🕹・game-discussion

[terse vale]

some people say you’re “wasting money” and like bro

[heavy heron]

i just think red card is awful early game, decent mid game like starting late ante 2

[shell dagger]

by that argument grimbo, bus, supernova also fall off

[heavy heron]

never really find it at the right time

[shell dagger]

bc they scale slower than red card

[terse vale]

na

[deft sandal]

The only pack that might be skipped is standard packs, but sometimes they contain great cards too

[placid cave]

yeah, i don't use them that much

[hardy fable]

red card makes every pack useful in some way---in an ideal world you will open every pack every shop, and not all of them will have hanged man, a joker you want, immolate, mercury, etc etc
in this sense red card contributes as both a scoring (helping you win) joker and as a utility (gives dud packs the ability to still contribute to scoring) joker
helping matters is its +mult per pack skipped, and comparing the overall +mult to its peers, green joker and ride the bus
the latter 2 gain +1 mult per hand; on most decks that is 12 mult per ante; in contrast, red card is +18 mult per ante should you skip all 6 packs per ante
However this +6 mult is often not seen much as a straight upside in terms of mult per ante because rarely do you ever skip every pack in a given ante; in this sense it should be thought of as a buffer to let you weigh what packs to skip and which ones to take, as overall red card has more variance in favor of it gaining mult compared to its peers due to that fact
overall red card simply covers a very solid utility niche of making every pack opened useful whether it be through offering the card you want, or by giving +mult to red card (and it cannot be overstated that a niche like this is Very Good) while also being a good scaling +mult joker in its own right

[shell dagger]

or you could just skip every pack

[heavy heron]

the issue with red card is that if you find it ante 1, you become reliant on it for survival, meaning forced to spend even when you should be saving

[terse vale]

red card can regularly get at a minimum 60 mult by the end of the game

[hardy fable]

hey look I saved it

[shell dagger]

they are the backbone of a lot of gold stake runs

[deft sandal]

now hold up, reading is hard

[void topaz]

god i wonder what im gonna sell

[frank grove]

if you dont have telescope a lot of celestial packs are skippable

[terse vale]

ya

even then eho

[placid cave]

me when asked what's the element symbol of sodium:

[terse vale]

if you have a chips joker

[last bolt]

yorick

[heavy heron]

nothing actually

you don’t need to sell at all

[hardy fable]

you don't say ( I have an image suited for every conversation)

[honest dawn]

Sell to Yorick

[deft sandal]

lmao

[void topaz]

oh well i sold yorick anyway

[heavy heron]

wait what’s your hand type? and what level is it?

[hardy fable]

decisions decisions

[heavy heron]

ok

i see

[deft sandal]

u don't even gotta sell to beat the boss lmao

[terse vale]

idk why people act like you have to have like 100000 dollars to open two packs in a shop

[heavy heron]

i mean he’s 1x yea

[void topaz]

your propably right though

[placid cave]

I could see myself using them but I wouldn't like it

[void topaz]

apparantly i didnt have onxy agate unlocked on this profile

[last bolt]

wild

[deft sandal]

man, 4/5 jokers you have doesn't even require scoring cards

had*

[hardy fable]

@deft sandal has this change your mind

[deft sandal]

still reading, give me like an hour to process that

[placid cave]

balatro players took on the hardest challenge ever: reading

[deft sandal]

if the red card is wrapped with yellow ribbon, and a label of "to: Joker. I might consider taking it

[fluid quartz]

oh my god i did gold stake black deck finally

[deft sandal]

yeah, you changed my mind, I would take this red card from now on

[placid cave]

congrats

[deft sandal]

love you pfp btw, lucky cat from Slime Rancher

[fluid quartz]

love slime rancher

[deft sandal]

indeed

[tiny nexus]

Remember playing slime rancher when it was free on gamepass

What a banger

[deft sandal]

they released Slime Rancher 2 btw

[fluid quartz]

meh, i prefer slime rancher 1 im not sure why

[tiny nexus]

Yeah ik, never got round to playing

[deft sandal]

slime rancher 1 just feels right

[mental bloom]

got this with plasmic deck, W?

[tiny nexus]

I'd want an econ to grow the bull but ig you probably dont need it to beat ante 8

[mental bloom]

Makes sense

Ante 8 is gonna be a piece of cake for sure

used an ecto, 3 hand size now

[hardy fable]

ofc

[deft sandal]

you would breeze through the first 8 ante, but you definitely need some mult in late game

[hardy fable]

I sense smth menacing though

[mental bloom]

oh no you're right

for the first time in my balatro games the medium could actually piss me off

[mental bloom]

I don't see this run goin on infinite mode anyways

[mental bloom]

oh lol wait nvm I'm already at ante 8 lol

[tranquil steppe]

It’s all fun and games until violet vessel shows up

[hardy fable]

les goo

[mental bloom]

WELL GUESS WHAT

[deft sandal]

NOOO, the hardest boss in the game

[mental bloom]

:3

[mental bloom]

carried by stuntgoat

[tranquil steppe]

No but it is hard on the higher ranks on plasma

[tranquil steppe]

Oh you’re only doing white, you’re fine

[mental bloom]

Yeaaaa

[tranquil steppe]

Also, I hate idol too lol

[deft sandal]

now, if this text message without context seems racially motivated

[tranquil steppe]

People always gotta make stuff political smdh

[mental bloom]

okay ggs :D

[tranquil steppe]

Noice!

[mental bloom]

My man 🫱🏼‍🫲🏽

[deft sandal]

chill, It's just a joke :)

[mental bloom]

Finally someone gets it

[tranquil steppe]

I figured. We don’t need politics here lol

[mental bloom]

#2 or 3 laziest run I've ever done

[tranquil steppe]

I know it CAN be good if you deck fix and you’re going endless but without an amazinggggg setup, it’s garbage

[mental bloom]

Exactly

[deft sandal]

polychrome Astronomer looks cool

[mental bloom]

Brochacho wants your deck perfectly fixed and it's pmo

[tranquil steppe]

Yea it really does

[mental bloom]

Yeah lol took it for the White Stake Sticker cuz why not

[tranquil steppe]

I had a poly cavendish the other day that also looked really cool

Also, poly gold playing cards tend to look pretty cool

[mental bloom]

Yessss

[calm epoch]

wassup yall

[deft sandal]

I've done a stupid run today and couldn't get pass ante 12

[mental bloom]

Im tryna get my hand size to 1 >:3

[calm epoch]

o

good luck with that fr

i mean, you can always spam ectoplasms but meh, stuntgoat spam better

[tranquil steppe]

For the lolz

[mental bloom]

Yeaaaa

[deft sandal]

take some ouija and you'll get there

[mental bloom]

YAY

[calm epoch]

W

[deft sandal]

that works too

[mental bloom]

Already took some ecto

[ripe gull]

#⚙・modding-general

[deft sandal]

now we wait until this shows up

[latent egret]

whats stm here for

[mental bloom]

Look at him standing still and proud 🥹

[calm epoch]

funsies

[mental bloom]

FOIL

So more chips

[hardy fable]

ancient meme
trading card might be the worst card in the game, and HERE is why:
when you draw your cards, you have a bunch of cards and they all have value
so when you DESTROY a card, it's gone, and you can't turn it into a gold, so you lose out on over $40 over the course of the run. also, just like that, it's harder to make a straight! you're screwed! and then you get 3 dollars for it, which isn't even an interest step! only like 30 jokers are 3 dollars or under, so it's basically useless. Also, with blue stake, you only have 2 discards and when you use one on a single card (TO HURT YOR FUTURE ODDS MIGH I ADD), you now cut your discards in HALF. that's even worse than what blue stake did, reducing by a third! everyone hates blue stake, so think about it!!!!
finally, it's a uncommon which means that it takes up a valuable uncommon skip slot for The Idol which is the best joker in the game.

[calm epoch]

oh wow thank you game for giving me an option to get eternal obelisk right at the first buffoon pack of shop 1

[mental bloom]

And number go up

[calm epoch]

yooo its him, the stuntgoat

wbb

[hardy fable]

I do not know what wbb is

[deft sandal]

The Psychic is stalking you somewhere down the run

[calm epoch]

welcome back but with an extra b

cuz y not

[mental bloom]

Agreed to all that until you wrote your last phrase

[mental bloom]

All good I won already

[potent tree]

wait hold up...2 rare skip tags just generated tribe and order...

STRAIGHT FLUSH TIME

[mental bloom]

Hell yeah

[deft sandal]

what's that card back btw

[latent egret]

idk man the 550 chips from the stuntmans look like enough

[mental bloom]

NO WE NEED BIGGER SCORE

[mental bloom]

cocktail 🍸

[quartz ember]

modded (from multiplayer mod)

[vocal trellis]

Dumb question, buuut:
negative jokers don’t decrease your hand size, only the spectral cards that can give the effect do, right?

[mental bloom]

someone knows ball

[deft sandal]

if you can somehow find a wee and fix your deck to all 2s, it might be the best chips run

[quartz ember]

correct

[obsidian patrol]

The ever so trusty abandoned deck

[mental bloom]

I did stumble upon a wee after ante 8 but eh the run was already won...

[obsidian patrol]

I misread that

My bad

🥀

[mental bloom]

Yea could've gotten abandoned deck with that plasmic run but I got Black Deck and Ghost Deck

[mental bloom]

All good

[ember turtle]

mr hones is my favourite 4x mult joker

[mental bloom]

what am I reading

[deft sandal]

great to see Mr bones got a friend called Mr hones

[ember turtle]

mr hones is my favourite 4x mult joker

[ember turtle]

hones

[mental bloom]

hone

goat voucher

[calm epoch]

oh yea hes a cousin of mine

pretty cool dude imo

[potent tree]

i feel like i've just solved the millennium puzzle

[west perch]

omg. omg. omg

[potent tree]

burning madness w

instant win

[west perch]

this has to just be a pure plasma W right?

[mental bloom]

shortcut peak

[potent tree]

now all i need is a four fingers

[deft sandal]

look insde

[mental bloom]

would be peak, praying it appears in your shop!! 🙏🏽

[potent tree]

problem is what would i replace? probably wrathful

i'm spade centric anyways

[mental bloom]

yea there are better jokers than wrathful

[potent tree]

i only picked it up cause i have arrowhead too

[mental bloom]

Obv

[potent tree]

facetanked arm with unleveled straight flush feels good...

idk why abandoned is suddenly popping off for me

[west perch]

oh god, so endless foil burnt joker, madness, already have a steel king w/ red seal and a purple seal king

[silent lark]

genuinely what are the chances of a blueprint and a brainstorm being in shop both facing each other i need to know i didnt cheat this or anything. it just showed up!

[west perch]

how do i ruin this for myself

[calm epoch]

holy yuri

[signal lark]

are there ways to get more than 1 of the same card in a game?

[calm epoch]

showman

[signal lark]

i mean i think theres a consumable card 4 that not sure

[west perch]

thats how

kill me

[deft sandal]

i swear my gold stickers collection is the weirdest collection ever

[vocal trellis]

(Late reply but ty) 🙏

[deft sandal]

like why tf my cloud 9 got a gold sticker but not the baron lmao

[calm epoch]

wild

[potent tree]

facetanked the goad as well...

[deft sandal]

even the Juggler

[sinful plaza]

how do you get these stickers

[uncut slate]

baron is a useless rare but c9 is a decent uncommon

and juggler is a good common

[mental bloom]

win a game with a joker

[calm epoch]

by beating the stakes, you get a sticker of a stake on jokers that you have when you finish the run

[mental bloom]

like if you win on gold stake the joker gets a gold stake sticker

[calm epoch]

^

[deft sandal]

you can turn it on to see it in game in the settings

[sinful plaza]

is only for the jokers in your hand

[mental bloom]

yeah

[sinful plaza]

alright

[mental bloom]

the ones you have when beating the final boss blind

[mental bloom]

:3

[sinful plaza]

Ima turn that on

[obsidian patrol]

Cause baron is bad

[unborn cliff]

turn off crt chud

[mental bloom]

crt effect is peak what

[calm epoch]

i just got nat neg chaos

[unborn cliff]

i stickered every food joker before obelisk

[uncut slate]

i like crt it's cute

[uncut slate]

tbf obby is rare and most of the foods aren't

[unborn cliff]

i also had every legendary stickered before obby :/

[calm epoch]

wild

[deft sandal]

I hate obelisk tbh, the feeling of it catching up is dreading

[uncut slate]

most games i don't like crt filter because lots of indie games that i play are pixel art precision platformers and use a crt filter to make it impossible to see

but balatro is big cards that are plenty readable even with it on

[deft sandal]

what's the hardest joker to get gold sticker?

[unborn cliff]

food jokers

popcorn and turtle bean probably

[uncut slate]

yeah i was gonna say bean

[frank grove]

on my first time c++ing getting glass joker was a nightmare

[uncut slate]

it's uncommon and dies pretty fast

[unborn cliff]

michel is also a contender

[west perch]

wait

yesterday someone said black hole isn't a celestial card but it's like a tarot right? or is it a spectral

[unborn cliff]

the legendaries are easy to sticker since they're all good they're just hard to find

[frank grove]

but that was probably because i didnt like getting glass cards when i started playing

[calm epoch]

spectral

[unborn cliff]

spectral

[uncut slate]

glass joker is a powerhouse, do u just not make glass cards

[frank grove]

its a spectral

[uncut slate]

nvm u said

[deft sandal]

it is listed in the spectral cards collection

[frank grove]

it also acts like a spectral in the way that it doesnt increase const. if used

[uncut slate]

i do think the last two spectrals being kinda fake is one of the few times this game breaks its own rules

[west perch]

on the plus side, if i get a midas right about now i'm gonna go off

[deft sandal]

blackhole is mostly in planet packs, and soul is mostly in tarot

i think

[frank grove]

yeah

[calm epoch]

correct

[quartz ember]

not "mostly", they just are

[frank grove]

i dont think ive ever seen it in a spectral but thats just cause the chance is lower since most spec. packs have less cards than cests.

[uncut slate]

those packs are more common so it's more likely for the special spectrals to show in them than in spectral packs

[trim notch]

Hi

[uncut slate]

but both will appear in spec packs

[deft sandal]

they can still appear in spectral tho

[frank grove]

they can its just more rare

[quartz ember]

oh you meant it like that

[deft sandal]

midas and vampire scaling is slow :/

[serene forge]

I hate Bloodstone

[quartz ember]

i read it other way

[west perch]

okayyyyyy not midas but we got a little bit of an engine

[uncut slate]

what is baron doing

what am i looking at

[frank grove]

ooh.. marble vamp

[trim notch]

Gettin rent

[frank grove]

shivers

[west perch]

baron is...there

[trim notch]

Cool build

[deft sandal]

bud thinks he's on the team

[quartz ember]

also kind of misleading since its the same chance, but there are just less spots on average in spectral packs

[frank grove]

my message right above that says that

[trim notch]

If u play with stone cards, wouldnt the scary face be useless?

[quartz ember]

oh good

[deft sandal]

if the stone cards are face cards

[west perch]

you think i should ditch baron?

i'm trying to kings max with it cause more faces = double scary face value

[trim notch]

U need kinda luck tho

[uncut slate]

he doesn't do much in most gold stake runs

[deft sandal]

cause after sucking, the card underneath the stone will be triggered, so If those are face cards, then it can still be useful but not too useful

[tranquil steppe]

Bloodstone forgives your sins

[vague glacier]

Does wildcard not count as a heart when debuffed?

[uncut slate]

bloodstone doesn't do anything half the time

[deft sandal]

[tranquil steppe]

Only if it was originally a heart

[serene forge]

it does

[vague glacier]

damn

[quartz ember]

+20 chips epic

[serene forge]

it loses you the game usually

[frank grove]

yeah

[signal lark]

i love it

[uncut slate]

random money good random scoring bad

[trim notch]

yall flower pot doesn't work with wild card??

[calm epoch]

the % of games i have lost after getting bloodstone is so low ngl

[tranquil steppe]

Flower pot is ass

[deft sandal]

oh god, you don't have oops all six

[west perch]

question - steel kings with baron

what that do

[tranquil steppe]

Same. I’m not sure I’ve ever lost with bloodstone tbh

[serene forge]

bloodstone worst joker

[uncut slate]

both

[trim notch]

Iknow but i need it so i used wildcard on one of my cards and that thing didnt activate

[vague glacier]

yeah im cooked

[tranquil steppe]

To tha moon

[calm epoch]

this guy knows ball

[deft sandal]

flower pot on checker deck, the best combo

[trim notch]

Tbh u had 2 rounds before to prepare

[quartz ember]

answer - good

[west perch]

the trick is i just can't play them with vamp

[tranquil steppe]

Now OAS and you’re mega golden

[trim notch]

[serene forge]

nooooo its not my fault its obviously the game that just hates me in particular

[trim notch]

Give u 10mult if u have lvl1 highcard

[potent tree]

i will never find this setup again trust

[trim notch]

I just saw ur name what is that

[potent tree]

silksong

[serene forge]

skong 👍

[calm epoch]

oh dont worry you get used to it

[uncut slate]

very gay lesbian hornet

[deft sandal]

that's crazy

[potent tree]

oh my bad, skong 👍

[trim notch]

The first time i see that stairx3 useful

[trim notch]

Okay

[serene forge]

6 hours wasn't long enough

[west perch]

halp. now i actually don't know what to do

[deft sandal]

didn't know silksong was that type of a game

[trim notch]

Sell scary, get ghost, and ye

[serene forge]

nothing probably

[deft sandal]

kill baron

[trim notch]

Yeye that

[deft sandal]

that baron pains me to see

[serene forge]

double vampire is literally completely useless

[west perch]

if i go for invis and sell the baron or maybe marble joker, then i have a 25% chance the copy whiffs

[fringe crest]

balatrodle spoilers kinda ||why has every single answer been rare for a while||

[shell dagger]

bull fo sho

[serene forge]

sell baron though yeah tf is he doing

[tranquil steppe]

Why do you have stone?

[shell dagger]

bull is game winning

[serene forge]

vampire scaling

[west perch]

ditch baron for bull?

[shell dagger]

yes

[deft sandal]

I would take the standard packs and just move on lmao

[trim notch]

Just vibing

[west perch]

it hurts but

you right

[tranquil steppe]

Hmmm

[trim notch]

No

[shell dagger]

why tho

it’s plasma deck

[serene forge]

actually yeah bull is good somehow I didn't process the fact that vampire unstones the stones

[trim notch]

U have 28 bucks and dont even have midas

[deft sandal]

just looks for polychrome cards since you are sucking

[serene forge]

oh its plasmaaaaa

i hate Plasma Deck

[calm epoch]

ok i kinda agree on that, i dont like plasma either

[trim notch]

Plasma deck first 4 antes cool but then u need like 100k 🫩

[fringe crest]

plasma deck makes you have to force the same thing in every run

[deft sandal]

chips only matters in the early game, in late game, the bull (especially eternal bull) would just kill the run

[uncut slate]

i feel like vampire isn't doing anything bc there's no mult

[shell dagger]

no it doesnt

[trim notch]

Maybe high level of highcard

[fringe crest]

bull is like my favorite joker to win plasma with

[uncut slate]

i usually just go for chips on plasma

[shell dagger]

i have a c++ profile with plasma only

bull carried like 10 runs

[fringe crest]

nerd

[uncut slate]

bull is a powerhouse for sure

maybe the best plasma joker

[trim notch]

What is C++

[uncut slate]

because it turns any econ joker into a scaler

[shell dagger]

all joker gold stickers

[fringe crest]

all gold sticker jokers

[trim notch]

Oh okay

[tranquil steppe]

Programming language

[uncut slate]

my first plasma gold stake was a bull and like 3 econ jokers

[deft sandal]

you need like 500 doll hairs to get like 1000 chips, and that just 250000 of your score

[shell dagger]

i know

[trim notch]

[fringe crest]

i completely forgot that

[west perch]

marble will at least keep me alive until i find a midas or a dna

[fringe crest]

ive never seen that synergy with marble and vamp

[trim notch]

[shell dagger]

done it many times

[clever salmon]

Could you guys help me which joker to sell? Im mid at this game, barely 10 hours in

[deft sandal]

kill the hallucination

[trim notch]

1/2 bro

[uncut slate]

is vampire doing anything?? at all? where is this mult coming from

[west perch]

marble

[tranquil steppe]

This isn’t even a question. Booster boi

[trim notch]

High level maybe

[fringe crest]

10 HOURS????

oh

i thought you meant 10 hours in that single run

[clever salmon]

Like in total i meant

[uncut slate]

marble is not producing any +mult

[deft sandal]

look inside
Photochad

[west perch]

my mult comes fromm bull and double scary face

because plasma

[fringe crest]

uhh so hallucination if you just want to beat the run but you should be able to win if you sell supernova

[trim notch]

hate when i already made baron build and on ante 7 plant appears

[magic vessel]

FINALLY, idol saved the day once again, plasma deck can be put to bed

[trim notch]

Thsts chips

[fringe crest]

which goes into mult

[uncut slate]

the balance happens after your xmult applies

[fringe crest]

technically🤓

[tranquil steppe]

Noice!

[clever salmon]

Do i have atleast somehow good joker or is it meh? I already sold the card people mentioned earlier

[uncut slate]

so you get like 100 chips, 10 mult x probably like 3 from the vampire = 100 + 30, which is then balanced

[trim notch]

He meants the Xmult of vampire, which doesnt affect when it balances, only before so if he has 500 chips and 4 mult, a x4 mult wouldnt do sum

Atp reset the run bro

[signal lark]

guys if i have a card that says all played cards are counted in scoring is it gonna work if my boss blind says play only 1 type of hand this blind and im playing another one

[fringe crest]

photochad is good constelation is good but supernova shouldnt be helping as much anymore but only sell it if you get a diff joker that helps

[tranquil steppe]

All of them were good besides hallucination

[trim notch]

If u have water and u arent playing the same hand as before, all cards should count

[signal lark]

ok thanks

[fringe crest]

if you play a high card and play other cards it still counts as high card if you play a pair you can only play pairs so on so on

splash doesnt deactivate it

[trim notch]

Oh wait

[tranquil steppe]

Yea boss blind trumps splash in that scenario

[trim notch]

I thought he meant the other boss blind

😭

[fringe crest]

huh

[trim notch]

,

[fringe crest]

which one

[signal lark]

it does not.

i ruined my best run

[trim notch]

The eye i think

[tranquil steppe]

You can only play one type of hand all boss battle

Splash won’t deactivate that

[trim notch]

my bad at reading bro

😭

[trim notch]

what u were playing

[fringe crest]

its one of the main run killers dont feel bad👍

[trim notch]

I mean he lost by my fault

I should be sad

[fringe crest]

show me ur stats pls

[trim notch]

Me???

[fringe crest]

yuh

i wanna see

[trim notch]

Do u think im a noob???

[tranquil steppe]

Oh snap

[fringe crest]

no i js wanna see how far you are

[trim notch]

[trim notch]

give me a sek

Nvm

[fringe crest]

?

[trim notch]

my stas are low

[fringe crest]

show meeee

[trim notch]

😭

[fringe crest]

ill show you mine

[trim notch]

I have low things cuz

[trim notch]

I only play on the same 3 decks

Xd

[fringe crest]

noooo you go to options then stats

[trim notch]

I just realized

Why my stats are so low

[fringe crest]

why

[west perch]

god i love when gross michael dies immediatly

[fringe crest]

mine never die

[tranquil steppe]

So gross

[trim notch]

I meant

idk why

[fringe crest]

there was one that made it from round 2 to the end no skips

[trim notch]

I remember i got more than e40 on a run

😭

Oh no

[fringe crest]

not that bad

[trim notch]

I remember

is cuz

After ante 8

Im too lazy to continue

[fringe crest]

i got e63 before ante 8 one time

[trim notch]

I could

[west perch]

so yall blew my mind i was super dumb about the xmult when it applies. what about something like photochad though? it says x2 mult when scored which i remember is slightly different than when played

[trim notch]

If i got trib

Instead of

Yorick

[tranquil steppe]

Too bad it wasn’t e67

[fringe crest]

ikr

[trim notch]

[fringe crest]

i did it with mime baron 2 bs 1 bp burbler ante 7 serpant

not enough kings to make it bigger tho

bro i need to skip blinds more

[distant vault]

Burger

[trim notch]

Que

[trim notch]

That's bad

[potent tree]

ante 1 madness is always something.

[fringe crest]

i dont skip at all

and i should

[quartz ember]

yes, that activates before other types of jokers (or held in hand effects)

[quartz ember]

why

[vale wharf]

Woah, it's so straight

[trim notch]

I bought mail n rebate meanwhile i havr the discard thing

[floral grove]

"We got polychrome at home"

Ante 15 and ive ripped like 10 auras

[wooden aspen]

I js rolled into eternal photochad first shop lol

[floral grove]

You cant escape photochad

[vocal trellis]

Delayed Gratification + Mail and Rebate will never not be funny

[wooden aspen]

And a red seal king next shop Lol

[paper echo]

i think i finally know why egg can be eternal

[slender creek]

had a dream about a balatro root beer

it was just root beer but balatro on the packaging

[paper echo]

u can still gain the money from the sell value using temprance and stuff

[potent tree]

so just diet cola?

[paper echo]

id buy

[slender creek]

burglar + mail in rebate is too op

[paper echo]

burglar on green deck

[zinc hawk]

I just had a gold stake run where I took egg all the way to winning with swahsbuckler and bull

Shoutout the 10 temperance cards I got

[paper echo]

egg is actually peak for money even without selling it

[zinc hawk]

Love to see the odd money build work

[zinc hawk]

It really is, I also found a polychrome hiker + seltzer

I just snowballed so fast

[paper echo]

egg is like all around good

[zinc hawk]

Its a joker I wanted to win with gold stake cuz youre normally supposed to just sell but when you get that swashbuckler joker it changes everything

[paper echo]

you can get rid of it for cash or extra mult (dagger) and even if you dont you still get cash and mult and shit

[zinc hawk]

I ended that run with 500 bucks by ante 8

[barren wigeon]

blueprint

[paper echo]

its on the balatro mod manager

[serene forge]

I hate Bloodstone

[barren wigeon]

nevermind its the JokerDisplay mod

[amber laurel]

bro, thanks a lot

[hallow bolt]

black deck gold stake is easy when there's 3 souls ??

[frank grove]

someones gotta say the line

[wary isle]

Yorick is the best legendary for just trying to beat ante 8

[barren wigeon]

chicot

[wary isle]

Perkeo is the best for late late late late late late as hell runs

[wary isle]

And Chicot is a bad joker in general

[vocal rose]

erm

[barren wigeon]

yep, proving you are not good at the game

[vocal rose]

no the fuck it isn’t

[barren wigeon]

and thats okay!

[vocal rose]

chicot gets rid of the actual difficult part of the game

being boss blinds

[vocal rose]

he’s right about yorick though

[prisma shadow]

how did y'all get good at the game

[barren wigeon]

nah

canio is cooler

making him better

duh

[wary isle]

Canio is cooler

[frank grove]

canio is far cooler

[barren wigeon]

Balatro University on YouTube

[wary isle]

but it is a big investment to get him better

[vocal rose]

playing the game and learning from mistakes

[frank grove]

kinda just playing the game a lot

[distant vault]

Chicot is dog shit

[west perch]

if i get an early burnt joker in plasma gold stake, should i just play for pairs?

two pair seems to unreliable to try to build up cause you need to hit two two pairs every hand

[distant vault]

If you need the boss blind disabled while playing pairs something has gone horribly wrong

Except VV

[ancient gyro]

crimson

[hidden lance]

first win ever with hit the Road lol

[wary isle]

Chicot would be good as a common - rare; but legendary - no

[distant vault]

I still think chicot should be legendary

Chicot is a good joker. My point is he's the worst legendary

[frank grove]

it can also save you money, can save you from losing hand levels, can help if you have an eternal card sharp

[ancient gyro]

playing the game slowly when making decisions. pretend to be balatro autistic

[distant vault]

🤔

[prisma shadow]

the only thing I've kinda tried so far is just spamming flushes and idk how viable that is

[regal lynx]

Hola muchachos

[distant vault]

Hola

[ancient gyro]

not very

[regal lynx]

I used to bully on balatrito, but now, its my all time addiction

[willow frost]

enemies to lovers arc

[wary isle]

flushes are good in ante 1 - 2 and there are jokers that benefit flush builds, the issue is that they aren’t the most consistent and they scale rather poorly.

[ancient gyro]

higher stakes usually incentivizes you to run 2oak with the benefits of the scaling jokers that play well with them and the innate card digging benefits to find your value cards

[distant vault]

2oak

🤔

[regal lynx]

Best thing if you get the shortcut joker

Straights then are gonna be crazy

[willow frost]

congrats on recovering from your purple username

[ancient gyro]

recovering is a bit of a stretch

its been put down

[unreal iron]

noooo youre not purple anymore???

:(

[ancient gyro]

in memoriam

[prisma shadow]

tbh that sounds accurate to how my runs go but what card type would you recommend using instead

[ancient gyro]

.

[wary isle]

depends, but 3 of a kind and Full house are good hands to level up

[ancient gyro]

pairs ✌️

[dreamy creek]

all bloodstone haters are fake

[ancient gyro]

she's not online rn gordy

[steel chasm]

Chat im actually getting to do list value

[frail oriole]

game cooked

[steel chasm]

Mods get his ass

[distant vault]

2 of a kind

[steel chasm]

I summon my stand: mods

[vocal rose]

yes take chad

amazing joker

photograph is ass

[distant vault]

Damn

[vocal rose]

ass cheeks ah rare skip

[distant vault]

Its weird that tags can give jokers with perishable and rentals

[distant vault]

Yes, I like gambling

[vocal rose]

you should goto a casino

and try your luck

[distant vault]

Bro trying to make me broke

Damn

Fuck

[steel chasm]

2 wheel hits in one run

[mild ruin]

Probably one of the funnier decks I've ever had

[steel chasm]

3 will hits in one run

Wheel

[brave goblet]

got too greedy and didn't activate my blackboard trying to keep the blue seals, acrobat wasn't enough

[distant vault]

Fire 🔥 🔥 🔥

[steel chasm]

Blue stake beaten

[brave goblet]

purple's where the real challenge is at

[nimble vault]

It’s got a sticker…

[steel chasm]

3 more stakes and I’ve gold staked 3 decks

[potent tree]

xmult xmult and more xmult. plus a random castle and mad joker.

i picked up family for backup as 4oaks/5oaks

[floral mural]

this rebate is still good right?

with the smaller deck abandoned has im pretty sure it is

[potent tree]

at this stake rental + eternal is risky. you'll lose money every round and you're not guaranteed, even if the chance is higher, to draw a card to discard

[distant vault]

It's great

[vale wharf]

Hey chat, what's the PC mod called where you can see the score and card stats?

[vocal rose]

yes

rebate is so busted that its a throw to not take that

very balanced joker

[crystal field]

what areu missing

[floral mural]

why the fuck did 2 runs in a row get oops no mercury ugh

I CAN FEEL PLUTO SCALING SLOWER PHYSICALLY ITS INSANE

[jolly relic]

now that i got a bigger number should i do all gold stake whatever

[west perch]

lets see if this is enough two pair levels to actually beat gold stake plasma

[vocal rose]

yes

way more fun

[vocal rose]

if you dont get vv yes

[west perch]

verdant leaf

which is fine cause i have a burnt joker still

[serene forge]

I hate Bloodstone

[candid niche]

spec oops is back

[vocal rose]

get money now

[candid niche]

i got a lucky card money hit immediately

[vocal rose]

gg

[brave goblet]

Earlier this morning I got two $20 hits in a row (and died because I needed the +20s)

entirely on me, I wasn't scaling enough anyway

literally off of the wall by like 200 points

[languid kite]

I just beat Golden Stake legitimately
I swear

[candid niche]

say that again

insert vans here

[vocal rose]

run is won already

your econ is set

[last bolt]

imagine an all 6s here

[vocal rose]

dont go below 25

[west perch]

okay i'm going in. final boss

[languid kite]

I have a question

[candid niche]

do i cryptid my lucky 8 and go 5oak?

[languid kite]

Is it normal to have 118 jokers?

[west perch]

FUCK YEAH

[paper echo]

"oh boy! i sure do love this deck surrounding one poker hand!"
the maniacal and evil mouth, that will make you magically not pull said poker hand:

[west perch]

WITH THREE HANDS TO SPARE

[paper echo]

itd be funny

[west perch]

bro i've been trying to do gold plasma for like a week you have no idea

[paper echo]

yes

[candid niche]

imagine i find 8 ball...

[languid kite]

Good thing I didn’t bet against you!

[candid niche]

that would be funny

[languid kite]

[paper echo]

or fibbonacci

[west perch]

my anus is huge

[fiery nymph]

"i kinda need some xmult soon" next shop:

[languid kite]

Whenever I lose a Balatro run I use my Jimbo push as a punching bag

[potent tree]

spooky negative blackboard

[candid niche]

alright balatro

[fiery nymph]

damnnnn

[potent tree]

bludstone

[paper echo]

i mean.

its oops all sixes and bloodstone

if u can turn ur eights into hearts

[candid niche]

i have to take it.

[paper echo]

you ball

[candid niche]

its a gift from John Jimbo Joker

[vestal marten]

Haha

[paper echo]

67

[candid niche]

and i get a money hit right after so my money is back

and i find seed money

[distant vault]

Do you like money

[safe ibex]

money tends to be quite good in this game

[candid niche]

no, i'm a syndicalist

[distant vault]

It's overrated

[paper echo]

what deck should i run

[distant vault]

Painted

[paper echo]

alright

[candid niche]

lucky cards saved my run after oops fell asleep for 3 consecutive hands

ok this is bait right

[paper echo]

thanks jimbothy

[paper echo]

theyre gonna give you the heart

[potent tree]

it's almost too easy. hologram x8, constellation x5

[paper echo]

boss blind

[candid niche]

its needle

i should be fine

[soft vapor]

Fell for the oldest trick in the book

[paper echo]

its shop one of ante one

dawg

ill be fine

[soft vapor]

Yes

[candid niche]

yeah mult hit won

[soft vapor]

You're BROKE now

and you WON'T recover

[paper echo]

no no ill be fine

[soft vapor]

That's what they all say

[safe ibex]

I can’t tell if you’re joking or not

[distant vault]

Money is for chumps

[west perch]

ok got to ante 10 round 27

still feels really good. holy crap. i feel like i mentally leveled up today

[paper echo]

you are the reason for my demise

[supple spruce]

Can i post videos here

[soft vapor]

Well well well

[paper echo]

i curse you with no balatro for a week

[soft vapor]

Couldn't get any +mult huh

[paper echo]

or balatro modding

[supple spruce]

cool no x-mult run

[soft vapor]

You FOOL

[safe ibex]

objectively untrue???

[paper echo]

no i had a bunch of +mult

[soft vapor]

I'M ON MOBILE

MWAHAHAHH

MWAHAHAHAHA

[safe ibex]

money is critical

[paper echo]

its still no balatro

you fucking idiot

[distant vault]

Nah man its fine

[soft vapor]

Shhhh

[paper gyro]

What’s the best deck?

[distant vault]

Yellow

[paper echo]

depens

[paper echo]

green, if were talking about money

[candid niche]

my oops picked a perfect time to fall asleep... i lost to the freaking tooth

[paper echo]

"oh boy! i sure do love this deck surrounding one poker hand!"
the maniacal and evil mouth, that will make you magically not pull said poker hand:

[candid niche]

the tooth.

[paper gyro]

I don’t have all of them btw

[paper echo]

oh

im

[candid niche]

the one that eats your money

[paper echo]

stupid

[distant vault]

I find the headstart to yellow to be much more important

Than green

[candid niche]

i was running bloodstone oops with lucky hearts

i just couldnt get my oops to do anything

[paper echo]

ive gotten +11 first round from green

wait

[hard tusk]

how long did it take yall to get ur first win? iv been playing for 3 days now and still no luck. am i just bad?

[distant vault]

What

[distant vault]

Took me a while too

[paper echo]

my first win was on my second match, i think i just got lucky

[hard tusk]

oh thank god. i just get really unlucky or the builds jsut not enough

[paper echo]

make sure to read in detail what everything does

and build decks around easy hands

like two pair.

always go for two pair.

spare trousers.

[hard tusk]

mmm okok got it

ty

[paper echo]

yw

[distant vault]

Took me a few days

[vocal rose]

erm

this is terrible advice

do NOT always go for two pairs

go with what the game gives you and typically its forcing pairs

[paper gyro]

If im doing green should i go high card lvls?

[vocal rose]

the game isn't about luck when it comes to winning or losing

[paper echo]

hey let me tell them funny things

[vocal rose]

no they're a new player asking for advice

giving them shit advice isn't nice

[potent tree]

goodbye bus? holo is 9.75, constellation 7.3

[paper echo]

its funny because two pair works for me alot

[candid niche]

what an amazing start. i love getting a selection of 2 food jokers

[distant vault]

[paper echo]

yummy

consume

[vocal rose]

try reaching interest cap as soon as possible ($25), don't skip its a fat noob trap, find value generators i.e space joker hallucination 8 ball, and prioritize scaling jokers

[candid niche]

the humble ante 1 small blind $25 tag:

[vocal rose]

there are exceptions

investment tag ante 1 is very good

some skips in ante 2 as well but its better to just emphasize the investment tag ante 1 and then don't skip at all

[jagged valve]

Your maw is a force proc

[potent tree]

anyone have an opinion?

[distant vault]

Here win

[vocal rose]

license can go

[potent tree]

i mean probably dead this ante anyway

bus is at 77 currently

i run level 17 4oak

a high card scores like 50m tho!

[tame sluice]

Blueprint goes

[distant vault]

Easy choice really

[vocal rose]

oh get bus tf outta here

[jagged valve]

Nah bro Chariot goes and hit Next Round

[candid niche]

should i just take Drunkard here? or open buffoon?

[vocal rose]

drunkard and hex it

[candid niche]

it's purple stake and i really struggle with discards

blue stake is silly :(

[vocal rose]

eternal drunkard is actually very decent

also did you lose your popcorn run already

[distant vault]

Chicot watching as he did nothing

[vocal rose]

bro is sum ass

[tame sluice]

Amazing

[distant vault]

Thank you chicot for your service

[potent tree]

well unfortunately it didn't work.

time for orange stake!

[distant vault]

Yeah I agree, chicot sucks

[vocal rose]

ur sum ass

[potent tree]

agreed i'm kinda ass at abandoned

[tame sluice]

told u blueprint goes

[distant vault]

Yes, we hate you chicot

[candid niche]

yeah they kept showing me econ until popcorn died

[distant vault]

[vocal rose]

I will win a black deck gold stake run in 31 minutes

[tame sluice]

Negative

[distant vault]

Let's go

[vocal rose]

joker

[tame sluice]

Unaffirmative

Rejected

Declined

[distant vault]

When are you starting

[vocal rose]

right now

[distant vault]

🔥 🔥 🔥

[tame sluice]

[distant vault]

Cookin

Next time I get chicot im killing him with dagger

[tawny crag]

hi

happy weekend

[unreal iron]

free +20 mult or a boss blind disabler

[distant vault]

20 mult

[tame sluice]

Where is my quad negative blueprint photochad run

[unreal iron]

hmmmmm decisions decisions

[vocal rose]

the goat

[candid niche]

man, to do list is either great or traash

[unreal iron]

8 ball!!!!

[distant vault]

I'd rather have the score

[unreal iron]

watch it hit straight flush and 4oak like every time

[vocal rose]

the goat

[unreal iron]

did you restart what

[vocal rose]

no I passed away to boss blind

[unreal iron]

i mean saturn is pretty decent

[distant vault]

Golden boy dead already

[unreal iron]

instead of trying to hit 450 with 3 hands

[brave goblet]

red card (and die from no money)

[vocal rose]

I took it

[unreal iron]

nah saturn is the play imo

[brave goblet]

be like the doc and take the troubador in the next shop

[unreal iron]

buffoon packs probably have a negative blueprint but oh well

[brave goblet]

black deck straights build

[vale wharf]

Tough decision...
Duo or grabber?

[brave goblet]

2 hands

hmmmm

[unreal iron]

you can kill zany

go ahead

[vale wharf]

Yes

[brave goblet]

kill zany and take grabber or take duo though

[vocal rose]

FUCK these jokers

[vale wharf]

But what should I get?

[distant vault]

Foil duo?

[unreal iron]

foil duo yeah

[brave goblet]

I think it's early enough you could tkae grabber instead to just scale

the foil is tempting

[unreal iron]

you dont have enough scoring if you take the extra hand

which sucks

[brave goblet]

oh yeah true

[unreal iron]

duality of a man

[vale wharf]

So duo?

[brave goblet]

duo

[unreal iron]

yeah sell zany

take duo

go next

[vocal rose]

my misplay was taking the eternal rental blue joker since I would've been able to afford the rental lusty joker

if it was just the lusty

and I NEED a mult source

[vale wharf]

Yeahhhhhh, I can't afford either without selling zany

[vocal rose]

this works

[distant vault]

I would take foil duo that is really good

[unreal iron]

2 rentals??

[distant vault]

Got the dagger pointed at fortune teller

[unreal iron]

oh god

r button is right there

[vocal rose]

nope

I have gold seals

it'll keep me alive for a bit

[unreal iron]

oh yeah true

certificate being goated as always

[jolly relic]

yeah this run is so annoying what

im playing on erratic

for the stakes

and

[unreal iron]

we love erratic in this household

(just me)

[vocal rose]

okay nvm I died

that was some ass

[jolly relic]

i have blueprint mime 2 barons brainstorm and a natural negative rebate

[unreal iron]

thats

[jolly relic]

literally i did no work for it

[unreal iron]

fine?

[jolly relic]

either.

[unreal iron]

play it seeded on plasma now

white stake and all

[jolly relic]

no

i got my new high score

[unreal iron]

coool

[jolly relic]

im not doing that ever again 🥰

[vocal rose]

holy moly

this is still mid

bc its black deck

[distant vault]

U some ass

[vocal rose]

nah im good

[paper gyro]

Btw what does black hole do I don’t get it

[unreal iron]

good enough

[unreal iron]

+1 level for every hand that exists

[paper gyro]

Wat

[unreal iron]

so instead of taking mercury for a pair level you take a black hole for a level in EVERY HAND!

busted ikr?

[brave stirrup]

Dap me up boys I did it

[unreal iron]

so flushes, straights, 4oak, every hand...

get leveled up?

whats there not to understand just use the black hole and see the results

[unreal iron]

not even e

smh

btw copy photo instead of chad

5x4 (current) vs 3x8

[brave stirrup]

Everyone keeps telling me different things.

What am I supposed to do.

[unreal iron]

calculate it?

im just telling you that copying photo in this scenario is more optimal

since it quite literally scores more

[brave stirrup]

Oh okay

I'll do that then.

[kindred jasper]

Yay, I lowdiffed both Fragile and Monolith this morning

[ancient gyro]

the one time where grimbo would be a better hit

[vocal rose]

this is going good

[ancient gyro]

nvm

[vocal rose]

alright

[kindred jasper]

Is Fragile known as a hard challenge?

[shell dagger]

no

[kindred jasper]

Okay good

[shell dagger]

2 flush levels and a full skip

[kindred jasper]

I blazed through it

[unreal iron]

yayyy xmult and win

:3

[unreal iron]

idk i did fragile by spamming high card levels lmao

isnt it the one with red seal glass or something

[terse vale]

just glass

[potent tree]

high cards? i did 3oak for mine

[unreal iron]

pretty easy challenge

and monolith is eternal marble and obe?

thats DEFINITELY easy

free obelisk i mean come on

[vocal rose]

nice

gg

[distant vault]

🔥 🔥 🔥

[unreal iron]

what a save

gg

flint, club, pillar, vessel coming to your way

maybe sub out pillar for wall or something

[vocal rose]

perhaps

[unreal iron]

its not entirely gg i mean a decent amount of bosses fuck you up

tooth would be rough

[ancient gyro]

we'll get there when we get there

[unreal iron]

speculative

[mellow sail]

found this funny jojos bizarre adventure X Balatro fanart. but i just realised. jotaro. why are you using your 2 blueprints to copy cavendish? you are playing glass face cards. my brother in christ COPY THE DAMN SOCK!!!

[vocal rose]

okay

[olive basin]

But funny banana

[distant vault]

Holo 👀

What did you sell for holo

[vale wharf]

After the Cavendish perishes, can I find it again?

[vocal rose]

acrobat

[jolly relic]

green stake on erratic deck

fun

[olive basin]

Yes

A perishable joker is only perishable it not removed

[vocal rose]

FUCK

this is some ASS

ARE YOU SERIOUS??????????????????

[distant vault]

Skill issue

Bro some ass

[vocal rose]

....

[potent tree]

sigh...do i HAVE to drop space joker? he's been pretty helpful getting my pair levels up, even as much as burnt does

[shell dagger]

no

[vocal rose]

THIS WOULD'VE CAME TRUE

[shell dagger]

i wouldn’t take invis cos what if it copied stinky nova

[storm dome]

how rare is getting 2 legendaries in the same run same ante same shop?

[vocal rose]

no you dont

[distant vault]

Stinky

[olive basin]

Why did you drop the acrobat?

[vocal rose]

invis joker isn't good

[vocal rose]

because acrobat wasn't more scoring

for the time