🕹・game-discussion

[crystal skiff]

Why should i play pairs with checkered tho? When i can play flush

[heady narwhal]

because flushes have very few good jokers

basically the only one that is good and works on checkered is arrowhead

[crystal skiff]

Ohh ok

[fervent wolf]

The RANGERS lost 8-4 to the Sens last night lmaooo

[crystal skiff]

So is there even a point in playing checkered

[heady narwhal]

it's one of the less good decks imo but it's great in the early game

[shadow shore]

Riff raff can spawn polychrome ???

[crystal skiff]

Tbh idgaf about rangers that much, i care about my local club hc sparta praha more, and i didnt know the polish people watch hockey

[heady narwhal]

easier to win in few hands because flushes are easy to draw

[potent tree]

it can even spawn negative

[heady narwhal]

and foil and holographic and negative

[crystal skiff]

Oh alr, what other deck would u recommend

[heady narwhal]

same goes for other joker spawning effects

[fervent wolf]

Good, I hate the Rangers

[heady narwhal]

my favorite decks are ghost and zodiac. yellow and blue are the easiest decks, abandoned is pretty nice as well

[crystal skiff]

Alr ty, but idk how is abandoned so good when face cards are pretty useful

[heady narwhal]

i wouldn't say face cards are useful

[lapis blade]

I was doing a straight build and on violet vessel I didn't get a single king

[heady narwhal]

facecards have some nice value generation synergies (midas mask, reserved parking, ...) but they're unreliable for scoring because of the plant & rtb makes them actively detrimental sometimes

[forest birch]

Logan paul

What's up chat

[heady narwhal]

abandoned deck basically makes every enhancement and seal 30% better because you have a higher chance of drawing it each round

[crystal skiff]

Oh ok, and like whats on average the best poker hand ? Like good chip and mult while being easy to get

[fervent wolf]

You can choose to get rtb tho so I would say just the plant

[heady narwhal]

also makes it way easier to deckfix for big hands, and it's fixed for straights by default

[heady narwhal]

pairs

[modest siren]

Me when when the

[crystal skiff]

Fr ? What about two pair tho

[wintry ice]

pair's ease of drawing effectively quadruples it's scaling

[heady narwhal]

2pair is harder to draw, can't always play 4 of them every round
also it's harder to dig for gold cards and blue seals + keep them in hand

[wintry ice]

two pair still needs some effort to draw but it's scaling makes it great for the harder decks

[modest siren]

I suppose I sell tarot and DL?

Anyone's thoughts?

[wintry ice]

if you score enough without it or have some steel then sure

[lost vault]

show me your deck uwu

[faint linden]

Any advice for Orange Stake Checkered Deck?

[lost vault]

dont spam flushes they are dumb and gay

[violet trail]

Yeah?

[faint linden]

I won Purple that way, but then again I had Canio at x5 and a Card Sharp

[latent wigeon]

makeshift QOTD: what is your "challenge" that you like to play every once in a while?

mine is egg. :>

[lost vault]

go for straight flushes frfr

ong

[faint linden]

Thanks for the advice

[modest siren]

Death by insatiable greed

[lost vault]

theyre lowkey slept on

[faint linden]

Tribchad would be AMAZING

[obtuse shuttle]

I need a naneinf expert to solve many questions

[modest siren]

I can explain computer reason things to you, but it you mean a balatro expert, then idk

[latent wigeon]

same LOL

i can try. i know a bit

[cloud sinew]

hello

[obtuse shuttle]

Well... basically

[willow frost]

you seem to be something of a naneinf expert yourself

just keep doing whatever it is youre doing and youll get there

[obtuse shuttle]

I'm working on it but it got complicated

[latent wigeon]

what mod lets me go past "naneinf" btw?

[lost vault]

haaaiii

[cloud sinew]

Talisman

[latent wigeon]

whats the question

[serene forge]

I hate Photograph

[willow frost]

LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOOOO

[latent wigeon]

after im done this can someone help me get mods working :<

[cloud sinew]

#⚙・modding-general

[modest siren]

Are you perhaps a vampire, and hate photographs because you don't show up in them?

[latent wigeon]

oh yeah! i forgot theres a specific channel for it.

[minor portal]

couldn't be true, they also hate bloodstone

[lost vault]

lilo is it true that longstanding solitude is OP
i won operator with it but i cant tell if it was the item or just the run that was op

[willow frost]

this question cannot be this long

[latent wigeon]

oh believe me... it can...

whats your least favorite joker?

like the joker you would never take in any situation.

[willow frost]

oh you have many questions nvm

[modest siren]

seance

Bottom tier garbage

[latent wigeon]

seance? which is that?

[willow frost]

same probably

[modest siren]

Play a straight flush to get a spectral card

[minor portal]

Splash.

[willow frost]

although then again i havent tried the strat of holding a suit changing tarot into a blind

[dark cairn]

Hit the road

[willow frost]

WHAT

[dark cairn]

Id rather just have a campfire

[latent wigeon]

hmm... honestly fair... though id put that on par with the straight plus A get a tarot

[potent tree]

i cannot remember how i got past plasma the first time...i'm stuck on green stake and i'd rather get this done first than skip to erratic

[dark cairn]

Every time I've taken it it's done nothing for me

[rigid patio]

Matador

[willow frost]

you are insane thats an easy x3.5 with more than 4 jacks in the deck

[dark cairn]

Implying you'll be able to discard all of those jacks in one round before playing any hands

[rigid patio]

Hit the road jack is one of the worst x mults bro what are you on

[modest siren]

That's at least a common and is somthing that occurs more frequently

[latent wigeon]

whats splash? (for a second i thought it was smeared joker.)

[willow frost]

play hands instead of discarding

[latent wigeon]

yeah but i think both arnt good. but i wouldnt call either the worst.

[rigid patio]

All played cards score

[modest siren]

everything you play always counts

[dark cairn]

Then what's the point of having xmult if you already played your hands

Just use acrobat or card sharp then

[obtuse shuttle]

basically I am doing the baron, mime, buglar method to get naneinf, to do it a specific boss is required, but the special bosses of ante 8, 16, 24 cannot be done, The problem is that you try before ante 23, but I think I will win before I have 44 k Stell red seal (plasma deck), because I have 2 barons and 1 mime (and 3 blueprints) that I can't deactivate until I reach 44 k Stell red seal, So my question is whether with 1 baron and 1 mime and 4 blueprints, If this way I can accumulate 44 without accidentally winning the round (ante 23), I was doing calculations all afternoon and well... that's why I came to ask

[willow frost]

dont use all your hands alternate

[latent wigeon]

oh... i actually like splash honestly... its helpful for some random high card BS.

a few extra points when needed

[dark cairn]

And if you don't draw any jacks after playing a hand? You only have 4 in your deck to start

[rigid patio]

Yeah splash is good

[minor portal]

Its only use is flower pot

[rigid patio]

Hes just wrong

[dark cairn]

All that for xmult that lasts ONE round

Campfire at least lasts the whole ante

[willow frost]

well yeah i didnt say buy it shop 1

[rigid patio]

On that note, flower pot

[latent wigeon]

my least favorite honestly is obolisk...

[willow frost]

just do the bare minimum deckfixing

[minor portal]

If you need to rely on splash for scoring your run sucks

[dark cairn]

Why not fix my deck towards 2s for a wee joker instead

[rigid patio]

It isnt a scoring joker brochacho

[willow frost]

yeah i like campfire

[latent wigeon]

yeah but a few extra points when you need it before you get a decent joker is great.

[minor portal]

yes it is

[modest siren]

Obelisk is ultimately ok if you can get it early on and spam a million high cards so that you can play pair after

[willow frost]

you can do both if you want

[dark cairn]

Wee joker is easier to use and way stronger

[modest siren]

Pair gaming strikes again

[rigid patio]

It can be used with every joker that procs off of specific ranks

[dark cairn]

Ehhhh not really

Like kind of? But still

[willow frost]

also wait your original point was hit the road is your least favourite joker out of 150, how

[minor portal]

oh the five of them

[dark cairn]

Because it's stupid

[rigid patio]

5???

Ranks/suits i mean btw

[minor portal]

Seven.

[rigid patio]

Tfym seven

[willow frost]

more than all the others? i find that a little hard to believe

[latent wigeon]

yeah but i just dont like how obolisk resets when you play a copy... so you always run out of ability to play...
i only played high card and only got to like 30 times by ante 8

so even at best i can only got 5 antes before it resets and i die....

[shell dagger]

No you cannot, ante 23 naneinf on the serpent needs 5 copy jokers in most situations

[willow frost]

thats ok, just start using it around ante 5 then

[rigid patio]

It is like bot three x mult jokers to deal with ngl

[rigid patio]

Yeah obelisk is an annoying one to use

[latent wigeon]

yeah but i like going long. my goal is to make it to ante 30

[rigid patio]

Oh

At that point theres like 5 good scoring jokers

[latent wigeon]

or what ever ante is the breaker...

[modest siren]

Just counted what would apply in most circumstances, and there are in fact 23 (to your point, they are plentiful)

[shell dagger]

Then the fact that obelisk resets shouldn’t be what makes you dislike it for reaching ante 30

[willow frost]

baron, the idol, loyalty card

[shell dagger]

It’s the fact that it’s an xmult joker with no exponential scaling

[willow frost]

or bloodstone but im not of that opinion

[latent wigeon]

am i weird if i say i dont like naneinf runs where you need the serpent or a specific situation to get it... i want a nane inf build that can make the distance.

[willow frost]

yeah i prefer half the xmult jokers over hit the road but its not bad

[rigid patio]

Yes but that is like perkeo only

[modest siren]

I'm not sitting and waiting on that thing to happen for several different rounds 💀

[willow frost]

so you want an ante 39 run

[visual turtle]

Should I go eternal vampire

[willow frost]

same

[rigid patio]

I forgot about baron and idol ngl

[willow frost]

yeah lol

theres levels to this

[shell dagger]

No take runner

Ante 1 runner on plasma is basically a free win

[modest siren]

Runner is so good

Especially for a common

[visual turtle]

But
can I consistently play straights

?

[shell dagger]

Yes

[modest siren]

If you can play 1 or 2 a round, it wins

[shell dagger]

Play 1 straight and it’s already the same score as gros michel

[visual turtle]

Hopefully the deck

Gives me

5 cards in numerical order

And not just

[rigid patio]

Hit the road is also way more annoying to use after blue stake which is probably part of my bias against it

[visual turtle]

deal me anything but the card i want

[rigid patio]

But thats also true abt a lot of xmult jokers 🤷‍♂️

[wintry ice]

throwback is also worse

the lack of usecases for skipping makes it not advisable

[willow frost]

yeah the game in general gets harder after blue stake, its a rather big jump

[robust lance]

What if it throws it back

[willow frost]

take my money

[visual turtle]

yeah so I already

[willow frost]

holy hell

[visual turtle]

wasted my discards

[modest siren]

Throwback goes kinda hard

[visual turtle]

💔

[robust lance]

True

He’s so much cooler than me

I’m jealous

[willow frost]

ok just play a high two pair or something its ante 1

[wintry ice]

forgoing 1 round for 0.25x mult is a horrible ratio and the tags don't help make the difference on average

[robust lance]

But it’s fun

[modest siren]

Please don't tell me you're obelisk

[robust lance]

I love playing less of my game per game

[wintry ice]

i don't think the amount of scoring it gives is enough to give the dopamine required to be fun

[robust lance]

I don’t hate it that’s all o can say

I’m not good at using it

But I’m aware it’s a me issue

[minor portal]

throwback should be reverted to how it was

[modest siren]

It's not as bad as it initially seems. Obelisk is certainly fine

[rigid patio]

Throwback is good for that one challenge and thats it

[visual turtle]

It happened again

[rigid patio]

Was it +0.5x before?

[robust lance]

It also won me like 4 gold stakes

[willow frost]

balatro was my first roguelike and i was really confused as to why they were rewarding you for pussying out of playing blinds, it was only after i kept doing that that i realised "oh this is bait isnt it"

[minor portal]

Yes.

[modest siren]

Throwback enabled me to get gold sticker on seltzer despite finding seltzer in ante 5

[rigid patio]

Lol

[visual turtle]

Ok FINALLY I get 1

[robust lance]

Unique ones too

[modest siren]

It was kinda OP

[visual turtle]

straight

[willow frost]

gg

[wintry ice]

i don't mine jokers that need micro management in a resource management game

[rigid patio]

Slightly niche situation though lol

[wintry ice]

i can easily deal with the extra work obelisk wants me to do

[modest siren]

It makes good runs better. If you find good tags, then it just gives you even more incentive to take them

[rigid patio]

Obelisk is good if you get it early but otherwise i dont love it

[willow frost]

see theres resource management and then theres endless

[pale wolf]

you dont mine jokers unless its stone joker

you mine stone joker

[fervent wolf]

Rough gem tho

[wintry ice]

if something only serves to make already good runs better

[pale wolf]

perhaps

[willow frost]

you know what else you mine
crafty joker

[rigid patio]

Yes but more shops also make good runs better

[wintry ice]

it doesn't do much

yeah most of those said good runs benefit more from playing anyways

[modest siren]

Rentals would like to have a word

(and perishables)

[rigid patio]

ok just realised its a slightly less niche situation

Perishables!!!!

Throwback and perishables have crazy synergy wth

[wintry ice]

you usually make enough money to pay for one of them by midgame

[rigid patio]

But i do think throwback should be 0.5 not 0.25

[modest siren]

I remember the days..

[wintry ice]

with the opportunity cost of skipping it would make sense

[rigid patio]

A good run isnt hindered that much by rentals

As long as you dont have too many

[modest siren]

I also remember when gold stake was kinda evil because it was -1 hand size

[compact gazelle]

skipping and perishables have inherent synergy throwback is just along for the ride

[modest siren]

And I don't remember what else was different

[faint linden]

Perishables make me want to defenestrate my controller

[rigid patio]

I remember when blue stake was- oh

[visual turtle]

Odd todd 🥰

[compact gazelle]

there’s no saving grace to throwback anyone who says it “has its niche” is wrong

[rigid patio]

Yeah skipping four shops for 2x is kind of insane

[visual turtle]

I can't tell if it's a good idea to turn all the face cards into aces

[compact gazelle]

0.5x throwback would be just fine

[visual turtle]

because
they're kinda

stinky

[rigid patio]

(In a bad way )

[faint linden]

0.75x but rare

[compact gazelle]

I get: two antes of missed scaling and shops
you get: 2x mult(!!!)

it’s like
yay throwbacks good if I have two of it and they are polychrome, maybe

[visual turtle]

I need hierophant game

not justice

[faint linden]

Me with Hanged Man (Justice works in a pinch)

[visual turtle]

hey so um

[rigid patio]

”Throwback is good if i get 2.25x mult from them unupgraded” 😭

[visual turtle]

what am I supposed to do now

[compact gazelle]

yes exactly
start me with 5 throwbacks there’s a 50 percent chance i sell them all for riff raff

[faint linden]

Aces and 10s?

[modest siren]

Idk, all I'm gonna say is that ankh'd throwback made me not bash my head against a wall just earlier trying to get seltzer sticker and then found seltzer in ante 5, so then I just skipped up through ante 8 and was fine

Otherwise I'd have lost bc it was violet vessel

[shell dagger]

Throwback ancient joker synergy

[visual turtle]

Ok
but
if I don't get an 8, 6, 5, or another 10 or a Jack?

[modest siren]

How is AJ sneaking in here?

[compact gazelle]

“justify the bad option” is throwbacks purpose and it’s a sad one

[visual turtle]

nvm

it worked somehow

[faint linden]

Single pair might do something then

Plasma magic

[shell dagger]

Aj runs tend to skip to dodge suit bosses anyway

[visual turtle]

OMG SOUL

pray for

chicot

hope is real

[wild merlin]

3d print?

[faint linden]

You're on Black Stake. Yorick could get online decently fast, but Chicot is valid as a safety net

[valid ether]

I ended up getting a blueprint a few antes and a hieroglyph later, died ante 12 I think

Bloodstone too bad

[fervent wolf]

Nope

[faint linden]

I love when people hate on Chicot then pray for Luchador because of a scary Boss Blind

[visual turtle]

the needle scares me

[faint linden]

It's not the worst

[potent tree]

ok so basically i have to do this 5 more times and i can get rid of plasma deck until i start my last savefile

[faint linden]

Especially on Plasma if you have your Runner upgraded decently

[visual turtle]

oh wait chicot kills needle

[potent tree]

but doesn't increase the required score

so free win unless you somehow hold r

[modest siren]

Do I take burger?

[shell dagger]

Yeah

[modest siren]

Ok, goodbye sharp

Blue is next on the chopping block

😭

I lived

Since y'all hate him so much:

[raw whale]

what was the flush house meta again

aside from maybe trib

[modest siren]

Presumably kings and queens. Trib mults them.
Idk, maybe hearts with bloodstone, maybe photo?

[raw whale]

AYO

[modest siren]

It's gonna be chicot

[raw whale]

it's fucking chicot

[modest siren]

[raw whale]

it's been so long since i last got a legendary

[pale wolf]

even longer than you first got one

[robust lance]

As someone on Simpleflips once said
“Burger, burger, burger, you should do it!”

I just wanted to say that honestly

[sullen lintel]

If you have a perishable joker will it still grant you the gold sticker on it if you beat the run while it is debuffed

[cunning creek]

💔

[robust lance]

Yes

[obtuse shuttle]

What would you recommend?

[visual turtle]

Omg verdant leaf

[shell dagger]

DNA to beat ante 24 then do the serpent on ante 25

[visual turtle]

I might live 🥲

[raw whale]

i wonder if there's a way to get 0 hands

[pale wolf]

yea

troubador

[visual turtle]

I wish shortcut or 4 fingers appeared

[potent tree]

i rerolled off the water for this...maybe it was a mistake.

[pale wolf]

say, on golden needle challenge deck

[visual turtle]

Phew

[raw whale]

odd todd my ass

[potent tree]

ace of diamonds: 🥺

[raw whale]

at least there was an ace

i kinda forgt ace is a number card

a lot

[visual turtle]

it doesn't have a number

so

[raw whale]

its number is A

anyway do i open the pack first or do i take the trading card first

[visual turtle]

I hope these blinds won't

kill me

[mystic arch]

Ante 3 blueprint, baron, STM and mime but died because of unlucky draws

[visual turtle]

Ooh my score is 1,011,699

never seen a million

oh i have to score 2,200,000 💔

aaand i died

[vocal rose]

I died on 78 stickers trying to c++ deathless

im going to lose my mind

[cold siren]

And this kids, is why you don't do stupid crap on anaglyph
Because you might end up dirt poor and in dire need for that Poly Card Sharp

[visual turtle]

so
um

[vocal rose]

how does doc do this

[visual turtle]

how tf do I play straights if

[vocal rose]

you can afford that

[visual turtle]

blue stake

Removes a discard

[serene forge]

I hate Bloodstone

[vocal rose]

PLEASE sell that two pair chips joker

[cold siren]

He is my son

He's gonna straverv

[vocal rose]

it’s fundamentally harder

which is ass

but you can make it work

[cold siren]

Don't call my soon your ass

[serene forge]

you usually don't

that's why pairs are so good

[visual turtle]

gotta hope for marble stone joker hiker tower tarot

[vocal rose]

what

[visual turtle]

I need chips

[vocal rose]

marble joker would make straights

[serene forge]

theyre a rock enthusiast is all

[vocal rose]

bad

[visual turtle]

it can make straights???

if anything
it should be a flush 5

eternal hit the road

hmmmmm

[cold siren]

My son died because of you
My lovely son chingle

[visual turtle]

Ill try it out

[cold siren]

Polychrome card sharp looks nice tho

[winged lake]

I have all tricked out Jokers in my hand but there's a Raised Fist in the shop, do I drop a Joker for it? (Holographic Hanging Chad, Holographic Golden Joker, Foil Cartomancer, Polychrome Splash, Polychrome Mail-In Rebate)

[visual turtle]

nvm it resets

[vocal rose]

too bad

[vocal rose]

splash thinking he’s apart of the team

[serene forge]

i love hrt

[vocal rose]

i love htr

[winged lake]

Can I have some?

[serene forge]

i dont have any

[modest siren]

It's so over 😭

[visual turtle]

I keep forgetting that im also supposed to

make 30 club/diamond cards

[serene forge]

eh no mime means this was dead anyways

[gloomy vigil]

game hates me

[visual turtle]

And this is why
i don't
use face cards

[modest siren]

I could've looked for it longer tho

[visual turtle]

Interesting fork in the road

[gloomy vigil]

insane run down the drain

it is what it is

[cunning matrix]

hello i was wondering if anyone could help me know what i need to do in order to make my own balatro mods?

[potent tree]

<@&1133519078540185692> get em

[visual turtle]

skim

[craggy hearth]

Ban

Bam

[gloomy vigil]

thank you mod

how dare they bring casual gambling to our sacred sanctuary of high level enlightening gambling

[tropic kiln]

what's the best combo of jokers? does anyone have an image of reference or something

[visual turtle]

WAIT NO
I DIDN'T LOOK CLOSELY
I GOT ETERNAL WALKIE TALKIE FUCK

[gloomy vigil]

there are 150 jokers

[modest siren]

It was so far away anyways I see now

[gloomy vigil]

that makes like gazillions of combos

off the top of my head I can say

[tropic kiln]

i mean like best two jokers to have together, combo

[gloomy vigil]

still alot

[modest siren]

still 149*150

Very large dataset

For a person

[tropic kiln]

faris

[visual turtle]

odd todd and even steven

skim again

[tropic kiln]

oh thats a scam btw

[gloomy vigil]

<@&1133519078540185692>

again

[tropic kiln]

ive seen that scam in so many servers lol

[gloomy vigil]

ok so

one combo

[smoky merlin]

finally all the money is mine

[fervent haven]

so something weird happened. I savescummed and could manipulate what perkeo copied based on tarot order, but since then I've tried and haven't been able to replicate it at all

[craggy hearth]

I missed it

[austere escarp]

Almost

[craggy hearth]

Darn

[tropic kiln]

i need to see online joker combos and ideas

[craggy hearth]

Curse you

[visual turtle]

wait does 5 stone cards

count as a high card

[modest siren]

Once perkeo or invis joker or other things make a selection, the only way to change the choice is to sell or use other things within the same set (either jokers or tarot)

[gloomy vigil]

pareidiola+ smiley face

makes all cards count as face and all face crds get +3 mult

[smoky merlin]

you can’t do anything to me I haven’t already done to myself

[wintry ice]

do you mean that as in joker fusions

[tropic kiln]

oooo that's good

[atomic trout]

Not even close...

[modest siren]

pareidolia + canio

[fervent haven]

I thought that but I promise I savescummed and it let me manipulate it without selling or buying

[gloomy vigil]

or egg+gift card

[visual turtle]

It's good until you get the plant

with no way

to

win

[fervent haven]

Maybe it was saturn mod, I'm gonna redownload it and try that again

[gloomy vigil]

we ball

[craggy hearth]

You’ve trapped yourself in a hyperbolic time chamber for 2000 years?

[cunning matrix]

?

[vocal rose]

@everyone

[visual turtle]

Uhhh
#⚙・modding-general would be the best place!

[wintry ice]

this is why eternal pareidolia is a detriment

[gloomy vigil]

There was a joker that I could sell to skip the boss but I didnt have slots lmao

[serene forge]

don't ever pick up pareidolia unless you have like midas mask

it sucks

[potent tree]

too late for constellation?

[tropic kiln]

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

[modest siren]

If I could pick any 2 jokers at the start for the sake of just winning ante 8, maybe this. Or maybe Yorick and Mandy

[cunning matrix]

ok thank you!!

[wintry ice]

or you want to farm business card

[gloomy vigil]

am gonna go play eyesack

[serene forge]

could've sacked the gift card

or something

[vocal rose]

for the sake of winning ante 8 you’d want yorick mandy or photochad

[visual turtle]

Oh yeah
funny card face joker + Midas mask + vampire = free mult

[wintry ice]

(it's unnecessary for parking)

pareidolia's usecases are very similar to splash's

[gloomy vigil]

I didnt know what the plant did nevr seen it before

it is what it is

[modest siren]

Yorick mandy actually just makes the game impossible to lose.
Also, I just lost the game

[serene forge]

parei is totally unnecessary for that

[wintry ice]

you can read the boss blind from the start of the ante

[raw whale]

BLUEPRINT FROM JUDGEMENT ALERT

[wintry ice]

(i got c++ twice and i still forget to do so)

[vocal rose]

pareidolia is unnecessary

[potent tree]

anyone have an opinion?

[visual turtle]

then why does it even exist 😭

[serene forge]

no

[vocal rose]

same

[vocal rose]

no

[serene forge]

scary looks completely unnecessary here

what's castle at

[modest siren]

It used to be that once you beat the boss, you couldn't see what was in the next ante, right?

[unborn cliff]

67

[wintry ice]

you can sell scary face for it if you have the resources to do an xmult pivot

[potent tree]

27, i picked it up last ante only

[serene forge]

blocked

[unborn cliff]

no im sorry

[wintry ice]

you had to finish shopping first

[serene forge]

just kidding

[wintry ice]

so yeah

[potent tree]

@serene forge in case you didn't see

[modest siren]

Ok bye yall

[visual turtle]

so not winning

[unborn cliff]

what are you doing bro.

WHO IS TAKING ETERNAL FIB AND WALKIE 💔

ON PLASMA TOO

💔

[potent tree]

i took eternal fib once

[visual turtle]

I wanted fib
not walkie 💔

[cloud sinew]

theyre obviously getting ready for the mult pivot... 🙄 /s

[potent tree]

made it up to ante 7 i think

[unborn cliff]

eternal fib is fine

but eternal fib AND eternal wt

[visual turtle]

also that has like

chips

[unborn cliff]

come on man

[wintry ice]

eternal fib is an easy two pair build

[raw whale]

HOLY COMBO

[visual turtle]

And i need chips

[unborn cliff]

here win

[vocal rose]

that’s not bad

[unreal vine]

Walkie is just meh and eternal bruh

[visual turtle]

Booooo

I got castle

[unborn cliff]

chips

scaling chips

[vocal rose]

bro got no mult 🤣

[unborn cliff]

wow so useless

[visual turtle]

Can't wait for the deck to not give me [suit]

[unborn cliff]

copy bloker

[visual turtle]

and i have two discards so

💔

[unreal vine]

I love castle beside is bad

[vocal rose]

what

[unreal vine]

Btw it scales good

[visual turtle]

Would of been helpful last run where I was discarding every 3 seconds

[vocal rose]

yes

[visual turtle]

i have 12 chips

fun

[serene forge]

blueprint is gonna give birth to negative square joker

[unreal vine]

Not very good English xD sorry

Idk what did I said there

[vocal rose]

its okay

[visual turtle]

rip

[vocal rose]

2 month pre mature

[visual turtle]

ok
so hmmmm

I'd like to either

[unborn cliff]

find a stuntman

[visual turtle]

aim for 30 clubs/diamonds

or get

a flush house

or get 4 7 clubs somehow

[unreal vine]

Eternal riff raff is carrying my run

[serene forge]

I love Riff Raff

[unborn cliff]

it does that

[unreal vine]

Eternal +_+

[visual turtle]

I don't think séance will help 💔

[unreal vine]

It was pick it or die

[unreal vine]

🥀

[visual turtle]

star in shop will help

[unreal vine]

Blueprint don't copy riff raff right?

[raw whale]

nope

[unreal vine]

Ah people don't forget today's Balatrodle

[unreal vine]

Damn

[visual turtle]

Skim the 3rd

I have like

11 5 cards now

[unreal vine]

115!?

[visual turtle]

now if
the two aces I have appear with the 3 5♦cards

[plain briar]

what should i replace to get brainstorm

[potent tree]

replace chad with baseball? i run some glass

[raw whale]

lmfao

[modest siren]

What is constellation at? If it's more than 3, get rid of nana

[plain briar]

my constellation is at x2.3

[raw whale]

balatrodle in 2 apparently

[serene forge]

it does

[plain briar]

x2.3 and polychrome

[visual turtle]

midas mask makes me realize
i haven't played 5 gold cards yet

[serene forge]

photograph

[modest siren]

Probably get rid of either banana or mime

[visual turtle]

ok i got a 5 of a kind
with all 5's

thats neat

[modest siren]

Get rid of banana, copying chad with a face at the start gives another x4 from photo

[raw whale]

am i picking stm here

[olive basin]

Yes

[modest siren]

Delete banana, and brainstorm photo

[raw whale]

it does actually

[serene forge]

yes

[plain briar]

okay

[visual turtle]

Died

Rip

wait let me do it on white stake

[raw whale]

and yet not a straight in sight

[verbal oak]

Me in the Balatro discord server:

[serene forge]

I hate Bloodstone

[raw whale]

bloodstone is a slot machine

[stable owl]

Why do this to me on shop one

[visual turtle]

you could hope for

temperance or something idk

I forgot the name of the other tarot card

[verbal oak]

What were you going to duplicate? Unenhanced face cards?

[stable owl]

So ball with the tarot

Why not?

[visual turtle]

Ewww

[stable owl]

Just kings

I’ll just open pack

[visual turtle]

save game fi

rst

[stable owl]

Nah I ball

[serene forge]

the fuck are you gonna use this for lmfao

copying an unenhanced 5 of hearts while also losing a dollar every time you use it?

[stable owl]

Copy kings

[visual turtle]

free tribe 💔

[serene forge]

for what

[visual turtle]

ok i thought i was going to get like
the Spectral card that

makes everything the same suit/number Early

[serene forge]

sigil/ouija

[visual turtle]

But
I guess I gotta live at the same time

To see said cards

[serene forge]

I hate Ouija

[visual turtle]

ok i have to bring it up again

why are

club cards

blue

[last geyser]

What’s the best deck to get all gold stickers ?

[visual turtle]

And not green

[unreal vine]

Crazy

And then can't copy dice

[serene forge]

blueprint can't copy passive effects

[potent tree]

i guess xmult really does outperform chips in plasma.

[serene forge]

riff is something that procs at the start of a round

it's why you can copy burger but not andrew

[mortal nimbus]

to start out, anaglyph is fine as you can get a decent amount of commons, but it falls short very quickly

Beyond that, the best decks for gold stickering are the same as the best decks for winning runs.

Blue, Yellow, Abandoned, Ghost, and even Checkered (very consistent early game)

[stark karma]

BP can copy riff right?

[serene forge]

yes

[gray plaza]

If I didn't have the screenshots no one would believe it, but I've had deadass back to back runs with one or more legendaries

I've had literally 6 or more runs this week with legendaries and look at this current one

[last geyser]

Hmm Okk thanks I’m currently on 55/150

[serene forge]

I hate Baron

[visual turtle]

0 ante here I come
nvm
kinda wanting to go back to plasma-ing

[last geyser]

Is jokerless challenge harder than black deck gold stake ?

[serene forge]

absolutely not

[last geyser]

Oh then I should be able to do this

I was too scared to try

[vocal rose]

no

[stark karma]

That’s gotta hit so hard on black deck :0

I have an uncommon version of riff raff for my mod :D

I’ll make the art soon

[tender bone]

do i put bp on chad or photograph

[heavy heron]

i always knew the wrathful joker was amazing (it had little to do w wrathful)

[tender bone]

u told me flushes were bad 😔

[heavy heron]

I NEVER SAID THAT

WHAT

I PLAY FLUSHES 24/7

my name literally was jupiter glazer

i love flushes heehhehehe

[tender bone]

i liked them too but when we hopped on call u said they were bad for scaling 😭😭

[heavy heron]

oh wait it’s you

[minor portal]

they are bad for scaling

[tender bone]

yeah i just changed pfp lol

[acoustic kettle]

They scale bad

[heavy heron]

ppl say they scale badly but imo they scale just fine

for what they are

they get 2 mult and 15 chips.. yea the chips is bad but

for something so easy to draw

i think the mult you get from jupiters (that you don’t from mercury) is a good trade off

[tender bone]

alr alr

[minor portal]

for something so easy to draw they say

that's what the government wants you to believe

[heavy heron]

good thing you spawn with 13 of a suit every suit!

[smoky orbit]

worth taking brainstorm? chad got me to 2mil

[jolly relic]

hello

[tender bone]

im really sorry for interrupting can someone answer quick cuz its 1:40 am, do i put bp on chad or photo

[heavy heron]

maybe kill trio and just copy family?

possibly

[smoky orbit]

hrrrrrmm trueeee possibly🤔

[heavy heron]

cover your eyes

[minor portal]

good thing that that's an issue in itself

[vocal rose]

I got half way with the gold stake stickers before I died I cannot believe this HOW did doc do it

[smoky orbit]

im doing flush fives rn

[heavy heron]

sounds like a skill issue to me!

joke

[vocal rose]

getting halfway without dying felt like forever

[minor portal]

Five card hands are evil

[heavy heron]

mmm 5 card hands..🤤

they remind me of eggs

[jolly relic]

my carebear came today

isnt that so exciting

[heavy heron]

nice

that is exciting

[minor portal]

I'm pretty sure that the seventh ring in Dante's Inferno had five card hands in it

[smoky orbit]

thank you btw it got me to 3.8m!

🥹

[heavy heron]

ofc❤️

[vocal rose]

i’m a balatro player

3 c++s in

and I still make this mistake

[jolly relic]

its maybe my most awesome purchase ever

[heavy heron]

dude this always happens i swear

[heavy heron]

you should send it

i bet it’s beautiful

[heavy heron]

good thing you won’t see the head ever again… meaning you can main the lusty for the rest of the game!!

[turbid nova]

a little overkill there

[jolly relic]

is he beautiful

[smoky orbit]

awh damn so close to 14mil

[heavy heron]

YOOHOOOO

easily best purchase

easily

[turbid nova]

lucky kitty has x2 and constellation has x3.1

[heavy heron]

i like the sunglasses chest

[jolly relic]

YESS ikr

[smoky orbit]

I ADORE THAT WHAAAAT

[turbid nova]

I have not had a run this blessed since swashbuckler gift card

[jolly relic]

😭😭

his hair is so fluffy

[heavy heron]

you won in our hearts

[smoky orbit]

real1!1!1 I won in the hearts of all

[heavy heron]

he’s so big and huggable

[smoky orbit]

my loadout was family,chad, brainstorm, zany and fibonachi

with foak to uhhh

[jolly relic]

hes actually only 9 inches tall i think

[smoky orbit]

lvl10

[heavy heron]

he looks massive in the picture

[heavy heron]

that’s such a win

[smoky orbit]

still thats adorable!! and yes i agree honestly he does look massive

[jolly relic]

maybe

[smoky orbit]

real11!1!1

[jolly relic]

yes

[smoky orbit]

yes1!1^^

[jolly relic]

so super adorable

[potent tree]

oh dear. it's gonna be one of those runs isn't it...

[jolly relic]

erratic deck is awful

kill erratic deck

[junior cave]

How far does Stuntman take you scoring wise? I heard that it's good but how much does it average?

[potent tree]

one stuntman just got me 25k with a flush. but it's gonna have to be a lot more for any meaningful impact

[vocal rose]

on plasma it

can take you to ante 6 by itself

before purple stake

[junior cave]

Damn

[vocal rose]

but that’s because it’s plasma

stuntman is still crazy on every deck

it’s amazing

[junior cave]

I don't see Stuntman all that much so I don't feel its strength much unfortunately

[jolly relic]

actually maybe i think you should get your money up and then switch out the stuntman for bigger score

[junior cave]

holy

[vocal rose]

on normal decks it’s a 51x

[junior cave]

My most recent Gold Stake clear had Stuntman but I didn't think about how much of an impact it had on my run.

I believe I was using steel cards as my main source with Fibbo +mult

[vocal rose]

fibbo and stuntman is a weird combo

since you want a higher hand played like 3oak or two pair

and the hand size to dig

pairs dont work well

unless you have chad

but I mean you made it work so that’s good

[jolly relic]

did you guys do all your decks gold stake at the same time

or did you play different decks

[vocal rose]

like build them all up to gold stake?

[jolly relic]

like go through the stakes on each deck before doing a new one

[vocal rose]

yeah that’s what I did

I gold staked a deck and moved onto another

[jolly relic]

okay

[vocal rose]

I didn’t have the patience

[jolly relic]

eternal brainstorm shop one and i cant afford it

[vocal rose]

plus I think you improve better

[jolly relic]

🥰

[vocal rose]

that’s good

because it’s bait

what are you gonna copy

[jolly relic]

no

[terse vale]

air

[jolly relic]

something

[vocal rose]

yes

[vocal rose]

nothing

[jolly relic]

it will eventually copy nothing

its not like im dying ante one black stake red deck

[terse vale]

money is too valuable early game to waste on copiers

[vocal rose]

yes

but you’re on easy mode

so it’s okay

[tranquil steppe]

Glass poly king is beautiful

[vocal rose]

breaks

[terse vale]

no deaths EVER

[heavy heron]

it will copy something eventually indeed!

zoahl just a hater

it can’t be that hard finding one mult joker to copy 🙄

[last geyser]

First attempt at jokerless and I die to violet vessel 🫠

[heavy heron]

UNLUCKY

worst boss

you need glass and steel

for vv

on jokerless

[earnest owl]

i only have a few hours on this game and maybe like 4 wins but i dont really know what a good hand to try and build off of is, like 3 of my 4 wins i just went flush every game but i die a lot bc im unable to get enough cards and the other one i won with two pair but its kinda hard to do 2 pair since its not really viable early game

i kinda js want some input on what to do

[heavy heron]

the pros will tell you keep playing pairs but that’s boring

[tranquil steppe]

Hmmmmmm

[acoustic kettle]

Pairs but iit's boring

Well idk

[heavy heron]

what i do is default to a hand type until i see jokers or planets that make me pivot

[last geyser]

I had one glass with red seal but I didn’t get it in the round 😅

[heavy heron]

i default to flushes, but if i see jokers that make me want to play, say, two pair

or like straights

i may pivot to that

[earnest owl]

like what are some jokers ik i should pivot t

[earnest owl]

i always kinda ignore straights i feel like they would be too hard no?

[heavy heron]

like for example if you see a square joker (gains 4 chips if you only play 4 cards per hand)

two pair could be good!

might be time to pivot!

or if you see, say

an ancient joker, you stick to flushes

[acoustic kettle]

Straights scale great but you are in the hands of rng before the deck is fixed

[heavy heron]

or like

[vocal rose]

if you want actual advice pre blue stake you can play straights well

[heavy heron]

maybe even a shortcut

then straights suddenly seem appealing

since they scale so amazingly

[vocal rose]

but the most important part is to not burn out and discover what works

until you actually feel a tiny bit stuck

[earnest owl]

u mean the one that builds straights w 4 cards

or is shortcut smt else

[heady steeple]

I just got a run with a ridiculous amount of negative skips. I think based on visuals only, Fib might be my new favorite negative. But holo Michael might rival even negative Red for ugliest joker-edition combo

[vocal rose]

that’s four fingers

[earnest owl]

is shortcutsmt else

[heavy heron]

shortcut lets you play straights with a 1 rank skip

for example

3 4 6 7 8

[acoustic kettle]

Shotcut allows gaps of one rank

[heavy heron]

or like

[earnest owl]

oh yeah

[heavy heron]

3 5 7 9 J

[earnest owl]

that card good

jokemr

[heavy heron]

it is because straights are amazing

[heavy hare]

square onky good if u get it on very early antes tho

[heavy heron]

their main downfall is how hard it is to draw straights

[heavy heron]

yes exactly that’s true

my hand types i generally play

if this helps at all

actually

it prob doesn’t

ignore that probably

[earnest owl]

is pluto pair

[heavy heron]

pluto is high card

[earnest owl]

how is high card good

[heady steeple]

uranus is pair

[earnest owl]

i dont understand that

[blissful fog]

Depends on the build

[heavy heron]

high card isn’t good, generally

[earnest owl]

unless u do like a whole deck with kings and u have the joker that gives 1.5x for each king

[heavy heron]

but i like challenging things

[heavy heron]

nahhhh see

that’s baron

try not to do baron

[blissful fog]

Shoot the moon is good for high card

[heavy heron]

he’s very hard to make work out

[blissful fog]

Photochad is also good

[heady steeple]

easy to throw out, scales decent, lots of synergy with stuff like baron mime or splash

[heavy heron]

random high card build i had recently

[acoustic kettle]

If you don't see the planet you want in packs might as well take the high card one since it is the only hand you can be forced to play

[heavy heron]

your end goal is to have a big blue number (chips) and big red number (mult)

you can have both

even on a high card

[last geyser]

What’s the best hand to be focusing on for jokerless?

[heavy heron]

i say straights

[last geyser]

Oh ok

[heavy heron]

my best advice for you is to play the game more, play around with jokers

you will die

a lot

[acoustic kettle]

Straights or 4oaks

[heavy heron]

but you learn a lot, too

but if you want

[heady narwhal]

• play 4 hands ≈ x4 mult
• immune to tons of bosses
• easy to dig for gold cards & blue seals (and easy to hold them in hand)

hc is worse than pair though because pair has these benefits + significantly more joker synergy

[heavy heron]

real actionable advice

my #1 tip

that isn’t intuitive

is

try to always save around $20 end of every round/shop

always around $20 (ideally 25)

you build interest, and you’ll make consistent money every round

[acoustic kettle]

Nah

[heavy heron]

by keeping money

[acoustic kettle]

The real tip is

Have fun

[earnest owl]

i try to do this

[heady narwhal]

play pairs

[heavy heron]

well if you wanted advice for surviving is all

[blissful fog]

And learn

[heavy heron]

but yes that’s most important

[heavy heron]

well as abk said

your goal is to have fun

so no prob not

[earnest owl]

but tbf if im kinda dying at like ante 5 every time i wanna know how to get better yk

[heavy heron]

it’s hard to give advice when nobody sees what you’re doing wrong

[blissful fog]

You will eventually beat ante 8, just takes time

[heavy heron]

but yes ^

[earnest owl]

i have a few times

[heavy heron]

keep learning keep trying

[heady narwhal]

squimbo is way better with highcard/pair than with two pair

[earnest owl]

so im not like completely blind to the game

[heavy heron]

see why you’re not scoring enough, and if there was something else you could’ve done to get said higher scores

like did you skip a joker you may have needed?

taken thee wrong planets? the wrong tarots?

rerolled when you shouldn’t have?

you won’t know the answers until it’s too late

but it’ll give you an idea of

when to make different decisions for future runs

[earnest owl]

i just got ancient joker and i kinda enjoy playing flushes minus when i get trash rng what jokers are good for flushes?

[blissful fog]

Won alot of games with square when doing two pair lol. One of the jokers that have a gold sticker currently

[heavy heron]

ancient joker is pretty self sustainable!

[potent tree]

will a blue steal still trigger if mr bones saves me

[heavy heron]

what you want is jupiters, really, for ancient joker

lots of jupiters

[shadow shore]

uninstalled my game on mobile i play too much there now im forced to get good on pc

[heavy hare]

not many 😭

[heady narwhal]

pretty sure yeah

[earnest owl]

do u think i should play the telescope deck or na

[shadow shore]

mobile atro feels better ngl

[blissful fog]

There's barely any difference

[heavy hare]

bloodstone can be good with retriggers or oops

[earnest owl]

in future

[shadow shore]

i have to get my lazy ass out of bed to play pc balatro

so

[heady narwhal]

SUAS works because bones triggers end of round effects every time it saves you

[heavy heron]

yes give it a try

be open to new things

[blissful fog]

Oops is guaranteed better

[shadow shore]

oops is legit better with bloodstone

prolly one of the best combos in game

[earnest owl]

i played it a bit when i did two pairs for a little

[heavy heron]

well then you probably noticed you were getting lots of uranuses

and you’ll also notice that you get so many chips from that

maybe not mult, though

[heavy hare]

yeah ofc oops is better than retriggers

[blissful fog]

This build I'm using either pairs or hc

[heavy hare]

but u can't always guarantee an oops

[earnest owl]

yeah most the time i had low +mult so i didnt get much

[heavy heron]

generally, if you’re not scoring enough, see which number (chips or mult) is lacking

and see what you can do to prioritize that

[potent tree]

do i ditch something for hiker?

[shadow shore]

you should be copying one of each

[earnest owl]

whats the infinity thing do

[wintry ice]

makes a joker permanent

[heavy hare]

joker can't be sold or destroyed

[blissful fog]

I've been doing that when scoring, it just looks cool when it is like that

[earnest owl]

ah

[potent tree]

i am going to scream in anger.

[blissful fog]

Eternal. Can't be sold or destroyed. You can only get this with black stake or higher

[potent tree]

wait

[shadow shore]

oneSELL

[blissful fog]

That's another thing you can do, beat gold stake

[polar talon]

Plasma deck or ghost deck?

[blissful fog]

I've learned alot since going for c+

[blissful fog]

Ghost

[potent tree]

do i copy 2.8x constellation or stuntman (i copied burglar for extra hands yes

probably stuntman right

[blissful fog]

Copy xmukt

Which is const

[heavy hare]

depends if u have VERY low chips

[blissful fog]

Always copy xmult especially if it's scaling

[heavy hare]

what chips is ur hand scoring

likely xmult

if u are playing like an level 1 pair it's chips thar is better

[blissful fog]

Stuntman based from the ss

[polar talon]

I haven't won the golden well of the ghost deck

[heavy hare]

no rhe actual hand level

[blissful fog]

Ohh mb

[potent tree]

we needn't have worried in the end

[blissful fog]

Not gonna be that difficult

[earnest owl]

if i blueprint ancient joker the 1.5x will activate twice for each card of the suit?

[potent tree]

yes.

[earnest owl]

kk

[blissful fog]

Yes

[heavy hare]

yeah stuntman is better copy here

[blissful fog]

2.8 mult is lackluster ig

Yea it makes sense

[potent tree]

i mean i did pick it up ante 6 only

constellation i mean

stuntman was ante 1 rare skip

[blissful fog]

Just scale that shi up

[potent tree]

i had to sac mr bones on the big blind

[heavy hare]

stuntman copy is equivalent to a 7x and constellation is 2.8^2

[junior cave]

I did not expect my Joker build to win in fact. It's always the most bizarre builds that win me Gold Stake I swear.

Full Joker build was Stuntman, Fibbo, Chad and double Stencil

[vocal rose]

chad good

[heavy hare]

how many joker slots do u have

[vocal rose]

assuming you played pairs

[vocal rose]

5?

[junior cave]

Additional stencils don't count against the xmult so I had 2 2xmult

So 4x

Had an early Ankh for Stencil that run

[polar talon]

yes or no?

[vocal rose]

easiest yes ever

[potent tree]

yes. pairmaxxing time

[vocal rose]

it’s a skip so im a little disappointed

but hex it

and pair max

chips mult and x mult in one

[tall owl]

that's an easy yes for a gold stake run if you're just trying to win

[vocal rose]

i’d also judgement too

and that’s it

[junior cave]

Yeah, I had 5 joker slots. I did clarify that stencil doesn't count against itself if there's an additional one.

[heavy hare]

a 16x could be better than chad + fib if your base mult is good enough

[vocal rose]

I know you did

[heavy hare]

burnt is great

[vocal rose]

I was just wondering why they assumed it was anything different

[heavy hare]

synergies very well with pairs which is like the best build usually