🕹・game-discussion

[serene forge]

goated as fuck

[light brook]

lays:

[serene forge]

I love stuntman

[fringe nebula]

hc/pair spam gogo

[solemn tide]

very. but I feel like it might make me worse at the game if I play it too much lol.

[worn fog]

🦷

[wary zodiac]

@exotic mica this is why you ALWAYS take the credit card in the buffoon pack

[viscid mango]

mod core 😭😭

[teal thunder]

why is it always on the madness runs

[echo sphinx]

holy shit

[solemn tide]

How often do you guys restart when playing

[fringe nebula]

also, stuntman blackboard combo is goated

[fringe nebula]

never

[echo sphinx]

r i p

[light brook]

let it ride

[wary zodiac]

canio

[serene forge]

worlds most underrated synergy

[worn fog]

If im not in a good mood, I reset if the ante 1 boss is the pillar

[teal thunder]

naw the perkmister

[echo sphinx]

a lot. black deck. die

[solemn tide]

aw

[worn fog]

I like black deck

Not as much as ghost

[light brook]

yknow a synergy i don’t hear enough about

paradoelia and bus

goated combo

[honest latch]

nevermind its decent

[stone shell]

nah burglar rebate best duo

[honest latch]

actually no its really good

100 million score by ante 4

[worn fog]

Merry andy and banner (plasma)

[knotty zodiac]

burglar obelisk bus

[light brook]

grimbo merry andy 🤑

[worn fog]

-# btw I mostly play on white stake, the higher stakes I deadass forget those exist sometimes

[knotty zodiac]

there's only white stake. why would there be other stakes?

[worn fog]

Because white stake tastes better than gold stake

[echo sphinx]

four fingers straight

[solemn tide]

insanity

I need to learn how to play with more jokers

need to reset less

[worn fog]

Me too gng

Theres 150, but I use like 20 of them

[solemn tide]

but if i am a dollar less i will be upset.

[light brook]

life ain’t all photochads and baronmimes….

[blissful fog]

Very unfortunate

[noble depot]

me: i have 30 7s of diamonds, i hope nothing bad happens
idol: sorry, but I want you to play the only 2 copies of a 9 of diamonds, take it or leave it

[echo sphinx]

but it sure is pairslop all the way down

[solemn tide]

I actually don't use Photo very much but I love chad

[smoky niche]

mathematically is 4 fingers straight easier or shortcut straight easier

gotta be shortcut right

[light brook]

based ass opinion

lucky cat and wee especially

[echo sphinx]

shortcut is better
but 4 fingers is funnier

[noble depot]

me bcs I don't trust figure runs until I'm past ante 4, have director's cut or already defeated the plant

[echo sphinx]

andworks with seance

[noble depot]

i hate idol

period

[teal thunder]

+$10

[solemn tide]

I thought I escaped math after I dropped out of college

[worn fog]

Idol is good for the XMult, its just getting it to become useful is sooo hard (for me tbh)

[solemn tide]

now its in balatro..

society..

[noble depot]

i had a quite decent deckfixing

[solemn tide]

Isn't idol mad specific w what it wants

also

very good maiden pfp

[noble depot]

it had to fail me ON ANTE 12

AND AGAINST THE FLINT

[copper iron]

Balatro challenge run idea:
Start with one Riff-Raff
Riff-Raff is a valid option for Riff-Raff to choose as one of the two created jokers
At the end of every blind, every non Riff-Raff joker is deleted
Shops do not sell jokers
Wraith and judgement are not available
Start with 99 joker slots

[noble depot]

thanks, she's my fav peruvian

[wary zodiac]

...surely i high roll

the goat

[copper iron]

I haven't posted here in like 6 months, but i'm still working on completion++
I'm down to only missing 43 jokers and have finally gotten to the point where I'm happy not using anyglyph strategy but it's pretty slow

[solemn tide]

the day I discovered economy isnt just in jokers

[copper iron]

I'm mostly trying ghost, yellow, and erratic

I was having a bit of luck with the classic "Keep refreshing erratic until you have at least 9 of a card, and try for five of a kinds every hand" but it's kinda annoying after a while

Also, on gold stake I literally always skip ante 1 small blind every single time

(I refresh until the skip bonus is good)

[solemn tide]

I thought it was bad to do that

like skipping during first round

[copper iron]

I've seen hundreds of people basically just say "Skipping is bad, don't do it" but I also think a lot of people are too scared to ever skip

[solemn tide]

prolly situational

[honest latch]

this is a really good seed actually

684 million by ante 5

[knotty zodiac]

skips are fine if you like resetting. ppl trying to win as many runs without resetting dont like skips. two different play styles

[copper iron]

Since you don't get the reward from small blind, if you're starting with any deck other than yellow you're at most getting $3~ and a shop where you enter with $7, but you really shouldn't buy anything with only $7, but if you get a good skip you can enter shop 2 with a free rare, a free polychrome, a $25 reward at the end of ante-1, or one of my personal faves, everything in the shop being free

[solemn tide]

not at the start right?

[twin lantern]

Na lame

[solemn tide]

cuz thats risky asf

[twin lantern]

Good seed <3

[echo sphinx]

only the $25 dollars can appear in blind 1

[honest latch]

ok

[solemn tide]

no?

[echo sphinx]

try it

[solemn tide]

maybe im resetting too much to notice lmao

[twin lantern]

What?

Wdym

[worn fog]

Imagine this thing as a joker, instead of destroying itself it just kills you instead.

[twin lantern]

Only the $25 one

[worn fog]

And hes a legendary eternal, every time

[twin lantern]

Im praying for it omg

[worn fog]

Even on white stake

He just spawns with the tag

[honest latch]

its calling to me like the green goblin mask

[echo sphinx]

negative and spectral tag dont appear on first ante

[worn fog]

Lmao, that would we busted

[twin lantern]

Someone skipping blinds and saying its good?

Where they at

[worn fog]

Tarot packs do the same thing

[twin lantern]

Its not free lol

[echo sphinx]

no one here said its optimal

[twin lantern]

You lose the shop

[worn fog]

And the money from the hands and shi

[twin lantern]

And end of round $

[worn fog]

Yeah was the evil burger said

You can, soul cards can spawn in those I think

[twin lantern]

A spectral pack from a skip be like $12

[worn fog]

I couldve SWORN I got a soul from a tarot bro

[twin lantern]

Souls appear in arcana

[worn fog]

I call em tarots but yeah

I meant arcana

[twin lantern]

Most of the time

[twin lantern]

Legendarys are let downs

Like 0.3%

So best place to look is $8 arcana packs because the roll they most amount of times

[worn fog]

I wanted a perkeo for my first ever baron mine build, but I got a damn canio and I actually busted out laughing because I spent like 3 minutes debating if I should sell my econ joker for it

[twin lantern]

But its seed dependent

Battlecats is a Gacha game

Still?

There's no gambling in balatro

But its skill and knowledge based

Poker isnt

[knotty zodiac]

theres no dlc, no microtransactions, no energy system, no lootboxes

its not gambling

[humble gulch]

I love the smell of investment tag in ante 1

[twin lantern]

Battlecats after they release another ball with cat ears and charges their audience the entire fort-Knox stock pile of gold for it

[knotty zodiac]

then everything is gambling. buying apples that could be sour is gambling. driving to work is gambling because "you could crash, or you could not, it's gambling.". the term gambling becomes meaningless

[humble gulch]

Free e30

[twin lantern]

Brother its time for u get expand your video game taste by talking to ppl irl

[potent tree]

damn third soul this run (i sold perkeo for another gold sticker)

trib. hmm

[twin lantern]

You spend IRL money for characters of varied strength and rarity.

That's pay to win

[honest latch]

is this good with my kings and queens deck

[humble gulch]

I guess it's money positive

[humble gulch]

Sell castle for interest

[honest latch]

meh alright

[twin lantern]

How's that not paying money to win, all that means is that the price tag is indeterminate

[lime pawn]

shoutout to the nat neg BS

[echo sphinx]

everything's a gamble if you think hard enough

[fringe nebula]

here, win

[twin lantern]

Okay, but youre still spending money on characters of varied strength and rarity,

[echo sphinx]

neato

[honest latch]

Shit thats good. Might sell baron

[potent tree]

well rip run. had fun while it lasted

[twin lantern]

A non-P2W game would have those be unlocked within a realistic human amount of time by actually playing the game

[honest latch]

What should brainstorm retrigger here in my kings and queens deck

[twin lantern]

Trib

[humble gulch]

Trib

[twin lantern]

Im faster

Haha

[humble gulch]

Ugh

[honest latch]

alright ill just keep it in the same spot

[echo sphinx]

holy barely

[echo sphinx]

counterstrike is gambling cuz lootboxes can be sold for dollars

ignoring the fact that its a shooter game

[twin lantern]

Yes counterstrike lootboxes are gambling

[honest latch]

63 billion, yeah no you guys were right

[twin lantern]

We know this

[honest latch]

btw that seed was GVCVBT5G

[twin lantern]

For a year? If you played Skyrim every day for a year youd complete every possible task nearly 4times assuming you play 2hours a day.

[honest latch]

God damn

[echo sphinx]

meeting new people is gambling because u dont know beforehand if u share something in common or not

[humble gulch]

The battle cats has like, 1000+ hours worth of content

[upbeat burrow]

bro i got this much money from back to back hermits why cant i find any good jokers

[knotty zodiac]

eating is gambling because you might choke or you might not

putting on your pants is gambling

[twin lantern]

But a cash whale can make all your progress in a day thru the gacha system.

[echo sphinx]

sitting on a chair is gambling because u might be asteroid collateral in the next minute

[humble gulch]

Buying a game is gambling because you probably won"t like the game

[knotty zodiac]

not sitting on a chair is gambling

[honest latch]

lmao flint on ante 10 like that will actually do fucking anything

[echo sphinx]

breathing is gambling u cant be certain u wont inhale funny and choke

[twin lantern]

Energy? You mean another resource you can ignore if youre willing to cash whale?

[knotty zodiac]

if it has an energy system and lootboxes and there's a way to repeatedly put money in, it's probably pay to win..

[honest latch]

i genuinely cant find any arcana packs

if you dont skip here are you even a real person

[twin lantern]

Progress in battle cats is meaningless bc if I won the lottery I essentially completed the game

[knotty zodiac]

skipping makes the next handy tag smaller! 😛

[humble gulch]

I'd like to sue you just because I do not like handy tag

[echo sphinx]

investing into s&p 500 is pay to win 😭

[honest latch]

ok

you arent a real person though

goodbye

[twin lantern]

No, microtransactions for anything that isnt exclusively cosmetic is inherently P2W bc youre spending money to skip progress.

[humble gulch]

What do I even respond to that

[rancid gull]

Balatro battle pass please

[knotty zodiac]

gotta fill out a CAPTCHA

[honest latch]

the strategy of typing in random seeds until one has a soul is amazing

[rancid gull]

Why don’t you just look up seeds with soul in them lol

[twin lantern]

Why are ubers overpowered? Why dont they balance them to fit into the game nicely?

[echo sphinx]

its so scary

im constantly on knife edge of fulfilling the score

[twin lantern]

to incentive you to spend money on trying to get them

[echo sphinx]

HHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

LETS GO GAMBLING

[humble gulch]

Is it not the same just playing a random seed?

[rancid gull]

Dude is on some nerdy shit again

[knotty zodiac]

$49.99 for season 1. one free blueprint at the beginning of each run

"its not p2w because you can keep resetting until blueprint shows up in shop 1 on yellow deck"

[rancid gull]

Yes!!!!!!

[echo sphinx]

think bigger

[honest latch]

No

[echo sphinx]

negative blueprint

in a joker pack

[honest latch]

Got antimatter and picked up baseball card

[wraith slate]

plant strikes again

[knotty zodiac]

positive blueprint. it gives extra slots

[humble gulch]

Why not

[echo sphinx]

:thonk:

[twin lantern]

Extra positive, +1 joker slot used

[honest latch]

because it requires skill. that includes typing. im a balatro promptoid

[humble gulch]

"Here, win"

[echo sphinx]

holy

[honest latch]

hmmm

[rancid gull]

Balatro AI

[honest latch]

do i pick this up

[echo sphinx]

lets go gamblingg

[honest latch]

balatro stockfish

[echo sphinx]

balatro pokerfish

[humble gulch]

Balatorch

[twin lantern]

I hate steve

[rancid gull]

Why

[rancid gull]

What did I do

[twin lantern]

Fuck you

[rancid gull]

Go play something nerdy

[rancid gull]

I’ll play my awesome games

[twin lantern]

Let's bully steve

[fringe nebula]

i hate bloodstone

[rancid gull]

Bro is a hater

I love bloodstone

[knotty zodiac]

are you secretly a hornet

[humble gulch]

I love bloodstone

[twin lantern]

Bro fire reacted himself

[faint linden]

I love Rough Gem

[rancid gull]

SOEMONE GOTTA DO IT

[knotty zodiac]

lets try it

[humble gulch]

Me personally I prefer rough gem

[twin lantern]

Rough gem my baby

[stoic isle]

i HATE hess! (lie)

[knotty zodiac]

my comments feel powerful

[rancid gull]

Rough gem

Once per something economy

[twin lantern]

I hope a clown kicks you in the testicles

[honest latch]

THE INVISIBLE JOKER DUPED MY TRIBOULET GOATEDDDD

[fringe nebula]

is it just me or do obelisk lovers have a thing or two towards 3oak

[humble gulch]

Where's my stone joker

[twin lantern]

3oak is goated

[fringe nebula]

because i level up 3oak so much whenever i do obelisk

[rancid gull]

such hatred

is 3oak actually that good

[fringe nebula]

yes

[dusky plinth]

how difficult are the challenges compared to gold stakes?

[honest latch]

Insane hand

[twin lantern]

Challenges are easy

Some are easier than the base game imo

[honest latch]

e21

jesus christ

i underestimated this seed

[twin lantern]

Bro thats sus

[stoic isle]

copy sock

[fringe nebula]

gold stake is harder but some challenges are very unstable (example : getting water on golden needle challenge and getting the flint on jokerless challenge)

[knotty zodiac]

theyre basically all easier than gold stake besides 18 and 20

[stoic isle]

ehhh

wait

yeah no i'm wrong

[junior urchin]

Blessed rng once again

[rancid gull]

high preistess isn't that good

[knotty zodiac]

theres no way golden needle was playtested with water. its just a horrendous boss with close to no counterplay

[fringe nebula]

emperor will give you temperance and fool

trust

[humble gulch]

Sell yorick and use hermit

[potent tree]

chat...do we hex-ankh vagabond??

[fringe nebula]

yes

[humble gulch]

hex-anhkabond shenanigans

[fringe nebula]

double fist steel also works

honestly

i love fist and steel

[honest latch]

this hand is so goated

[potent tree]

and i completely forgot to spend my remaining balance

[knotty zodiac]

isnt this instant death unless you saturned?

[potent tree]

yippee! held r

[humble gulch]

Time to fix your deck

[honest latch]

i never get the cards to do it

[potent tree]

it was instant death as soon as i left shop with $9

[honest latch]

plus im always poor

[knotty zodiac]

rip

[humble gulch]

It's not that you don't find deck fixing, is just that you can't

Money = Win

[bronze glacier]

Hey all. Are my jokers in the right spot?

^after I use dna

[stoic isle]

no you never do anything right and you messed up everything

(lie)

[humble gulch]

All brainstorms on baron

[bronze glacier]

Why?

[humble gulch]

Do you have red seals?

[north relic]

i think they should be balanced out

[bronze glacier]

All steel red seals

[north relic]

prob 2 on baron one on mime

[humble gulch]

Yeah, all brainstorms on baron

[bronze glacier]

Blueprint on mime?

[humble gulch]

That on baron too

[bronze glacier]

ok

i think i maybe have 2 hands left

antes left

[north relic]

i asked abt that earlier and they said to even it out idk

https://efhiii.github.io/balatro-calculator/?h=YAA2hBA2GAO4LQkACer9X6v1fq_V-r9X6sABSA i use this sumtimes idk how accurate it is tho

[humble gulch]

It depends a lot

Free win

[wanton breach]

Well

[stoic isle]

3 grimbo gaming

[bronze glacier]

that checker says 2 baron one mime

[humble gulch]

Were the cards made out of steel?

[bronze glacier]

all red seal steel

[odd mango]

I have a new iphone 17 from xfinity

[humble gulch]

I'm blind, sorry

[junior urchin]

You have to be fucking kidding me right now

[humble gulch]

Yeah, two baron one mime

[junior urchin]

If it’s a natural negative I’m gonna nut

[odd mango]

Should hace gotten warranty because i want to break my phone rn

[honest latch]

No

[junior urchin]

No way lol

[humble gulch]

Jimbo should be replaced with greenbo

[odd mango]

No chance to win this fuck

My flush or straight is not even lvl 2

[potent tree]

i promptly threw another canio perkeo run

awesome sauce

[tawdry hawk]

greatest start to a ghost ever?

[humble gulch]

Anhk gives eternal to all legendaries

[humble gulch]

No, because you have obelisk

[tawdry hawk]

i was being sarcastic

[humble gulch]

What do you need marble joker for

[junior urchin]

It gets to a point dawg

[honest latch]

next ante im done for

[junior urchin]

Does photo go for the print? Both yoriks are at 11x so it seems to be like that but what if there’s a chad soon

[humble gulch]

That reminds me of being THREE planets away from ante 39

I wanted to die

[twin lantern]

Chat my belly hurts

[echo sphinx]

broke

[honest latch]

sad

[junior urchin]

Just steal it

[humble gulch]

[honest latch]

that was close as hell e22

e21 minimum score

[twin lantern]

F

Get glass next time silly

[humble gulch]

Get to ante 39 for me, you just need an ante 3 or earlier Perkeo

[honest latch]

NO FUCKING WAY

[junior urchin]

I need actual advice here does bloodstone leave for merry because it would scale my yoriks 2x as fast but my deck is more than half hearts (I’m taking this run endless)

[primal heath]

delete the bloodstone

[honest latch]

I WISH I HAD SPACE HERE

[humble gulch]

Sell bloodstone

[humble gulch]

Sell crafty

[echo sphinx]

do i win here

[potent tree]

crafty being negative:

[bronze glacier]

i got so lucky with serpent

[odd mango]

Still a newb but educate me here

[primal heath]

diamond flush is good propably

[bronze glacier]

i did not have to roll that long

[humble gulch]

Probably

[odd mango]

To put more points in 2 hands

[echo sphinx]

what do i build into

[humble gulch]

I'm horrible at teaching

[honest latch]

good hand

e28

[humble gulch]

Since you have trading card you could try a cards based run

[echo sphinx]

whats a card based run

[humble gulch]

Like, card effects

[potent tree]

deckfix until you get 3/4oaks of a certain rank

[humble gulch]

Baron, Idol

[echo sphinx]

ohhh

[humble gulch]

Bloodstone

Lucky cat

[junior urchin]

Yo I got a problem

He’s at my door again

[humble gulch]

Sell Yorick just to sell bloodstone

[honest latch]

died to the fucking hook

[echo sphinx]

id assume green joker is sell

[bronze glacier]

ante 24. round 71. Died because i couldnt serpent

[humble gulch]

The next step it's doing the same with Idol

[junior urchin]

Hes gonna get mad and go from 1/2 to 1/4

[serene forge]

op apparently picked sly joker

[echo sphinx]

negative park

op did WHAT

[humble gulch]

I'm proud of them

[echo sphinx]

also what numbered card should i aim for if im playing for Bus

[echo sphinx]

why is he gettnig downvoted

[humble gulch]

Bro just wanted to win

[echo sphinx]

like ik its white stake but he made a goldstakepilled statement

[void lintel]

iirc the balatro subreddit glazes baron a lot

[honest latch]

its called playing for fun

[heavy heron]

as it turns out, eternal faceless is really good

[humble gulch]

Why won't you stop playing just a while, you have 19 hours

[heavy heron]

setting up glass on face cards then discarding them for money

[rancid gull]

not like u could get rid of it anyways

[heavy heron]

saving the glass for boss (and the wall earlier)

[tardy hedge]

Holy luck

[honest latch]

cant stop my grind

[junior urchin]

I’ve achieved X20^3 mult

[humble gulch]

I don't think there's a joker that scales with hours played

[honest latch]

there is

its called

fun

#grindset

[humble gulch]

How can you not be tired

💔

I have to sleep like 10+ hours just so I don't die

[junior urchin]

Holy shit

He’s done it

He’s made the 3 time recovery and I have space for him 🥹❤️‍🩹

[humble gulch]

Sell it

Show him who's the boss

[stone shell]

i would just take the negative parking here

plasma on white stake can survive until ante 3 big blind i think

[nocturne veldt]

this could be busted

[heavy heron]

balatro is such a good way to pass the time while you're on the toilet

like i did that whole run on the toilet

[junior urchin]

2x yorik 1 Perkeo good vouchers blueprint and 3 time returning bloodstone from minimal rolling HIGHLY RECCOMEND THIS WAS THE MOST FUN IVE HAD ON BALATRO IN YEARS

[rotund igloo]

This is why balatro is not on my phone I would be playing balatro too much

[heavy heron]

LOOLL

[rotund igloo]

Discord is enough of a distraction for me

[nocturne veldt]

im tempted to swap supernova with green joker but i think supernova has a chance to be far more busted if i played flushes all the time

esp with the smeared joker

[nocturne veldt]

i have balatro on my phone too, but i haven't been playing it mainly cuz i have more progress on pc

[rancid gull]

i feel like it'd be too late to swap no

[humble gulch]

You're getting hemorrhoids

[rotund igloo]

Also I would be playing it at work which would be not good

[nocturne veldt]

discord is already enough of a distraction for me, though i plan to lessen my activity until i am no longer on discord within the next year or so

so im just tryna have fun

[potent tree]

ante 6 poly constellation just trolled me so hard...

[heavy heron]

i've been told that by a certain femboy in this very chat, too

but look i don't sit on it for THAT long..

just speedrun the run!

[humble gulch]

Yeah, like 15 minutes or so

[dusky plinth]

how good is jolly joker

[serene forge]

I think on gold stake it's still negative parking

[serene forge]

good

[humble gulch]

It's good early game

[echo sphinx]

i forgot there are other decks that aren't black deck

i hate this deck sm

[humble gulch]

If it's negative that +8 mult turns into ×8 mult

I forgot how to type

[echo sphinx]

elo check
what would you take

a: bus
b: egg.
c: gamble

[dusky plinth]

always gamble

[humble gulch]

Gamble, if it's trash just sell and take egg

And probably die

[nocturne veldt]

ok???

[humble gulch]

Free win

[echo sphinx]

+4 mult at no cost of a joker slot

ez

we gambled

bad or bad early + eternal

[nocturne veldt]

i think im gonna take my chances and see if riff raff can replace raised fist with a better joker

[humble gulch]

Really mid early

You need another joker or card enhancements

[echo sphinx]

die
reset then

[north relic]

we need to se the endless

[nocturne veldt]

whatd be a good common joker to gamble for

[junior urchin]

Yo do you think I could naneinf how many red seal kings would I need my yoriks are on 33x or am I just a tweaker

[humble gulch]

You're tweaking, bro

Naneinf he says

[fringe crest]

yoricks aint doing shi bruh

[junior urchin]

Mime just showed up

[echo sphinx]

thonk

[junior urchin]

Possible pivot if brainstorm and baron

[echo sphinx]

thinking of ecto aura

[fringe crest]

sigh... pair slop it is...

aura ace

[humble gulch]

You would need a lot more time

[manic talon]

Ankh is right there

[echo sphinx]

no Ace

[fringe crest]

n ahnk

[humble gulch]

And DNA

[fringe crest]

y

or likr

a 9

8

[manic talon]

Black deck and youre thinking of ecto, the greed is sickening

[north relic]

r u bp ur perkeo before the round starts?

[echo sphinx]

(idk what jokers affect what numbers so i default to King)

[nocturne veldt]

what's the play here, thinking ectoplasm

[echo sphinx]

oh wait kiing is a bit int

ride the bus om

[humble gulch]

Just skip

[nocturne veldt]

why

[humble gulch]

Please don't ecto

[wanton breach]

You need hand size

[lunar zealot]

Ankh skip

[echo sphinx]

ANOTHER SPECTRO

ecto agian

its tempting

[humble gulch]

1/4 to land on bloodstone

[nocturne veldt]

a part of me is wondering why if i'll be building for flushes and i already got a rather decent spread of diamonds and hearts

[echo sphinx]

do i actually ecto or wraith or talisman on the 2/3/4/5

[wanton breach]

Talisman

[lunar zealot]

talisman skip

[wanton breach]

Wraith is for gamblers

[nocturne veldt]

wait it decreases the odds??

[lunar zealot]

Talisman the 2

ecto here will instantly kill you

don't even try it

[humble gulch]

No, those are the odds of ecto landing on bloodstone

[echo sphinx]

again
pls game

do i take it

[lunar zealot]

what are you even doing

[nocturne veldt]

it's 1/2 not 1/4

[echo sphinx]

ik its purple stake on black butttt

[lunar zealot]

you can't scale your buses

[humble gulch]

Making bloodstone negative

It lands on a random joker

[echo sphinx]

wdym ill just play hand

[manic talon]

The odds of ecto hitting your bloodstone is only a 1 in 3 (you have 3 base edition jokers)

[wanton breach]

You didn't get the point

[humble gulch]

I don't know how to count, help

[nocturne veldt]

test

[humble gulch]

It's still 1/4, what are you saying

[manic talon]

Classic balala player

[nocturne veldt]

i misread, sorry

[manic talon]

Wait no im the one who cant count

[nocturne veldt]

i was reading the card info

[manic talon]

Its so over

[nocturne veldt]

I do want to ask though

[lunar zealot]

Im going to get the fucking image

[manic talon]

Lmao

[manic talon]

Anyways its just not worth to get

[nocturne veldt]

what's the benefit of ecto hitting bloodstone as opposed to any other joker if it serves the same purpose of having a negative

wait hang on

it's so i could sell the other jokers while keeping bloodstone right

[humble gulch]

Bloodstone it's the only joker you care about

[nocturne veldt]

where necessary

[humble gulch]

Yeah

[lunar zealot]

Say you have gold and 4 blobs of shit

and you have the option to keep one of these while getting rid of the rest

[manic talon]

Selling a joker is an easy way to get free joker slot with little downsides

[humble gulch]

You can keep riff raff since it's foil

[nocturne veldt]

riff raff is kinda my lifeline a little here

i want to get rid of raised fist

[humble gulch]

And Jimbo too, but Jimbo isn't doing anything

[nocturne veldt]

jimbo is a negative so

doesn't really hurt me if i kept it

[humble gulch]

Riff raff won't be affected by ecto since it's already foil

[echo sphinx]

cant get it off the ground

[nocturne veldt]

I'm thinking of going for sigil instead, but it's entirely possible i get screwed with clubs

sorry if i sound a bit stubborn im still relatively new to the game

[humble gulch]

Just sell everything except for riff raff, bloodstone and jimbo

[nocturne veldt]

sold supernova and raised fist. I personally want to keep smear for the time being

off topic but just noticed the server tag lmao

[humble gulch]

Your deck it's almost all hearts tho

[nocturne veldt]

12 diamonds, 8 clubs, 6 spades i GUESS i could sell i'm just hesitant

[humble gulch]

You can hit hearts pretty consistently, I don't see any problem

[nocturne veldt]

aight

do i run sigil or skip

[humble gulch]

The ecto it's just a free negative Bloodstone 💔

[nocturne veldt]

oh actually i didnt think of that

nice

sold smear, negatived the bloodstone

bruh riff raff gave me raised fist again

[nocturne veldt]

yeah so this just costed me the game, I kept quite literally kept getting diamonds and clubs with each discard and i didn't have enough mults for flushes 🥀

[fringe nebula]

balatro players don't read

they just use feeling 👍

[humble gulch]

That's sadly how bloodstone runs are

[nocturne veldt]

lowkey now i wish i kept supernova and smear bruh

[fringe nebula]

i do get punished for eyeballing things sometimes but it works most of the time (?)

[humble gulch]

Sorry, I always go for the high risk high reward

You need a retrigger tho

[nocturne veldt]

well im starting from the beginning again

[humble gulch]

Like, hanging chad, hack or sock and buskin

[nocturne veldt]

really wanna get this green stake done and over with

im not very good at the game and this single stake has been a time sink compared to everything else

[humble gulch]

Just wait 'till you encounter blue stake

[rancid gull]

tolda

[nocturne veldt]

what the fuck

[rancid gull]

that's a rare trading card

[nocturne veldt]

shit i do not know what to do

[fringe nebula]

trading card is really good there

[humble gulch]

Don't skip, skipping it's almost never good

[rancid gull]

trading card is always good

[fringe nebula]

take trading card and also open buffoon pack

[rancid gull]

also ur on red deck

[nocturne veldt]

wasn't thinking of skipping

[humble gulch]

Round two, ante two...

[nocturne veldt]

its just funny how i got a foil and a negative

[rancid gull]

trading card will pay for itself 4 rounds

[nocturne veldt]

two very opposing jokers though

[echo sphinx]

holy negative

[nocturne veldt]

shall we gamble again

[echo sphinx]

why not

its free joker

[nocturne veldt]

can riff raff generate polychrome?

[fringe nebula]

riff raff is VERY GOOD there

[potent tree]

do i sell runner for astronomer sticker? holo at x8.5

[potent tree]

riffraff can generate any edition

including negative.

[nocturne veldt]

oh lit

[fringe nebula]

i've gotten negative egg before

[nocturne veldt]

i've been having a really rough streaks of negative prior to today, because i got negative popcorn and negative gros michel

[fringe nebula]

LMAO

[potent tree]

i currently get 3m a hand if i play a straight, i have level 5 high card which can net me about 300k with current setup

[nocturne veldt]

should i get the voucher? I am NOT getting Madness btw

[fringe nebula]

no

keep money for interest

[humble gulch]

That voucher is trash

[nocturne veldt]

ah

alr

[fringe nebula]

i disagree

[rancid gull]

fortunte teller value

[nocturne veldt]

i love playing fortune teller

[fringe nebula]

tarot merchant is a pretty good voucher

tarot tycoon is too much though

but tarot merchant is good

[nocturne veldt]

i have done fortune teller vagabond runs and theyve been lit on the base stake

[rancid gull]

planet merchant is a nerf tho

[humble gulch]

I mean, when you already have your jokers set or if you're playing fortune teller for some reason

[rancid gull]

except if u have constellation

[potent tree]

anyone got an idea?

[nocturne veldt]

Aight

noticed something btw

[fringe nebula]

i would also take planet merchant if i have a campfire

[nocturne veldt]

riff raff and throwback have very conflicting roles

[rancid gull]

clearance sale and liquidation tho

[echo sphinx]

blind 3
should i take vampire

[rancid gull]

why not both ofc

[potent tree]

not terribly. the real anti-synergy is most scaling jokers. notably madness

[echo sphinx]

oh wait

4 sorry

[fringe nebula]

unless you have dagger or bonkler

[nocturne veldt]

fair i guess

[fringe nebula]

yeah

[nocturne veldt]

i guess my concern is how i should play this going forward - i'm quite apprehensive about a lot of things really

[echo sphinx]

tarot voucher is pretty good

[nocturne veldt]

i skipped it for interest's sake for the time being

[echo sphinx]

buffoon is a bit hmmge
id let riffraff proc instead

[nocturne veldt]

alr i'll select small blind then?

also what's the best way to play trading card

[potent tree]

also runner is at 330 chips rn. so i'm not sure if removing 280 chips would have too large an impact

[nocturne veldt]

considering it destroys a card first discard

[potent tree]

i can't really say there's a best way to use trading card unless you want to only have a certain rank of cards for 3/4/5oak

but i can tell you that cards with purple seal discarded and destroyed by trading card still give the tarot before they perish

[fringe nebula]

if you have trading card, you should make alot of gold cards or add more seals into your deck

or make more enhanced cards ig

[unreal topaz]

kill all the cards you dont want, but be mindful that it costs a discard so sometimes playing hands first to make sure you can use it safely is correct

[potent tree]

ok we safely discared runner for astronomer sticker

cool i guess.

[unreal topaz]

i mean you should do that regardless

[dusky plinth]

is there an ante -1

[potent tree]

yes, you need good voucher seed tho

[unreal topaz]

standard packs just go even higher in value with trading card

[echo sphinx]

at ante 8 uhhh

[potent tree]

it worked out, i got 1.4m with a level 2 fullhouse

[unreal topaz]

yeah, the shop queue is identical to ante 0 tho

[fringe nebula]

true

[echo sphinx]

neato

[potent tree]

(3 lucky cards triggered but that's irrelevant)

[echo sphinx]

who should blueprint copy when starting a round

thinking tarot but not certain

[unreal topaz]

cartomancer seems best, a lot of enhancement tarots enhance 2 cards, hermit/death/hung man etc are really high value as well

[potent tree]

cartomancer i'd say. unless you're hunting for a stone joker

[unreal topaz]

death/hanged man potentially means faster constellation scaling

[echo sphinx]

RIGHT

[unreal topaz]

well vampire is sucking off the stones

[echo sphinx]

more odds for blue sticker if i have some

[potent tree]

ah good point.

[echo sphinx]

tho... hm

guarantee 2 stone for vamp
or gamble for 4 forom carto

i love gambling

[nocturne veldt]

from what i understand it allows me to shrink the pool of cards i can get so that i can keep playing my most played hand (typically flushes). At the same time, I imagine that it can lead to some instane strat late game where it enables even better, higher scoring hands

[nocturne veldt]

vampire lowkey feels like one of the worst jokers out there

considering the addition to the multiplicative mult is only miniscule AND it removes an enhancement, so it kinda becomes really shitty unless you somehow have a fuck ton of additive mult to back it up

[faint linden]

I tried the Bus today and rode it to Ante 10. Red Stake Ghost Deck

Pairslop my beloved

[unreal topaz]

it's great when you have smth like pants or bus and you're reliant on jokers for mult/chips, scaling xmult in general is very desirable

[nocturne veldt]

from my personal experience (which isnt much) vampire and obelisk have been really destructive than helpful

[unreal topaz]

if not for blue seals it would scale pretty similarly to constellation in your average run

[echo sphinx]

thats a wrap
pack it up

i love baseball

[faint linden]

It would be nice if we had a reverse Obelisk

[nocturne veldt]

alright i took a swing at a small blind

[unreal topaz]

recently i've been using glass and steel a lot more so vampire hasn't been smth i've been using

mostly bc i've been going for c++ again on a new profile

so jokerless ways to score really help

but vampire is still very strong just bc it's xmult and it scales

the thing i hate most about vampire is it takes away my lucky money :/

[nocturne veldt]

fucked up the run

[manic talon]

suffering from success

[nocturne veldt]

wow i am really bad at this game man.

[unreal topaz]

cat is so fun

gotta be at least top 10 most fun jokers

[echo sphinx]

orange stake time

god perishable joker is

i actually like the gimmick

u cant make this up

me when i roll spectral into immolate and get the photochad set on round 1

[nocturne veldt]

hi what the fuck do i do here'

[tepid lava]

Cant wait for the new banana

[manic talon]

I LOVE BLOODSTONE GRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH

[tepid lava]

Which is either Plantain, Lady Finger or Saba

[nocturne veldt]

thinking of getting rid of zany joker, replace with DNA so i can print queen copies, then hopeully also get Paredolia so it can incentivize smiling face, otherwise it's gotta go

[potent tree]

well, that's my sign to stop playing for the night.

[rancid gull]

okay guys

i believe in the 3oak build now

[honest latch]

fucking exact

[rancid gull]

5th win

black deck ++

[faint linden]

Chicot is done with this shit. You can tell by his expression

Headcanon: Perkeo pulls him into crazy antics to prank the other Legendaries

[twin lantern]

Mystic summit <3

[nocturne veldt]

I...

[slow grail]

Finally having fun again after c++

[glossy forge]

For ante 39 runs, do I just reset when I don't see the crimson heart on Ante 8?

I need it to be Crimson Heart, pull a bean, AND have my deck fixed enough for Flush Fives to finish the round without jokers

It seems that a lot has to line up

[unreal topaz]

i'd drop zany and try to lean into shoot the moon high card

and try not to use dna on too many generic queens

try and get gold/steel queens or just copy any purple/blue seals

[final temple]

wth do i do here

[fringe nebula]

lol

lmao even

[heady minnow]

balatro 101 is so boring but I can't win if I don't watch it

[unreal topaz]

square is a rental tbf

prob worth but it's not like that insane

[fringe nebula]

urgh

[pulsar quest]

Is it worth it to ankh here? (no reroll vouchers or overstock plus)

[fringe nebula]

nope

[fringe nebula]

anyway i hate flower pot but i had no choice

[unreal topaz]

thats the rental square tax

still worked out in the end though

[unreal topaz]

if you just wanna beat ante 8 i'd keep the chad

[fringe nebula]

another one of those

[exotic silo]

so, what would have happened if Luchador was sold here?

do you instantly win when VV gets disabled

[fringe nebula]

score req goes to 400k

instantly win yeah

[exotic silo]

that's hilarious

unless it's a situation where you want a gold sticker on Luchador

but since you seem to have C++, likely not

[echo sphinx]

so hard

4 rounds of leeway

[fringe nebula]

most played hand : pair (7)

fellow obelisk gamer right here

[remote flame]

One message removed from a suspended account.

[knotty zodiac]

getting real worried about these legendaries

gonna be a grind

[fringe nebula]

you'll get those gold sticker on legendaries faster than uncommons honestly

[latent egret]

you at least have done the worst leg

[echo sphinx]

me just staring at the camera

i blind pick 5 lmao

[knotty zodiac]

yep mr. $10-temperance-value-and-nothing-else

[fringe nebula]

madness

[echo sphinx]

it takes a mad joker to survive a mad world

[echo sphinx]

this is why u take negative tags when winning true

[twin lantern]

Sell luch

You win

[twin lantern]

Crazy

[echo sphinx]

merry andy is lowkey broken

uncommon
THREE WHOLE DISCARDS

[knotty zodiac]

one secret trick THEY don't want YOU to know to get 6 EXTRA TAROT CARDS every round

[echo sphinx]

crystal orb make it 9

[knotty zodiac]

crystal ball my beloved

[echo sphinx]

i should try magic deck

looks lowk fun

thonk

died

@knotty zodiac should i take it

it looks real funny

[knotty zodiac]

you mean the skip? yolo if you want

[potent gale]

Man I should give square joke a try but like

I find it to be legitimate buttcheeks

[lapis lion]

would you guys rather only have rares or only have legendaries

[echo sphinx]

budget ouija sigil

[potent gale]

Legendaries no doubt

Number 1 triboulet stan

[echo sphinx]

HHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[lapis lion]

i want cards like codex arcanum which are consumables which gives one time buffs like 1+ discards or hand size

[latent egret]

doc got x6 on his obelisk in his latest video

and people still saying it sucks

it wasn’t even the perfect setup for it

[sage wigeon]

do i get it

[manic talon]

this is just bloodstone again (i didnt need him but hes nat negative so like why not keep him)

[subtle drum]

bro.

[manic talon]

actually pretty decent flower pot ngl

[subtle drum]

hell no

[manic talon]

its holo, its painted

[subtle drum]

wdym painted

[manic talon]

this is the deck to play it

[shell dagger]

probably the best situation for flower pot

[subtle drum]

aight if u say so

[heady minnow]

NO WAY

[subtle drum]

i'll try it

[subtle drum]

i'm a flush main btw 💀

so that's why i don't like flower pot

[shell dagger]

i mean nobody really likes flower pot

[shell dagger]

it’s still good here though

[manic talon]

in context flower pot was the play

tbf you probably shouldnt've skipped for the holo

[spark kernel]

Are we deadass 😭 🙏

[subtle drum]

why not

i had joker slots

[shell dagger]

painted early is easy

also eternals are worse on painted

[manic talon]

its a 30% perishable, and it could be worse than flower pot

[manic talon]

not that great odds, and you dont REALLY need a holo in painted as RT said, you can survive earlygame fairly easily

[echo sphinx]

unlocked 7 clubs

[willow arrow]

ahh yes a very very normal run

[analog mulch]

IM SORRY WHAT

[glossy forge]

What in the hell is this

[potent gale]

Trib supremacyyyyyyy

My glorious king

[willow arrow]

yep

[echo sphinx]

just a good old triple triboulet

[heady minnow]

NO WAY BRO

I'M WINNING

[willow arrow]

yep unseeded is insane

[heady minnow]

YES I FINALLY BEAT BALATRO

BALATRO UNIVERSITY HELPED BRO

[willow arrow]

noiceeeeee

[heady minnow]

or do I have to beat ante 8?

[willow arrow]

beat ante 8

its got a hard boss

[green apex]

maybe i should have ankhed instead

[willow arrow]

good luck

[royal bobcat]

Aknhing my yorick till I mult

[fringe nebula]

weak setup that gets carried by glass cards and stone cards

[royal bobcat]

HALFSIES

Damn tuff

Needed it for survival I assume

[green apex]

oosh, that was close

[heady knot]

the plant gotta be the worst boss

[green apex]

FUCK

i should have ankhed yorick

[oblique panther]

mmm.. when invis hits that banana

[blissful fog]

Only thing you have to worry abt is that plant

[heady minnow]

I LOST BECAUSE I MISSED ONE CARD I'M SO DONE

[heady minnow]

I MEANT TO FLUSH

this game NEEDS an undo feature

[glacial galleon]

I’m watching a balatro university video from August of 2024 and he’s on plasma deck, and it shows 3 consumable slots on ante 1, I was researching and didn’t find any info on patches/ updates over the course of the game, has anyone been playing since the beginning and know when that was switched from 3–>2?

[fringe nebula]

average yellow deck earlygame

[analog mulch]

WAIT THATS ILLEGAL

[heady minnow]

devastated rn

[royal bobcat]

Nah

[glacial galleon]

Top left of his game shows “Dev” was this like beta testing or a specific downloaded edition?

[knotty zodiac]

free win

[heady minnow]

I'm just gonna say I won cause I might as well have won tbh it's just one card I accidentally misclicked and didn't use

[green apex]

no one knows how yorick got so much scaling

level 40 pair though

[broken swan]

This run is a monstrosity
(Nat negative juggler and troubadour carry)

Seed : IGI9TH81

[green apex]

seeded or..?

[broken swan]

Seeded

I don't have this much luck 😭

[green apex]

no one knows how this has happened

[fringe nebula]

tried this seed and got one of the most lobotomy setups imaginable

[green apex]

omg imagine there is a wraith in the spectral

WRAITH HIT BRAINSTORM

HOLY FUCK

👀

E12 WITH YORICK ONLY 😭

[glacial galleon]

Seeded I assume?

[green apex]

no

[heady minnow]

how do I avoid misclicking and losing because of it?

[green apex]

unseeded

[glacial galleon]

Well that’s a fun run

[green apex]

fr though wtf

im just trynna get stakes done 😭😭

AND THERE IS A FUCKING SOUL IN THE ARCANA

and its a canio.

[heady minnow]

cause I keep accidentally missing one card in my hand that I would've survived had I played

[glacial galleon]

Funniest run I had in a minute was a polychrome holo ended up getting 2 and then brainstorm. Had a bunch of luckys with red seals and then ultimately kept adding cards. Not as crazy as that but just funny

[broken swan]

Holy econ

[glacial galleon]

Slowing down

Don’t rush

[green apex]

welp

rip run

unless...

[heady minnow]

I mean I was thinking about my hand a lot before I played but I still missed the card

[glacial galleon]

rip

[heady minnow]

I think I'll beat the game soon

[glacial galleon]

How far in are you stats wise?

[heady minnow]

hold on I'll check

[glacial galleon]

I finally beat gold stake black deck yesterday, I never want to suffer through that again

[green apex]

rip

[green apex]

nice one ggs 🎉

[glacial galleon]

Genuinely hurt my Brain how many runs I had to go through to get it done

[fringe nebula]

black deck earlygame is "very fun"

[green apex]

ended up with level 97 pair

so fucking close 😭

[glacial galleon]

Other people’s definitions of fun and mine are not the same

[heady minnow]

I assume this is what you mean?

[fringe nebula]

lmao

[fringe nebula]

no

open options and click stats

[heady minnow]

how do I check that?

oh

[green apex]

my stats page is cooked, i tried to do some ante 39 runs with the brainstorm mod and uhh its what you would expect.

my dumb ass never made another save file

[glacial galleon]

Idk what brainstorm mod is?

[green apex]

mod that helps to filter seeds

[frank grove]

it allows you to roll for specific starts

usually souls in arcana skip tags

[heady minnow]

well then here's my stats

[glacial galleon]

Oh yeah no I’ll mess around with that after I finish my run

[fringe nebula]

i made another profile for gold stake only, and it looks so different lmao

[green apex]

and i should have fucking done that

[glacial galleon]

Rn I only have the speed up mod, and the select multiple cards by hovering

[green apex]

SXFHIC9T

fun run

anyways my stats..

[twin lantern]

Youre not fun

[glacial galleon]

Quality of life is all o got rn

[frank grove]

this is what my black deck only c++ save is looking like so far

[green apex]

agreed

[glacial galleon]

I LOVE RIFF RAFF

my goat

[fringe nebula]

that is understandable lmao

[glacial galleon]

My friend made a joke today as I was trying to sticker I debated between ice cream and riff raff

And they said take ice cream you’ll take riff raff again

[frank grove]

i expect in a couple more dozen runs or so ill see superpos and trousers up here but havent seen them much yet

[fringe nebula]

i think wee joker will fall off later on because it's a rare

[green apex]

so.

whoops.

[glacial galleon]

If it wasn’t 4:30 I would hop on and see how much I’ve taken riff raff but

[frank grove]

yeah, i just had quite a long run with him with heiro and burlgar iirc

[green apex]

my savefile is fucked from that 😭😭😭

[glacial galleon]

The mod?

[green apex]

yeah

[glacial galleon]

Makes sense

[covert steeple]

I know that my most used Joker is Misprint

[glacial galleon]

Gotta make sure you’re on different profile

[covert steeple]

Thats about all I remember

[green apex]

if you do ever try, please dont do this.

[green apex]

yup... a bit too late for that

but it is what it is, time to suffer with goofy stats.

[glacial galleon]

Haha you got it you’ll make it through again

[green apex]

and very irregular

[green apex]

oh fuck no

[frank grove]

my most uses across all saves is probably chad or blueprint

[glacial galleon]

Why not

[green apex]

photochad always

[glacial galleon]

You know more now speed run it

[green apex]

im not getting back to this shit ever again

[glacial galleon]

I’m about halfway through challenges, in between hating black deck, ran some challenges

[green apex]

oh 50% deck stake wins lets go

[frank grove]

i love most of the challenges since they're kinda interesting ways to play

[glacial galleon]

What decks have you not ran?

[green apex]

yeah i like em too

[glacial galleon]

Me too

[green apex]

hmm..

[glacial galleon]

lol I had one that I was like if I get this setup it’s a free win

And then it happened next shop

[glacial galleon]

Always lucky

[frank grove]

i want to do more jokerless runs honestly

[onyx acorn]

flush lover

[royal bobcat]

💔

[glacial galleon]

Haven’t done that one yet, I think I have to get the other ones finished first for the last ones to unlock @frank grove

[frank grove]

Yeah you do, jokerless is neat, i wish like temperance was removed from it though 😭

[glacial galleon]

lol yeah that’s unfortunate

Temperance at zero? 😭

My
Goat got nerfed

[glacial galleon]

You get the stats?

[glacial galleon]

Assuming, LOTS OF planets. Glass cards?

[heady minnow]

yeah that's my stats

[glacial galleon]

Hope for spectral

[glacial galleon]

What jokers do you have unlocked

[frank grove]

Yeah usually blue seals carry quite a bit

but glass cards, enhancements, i go for straights or 4oaks