 just rolling last run

And got litteraly nothing

Winning is barely an issue now

It's more that I get the bloody joker

[soft oxide]

oh yeah you actually need glass cards in your deck for it to spawn

[gentle canopy]

You need to break a glass card right

Or just have one

[idle haven]

what a motivational ending

perfect song and everything

[gentle canopy]

Perfect timing

[idle haven]

i love frank

cheering me on in the afterlife

rest in peace frank you would have loved your clash royale edits and balatro endings

[soft oxide]

just have

[wary flicker]

stuntman was in my first win lol, same with bean and dagger

crazy

[jade arch]

I have 117/150

[gentle canopy]

Lucky bruh

[wary flicker]

I have 17/150 lol

[gentle canopy]

Lol

[soft oxide]

i have like maybe 7

[gentle canopy]

I have never seen turtle bean in the last two antes

[gentle canopy]

Left?

[wary flicker]

yh that was the lucky one

[soft oxide]

total

😭

[wary flicker]

and combined with stuntman

oh

[gentle canopy]

😂😂😂😂

[wary flicker]

everyone is somewhere e

[gentle canopy]

Something that sounds deep but if you think about is just funny af

[wary flicker]

lmao

yes everyone is physically at some place

meant in terms of progress tho

youll get there eventually 😄

[marsh goblet]

level 5 pair in ante 1

great start

i found stuntman we're so set

[wary flicker]

I love stuntman

such a cool desing

like art

[tight pike]

I sadly lost on ante 11

I ended up with 4 negative jokers

[frank grove]

dagger looks so nice when its neg

[tight pike]

Ikr

I wish I had it on an eternal run

[frank grove]

whats the best looking negative

[tight pike]

I can't lie, negative oops all 6's looks awesome

[frank grove]

yeah

neg 8 ball too

[shell dagger]

castle is cool

[wary flicker]

negative dagger man

I love dagger

[shell dagger]

constellation

[tight pike]

Best looking one, prob like one of the 4x mult on 4 of a kind type of jokers

[frank grove]

whats the worst looking neg ..

[tight pike]

Red Card

[frank grove]

imo burnt or raised fist

or red card

hmmm green card 🤤

[tight pike]

Vagabond also looks dogshit as a negative I can't lie

[frank grove]

yeahh

[wary flicker]

I havent seen them often sadly

[shell dagger]

Brainstorm

[marsh goblet]

sometimes the game just hands shit to you on a silver platter

[wary flicker]

yh nice run

guessing youre doing pairs

[marsh goblet]

yup

[frank grove]

yeah ]\

love pairs

[marsh goblet]

i got 5 pair levels in ante 1 cuz magic deck lol

[wary flicker]

yh it do be like that

[frank grove]

oh yeah magic deck do that

[marsh goblet]

probably the strongest thing magic deck can do

either get busted hand early or start with hella money

[wary flicker]

man I want a lucky cat magic deck run

but it never worked out

[frank grove]

yeah i lovee getting devil first or second shop on magic

[wary flicker]

like even if I won with lucky cards I never got the lucky cat

[frank grove]

lucky cat is very fun

[vale shale]

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

[frank grove]

im currently doing painted so.. painted

[vale shale]

Painted twice in a row. Alright.

This is the first ever run where it's not black in 2 runs.

Because usually. I either get "(different deck), then black next run" or "black, then black next run again"

This is the first ever "not black, and not black next run"

[frank grove]

i did a plasma hiker run just before this painted one

i love plasma hiker

[wary flicker]

hiker is otherwise very meh

[vale shale]

[frank grove]

yeah i wish hiker scored the chips right away without needing a retrigger that would be so nice

but maybe too good?

[wary flicker]

its not strong enough rn tho

[shell dagger]

it definitely wouldn’t be too good

[molten thicket]

even on plasma hiker isnt that good imo

[wary flicker]

yh but if Id use it somewher

[frank grove]

ive used it in a few plasma runs it can be pretty good if you get it early enough

[molten thicket]

hiker needs really good deckcutting to scale up on the cards that you want to play

and it just scales really slowly compared to other options

[frank grove]

yeah it scales like wayy slower than like wee

[opal pine]

nice run (ride the bus is at 53)

[marsh goblet]

i love when the game gives me like 3 immolates and erosion becomes beyond busted

ghost deck is so easy

[vale shale]

So it's either I win or I lose.

GG.