🕹・game-discussion

[supple yarrow]

its so easy

easier than blue deck

[blissful scroll]

Not many hands

[rancid gull]

That -1 discard is so detrimental

less money

less scoring in general

and you can't even fully realize that extra joker slot until much later

[supple yarrow]

i mean just make it past ante 2 and at least on white stake youre home free

[rancid gull]

having 6 joker slots isn't great when you can't even survive with one joker lol

[blissful scroll]

It’s pretty fun though

[worn meteor]

unfortunately this is not white stake

[supple yarrow]

yup

[blissful scroll]

I like black deck quite a bit

[rancid gull]

I'm not much of an enjoyer

[worn meteor]

black deck is early game hell

[supple yarrow]

i mean ive only ever played white stake outside of unlocking green for decks on red deck

im just not good at balatro ykk

[blissful scroll]

I get it

Black deck was my first time beating ante 8 on a non-seeded run

[worn meteor]

you get no money since you lose a hand, so you never get out of like ante 3 on black deck

[blissful scroll]

It’s really good if you get a good setup + discard vouchers

[rancid gull]

I had to just reroll until I could get a investment tag on big blind skip for black deck

[worn meteor]

yeah but getting the setup is the problem

[quick solar]

so just hit like a 1/ 200 chance easy

[worn meteor]

riff raff/top up/econ jonklers are the saviour of black deck

[blissful scroll]

Yeah

Light work

[quick solar]

cause balatro is totally just about resetting until you get a good start instead of trying to be consistnet with whatever you get

:D

[worn meteor]

it wouldn't be nearly as bad if blue stake didn't exist

but that's true of all decks so

[blissful scroll]

I hide in fear from blue stake

[rancid gull]

Oh yeah having 1 less discard and one less hand

not fun

[supple yarrow]

also idk why i even stream balatro if im only playing white stake, thats not really fun for people to watch-

[supple yarrow]

yall how do i git gud

[blissful scroll]

I would watch

[blissful scroll]

Play game more

[soft mango]

Just beat a run using royal flushes for the first time, I wonder how far it'll go 😭

[quick solar]

try not to reset ever

if you die you die

[supple yarrow]

i dont reset already lol

[rancid gull]

reset so you don't waste your time lol

[supple yarrow]

i go till i die

[worn meteor]

play on higher stakes

try to salvage "unwinnable" runs

that's how you get better

[soft mango]

Straights are actually so fun

[worn meteor]

true

[supple yarrow]

btw like uhh

how do you do a full house build

[rancid gull]

spare trousers

some xmult

deck fixing

[manic talon]

you dont

[supple yarrow]

because i rely on flushes too long(like newer players do) and full houses

[manic talon]

thats a 2 pair build

[rancid gull]

full house includes two pair

[supple yarrow]

full house contains a 2 pair

[rancid gull]

full house levels up spare trousers

[manic talon]

yes it does, but its also bad

[worn meteor]

full house builds are just give up

[rancid gull]

yeah but this is a theoretical full house build

from start to finish

[manic talon]

if you wanna have the real answer, its Spare trousers into an obelisk pivot, you dont get it just from spare trouser alone

or, sometimes triboulet lends itself to full house

[supple yarrow]

i swear verything is just pair or flush 5, i need something more beginner friendly and not cheesy

[rancid gull]

yeah but then you have to roll triboulet

[manic talon]

yea thats why full house kinda blows

[worn meteor]

straights are playable

[tulip pond]

pair, 2 pair or whatever other niche poker hand the run gives you

[worn meteor]

its like the one 5 card hand that's generally playable without specific jonklers

[rancid gull]

straights scale amazingly too

[supple yarrow]

not for me apparently, i always miss the straight around ante 4/5 and die because i struggle with deck fixing

[worn meteor]

hand size and discards also help a lot for 5 card hands because you can mill faster

[supple yarrow]

??

[worn meteor]

you can go through your deck more with more discards and more handsize

with 9 hand size, you can keep 4 cards that makeup a straight and still discard 5 cards to search for the last one

[supple yarrow]

i mean when i think of handsize i think of steels with high card or pair not straight, interesting

[tulip pond]

there’s a reason why you start with 8 hand size

[brazen island]

Hand size is pretty much always useful. Blue seals and gold cards are easier to hold with more hand size

[lunar zealot]

well

on blackboard it can hurt

[supple yarrow]

i struggle with any of the tarots and spectrals/seals usages

[brazen island]

Yeah that’s one of the few exceptions I can think of

[brazen island]

Wdym?

[supple yarrow]

anything that isnt playing a hand and discarding half efficiently

[shadow spruce]

gold stickered the little guy

[supple yarrow]

im bad at still

including bad at money management, deck fixing, ect

[rancid gull]

All of that will come with experience fr

[supple yarrow]

idek how i beat black stake on red

[ebon zephyr]

had to complete an extra run to get it but THERE IT ISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

[supple yarrow]

W

[rancid gull]

What was your last jonkler to do?

[lunar zealot]

awesum

[ebon zephyr]

Séance LMAOOO

[shadow spruce]

i had to skip a yorick to survive that really hurt

[rancid gull]

My condolences

[brazen island]

I’m not sure I’ve EVER used seance to make a spectral card lmao

[manic talon]

+1 handsize means -2 chip for blue joker, massive downside actually useless

[supple yarrow]

lol

i dont rlly like blue joker tbf

[brazen island]

Blue joker is amazing

[supple yarrow]

i prefer jolly joker

and flag

[brazen island]

U mean sly?

[tulip pond]

jolly isn’t chips

[lunar zealot]

bruh

[supple yarrow]

i know jolly isnt chips

i just prefer it over blue

[tulip pond]

and banner stinks when you compare it to blue

statically less chips to start off and end on

[supple yarrow]

i discard tons

[manic talon]

Banner is basically worse blue

[brazen island]

^ 60 chips and you can’t use your discards vs 80 chips for free

[supple yarrow]

and i dislike pairs

[rancid gull]

Runner is my fave chips joker

shit is goated

[brazen island]

That’s a fair take

[tulip pond]

this current game balance isn’t for you then i’m afraid

[brazen island]

I’m more of a squimbo guy than a runner guy

[brazen island]

He’ll learn to like pairs trust

[supple yarrow]

yeah why do you think i want to play modded

[tulip pond]

i dig with sqimbo

[supple yarrow]

im stuck on xbox i js wanna play a slightly less balanced but not crypitd less balanced mod

☹️

[brazen island]

If you get it on a computer you should try the extra credit mod then, or the paperback mod

Very vanilla feeling mods

[supple yarrow]

im on a computer rn-

i js cant afford balala

[brazen island]

Ahh I see

It’ll probably go on sale at some point

[supple yarrow]

i got balala on xbox from game pass

[supple yarrow]

me when my steam balance is 0:

its sad...

[tulip pond]

those mods have their own rebate broken levels of power tbf

[brazen island]

In my experience, you just have to become more familiar with the game

Like at first it might seem like the goal is “score the biggest possible number” but it’s really “score as close to the exact amount you need right now” most of the time

It’s a really fun puzzle balancing out your economy and scoring and resources

[crystal field]

squimb is easier

[brazen island]

And pairs are fun because they enable you to make use of a lot of different resources that the game provides you

[brazen island]

Brain off, squimbo on 😈

SQUARE UP ‼️‼️

[crystal field]

squimbo with some scalin +mult

🫶

[supple yarrow]

pairs is literally just supernova or green joker, steel if you feel like it and either raman or card sharp

[crystal field]

goldslop run

[tulip pond]

pairs work with the most amount of jokers that also happen to be immune to perishable debuff

[supple yarrow]

then youve won ante 8

[brazen island]

Me when red card + squimbo + hologram

[crystal field]

red card + squimbo + obelisk

🙏

[tulip pond]

squimbo pants obelisk

[brazen island]

I mean you also need chips. And you need to be able to scale your mult and chips really consistently to beat the finisher. + the boss blinds can really mess you up. There’s a lot more that goes into it than that although you can definitely get some completely brain-off runs, but the same goes for other hands, like 2 pair, high card, flushes (with ancient joker)

[tulip pond]

pairs can be with whatever mult joker that doesn’t require a specific hand

[brazen island]

You can’t always find decent scaling +mult or scaling chips or any xmult at all, and have to make do with what you have

[crystal field]

pairs against vessel is a nightmare

[humble hound]

isn’t gamepass more expensive??

[crystal field]

1/5 chance ur run just dies at the final round

[lunar zealot]

no shot i'm actually making a hit the road run work

[supple yarrow]

i have gameplass to play online and have lots more games than just balala

[brazen island]

I’m actually a hit the road lover, I consistently make jacks just in case I ever find it

[crystal field]

ermm….

[tulip pond]

confused deck building implications

[brazen island]

Like if I have to start randomly deck fixing early I prioritize keeping/putting enhancements and seals on queens, jacks, 9s and 8s

[winged vault]

marble defeated

probably the best set of jokers I could have gotten for that challenge

[crystal field]

that challenge isnt bad marble joker is pretty fun

[supple yarrow]

blue joker when copy marble joker is funny

[winged vault]

well, the marbles did fuck me over many times lol

[crystal field]

just go hc

[winged vault]

Didn't need to, in this case

[crystal field]

[brazen island]

I feel like stone cards don’t get enough love

[crystal field]

the rocks are very helpful

[supple yarrow]

i mean its probably because they make you play non 5 card hands

[winged vault]

is the idea for double or nothing a high card play?

[crystal field]

i often do make stone cards if i miss on arcana packs but theres tower

[lunar zealot]

I LOVE RECYCLOMANCY

[fallow briar]

this isnt cool >:{

[crystal field]

thats how I did it with space man

[supple yarrow]

lol

just save more hands, you can make 10$ first hand on black i think-

[lunar zealot]

LOOK AT THIS SHIT

OH MY GOD

[winged vault]

"You naughty naughty, you teasing me, you naughty naughty"

[lunar zealot]

I LOVE HIT THE ROAD

[crystal field]

honestly really awesome

[lunar zealot]

gg ez

5FRUM83C

ante 2 recyclomancy

[supple yarrow]

bugged erratic all jacks frfr

hit the highhh road

[crystal field]

prob not necessary

[lunar zealot]

i had 9 jacks when i finished

[crystal field]

discard 4 jacks is enough for x3

[winged vault]

well well well

[lunar zealot]

i actually dont want too many jacks anyway

[winged vault]

who do we have here

[lunar zealot]

otherwise i run the risk of resettting bus

[fallow briar]

i literally used 1 hand

[crystal field]

were u hc

[lunar zealot]

pair

[crystal field]

ricky

[fallow briar]

so i think on white stake you can buy it though, heres seed cuz i was traumatized and i offed myself UJD1HACN

[distant vault]

Shoot the moon haters in shambles

[crystal field]

stm is goated

[lunar zealot]

honestly

optimal

[distant vault]

Yes

[crystal field]

stm on ghost deck is very sexy

[supple yarrow]

when doing higher stakes why dont people just skip small blind

[distant vault]

Yorick being the goat as usual

[supple yarrow]

if theres a good tag

[lunar zealot]

@serene forge im sorry...

[supple yarrow]

do u know because im curious

[crystal field]

yorck its kinda based

[wary isle]

random queston, what was the first deck you beat gold steak on?

[quick solar]

the only good tag is like investment tag on ante 1/2

[distant vault]

Crazy how I always win with yorick and sell chicot

[crystal field]

yelow

[wary isle]

Same

[serene forge]

why tho

[quick solar]

unironically plasma

[serene forge]

blue

[lunar zealot]

ante 1 head

[distant vault]

If yorick ain't number 1 you ain't number 1

[crystal field]

best legendary is chaos the clown ofc

[wary isle]

how the f8ck did you pull that off as your first gold steak win? Plasma has the easiest ante 1 - 3, but 4 and above the scaling gets crazt

[serene forge]

head doesn't counter bloodstone

[fallow briar]

oh yeah if i skipped i wouldve got it

[serene forge]

because bloodstone does absolutely nothing to begin with

[fallow briar]

idk

[quick solar]

stuntman my beloved

i forgot exactly how but i remember stuntman was there

[supple yarrow]

i mean especially if youre ONLY skipping small blind its just 1 ante 1 shop like what are u even losing if u cant afford anythhing lmao, i dont understand why ppl dont skip :P

sometimes even the ante 2 small blind is worth imo frfr

[crystal field]

double runner

[supple yarrow]

(this is why i lose runs)

[fallow briar]

idk why i didnt skip i really shouldve

[crystal field]

thats how i did plasma eventually

[lunar zealot]

son of a

[hearty tundra]

Is ancient deck bad or am i just bad

[lunar zealot]

I hate Bloodstone

[terse vale]

top of the bell curve

[crystal field]

bloodstone moment

[fallow briar]

its good

[glad bronze]

how the HELL did this beat gold stake

[supple yarrow]

anyways being as bad as i am which deck should i try grind up to higher stakes on to improve

[lunar zealot]

yellow

[fallow briar]

one of the first ones

[crystal field]

what da hell

[lunar zealot]

black :3

[distant vault]

Yorick

[glad bronze]

you can see 1 remaining hands too

[terse vale]

now show the levels 👀

[crystal field]

so no dusk

just alot of glass aces?

[crystal field]

lmao

[terse vale]

heeheehee

[steep iron]

cool cola

[supple yarrow]

if only i could make my own balatro mod, stupid xbox limitations

sigh, time to go grind yellow deck i guess because moneyyy...

[distant vault]

E

[crystal field]

wow not even glass aces

ggs

[distant vault]

Yellow is fun

[crystal field]

was that erratic deck

[glad bronze]

Yep

[supple yarrow]

i mean duh literally my 2nd run on it was a double perkeo because OP seance luck

[eternal pumice]

[glad bronze]

here's the final scoring potential btw

[supple yarrow]

ankh on 2nd hit early antes

[crystal field]

i need to run some bala

[novel hound]

nvm went back into the run and blueprinted photo instead you were so right

[crystal field]

fuckkkk

[supple yarrow]

how does one score 2 mil with FLUSH

[crystal field]

flush support

[glad bronze]

retriggers x bloodstone

[distant vault]

Still alive

[crystal field]

for them it was photochad

[glad bronze]

yeah that'll do it

high flush levels

[distant vault]

Chicot would have killed me...

Thanks yorick

[supple yarrow]

to be fair any photochad can score 2 mil with a glass card-

[crystal field]

aj is another great flush joker

aj so silly

[glad bronze]

plus probably glass

[supple yarrow]

lusty joker + bloodstone goes harddd

frrr

[crystal field]

eh

[supple yarrow]

i struggle with leveling up hands efficiently)

[vale shale]

Telescope

[crystal field]

bue seal

🦭

[glad bronze]

aj?

[crystal field]

ancient joker

[glad bronze]

dude

I was looking through the collection trying to find it

and the moment I asked that

I look to my left

and it was right in front of me

adgiksaghs

I wanna do aj + wild card sometime

plus hack or sock

[crystal field]

wildcatd not even necessary mostly just need to cut down on deck size and its chill

ez

[supple yarrow]

wild red seal poly kings with photochad and trib to buff aj even more would be max OP

[glad bronze]

yeah that's fair

it really depends on the deck you wanna play

[hybrid tendon]

BALATRODLE IN 4

[glad bronze]

damnn

I can hardly do them in 10

(it's always the prices that get me I swear)

[crystal field]

knowing the prices is hard

[eternal pumice]

[crystal field]

commons are 1-6 uncommon 4-8 and rare 7-10

i think there should be a $6 rare

[glad bronze]

anybody who takes wraith or rare skips would hate that

so much

they're already bad enough man

[crystal field]

who takes those

wraith is only good for round 1 or c++

[glad bronze]

they're already bad enough

[supple yarrow]

rare skips are good pre ante 4 tho

[crystal field]

uhhhh

[worn meteor]

not on gold stake

[crystal field]

uhhhhh

[worn meteor]

sticker gaming

[supple yarrow]

i guess

[glad bronze]

on gold stake wraith is actually kinda useful

[crystal field]

rare skips are like

[glad bronze]

but losing the shop is not worth

[crystal field]

the worst

[glad bronze]

uncommon skip:

[supple yarrow]

i mean in ante 1 small bind u literally lose nothing unless yellow

[crystal field]

atleast there are more uncommons tha are likely to be useful to the build

but yeah also bad

[tranquil osprey]

Edition skips..

[supple yarrow]

foil skips...

[glad bronze]

it'll end up being shortcut or cloud 9

or erosion

[crystal field]

both are good there are way way way way worse jokers to get

like erosion

[glad bronze]

they can be good but they usually fit in a very specific build which is why I don't like them

[tranquil osprey]

Black Deck is so miserable to play.

[crystal field]

cloud 9 not specific to a build

its a pairs joker

[worn meteor]

all 10s on erratic

[tranquil osprey]

Like at least half as miserable as Nebula.

[glad bronze]

shortcut is only good if you plan on doing straights, which is fine but you need shortcut specifically to get into really consistent straights (or good deckfixing which is difficult on gold stake, for me at least.)

[worn meteor]

black was worse than nebula for me

[shadow spruce]

and a sticker for yorick

also stickered baron and the two pair chips joker but no one cares about them

[supple yarrow]

no sticker on trib is CRAZY

[glad bronze]

by the time you get shortcut you've already found yourself a Lucky Cat or a photo or chad or something of the sort

[crystal field]

yes but shortcut is an amazing joker for straights

[shadow spruce]

well yeah souls are hard to come by

[crystal field]

having shortcut basically means you dont need many scoring jokers in the future

as long as you can saturnmax the whole run

[shadow spruce]

and triboulet is hard to really get to work

[distant vault]

Why perishable...

[crystal field]

coupon skip

[distant vault]

Yes

[crystal field]

[distant vault]

Oh no im gambling in a poker roguelike!!!!

[faint linden]

Eternal Polychad

[crystal field]

i mean

[glad bronze]

poker isn't about gambling it's about card counting

[worn meteor]

at least you get 9 bucks next round

[crystal field]

its a big gamble

[distant vault]

Not really

[distant vault]

I can still gamble can't i

[tranquil osprey]

Coupon is like borderline worth it on ante 1 small and literally nowhere else.

[distant vault]

Mfers acting like I can't just restart

[tranquil osprey]

Losing a shop is bad.

[glad bronze]

booooooo I like my statistics RAW and FAVORABLE

I like to win

[crystal field]

but streaksssss

[distant vault]

I like to gamble

We are not the same

[worn meteor]

i always take charm tag because gambling

[distant vault]

No biggie

[supple yarrow]

ngl a funny deck idea would be making all + go to chips and all x (if the mod it would be included in has xchips) go to mult

[distant vault]

I take poly skip on ghost

[glad bronze]

chat should I do magic, abandoned, or painted?

[supple yarrow]

or just needle deck aka 1 hand lol u suck

[faint linden]

Wtf is the point of Eternal Egg?

[glad bronze]

I have them all gold unlocked just not golded yet

[distant vault]

Temperance

[worn meteor]

temperance, swashbonkler

[tranquil osprey]

Painted. Have fun.

[crystal field]

eternal egg not bad

[humble hound]

i saw one of these yesterday

[tranquil osprey]

Painted deck is sooo fun

[distant vault]

I take poly skip on ghost and still win. You can't skip because you lose. We are not the same

[crystal field]

yessss

[glad bronze]

I remember it being fun last time I played, though it was a while ago

[distant vault]

[crystal field]

i love handsize

[glad bronze]

steel cards go crazy

[faint linden]

Ironically, Swashbuckler is the other Joker in the shop

[crystal field]

i always forget how insane 10 handsize is untl i play painted deck

[faint linden]

Chat, should I take them?

[tranquil osprey]

More handsize means everything is better.

[distant vault]

I have big hands

[glad bronze]

or when you decide to grab a bean

[crystal field]

i always take the bean if i can

[tranquil osprey]

Bean is the best food

[distant vault]

Chat when you decide to play suboptimal to have some fun : 😡

[crystal field]

smol bean :p

lmao

[distant vault]

God damn

[crystal field]

also ecto is not nearly as bad on painted deck

[distant vault]

9.5k pairs

[tranquil osprey]

I still cant wait to see blue stake and/or blue seal reworks.

[crystal field]

i think if anything

maybe the other methods of getting planets is just bad

[tranquil osprey]

Blue Seal gg is kinda a problem this game has

[crystal field]

yeah

thats why nebula really is bad

[distant vault]

Nebula sucks so bad

[crystal field]

telescope is only like 3x more planets when bs is lik 6x more planets

its not as useful because other packs

wondering if there should be a way to get 3 packs in shop

[worn meteor]

simply buff planet packs

[crystal field]

issue is how would u do this

[distant vault]

Its not just telescope. Telescope is fine. But nebula has a downside. Zodiac has 3 vouchers with no downside. Nebula has 1 voucher and a downside.

Its so stupid

[crystal field]

because back then telescope was really powerful since blue seals had a different effect

now its outdated

[distant vault]

Telescope is not worth the consumable slot because telescope can actually be detrimental early on

[worn meteor]

blue seal used to be gambling

[distant vault]

You don't always want your most played hand in packs

Especially early

[crystal field]

ig thats true

but it doesnt take much work to get mercury up

[worn meteor]

why does magic deck get crystal ball + 2 fools but telescope is telescope -1 slot

[distant vault]

True but its not worth for me

[crystal field]

the main issye is ur not even guaranteed planet packs

idr the rate

[distant vault]

This is why nebula sucks

[crystal field]

its like maybe 1.5 per ante

im sure someone knows

[tranquil osprey]

Nebula black and green are the trio of bad.

[distant vault]

I don't mind black deck i kinda like hard mode.

But yes its very hard

[worn meteor]

green is not that bad is it?

[distant vault]

But black feels more rng

Not good jokers ante 1 and youre probably fucked

[tranquil osprey]

Black just feels like starting in poverty

[distant vault]

Green ain't that bad

Just boring

Nebula is bad

Is in my opinion

Black feels horrible

[glad bronze]

Ironically, shortcut is one of the few jokers that I do have a gold sticker on

[supple yarrow]

isnt nebula just "play pairs or die haha"

[distant vault]

You can't really play pairs ante 1

Well unless jokers

[glad bronze]

well you can

[distant vault]

So you play flushes and now your planet packs are ruined for a bit

[glad bronze]

round 1 even

you just won't win

[distant vault]

Nice

[supple yarrow]

just play a couple pairs then win with the flush

then planet are not ruined

[distant vault]

Yes just draw the hand you need right

[worn meteor]

i found it easiest to just play straights on nebula

[distant vault]

[supple yarrow]

anyways time to start the stake grind on yello deck

brb

[faint linden]

A Negative would be nice. Droll maybe?

[novel hound]

just beat black stake shortly after beating green stake

[formal shadow]

erosion or scholar? i already have like a good amt of aces in my deck

[novel hound]

the thing about my main deck is that my goat smeared is useless 😔

[glad bronze]

scholar

[serene forge]

balatrodle in 4

[formal shadow]

photochad time..?

[supple yarrow]

yo before i start my yellow runs im finishing this blue deck run and i have 6x madness with riff raff on white stake HELP idk how to pivot for better score

[humble hound]

hell ya brother

lmao nvm

[fallow briar]

yipi

[supple yarrow]

anyone know a better combo i can use

[shadow spruce]

take the pants

[blissful scroll]

Blueprint…

[humble hound]

yk sometimes i hate this game

[formal shadow]

is it time for photochad

im primarily aces but i can fix

[shadow spruce]

you're on ante 1 two five-card hands win

[humble hound]

tht doesnt make me hate it less

[blissful scroll]

I can’t wait to get plasma deck

[humble hound]

nvm i love it again

[crystal field]

diamonds flush x3

[humble hound]

yes

im on round 6 now lol

[vale shale]

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

[unborn apex]

balanced deck

[trail stirrup]

Didn’t know 4 of a kind decks were that good

[vale shale]

I would need a real unmodded deck here.

[trail stirrup]

I fill my deck up with 10s and it’s immune to the boss blinds that disable face cards

[supple yarrow]

i just made a practice profile where i unlocked all, whats the best way i can practice-

[unborn apex]

play

[supple yarrow]

i mean duh but what deck/stake is best for practicing

[unborn apex]

understand how the game works through trial and error

[trail stirrup]

Did y’all beat violet vessel first or another try?

[vale shale]

Yes

[trail stirrup]

So never lol

[blissful scroll]

First

[unborn apex]

red deck, white stake for

[trail stirrup]

Hot take I don’t think violet vessel was that bad

[trail stirrup]

Same

[blissful scroll]

I was joking I have no clue what violet vessel is

[unborn apex]

6 times the goal of small blind or big blind

[trail stirrup]

The purple showdown blind

[supple yarrow]

im not like a complete noob, i just need practice on harder things like deck fixing and proper money usage

[blissful scroll]

Oooh

[queen geyser]

only jokerless challenge left😭

[crystal field]

I can work with this I think

[trail stirrup]

What’s yalls fav suit?

[supple yarrow]

on white stake on base decks i can basically win with my brain off

[unborn apex]

you want to practice deck fixing ehhhh, go on, try the erratic deck

[crystal field]

fursuit

[blissful scroll]

Hearts

[unborn apex]

spades all the way

[trail stirrup]

Same

[blissful scroll]

Wow were so similar

[unborn apex]

you guys should just date each other smh

[supple yarrow]

which stake tho, white stake would make me not have to deck fix to js win

[trail stirrup]

Might start maining 4 of a kind builds instead of flush

[unborn apex]

purple stake

[supple yarrow]

cool

[blissful scroll]

I think that’s illegal

[trail stirrup]

I beat the first unlocked stake last night

What’s the first unlockable stake called again?

[heavy heron]

flushes don't scale well they said 🙄

[blissful scroll]

Red

[unborn apex]

red

[hazy flame]

I wonder what hand I'm gonna play this run

[trail stirrup]

I just default to skipping the small blind every round on red

[supple yarrow]

well uhh i guess im doing bloodstone, 17 hearts 18 diamonds

[unborn apex]

dogwater hand

those are some bad eternal jokers

[trail stirrup]

Daily:

[unborn apex]

even misprint would be more useful than those two

[blissful scroll]

Probably high card

[supple yarrow]

i hate swashbuckler...

[blissful scroll]

I beat black deck with a misprint

[trail stirrup]

I once ran a super powered high card deck

I forgot how it went but one card was all it took to one shot each blind

[blissful scroll]

Crazy

[hazy flame]

I didn't buy a game about jokers to be optimal and emotionless now did I

[blissful scroll]

Yes

[unborn apex]

probably mime then dusk with red seal lucky card

[blissful scroll]

You did

[hazy flame]

I'm playing Flushes this round :3

[trail stirrup]

Btw are some jokers locked behind stakes?

[unborn apex]

yes

[worn meteor]

you will play pairslop and you will like it

[blissful scroll]

Flushes are fun, I always do either flushes or full house

[unborn apex]

full house....

[blissful scroll]

Yes

[unborn apex]

just do 4 of a kind pal

[blissful scroll]

Nah

Full house is fun

[worn meteor]

genuinely what is the purpose of the normal full house

why would you ever play that hand

[unborn apex]

chips

[trail stirrup]

Ran a 4 of a kind deck to win red stake

[blissful scroll]

Fun

[worn meteor]

is it though? the least fun thing in balatro for me is being unable to pull the hand i need

[unborn apex]

that hand is rare for me unless i deck fix a lot

at that point flush five becomes a thing

so i just do that instead

[supple yarrow]

yooo if im playing for hearts flush bloodstone is the eternal crafty joker worth it lmao

[blissful scroll]

Same

[worn meteor]

i've only ever played flush house once

never full house ever

[unborn apex]

no idea what that second joker is

[blissful scroll]

Genuinely what

[supple yarrow]

+80 chips when flush

[blissful scroll]

Oh

[unborn apex]

no, bad eternal joker

[supple yarrow]

lol

ive only played black stake once ok, im not familiar with eternal priority

[unborn apex]

wait

[supple yarrow]

now im on ourple

[unborn apex]

can michael be eternal ?

[worn meteor]

take eternals that are good

frfr

[supple yarrow]

yes why?

[unborn apex]

can michael die when eternal?

[supple yarrow]

ive seen it in unmodded yt vids

but i dont remember

[blissful scroll]

Five eternal Jimbo Run

[supple yarrow]

cool i found non eternal craft, im taking that im really down bad on scoring

[blissful scroll]

I can’t wait for plasma deck

I’m going to have so much fun messing with it

[fallow briar]

do i photochad?

drop the spades?

[serene forge]

I hate Bloodstone

[supple yarrow]

ayo blueprint, peak

[fallow briar]

same run as i sent a while ago with the blueprint start

[fallow briar]

^

isnt dropping hologram gonna be better for photochad?

[supple yarrow]

ayo i js got brainstorm too

[fallow briar]

im dropping hologram

[heady narwhal]

dusk is x4 so it's the better sell here i think

[supple yarrow]

i mean im still down bad on scoring tho, im being kept alive by SMEARED of all jokers

[fallow briar]

bye bye temperance value

[heady narwhal]

x4 on only one hand for that matter

[fallow briar]

fine ill sell dusk

[glad bronze]

you sent it over to me ty

[heady narwhal]

also there's a jumbo spectral which might have grim/familiar/incantation/cryptid

[fallow briar]

lemme open

incantation

[heady narwhal]

nice

[supple yarrow]

no way i died on this run to getting none of my 2 most common suits

i liked having both copys

[fallow briar]

ok so how do i order? (my deck is mostly spades and my flush is like lvl 13)

[glad bronze]

blue on photo brain on chad

[supple yarrow]

hey i have a question...

[glad bronze]

correct

[supple yarrow]

yes or no eternal photograph

ante 1 small blind shop

[glad bronze]

yeah

[fallow briar]

red seal first right?

[supple yarrow]

my only issue is erratic only giving 7 face cards

mm, is it still worth

[fallow briar]

i usually reroll erratic for like 6 kings lol

[supple yarrow]

im tryna do no reroll

[glad bronze]

if you know you're gonna win put your blue on chad and make your lucky the first

[fallow briar]

oh yeah good point ty

and if i wanna max points i go red seal?

[glad bronze]

yep

[supple yarrow]

yo immolate in a spectral worth all my money just saved the run

[fallow briar]

so im def gonna win, but if i wanted to go as far as i can in endless what jokers should i look for?

[heavy heron]

yall don’t want this smoke

i will flush until the water bill goes through the ceiling

[cosmic sun]

😴

[fallow briar]

when i was a beginner i was bored and just bought every planet card i saw idk why

[heavy heron]

i mean hey if it works it works

[heavy heron]

that was ante 8 btw

my blue seals 🤤

[fallow briar]

my brainstorm is worth like 1/4th of my hologram lmao

[glad bronze]

baron x mime get sixth sense for some ectos and try getting 2 blueprints and brainstorms, get a full deck of red seal steel kings and reroll in shop for the serpent, getting a mail-in-rebate is great for this as it gives amazing econ when you have 5 discards from vouchers

[fallow briar]

i have no sixes left thats why ihad to sell sixth sense earlier in run lmao

i had a spectral pack with 4 sixes and immolate took all of them 💀

[glad bronze]

oh and don't forget DNA

copy DNA with bp braistorm first hand and split them between baron and mime on other hands

[fallow briar]

gotcha

@glad bronze found dna, what to sell for?

[formal shadow]

bro what do i do

there are so many options

econ....

2x blueprint....

[lost vault]

you’d just die dude

[formal shadow]

so econ time

[lost vault]

you dont need 2 blueprints

[formal shadow]

wait hold on

its a mega spectral

so i can econ and get 2 blueprint....

thoughts?

[supple yarrow]

i love my first joker being egg, so useful for scoring

[lost vault]

are you mad mansley

[formal shadow]

or should i just gold seal

probably gold seal

[lost vault]

grim so u can strength the aces into 2s for wee

trust

not a scam

[formal shadow]

invis is ready

should i sell bp or wee

[fallow briar]

get a +mult in shop first

[formal shadow]

smiley face in shop

[fallow briar]

2x bp and smiley

[formal shadow]

thank

[fallow briar]

selling arrowhead for it i guess

rip 10 sell value

[supple yarrow]

HOLY i js got erratic 11 2's

[minor portal]

that's crazy that the seed won't have a hack or wee joker until ante 10

[supple yarrow]

vro why does eternal photo only appear with less than 8 face cards

[hazy flame]

okay yeah that run sucked but how about this run

[lost vault]

NEITHER

BRUH

[supple yarrow]

genuinely only thing i can do is skip shop or open a jumbo standard for an extra 0.25 on my holo from small blind

[lost vault]

u dont need invis to be guaranteed

either wee or bp is a great hit

[minor portal]

eternal cloud nine

[lost vault]

money is money

[minor portal]

evil money

you wouldn't want evil money

[lost vault]

i would

u dont know me

[compact gazelle]

evil money is money

[minor portal]

no, it's evil money

that's the distinction

It's evil.

[compact gazelle]

its still just money

[lost vault]

money is the root of all evil man

[compact gazelle]

lemme commit all the crimes i want

[lost vault]

all money is evil

[minor portal]

now when did crimes ever get mentioned

[hazy flame]

i don't even need to do anything besides have nines in my deck it's a great source of income :3

[lost vault]

c9 lowk good

[hazy flame]

yeag

[minor portal]

52 9's or no deal

[lost vault]

greedy bastard

[minor portal]

oops all nines

[compact gazelle]

why limit yourself to 52

[minor portal]

53 isn't a number

[hazy flame]

no i did not get an immolate ever before you ask

[compact gazelle]

but a kazillion is and thats more than 52

look how many letters it has its definitely bigger

[vale shale]

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

[south palm]

How is ante 0 possible

☠️

[compact gazelle]

zodiac

[minor portal]

They both use nine characters, therefore they have the same value.

[lost vault]

ante -1 is as well

[supple yarrow]

holy cloud 9 run, 8 nines and 6 eights from erratic

[south palm]

🤯

[compact gazelle]

nonono theres like a z and stuff
its obviously more number :3

[south palm]

Makes sense

[lost vault]

ante -1 is only doable using a bug

voucher skip small blind

[hollow kernel]

do NOT let me squander this run

[lost vault]

then 0.5 game speed

then in the shop

[compact gazelle]

(on yellow)

[lost vault]

quickly purchase heiroglyph before the voucher tag activates

then if ur lucky petro will appear

ante -1 :3

[compact gazelle]

congratulations! ✨ you just threw out a hand and a discard to get
smol blind

worth it

[lost vault]

ante -1 is the same size as ante 0 unfortunately

[compact gazelle]

yeah but you get two antes of smol

[supple yarrow]

ayo eternal poly hologram

worth?

[lost vault]

forever gay

[formal shadow]

shouild i replace photo and use ancient

[fallow briar]

ancient on 2x bp is gonna go crazy

[compact gazelle]

all in on ancient hell yeah

[fallow briar]

and photo i gonna get debuffed anyways

[lost vault]

yea? i mean….. its a perishable photo

[vale shale]

Ooooo zodiac.

[formal shadow]

whats the most optimal order for this

chad bps ancient smiley ⁉️

[lost vault]

idfk probably double copy ancient

[opal delta]

I just realized that sixth sense and dna is an actual spectral card generator

[signal frigate]

It's rare that I get to do this combo but I love it

[formal shadow]

WHAT NOW ‼️

[opal delta]

hanging chad

[signal frigate]

Hope for the third blueprint

[lost vault]

what do you think man

[formal shadow]

i got double chad

double chad double bp

hmmm

[signal frigate]

Well, that sucks, go get wild cards

[lost vault]

wilds arent needed but sure

[signal frigate]

Consistency is key

[lost vault]

yes

i know

[signal frigate]

And wild cards help Ancient be consistent

[lost vault]

until a boss blind comes along

[signal frigate]

Your pitstop is probably ante 15

[signal frigate]

You can outsmart your way out of it

[lost vault]

wilds are nice to have but u dont wanna get too many

[signal frigate]

Not necessarily, you can get away with a deck full of em

[lost vault]

maybe with retcon

[formal shadow]

ok the run is fucked

i got the club

and ancient is on club

truly amazing

[lost vault]

brother you can prevent this

[signal frigate]

And some wacky little shop scouring for the funni little wrestler

[signal frigate]

You had time to skip for it

[lost vault]

literally just skip a single blind so ancient doesnt change

lnao

[formal shadow]

yea i forgot

i had directors cut too lol

[signal frigate]

That was probably the easiest win you could've had

[formal shadow]

🤯

we go next

[signal frigate]

I haven't learned my lesson from econ issues

I keep buying things out of habit

[serene forge]

[signal frigate]

Me when

Sometimes it does feel like that tho

[serene forge]

this is a good thing

weakly leveled two pair for trousers

[fallow briar]

i always forget to check boss blind even when i have directors cut and ts always happens to me

[signal frigate]

Yeah, you can't expect nothing from a Redditor

But I meant drawing the hand

Because sometimes, the game just trolls you and gives you the hand type once you sell the joker

[lost vault]

what joker

[serene forge]

space jonkler

[lost vault]

oh

yeah no levels in hc is great for trousers

[acoustic kettle]

Picked up an eternal space joker yesterday

3 upgrades in like

40 hands

[lost vault]

in some weird fucked up way you wanan keep two pair weak so that you can scale trousers without winning accidentally

[acoustic kettle]

Fuck him

[lost vault]

yeah sure

[fervent wolf]

Why isn't this foil???

[lost vault]

uh

should it be?

[acoustic kettle]

Because

[fervent wolf]

Yes, the foil tags

[novel hound]

i licked the foil off

[fervent wolf]

Give it back

[lost vault]

clearly the foil tags have not activated

[fervent wolf]

They should have on the riffraff

[acoustic kettle]

Why are you double skipping for 2 foils

[lost vault]

true

[fervent wolf]

Bc yes

[acoustic kettle]

Where did you get the riff raff from

[fervent wolf]

Shop

[formal shadow]

what should i ATTEMPT to invis or get rid of for invis

[fervent wolf]

Sitting in the spot

[novel hound]

wait what’s the point of foils if there are commons that can give you like 80 or 100 for playing the hands you play the most

[acoustic kettle]

Because

You don't waste a slot

[fervent wolf]

That doesn't matter, riffraff should be foil

[fallow briar]

legit my last joker for my collection 💀

[fervent wolf]

Me when Foil squoker

[lost vault]

foils are unconditional and the hand types arent always the one you’re playing and you wont always find said joker and foil doesnt take up a joker slot

[lost vault]

also theres no harm in having more chips

id much rather have 130 chips than 80

[fervent wolf]

But what if the serving size is only 80

Those bags do have a lot of air (especially lays)

[signal frigate]

Did you buy it before the skip?

[lost vault]

im a gluttonous bastard

[fervent wolf]

No

[fervent wolf]

Me too lol

[signal frigate]

That's funny

[lost vault]

ive eaten family size bag if chips in a matter of a couple days

as u can imagine not a fun result afterward

[signal frigate]

Couple of days? I did that in one sitting, 3 bags

[fervent wolf]

I ate an entire party size bag of hot cheetos in a day

[signal frigate]

Not great for your kidneys tell you what

[lost vault]

ive probably done it in one day before i just dont wanna make uncertain clames

claims

am i stupid

[fervent wolf]

No

[pliant jewel]

i have eaten ONE WHOLE CHIP in a day

[fervent wolf]

:>

[signal frigate]

I am confident bout my gluttony because I've eaten like, 2 entire boxes of pizza in 1 sitting at some point

[lost vault]

remember to hydrate. kidney stones are horrifying

[fervent wolf]

Woah....this guy's serious....

[lost vault]

u want me so bad

[shadow spruce]

do popcorn and turtle bean get erased before perishable disables them

[fervent wolf]

WHAAAAAAAT

[lost vault]

:3

[fervent wolf]

Time to leave the chat!!!

[pliant jewel]

yes i think

[signal frigate]

I inherited my dad's Thor gut

[shadow spruce]

okay well that's stinky

[signal frigate]

And my mom's hypermetabolism

[shadow spruce]

you just have to pray you get them on ante 7

[acoustic kettle]

This isn't normal?

[signal frigate]

So I have what's called "Skinny fat"

[signal frigate]

Apparently not, according to my friends, I've eaten more

They watched me in horror as I devoured an entire table once

[atomic trout]

What am I looking at?

[pliant jewel]

simply get them on ante 4 and skip every single blind

[shadow spruce]

true

[signal frigate]

You can interpret this literally

[formal shadow]

whgats the right setup for this

[signal frigate]

Eye of Horus

[fervent wolf]

same probably

[signal frigate]

It doesn't matter

[serene forge]

I hate Bloodstone

[formal shadow]

ah nuts

[atomic trout]

No. this dumbass chat that I entered in.

[serene forge]

sell photograph and photograph

[atomic trout]

Game discussion lol

[signal frigate]

Xmult always comes first since it scores in your playing card

[fervent wolf]

[pliant jewel]

you should put the polychrome on the right of the pants

[serene forge]

NO

[formal shadow]

photo card in the card pack

[serene forge]

@hybrid tendon

[signal frigate]

What seems to be the problem? And why the picture?

[atomic trout]

Bloodstone is life.

[acoustic kettle]

Ew

[unborn apex]

high card and mime with blueprint and brainstorm for the win, i finally broke through the e barrier

[atomic trout]

I went back to lose a Hand and the game. That's the problem lol

The voucher becomes the Black Deck.

[signal frigate]

Yeah? That's what the voucher does

You saying that's a bad voucher?

[atomic trout]

When it comes to scaling, no.

[signal frigate]

Because you're supposed to use it strategically, IE to scale

Give your jokers more time

And level up your hands

[serene forge]

hieroglyph 2nd most overrated voucher in the game

[atomic trout]

I had a pefect straight run yet the Hieroglyph fucked me over, I had bad draws. Lost a game lol

[signal frigate]

It's surely not the best but it's good at what it does

[pliant jewel]

it's still good though

[acoustic kettle]

Petroglyph or hieroglyph

[signal frigate]

Why'd you buy it when you know your scale is good enough?

[atomic trout]

Because I'm an idiot. lol

[unborn apex]

guys i have a problem

[atomic trout]

I could had won Orange stakes Green Deck, lol

[signal frigate]

Then the problem doesn't lie with the Voucher

It's on you

[atomic trout]

The problem was my poor choices lol

[signal frigate]

Why blame Heiro?

[unborn apex]

i have mime, dna, brainstorm and blueprint. I can use blueprint and brainstorm to copy dna but then the score suffers, but i can use them to copy mime and the score goes through the moon. but the dna suffers then

what do i do

[atomic trout]

damn, you right

[fervent wolf]

Bros the editions emperor

[atomic trout]

I just mentioned it was my fault lol

[signal frigate]

I'm betting 5 dollars that banana won't die before the perishable timer

[signal frigate]

Also your econ is completely fucked

You might wanna get that perishable business card

[unborn apex]

yup that's a bad econ

[atomic trout]

Nooooooo!

Even WHITE stakes is hard.

[unborn apex]

the pair dream was only a dream

[acoustic kettle]

Skull issue

[fervent wolf]

Well well well

[signal frigate]

Major Skill issue

[atomic trout]

You're a skill issue!

I blame the chips lol

[signal frigate]

You still went negatives here

[unborn apex]

banana does not want to be with your poor ass

[fallow briar]

guys im sorry but i see the number...

[atomic trout]

I did the math so wrong lol

[fallow briar]

67

[heavy heron]

HELLO

[acoustic kettle]

Skull issue

[fervent wolf]

Look at the tag!!

[atomic trout]

Math issue. I miscalculated in my head

[fervent wolf]

💀 ☠️

[signal frigate]

Well I didn't see that

[opal delta]

[atomic trout]

Time to run another run

[serene forge]

I hate Bloodstone

[opal delta]

I hate bloodstone

[signal frigate]

I'm haunted by Chainsaw Man

When is someone making a Chainsaw Man joker mod?

[rustic aspen]

[heavy heron]

i hate stoodblone

[unborn apex]

what do i do

[fervent wolf]

Now I'm the editions eradicator

[heavy heron]

LOOOLLLL

UNLUCKY

[signal frigate]

Hanging Chad next shop trust

[atomic trout]

What the hell is this?

[signal frigate]

I've had the exact same thing happen to me but it was 19k

[signal frigate]

This beta Balatro?

[acoustic kettle]

Betatro

[signal frigate]

Betro

[atomic trout]

Multiplayer Balatro

[signal frigate]

Ohhh I remember now

[unborn apex]

some help plz

[atomic trout]

But I didn't realize this is new with some other Decks

[signal frigate]

There's also new jokers that fucks with your opponents

[atomic trout]

Damn

What I do wrong?

[signal frigate]

Know what hands score 200 to 300

And go for those

Throwing away low hands ain't great for early score

[atomic trout]

Skill issue? Nah, I blame luck

[signal frigate]

Definitely skill issue

Losing ante 1 with 100 chips is crazy

Round 1 no less

[supple yarrow]

nooo i lost in late ante 7 to bad joker rng bruhhh

[lost vault]

64

sait

[atomic trout]

It gets worse.

[lost vault]

am stupid boy

[supple yarrow]

so close to beating erratic purple stake practice

[lost vault]

sob??

[signal frigate]

Ace to King straights oneshots round one, a good flush with 3 ranks higher than 7 also does, 2 good flushes also oneshots ante 1 bossblind

[lost vault]

losing to ante 0 is insane brah

[atomic trout]

I actually wanted to lose to Ante 0

[lost vault]

you can literalky beat ante 0 boss blind by spamming high enough pairs