🕹・game-discussion

[willow frost]

its way easier than finding a legendary imo

[vale mist]

yep, very common method is copying burglar during serpent to have a huge hand of kings, then the baron mime wombo combo

[lofty vault]

Hell yeah priest gave me a 2pair on a trousers run

[fringe nebula]

you mean high priestess?

[lofty vault]

Someone's high cuz I slipped weed in some of the brownies

[fringe nebula]

excuse my 1 am brain lmao

i just woke up

[lofty vault]

Damn a foil mr bones

Mmmmm banana

Potassium

[royal ore]

chat

[vale mist]

you might have the challenge in the bag

[royal ore]

yeah i think i might have the challenge in the bay

bag

[lofty vault]

YOU CANT HANDLE THE PLANETS THERE'S TOO MANY

[scarlet epoch]

Is the hand size voucher unlock req bugged?
I can’t seem to unlock even with a stunt man and a bkueprint

Btw it the one that need 5 hand size

[lofty vault]

WHEEL!!!!!

Yay disappoinment

[royal ore]

oh no not the violet vessel!! 😨

[brave goblet]

300k VV is surreal

[royal ore]

it really is lmao

[lofty vault]

Mmmmm negative trousers

And to fill in the slot... Jimbo!

[brave goblet]

absolutely broken

[woven spire]

holy hologram value

[lofty vault]

Covered jimbo in metal

[mystic vale]

does red seal retrigger steel cards

[fringe nebula]

yes

and gold cards too

[mystic vale]

damn nice

[fringe nebula]

red seal also retriggers shoot the moon's, fist's, and baron's ability

[drifting rampart]

they done encased bro in carbonite 😭

[mystic vale]

sad that red seal doesnt scale multiplicatively with hanging chad 😢

but would probably be too op lol

[lofty vault]

Swapped out zanny with summit

Then forgot to discard

Alrighty ante 8 this potassium fruit better not fail me now

[teal magnet]

Any naneinf-ers in here?

[lofty vault]

Y'all think I can brute force this

You are not a boss you are pathetic you are useless you are not a threat you got beat by a pair of pants

[lyric karma]

bros a fraud

congrats

[lofty vault]

Yippee

62 mult pants

[lyric karma]

How many steel cards you had?

[strange compass]

Got a holo AJ from Wraith and Chad at ante 1, should I pick up stencil or baseball?

[lofty vault]

2

[strange compass]

Or just save money

[lyric karma]

😭

[lofty vault]

Is 1.4x better than jimbo

[lyric karma]

yea ig

[lofty vault]

Then I got baseball

[lofty vault]

Bait

[lyric karma]

dont

[lofty vault]

But that tod is perishable

[ocean yoke]

yea i got odd todd

[strange compass]

Not really useful early on unless you know how the seed goes, pick up Baron and sell it for money

[lofty vault]

Most rares early game is bait

Besides vagabond and iddy bitty man

[strange compass]

You're on checkered deck so you can just play flush

[dire ibex]

heheh yessir. I like my throwaway hands

[strange compass]

What is the second one

[lofty vault]

Wee

[strange compass]

Then just say that

[lofty vault]

Iddy bitty man

[shut sundial]

I have managed to buy myslef the official balatro playing cards

[dire ibex]

lucky. Im waiting for them to available

[shut sundial]

they are on fangamer.eu

[dire ibex]

lemme check

[shut sundial]

I bought them an hour ago

[lofty vault]

But do you have oops all 2s and off brand bloodstone

[shut sundial]

awesome

[dire ibex]

thats so fire

[shut sundial]

buu approves

[lofty vault]

Don't bring fire they are flammable

[dire ibex]

myb myb. Thats cold?

[teal magnet]

Had everything set for naneinf. I took the petroglyph on ante 24 which sent me down to 23 so I faced the special boss blind on 23 instead of 24. On ante 24 I had a normal boss blind showing (the head) So I assumed it was fine to roll the boss blind into serpent. Sold my dna and then bought burglar then rolled the boss blind. But it rolled back into special boss blind not into serpent because I was on ante 24?? Couldn’t beat small blind without dna. Didn’t know you could roll the special boss blinds back to back with anaglyph and petroglyph. I sold but didnt know that was a thing.

[shut sundial]

ANTE 24

[glad charm]

am i cooked

[shut sundial]

ive never got past 10

[lofty vault]

I hit 16

[shut sundial]

how

[covert steeple]

Never gotten past Ante 8

Well, make that Ante 9

[dire ibex]

26 hours a day

[random lark]

game wanted me to escape black deck hell

[covert steeple]

Made it past 8 once

[shut sundial]

damn plant

ruined my best run today at ante 7

[lofty vault]

Multitasking so hard they got more hours

[dire ibex]

haha

[glad charm]

just 1 deivice tho

[lofty vault]

If I were to make more jokers out of pipecleaners and a finishing boss blind which ones should I make

[random lark]

are you a chicot hater

[glad charm]

idk how it happened

[teal magnet]

Going for naneinf😁

[dire ibex]

I think you gotta make the infamous Plant

[glad charm]

i cant even beat green stake :/

[lofty vault]

You know what yeah

[cosmic sun]

your typical run

[final escarp]

new mechanic:

sold debuffed jokers cannot appear in the shop unless showman is found

would this be good?

[teal magnet]

Eh, green stake is probably more skill. Naneinf is white stake and you follow a formula. Just. Checking off boxes.

[final escarp]

im mainly trying to make perishable tags good in any circumstance

[dire ibex]

hell no. Thats super punishing but i see what you are getting at

[final escarp]

maybe only from perishable tag

[cosmic sun]

oh okay

[glad charm]

anyone got a thing i can follow to get plazma or smth

[lofty vault]

Canio upon thee

[random lark]

chicot proceeds to save you from plant

[fringe nebula]

space joker is typical?

[cosmic sun]

first off no one serious cares about the plant

🦅

[lofty vault]

Lowkey I should make my own soul card so I can have something to pray to for a good legendary

[cosmic sun]

Someone made a shrine of Twomad because they kept losing in Deadlock

[random lark]

you proceed to get triboulet and then you get plant next ante

[fringe nebula]

just play blue stake

[cosmic sun]

imma do that whenever I lose a streak

[cosmic sun]

If I get Trib that's a free $10

[glad charm]

that would be easy if i could get past green 😭

[lofty vault]

It can join the oops all 6s and bloodstone at the altar

[dire ibex]

yesss

[drifting rampart]

Crimson heart disabled my jimbo lol

[random lark]

any legendary is a free 10 dollars

[lofty vault]

How dare it touch Jimbo

[cosmic sun]

If I get Rick that's a free win

[lofty vault]

Ricky is amazing

[fringe nebula]

you're definitely not skilled enough to use plasma deck if you can't beat green stake anyway

[lofty vault]

Most consistent legendary

Not much skill or strategy either it's just I don't need you you you you or you

[final escarp]

ok so what did you get

[cosmic sun]

Chicot

[fringe nebula]

nice

no needle

no eye

no bs

[cosmic sun]

Just killed flint

[covert steeple]

Oh boy, Imma love the skill climb in this

[final escarp]

yooo chicot is best legendary joker

[lofty vault]

Flint is stinky

[lofty vault]

I will take my yorik and burn down my deck thank you very much

[dire ibex]

canio and para :000

[final escarp]

grr yorik very bad only show up in chalang runs

[grizzled robin]

huuuuuuuuuh

i mean i can buy it but should i?

[lofty vault]

I got it on a gold stakes

[final escarp]

would have completionist if not for meanie yorik

[grizzled robin]

will the joker copied be negative?

[lofty vault]

6/5 jokers

It won't

You just break the limit

[dire ibex]

i think if u sell with full slots u get 6/5

[grizzled robin]

aha i see

[lofty vault]

I mean take it anyways cuz why not

[final escarp]

you will get 6/5, but you can’t buy any negatives until you sell a joker

[grizzled robin]

thats trueee

[lofty vault]

You see the thing is it's funny so do it

[grizzled robin]

so i only sell it if i absolutely have to? if not i sell it after the "hypothetical" 2nd ectoplasm

best case scenario im talking

[final escarp]

or if youve locked in your build

[grizzled robin]

oh true

[lofty vault]

If you have some meh jokers it's not good

But if you have only good fellas then murder the invisible

[grizzled robin]

i would rather lose a run than buy meh jokers

but seriously... other than photograph+chad/baron mime, what are other builds in this game that work

and are good

[lofty vault]

Idol

[final escarp]

idol is just photochad with extra steps

[lofty vault]

True

[covert steeple]

Idol and Trib

Granted, thats rare

[cosmic sun]

Mane how do you know Jokers are meh if those are the only combos you know

💀

[lofty vault]

And hits all cards if you're a lunatic with deck fixing

[grizzled robin]

i am obviously talking about good jokers bro

[lofty vault]

Ancient is fun

[grizzled robin]

getting the game to ante 8 isnt as fun as endless

[lofty vault]

Dna + glass so you can break stuff

Lucky cat is always a good one

Wee

[final escarp]

if you can get them there are some situational ones like planeterium/perkeo and lucky cat/oops

[covert steeple]

What's the Joker that adds x mult every time a card is destroyed?

Thats good with Glass

[final escarp]

canio? glass joker?

[lofty vault]

Isn't that just glass

Yeah canio and glass

[covert steeple]

No, I was thinking of Canio

But Glass Joker also works

[lofty vault]

Erosion is nice

[final escarp]

canio is only for face cards tho

[cosmic sun]

Glass is tsundere Canio

[lofty vault]

Pareidolia

[covert steeple]

Erosion is good if you have only 52 cards in your deck

Or less

[final escarp]

ah yes i forgot about my eternal negative pareidolia

[covert steeple]

Right?

[lofty vault]

If you have 52 cards with erosion you're doing something wrong

Should be less then 52

[covert steeple]

Oh wait, I misunderstood it then

My bad

[lofty vault]

51 with erosion is where it's at

But 0 is better

[final escarp]

51 cards in deck erosion abandoned deck is the best synergy trust

[lofty vault]

Doesn't abandon start with significantly less than 51 tho

It's free deck fixing

[final escarp]

yes it would do nothing

[covert steeple]

Abandoned starts with 40, right?

[lofty vault]

Think so

No face cards

[final escarp]

yes

[covert steeple]

Cool

[lofty vault]

Very crunchy

The dust adds flavor

[final escarp]

[lofty vault]

May be upon thee in an abandoned deck run

[covert steeple]

Im going for all achievements on this game, but its sad I've had the game for 3 weeks on Playstation and I havent won a run

I won one on mobile, tho

[light brook]

well folks who wants to tell me the problem here

[final escarp]

[light brook]

took me 2 antes to realize

[lofty vault]

Temperance value

[light brook]

true

[covert steeple]

I ain't smart enough for this shit

[light brook]

canio on abandoned

[lofty vault]

One of those jokers increases in power when killing a face card

Abandoned has no face cards

[light brook]

essentially a waste of a soul and a free $10

[covert steeple]

Oh

Im still new to this game, so forgive me for my stupidity

[light brook]

guys do we let it ride and pray for paradoelia

[light brook]

you’re good dude trust me you’ll learn fast

[lofty vault]

Canio was a murderer in a play so that's why he wants to kill face cards

[light brook]

pagliacci is a great play imo

still kinda holds up today

[lofty vault]

For legendarys we got a skull, a murderer, a drunk, a disrespectful mf and a butt slapper

[edgy stone]

So who is who?

[lofty vault]

Yorik, canio, perkeo, chicot and trib

[light brook]

yorichard the skull (dead), canio the murderer (he was a murderer), perkeo the drunk (he was a generous drunkard), chicot was the disrespectful (not disrespectful per se, moreso just very direct and spoke his mind which was out of character for a jester), ass slapped is trib

[lofty vault]

Specifically trib slapped the kings ass then when asked why he said he mistook the king for the queen so that's why jacks are excluded

[light brook]

trib’s story is he slapped the kings ass and said he mistook him for the queen, which the king thought was so funny he banished trib instead of executing him

[cosmic sun]

this trib cracks kings

[lofty vault]

Booty slapping knowledge

[light brook]

canonically gay joker

is a polychrome trib double gay or does it work by the ‘two negatives make a positive’ rule

[lofty vault]

Who are the 5 jokers you're at

[light brook]

wee, hack, half, dna, hologram

[lofty vault]

Respectable load out

[light brook]

only good gold stake run i’ll ever have that isn’t pairslop

fix blue stake thunk 😞

[lofty vault]

I mean it works

Maybe half for something better but meh

[rancid gull]

Gold stake rework, -1 discard

So you start with only 1

[faint linden]

Even in the card art, Chicot is done with everyone's bullshit

[light brook]

atp just make it -2

and minus 3 hands

constant golden needle no discards

[rancid gull]

1 shot, one kill

[edgy stone]

this is really suck with me

[faint linden]

Hello, Very Fair Deck from Cryptid

[strange compass]

Ante 5 needle is so bad

50k was the first small blind

[light brook]

ante 7 needle sucks

[lofty vault]

Ante 8 needle when

[rancid gull]

Yeah needle, flint, and eye are really evil to get

Later antes

[light brook]

actually no ante 5 is probably worse because you’re not really locked into a build

[strange compass]

^

[light brook]

the wall too

[strange compass]

I was playing straights to build up runner and was pivoting to pairs with supernova and Constellation

[lofty vault]

Eye with card sharp

[faint linden]

Unless you miraculously find Yorick/Merry Andy and some scaling +mult or something like that

[rancid gull]

It’s always so sad

Nothing more frustrating than having such a good run and finding nothing to help with the boss lol

[strange compass]

Ante 5 is the most vulnerable

[brave goblet]

Weakest canio

[lofty vault]

Eat a rodent then play ante 5

[light brook]

snakes when playing balatro:

wait…

snakes you say?

[rancid gull]

Solid snake??

[strange compass]

I had a Canio run today where I got him to 11x at ante 8

[lethal nacelle]

Y'all
I installed lineageos on my phone and now I can't play balatro anymore 😔

[rancid gull]

When you say… my name

[lofty vault]

Oh my

[edgy stone]

I never built mult scoring in Plasma deck

[brave goblet]

take blueprint and lose

[rancid gull]

YESSSS, JUGGLER

[light brook]

the only thing that would make this better would be an invisible joker…

[lethal nacelle]

Unless there's a scoring or econ joker in the shop that you can afford with $4, blueprint is a bad play here

[light brook]

YES MY FAVORITE JOKER THE SKIP BUTTON

TAK IT TAKE IT TAKE IT

[edgy stone]

No, it's 5$

[strange compass]

I am playing plasma stakes and I've got some that worked

Either I just got busted mult right or I got a lucky pivot

[lofty vault]

Speculation pareidolia

[strange compass]

Try to get a good x mult joker in the first 3 antea

[rancid gull]

Ahhh hell na

[strange compass]

For plasma deck

[light brook]

constellation

[rancid gull]

Not pareidolia

[lofty vault]

What am I speculating? Not sure maybe a bus

[light brook]

oh for plasma

[lofty vault]

I'ma blueprint it

[rancid gull]

I’m Flarkin helpful

[lofty vault]

Ooooo an eternal riffraff

Might give banana

I'll look for an invisible to copy it

[rancid gull]

What is this

[light brook]

say that again…

[edgy stone]

Sometimes I got photochad and glass card. But most of my runs barely build for mult if I didnt get good joker

[lofty vault]

Banana generator

[strange compass]

The thing is that in higher stakes you do kinda need to use mult

[lofty vault]

Holy shit wheel hit

[strange compass]

Gef a good x mult joker in first 3 antes if you can @edgy stone and then build around it with planets and other jokers

[lofty vault]

May have forgotten to discard for summit but didn't matter still won in one hamd

[jade crag]

Hola

Soy nuevo

Alguien me podría decir una buena combinación de comodines

[tawdry rock]

balatro

[vestal copper]

🏇

where did ashy went vro

where are the horse reacts

[jade crag]

Si

[light brook]

Hola, solo para que sepas que este es un servidor solo en inglés (no estoy atando para ser discriminatorio ni nada, solo me aseguro de que los mods no te prohíban)

[edgy stone]

Good x mult but also need a very huge +mult jokers. otherwise its scale too low in plasma deck.

[vestal copper]

rule 2 momento

[light brook]

for those who don’t speak spanish i was telling them that this is an english only server

[vestal copper]

oh 🔥

good

[jade crag]

Ok bro

Good

[lofty vault]

I DID IT AGAIN AGAINST THE PLANT IM SO FUCKED

[light brook]

good what 🙏

[oak cloak]

what's yall most favourite game besides balatro

[light brook]

balatro 2: revenge of the plant

[oak cloak]

understandable

[mystic vale]

<@&1133519078540185692> scam

[light brook]

<@&1133519078540185692>

[oak cloak]

👍

[mystic vale]

corny ass profile

[light brook]

michel’s death was tragic, but the foreshadowing towards his return was insane

truly a great game with amazing storytelling

[unborn cliff]

toddler award

[light brook]

“hello, i like to joke about and make fun of a national tragedy that killed thousands and affected millions!”

people who joke about 9/11 need a mental checkup if they’re over the age of 5

and even then they shouldn’t be taught to laugh and joke about a national tragedy

[unborn cliff]

south park rule doesn't apply here

[oak cloak]

ending is truly poetic

11/10 experience

[faint linden]

My dad's birthday

[woven spire]

hey so what’s happening

[light brook]

paradoealia was SUCH a traitor, it sucks she had to die

[mystic vale]

what do i throw away for green joker

[unborn cliff]

I can't believe canio would do such things

[unborn cliff]

[mystic vale]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[light brook]

a balatro visual novel would be really cool actually

especially a satire one

<@&1133519078540185692>

[mystic vale]

<@&1133519078540185692> another scam???

how frequently does ts happen 😭😭😭

[craggy hearth]

I gotchu 😉

[light brook]

wow two in 5 minutes

[steep sphinx]

they do like to come in pairs

[craggy hearth]

Every time someone gets the joker role the rate at which they appear increases exponentially

[brave goblet]

[light brook]

stop levelling up mercury then smh 🤦‍♂️

[craggy hearth]

❓❓❓

[bleak escarp]

anyone got tipss for green stake pls

[light brook]

is there a reason for this or is it just a coincidence or something

[light brook]

i beg your pardon

[craggy hearth]

No I was joking lol idk why they come so fast sometimes

[light brook]

they just reallly want us to claim our free money

[woven spire]

Pairslop bots

[unborn cliff]

"Hey there. I'm Jimbo, but you can call me Jim. Welcome to Balatro High!"

[unborn cliff]

even the scam bots know the meta

[faint linden]

I can do pairslop, just not a fan of it

[mystic vale]

flushslop >>

[faint linden]

Hear me out: Joker Danganronpa

[mystic vale]

scream if you love checkered deck 🗣️ 🗣️ 🗣️

[light brook]

boss blind, more like punishment time

[faint linden]

Jimbokuma

[light brook]

scream if you love black deck 😐

[mystic vale]

im biased towards black deck now because my first run with it got me to ante 12 (yorick + photochad)

[light brook]

yknow honestly based

[random lark]

you should've gotten chicot for

[light brook]

i can respect that reasoning for bias

[sullen aspen]

this run was MAD🤣🤣😂😂😂 get it

because madness

[narrow scroll]

straightslop >>

[narrow scroll]

hahahhaha

[bold crystal]

hmm

[heady narwhal]

• use scaling jokers
• get chips
• have money

once scaling speeds up you can't as easily get away with card trigger builds

[grizzled robin]

deckfixing done only by tarot cards

holy tuff

[bold crystal]

guess i dont need plus mult (pairs are lv 15)

[brave goblet]

The grim the burg and the madly

[bleak escarp]

how can i upgrade my deck (im doing flush run)

[rancid gull]

Bloodstone

Honestly, if your flush levels are high enough, you might not even need fortune teller

Juggler would be a nice pickup

[bold crystal]

deleting cards (of diff suits equally) so its easier to draw the specific flush you need, jupiter levels, any glass card will give an insane boost in score

[rancid gull]

Temporarily

[bold crystal]

yeah u dont need fortune teller

[rancid gull]

Juggler will help you get flushes better

[river burrow]

don’t use the sun if there is a death, since pivoting to flush five could help

[rancid gull]

Also if you can

I’d make wild cards

[river burrow]

wild cards work very well with ancient joker yeah

[rancid gull]

Especially if you wanna pick up bloodstone

But that’s up to you

[river burrow]

is balatro trying to tell me something

[bleak escarp]

worst boss in the game

[grizzled robin]

i think the only useless negative i wouldnt be angry getting is double tag late game

[rancid gull]

Since you have a chad, in the future, try to make some glass

Glass helps boost your score for flint

[brave goblet]

Absolute madness

[rancid gull]

3 grimbos and a dream

[brave goblet]

The consequences of no chips jonker

[rancid gull]

Or glass

[river burrow]

i am fishing for totem

i have a LOT of polychrome gold/red seal lucky jacks of hearts

[rancid gull]

Hit the road is coming for you

[brave goblet]

a lot doesn't sound like "all" to me

[mystic vale]

i love glass cards

[mystic vale]

polychrome glass card + hanging chad 🤤

[river burrow]

instead i got totem

[robust lance]

i mean hologram's doing the heavy lifting here but getting a natural negative that isnt eternal is pretty helpful

[river burrow]

how wrathful

[robust lance]

sold a certificate for hanging chad

[mystic vale]

any full house enjoyers here?

[river burrow]

only in cryptid

[bleak escarp]

where i place it??

[brave goblet]

skip it 🧠

[robust lance]

anyways im just gonna kill this guy now

[bleak escarp]

nah

[robust lance]

bloodstone triggered 3 times btw

[brave goblet]

if you have planet levels at all, you could probably drop scary face idk

[bleak escarp]

lusty joker?

[brave goblet]

yeah you can drop lusty

[bleak escarp]

i have lv 4 on flush

[brave goblet]

the polychrome is kinda nice

[bleak escarp]

im not dropping it but i can use the blueprint on him no?

[brave goblet]

it won't copy the polychrome though lol

You can start out making it copy cartomancer at the start of entering the blind, and then move it to copy fib ig

[river burrow]

get rid of card face (i know, the money) and replace with blueprint, move to cartomancer when going into blind and then switch to money joker during blind

[brave goblet]

or parking, while you farm money, and then copy fib to one shot and win

[bold crystal]

canio is pretty strong if u have money

[river burrow]

farming money is tasty

[river burrow]

canio is pretty strong

[lofty vault]

Lowkey y'all missing out on burglar and hit the road

[bold crystal]

perfect synergy

[river burrow]

down synergy

[lofty vault]

Probably the best thing wraith could have hit

[bold crystal]

lol

[random lark]

burglar in general is op so you're chillin

[mystic vale]

has a single person ever skipped to get a free uncommon joker

[lofty vault]

I've just been farming supernova high card

[mystic vale]

ts is just tag pollution 🌾

[random lark]

new players most likely

[heady narwhal]

1 in 60 chance to disable boss blind

[river burrow]

but what if it’s a bloodstone

[random lark]

but what about your chips

[heady narwhal]

bloodstone? the second worst uncommon joker ?

[lofty vault]

Nova has foil

And Midas mask got foil

[lofty vault]

Slander

[river burrow]

you’re just unlucky 💯 💯

[lapis hill]

i have 1 mime and 2 barons. what's better, 2nd mime or 3rd baron ?

or is it the same ?

[river burrow]

3rd baron

[random lark]

so +100 chips, guess you're fine until you get to the #2 chokepoint

[lofty vault]

A real gambler knows your 1 hand away from getting the perfect 100% bloodstone hit rate

[river burrow]

wait wait no 2nd mime sorry

[lapis hill]

does mime retrigger red seals ?

[lofty vault]

This run is not for endless it's just for getting stakes done

No

It retriggers blue tho

[river burrow]

no but red seals are still better than other seals for scoring

[fringe nebula]

nope

[serene forge]

wouldn't it be the third worst

[lapis hill]

okay ty!

[lofty vault]

Yeah dice is much worse

[serene forge]

ask reddit this question

[random lark]

talkin about when you get to ante 5 and don't find xmult

[fringe nebula]

wrong

[river burrow]

but combine dice and bloodstone…

[lofty vault]

Acrobat

[fringe nebula]

dice os pretty good on its own

[mystic vale]

is astronomer good

[serene forge]

sure

[heady narwhal]

cost is an odd number so it's bad for temperance/dagger value

[fringe nebula]

i love dice hallucination

[lofty vault]

Joker so bad I made it myself

[random lark]

dice + lucky card

[serene forge]

thats like saying hanging chad is worse than photograph

[lofty vault]

Dice + wheel boss blind

[fringe nebula]

ikr

[serene forge]

I hate Photograph

[fringe nebula]

i like chad gold seal

[lofty vault]

Oooo grabber now I have yet another hand to farm nova

[random lark]

scale check

[serene forge]

true

[lofty vault]

Scaling ok

[mystic vale]

why

[lofty vault]

I hex the burglar

[heady narwhal]

it's bad

[ebon condor]

chad golden ticket is a rare, yet goated combination

[random lark]

• ? Mult

[cosmic sun]

The IDF supports photochad

[lofty vault]

And have acrobat just Incase I somehow run out of my 8 hands

[lofty vault]

Supernova

[cosmic sun]

🦅

[lofty vault]

25 supernova

I'm winning too fast

Also took matador and I'ma just throw heart cards at the head

[random lark]

this turns 8 hands into 10 hands

[edgy stone]

the next boss is the eye trust me

[lofty vault]

Does playing a disabled card still scale played cards

[serene forge]

its bad

[lofty vault]

Ok there might have been a slight miscalculation

[river burrow]

yes and even non scoring hands

[mystic vale]

why is it bad

[serene forge]

bloodstone is so spiritually israeli, ngl

[heady narwhal]

on the average pair run you can think of it as a really bad scaling +mult (gains 1 mult each time you level up your pairs) that also requires you to play specific ranks

[lofty vault]

Hit the bus! Even more farming

[lofty vault]

Say that to its face

[mystic vale]

thats when u get hanging chad or glass cards or red seal

[heady narwhal]

no guarantee of getting any of those things

[last path]

casual run.

[static adder]

There aren't many jokers who reward you for playing Aces, or am I mistaken?

[midnight talon]

why we talking about israel in game discussion 💔

[random lark]

we gotta see the stats

[midnight talon]

what does israel have to do with balatro

[static adder]

The next Joker will look like the happy merchant.

[midnight talon]

oh

[mystic vale]

"spiritually israeli" is just slang for "extremely bad" ig

[heady narwhal]

• fibonacci
• scholar
• grim
• strengthing kings gets rid of face cards, which is good

[ebon condor]

no, but they are still a relatively good card due to the lack of bosses which counter them and their naturally high chip value

[edgy stone]

odd todd

[last path]

level 11 pair. and a very average vampire at 2.3x mult

[river burrow]

still aces are the worst

[random lark]

superposition

[heady narwhal]

one of the more favorable 3/4oak ranks

[lofty vault]

Mmmmmmm baseball card

[heady narwhal]

kings are the worst rank in the game

[static adder]

Technically Flower Pot helps too.

[cosmic sun]

I never know anyone who keeps hard glazing photochad after they discover the actual joker setups in this game

[bold crystal]

all face cards are the best

[static adder]

I meant for playing Aces only.

[static adder]

Plant.

[heady narwhal]

jacks and queens are fine enough but kings are garbage

[mystic vale]

which joker setups are better (im acc trying to learn)

[bold crystal]

there are too many value generators around face cards

[river burrow]

all face cards are equal
some are just more equal than others

[random lark]

thought 7s would be worse

[heady narwhal]

general facecard synergies are best with jacks (strength), trib is best with queens (strength), baron is best with dagger (8 mult)

[cosmic sun]

basically anything that will get you enough chips, mult, and xmult

[bold crystal]

face cards are the worst for scoring not for having

[cosmic sun]

believe it or not

[mystic vale]

so photochad

[cosmic sun]

naw

[river burrow]

potato potato

[random lark]

this is just xmult

[static adder]

I once forgot to sell Paraidolea and entered the Boss Blind (plant).

[sullen aspen]

except for baron

but nobody is doing baron on gold stake

[mystic vale]

its two cards, u can still get chips and +mult from other jokers?

[heady narwhal]

baron synergizes with dagger, not with kings

[river burrow]

just sell pareidolia in the plant right?

[edgy stone]

King is better than Queen and Jack because of Trib

[static adder]

No. It won't help.

[random lark]

photochad is anti synergy with most +mult jokers

[sullen aspen]

except for me

[heady narwhal]

trib is a queens joker lmao

[cosmic sun]

here's the thing though, the basic scoring setup is less vulnerable to plant and leaf

[static adder]

Once you're screwed, nothing can unscrew you.

[random lark]

trib counts queens too

[static adder]

I tried.

[heady narwhal]

why would i strength queens into kings for trib? that doesn't change the number of trib cards

[edgy stone]

trib and Baron

[sullen aspen]

real talk queens are the most consistent

[mystic vale]

why exactly?

[random lark]

this build looks so scuffed

[river burrow]

if you happen to have more kings

[sullen aspen]

baron is dogshit on gold stake

[heady narwhal]

baron is absolute garbage

[static adder]

I find Shoot The Moon quite good.

[heady narwhal]

how would that happen

[covert steeple]

Baron is good on lower stakes

[sullen aspen]

tell me about it

[mystic vale]

bunch of haters here smh my head

[cosmic sun]

stm gets a pass

[edgy stone]

at least better than hit the road

[heady narwhal]

stm is nice

[static adder]

Shoot the Moon + Cavendish...

[bold crystal]

nah baron is significantly worse

[cosmic sun]

nah im just not a compromised human being

🦅

[covert steeple]

I dont know how good the higher stakes are, considering the farthest I've gotten is red stake

[river burrow]

polychrome in standard pack is a king

[heady narwhal]

they're fun

[heady narwhal]

i'm not taking a polychrome from a standard pack

[random lark]

most +mult jokers apply +mult after played card effects (photochad) and held card effects so the +mult becomes worse bc it's applied after xmult
basically photochad relies on planets a lot

[heady narwhal]

maybe a foil

[ebon condor]

i would not take a joker from a standard pack bc its poly lol

[heady narwhal]

polychrome is pretty useless

[edgy stone]

Baron + raise fist (shoot the moon) is really good

[river burrow]

but big score ;(

[sullen aspen]

that or enhancements

[covert steeple]

This is so true. Id rather take foil or holo

[mystic vale]

ok fair enough

[ebon condor]

if it was like a gold.seal.then sure

[covert steeple]

OK, hewr me out

[cosmic sun]

try

[covert steeple]

Holo gold seal

[heady narwhal]

try

[sullen aspen]

that or purple seal

I love purple seals❤️❤️❤️❤️😊😊😊😊😊

[ebon condor]

any seal other than red really

[static adder]

Haven't unlocked them yet.

[covert steeple]

Purple seal is so good

[heady narwhal]

do so

[ebon condor]

but even then better to strength into an ace

for plant immunity

[sullen aspen]

except for the rare occasion its a queen/jack

then I could go for a face card run

[cosmic sun]

faces make better econ than something to rely on for scoring

🙏

[ebon condor]

true true

[covert steeple]

If you have Trib, then I feel like red seals on Queens and Kings are worth it

[fringe nebula]

alot more restrictive, alot more thinking, and having less money

pretty much

[ebon condor]

business card and reserved are v good

and midas is goated

[cosmic sun]

If your econ is on faces and they get debuffed then you don't get money that's all

[heady narwhal]

business card i could take it or leave it

parking is great

[bold crystal]

thats literally one round

out of 24

[sullen aspen]

midas vamp🤤🤤🤤

[cosmic sun]

why do so many of you photchad mfs cry about one round then

[ebon condor]

but yeah the reason i dont subscribe to this notion overall is bc face cards have very strong econ jokers

[bold crystal]

i mean in terms of econ

[edgy stone]

and ticket

[ebon condor]

so i cant honestly say that theyre the worst ranks

[cosmic sun]

So you get what I'm saying

Not much detriment to faces for econ

[bold crystal]

oh yeah

[cosmic sun]

Well unless you buy Parei for some dumbass reason

[covert steeple]

This is why I typically put my seals on the middle cards

[sullen aspen]

faceless Joker is good too ngl

[cosmic sun]

Which most people do apparently

[heady narwhal]

i think king is the single worst rank but jack and queen are nice

[cosmic sun]

Like outside of the niche situations where people use Parei to pop their econ off

[sullen aspen]

sevens are worse

[ebon condor]

its ok early but falls off tbh

[cosmic sun]

Mfs just buy it and keep it

[heady narwhal]

straights

destroying sevens is shooting yourself in the foot imo

[sullen aspen]

queen - 8 is the most consistent straight imo

[fringe nebula]

4-10

[edgy stone]

straight is barely good in gold stake

[fringe nebula]

i feel like

[heady narwhal]

you shouldn't be going for specific straights

[covert steeple]

Either queen to 8 or jack to 7

[lofty vault]

Supernova farming failed me

[covert steeple]

But I take them whenever they pop up

[heady narwhal]

it's a good backup plan

[cosmic sun]

Depends, not a main hand but a backup hand sometimes

[sullen aspen]

what😭😭

[heady narwhal]

you can't always get pairs/4oak set up in time

[blazing breach]

solve world hunger or never get the plant again (the one that disables face cards)

[sullen aspen]

I always try and force straights icl

[cosmic sun]

Pair into final hand straight

[random lark]

is 7 the worst rank? (straights exempt)

[lofty vault]

Bros never heard of runner

[covert steeple]

Runner is pretty good, yeah

[heady narwhal]

runner is my #1 most used joker

[covert steeple]

Have yet to experiment with it fully

[heady narwhal]

it's so good

[edgy stone]

7 has only 1 support Joker is Odd Todd, King has so many

[covert steeple]

My most used is Misprint because I literally cant get out of the early game

[cosmic sun]

How can 7 be a bad rank when it turns into 8s

[sullen aspen]

my #1 joker is chad

[cosmic sun]

and then the 8s turn into 9s

[sullen aspen]

then 9s into 10s

[covert steeple]

You're also forgetting the suit jokers

[lofty vault]

8ball value goes nuts

[random lark]

if a rank's main strength is turning into a different rank then it's not a good rank

[heady narwhal]

again:

• general face card synergies are significantly better with jacks (strength)
• trib is significantly better with queens (strength)
• baron is garbage

[cosmic sun]

7 is still optimal straight range

[lofty vault]

Flush house isn't good tho

Flush house bad

[sullen aspen]

watch it right there pal

[cosmic sun]

7J

[lofty vault]

It was the one planet I didn't find cuz I just didn't think of possibly using a flush house

[sullen aspen]

flush house is my baby

[random lark]

not really talking about straights, talking about using one card number for foak and stuff

[lofty vault]

Insane synergy

[brave goblet]

Botched idol into leaf with all eternals bailed out with observatory

[heady narwhal]

if you're playing 4oak rank doesn't matter much

[bold crystal]

the problem with flush houses is that they tend to become flush 5 runs

[edgy stone]

face card is face card, and King is face card. Baraon is garbage doesnt mean King is the worst rank

[heady narwhal]

it's nice to get a fibonacci rank or cloud 9

[cosmic sun]

"talking about using a card for a worse hand than 3oak"

[sullen aspen]

no🐺

[lofty vault]

Who needs 2 pairs of spare pants how do you ruin 2 pairs of pants in a row so you need another pair

[bold crystal]

u gotta show the deck or this means nothing to me 🙁

[shell dagger]

Faces are good for the same reason c9 is good though

[lofty vault]

That canio pareidolia carrying

[heady narwhal]

facecard value generation involves not playing the facecards

[cosmic sun]

Just depends on which route you get ngl

[lofty vault]

Plant upon thee

[cosmic sun]

Midas or C9

[brave goblet]

impulsive invisible

[heady narwhal]

so it doesn't make much of a difference for face card 4oak

[brave goblet]

pants was stuck at like +36 for most of the run

[shell dagger]

There’s still business card

[sullen aspen]

mid

[heady narwhal]

it's not very good

[cosmic sun]

hmmm yes money is mid

[lofty vault]

An invisible when you have weird eternals is always a good move

[sullen aspen]

Basically I had all my cards as clubs

[bold crystal]

i actually really like flush houses but whenever i play them it just transitions into flush 5

[sullen aspen]

I never hit the money

[shell dagger]

nah it’s good

[lofty vault]

Chat thoughts on negative tags

[heady narwhal]

i'd rather be 8 balling

[sullen aspen]

trash

[heady narwhal]

really bad

[sullen aspen]

theyre fun but bad

really really bad

[cosmic sun]

If you greed optimally on business card that's good econ already

[lofty vault]

How about negative tag on anaglyph on ante 8 with 7 double tags in the chamber

[drowsy rain]

I do be taking the anaglyph negative tag

[cosmic sun]

no

[sullen aspen]

seven page 1 jokers

[random lark]

extra gold stickers

[river burrow]

HAHA! HAHAHA!! AHA HAHAHAHA!

[heady narwhal]

8, 9 and ace are the best 4oak ranks imo

[sullen aspen]

❤️❤️🤤🤤

[lofty vault]

Wat

[lyric karma]

funny to grab when you play anaglyph, but still trash

[lofty vault]

Did you take it

[sullen aspen]

three too

[random lark]

what about 2 if you get wee

[drowsy rain]

If you don’t gamble for good negative jokers on anaglyph then you hate fun

scientifically proven

[river burrow]

i’m brainstorming it

[cosmic sun]

spiritually israeli argument

[lofty vault]

What'd it cost

[cosmic sun]

FAKE funmaxxer btw

[heady narwhal]

i don't usually have wee

[sullen aspen]

papi what kinda logic is this

[lyric karma]

What

[heady narwhal]

and ace->2 isn't my favorite strength

[drowsy rain]

It’s true 9/10 people who don’t take the tag hate fun

[river burrow]

everything
(photochad combo)

[heady narwhal]

i'm still doing it if i have a pair of aces and a strength in an arcana pack of course

[lofty vault]

Lowkey do I make photoChad but real

[fiery nymph]

cert is kinda broken

[random lark]

if you have 4 double tags then why wouldn't you take negative tag

[sullen aspen]

theres better skips

[heady narwhal]

because most tags are a better double tag payoff

[lofty vault]

The more the merrier

[lofty vault]

But it's the funniest skip

[fiery nymph]

its a fun skip but it isnt optimal

[heady narwhal]

strush orbital is the funniest skip imo

[drowsy rain]

optimal schmoptimal

[sullen aspen]

getting zany joker devious joker droll joker marble joker loyalty card and other trash isnt fun

[heady narwhal]

i've used it multiple times to win on gold stake

[cosmic sun]

shut up you fake funmaxxers

[lofty vault]

Sure you could take voucher and get antimatter or you can get a handful of weird jokers

[cosmic sun]

telling people whats fun or not

[fiery nymph]

😔

[drowsy rain]

Ermmmm it’s not optimal to tage the negative taggg

Watch me have fun

[random lark]

yeah, double money or mass hand levels are probably better skips

[cosmic sun]

REAL mfs won't need to justify anything

[lofty vault]

Baron is always bait

[cosmic sun]

"I play for fun" biggest red flag of 2026

[lofty vault]

No I play to 100% it

[lyric karma]

Whats wrong with fun

[cosmic sun]

they dont mean it

its fake

[lofty vault]

But I'ma make it to 100% in the dumbest way

[lyric karma]

how are you sure

[random lark]

you don't play for fun you play to hear the mult sound 500 times

[cosmic sun]

the real people playing for fun don't need to tell others

[lyric karma]

Thats funny

[random lark]

if my ears don't suffer then my run can't go endless

[drowsy rain]

I don’t go out of way to say it, but negative tag on anaglyph was getting dissed

That’s horrible

[cosmic sun]

nah imma jump it more

[lofty vault]

Clearly someone doesn't know about eternal riffraff strategy

[drowsy rain]

Who doesn’t like the negative anaglyph skip

[harsh relic]

only got it once

[random lark]

riffraff on black deck vs no riffraff on black deck

[heady narwhal]

my first few c++ runs were on anaglyph and i didn't get the negative tag payoff a single time

it's a scam

[harsh relic]

sadly

[lofty vault]

Riffraff +campfire

[drowsy rain]

Yeah but it’s fun to take it and think you’re gonna get something cool

[lyric karma]

Whatching the shop go all 0$ jokers feels so good

[cosmic sun]

Not everyone enjoys highrolling which just means you're biased towards your own playstyle

[heady narwhal]

most of my black deck gold stake wins involve early grabber or early riffraff

[lofty vault]

What if you stack the free tags so for the next few shops everything's just free and you take and sell everything

[random lark]

the cool thing you'll get are bad jolers that you will get gold stickers on

[cosmic sun]

Or at least braindead highrolling

[drowsy rain]

Yeah it’s fun to me

we can have different opinions

But mine is correct because i said so

[heady narwhal]

to be fair early grabber sets you way back in terms of econ but like

[cosmic sun]

Okay but don't say no one else can have fun

[lofty vault]

A typical diamond player that doesn't like fun

[cosmic sun]

Fake funmaxxer

[drowsy rain]

when did i say thattt

[random lark]

early rebate is too risky for black deck right?

[shell dagger]

no

[lofty vault]

Rebates always the goat

So good I accidentally took it while I had a burglar

[cosmic sun]

I kill burglar for rebate sometimes

[lyric karma]

Sinergy ✨

[cosmic sun]

Once you know you're safe without Burglar you good

[drowsy rain]

Why is to do list 4 dollars but rebate is 5

[random lark]

yeah but imagine you're on ante 1 right b4 boss with no point jokers and your choice is rebate or trousers

[lofty vault]

Farming

[cosmic sun]

I mean you could just land on pairs

[twin lantern]

art of the mid game pivot ig lol

[lofty vault]

Pray

[random lark]

no
an ante 2 rebate is a lil different tho

[drowsy rain]

Not saying to do list is at a bad value but rebate being 5

[cosmic sun]

is getting nerfed anyhow

[fringe nebula]

your mistake on this seed is that you didn't keep luchador

[bold crystal]

polychrome supernova is kinda beautiful ngl

[lofty vault]

I used it on the psychic cuz I had bus

[drowsy rain]

Son put grimbo behind the supernova

[hallow fjord]

I FINNALY DID IT

FRICK THIS JOKER UNLOCK

[lofty vault]

How'd you unlock em

I forgor

[hallow fjord]

400 monars

[lofty vault]

Oh money

[random lark]

avg endless run

[lofty vault]

Yeah I just went on yellow deck

[hallow fjord]

Litterally my last joker unlock

[fringe nebula]

also, i took a slightly different route by taking supernova, and then selling all of my fools to buy space joker for $5

[river burrow]

should i take or should i skip bloodstone #2

[cosmic sun]

what if they need to score less to get more mult out of them

Always something to think about with hand scalers

[lofty vault]

Ok that might have been better than that negative tag for a walkie-talkie

[fringe nebula]

?????

[cosmic sun]

[drowsy rain]

man every time I say something

[random lark]

throw of the century

[lofty vault]

I'm a gambler what if the negative gave a blueprint

The one in a million

Or what one in 150

Probably higher cuz probability but I ain't doing that math

[lyric karma]

What hes saying maybe is that, since to do list is 4$ and rebate is 5, in the balatro universe the cost price is less than the devolution value of a product, impliyng that you are gaining more money by returning a product to a store and not viceversa?

[lofty vault]

This time I'ma beat black magic

[river burrow]

to be fair, jokers are meant to be slightly unbalanced

wait nvm i am sleepy

[cosmic sun]

rebate still getting the nerf bat

😛

[random lark]

mail in is just too strong as an econ and more discards makes it even stronger

[lofty vault]

Shoot the moon build time

[lofty vault]

Also blueprint

[drowsy rain]

And it enables pairs

[random lark]

Show us

[river burrow]

mail gets severely nerfed by blue stake though

[hallow fjord]

Wait no i forgot i still need to do the win without flushes and pairs thing

[random lark]

well, everything enables pairs

[fringe nebula]

one of the most interesting starts i've had btw

i sold 2 of my fools to buy space joker

[hallow fjord]

I thought sattelite was my last unlock😭

[lofty vault]

It's shoot the moon... Idk what to tell you about it

[drowsy rain]

don’t make me be a smartas

[random lark]

this is after big blind right?

[lofty vault]

Yeah

[fringe nebula]

after big blind yeah

[lofty vault]

Round 1 shop

[random lark]

sell fool for voucher?

[fringe nebula]

NO

do not

[lofty vault]

Hell no

I'm keeping my 9 bucks

I would have been 10 but needed 2 hands for round 1

[bold crystal]

eternal baseball worth it?

[lofty vault]

Was off by 4 fucking chips

[fringe nebula]

baseball would give you x2.25

[hallow fjord]

Can someone reccomend a deck for no flushes unlock ?

[random lark]

2.25x at best

[fringe nebula]

if you manage to find another uncommon

[lofty vault]

Checkered

[drowsy rain]

You would either need to cycle uncommons in every round or get an eternal uncommon

[hallow fjord]

Dont have that

[fringe nebula]

just don't do flush

[bold crystal]

but baseball 🙁

[fringe nebula]

how hard is not flushing lmao

[random lark]

just play no flushes, not that hard

[stuck spruce]

Bit late man...

[hallow fjord]

No crap sherlock

[lofty vault]

Fairly easy

[fringe nebula]

not flushing is fine on any deck

[lofty vault]

Yes crap cuz you're not flushing

[hallow fjord]

Ngl flushes are my main hands

Cuz theyre easy to do

[fringe nebula]

then don't

simple

[drowsy rain]

You’re not gonna believe this

[drowsy rain]

There’s this other hand that’s actually even easier to use

[random lark]

pairs exist

[hallow fjord]

Uhhh

Pairs barely do anything

[fringe nebula]

pair is strong because it's easy to find

and there's alot of jokers that synergizes with it

[hallow fjord]

Well yea but early game ull need smth better

[bold crystal]

theyre name is jimbo so they must be right though

[hallow fjord]

Like in the first round

[random lark]

straights and full house

[fringe nebula]

straight

[stuck spruce]

Try full houses. They do the same thing

[fringe nebula]

and full house

[drowsy rain]

I unironically build into full house on erratic

[stuck spruce]

On erratic? That's something I've never heard of

[fringe nebula]

i do pair build on erratic deck

am i doomed

[drowsy rain]

You can do that on every deck so i guess no

[pastel pagoda]

Yes

[random lark]

makes sense tho, you're usually gonna have a few cards that you have a lot of so you just run full house

[bold crystal]

honestly same or 4oak even. erratic is one of the best decks for hand diversity

[drowsy rain]

checkered deck? Pairs

[fringe nebula]

not even abandoned?

[drowsy rain]

Nebula deck? Pairs

[bold crystal]

one of. abandoned too

[random lark]

-erratic deck
-oh no what is this rng what do i do???
-oh wait lemme just do pairs

[stuck spruce]

If anything, Abandoned is bad for diversity.

Great for deck fixing tho

[bold crystal]

straights

[drowsy rain]

Cool thing about erratic is it gives you 8 7s and now you’re doing a 7s run

[random lark]

this is how we unlock seeing double

[fringe nebula]

it's good for hand diversity as in alot of hands are easier to play because you have less cards wdym?

[drowsy rain]

Abandoned is my straights only deck

[pastel pagoda]

Same

[bold crystal]

hand diversity means anything besides pairs is playable

[lyric karma]

so i was checking this guys seed, bro had on ante 3 obelisk and blueprint at the 7th reroll on the shop and the boss blind was the eye

thats huge

[stuck spruce]

I mean, less cards does mean less to work with. Although to be fair, a deck like abandoned does mean you can see more of the deck, so I suppose you're right

[fiery nymph]

😨

[random lark]

we need to know which deck is better for straights, painted or abandoned

[lofty vault]

Hell yeah mime and shoot the moon

[pastel pagoda]

Gotta be abandoned

[drowsy rain]

I hope if blue seals get reworked they either give less or more preferably don’t require you to play with -1 hand size on bigger hands

[fiery nymph]

do you guys consider stm as a mult scaler

[random lark]

stop copying my runs

[lofty vault]

Also temp with an egg

[lyric karma]

would sound pretty obvious, but i see it as the +mult version of baron

[fringe nebula]

wanna try an interesting seed?

it's not hard but it's still very interesting

[pastel pagoda]

The amount of times I had an early mime raised fist is kind of uncanny ngl

[lyric karma]

sure

[fiery nymph]

i never find mimes bro

[fringe nebula]

Y9R8PVGG, yellow deck gold stake

[fiery nymph]

i could use them a lot

[drowsy rain]

I feel like I take speculative mimes more than speculative oops

[ancient gyro]

what

[pastel pagoda]

Oops does almost nothing without bloodstone tbh

[lofty vault]

Damn died

[fringe nebula]

wrong

[lost vault]

mime is actually a good standalone joker that can hold its own

oa6 doesnt do much on its own

[drowsy rain]

I don’t even take it for bloodstone usually it’s for lucky or my econ jokers

[fringe nebula]

oops synergizes with many different jokers, the best one is hallucination

[fiery nymph]

i need to sticker obelisk

[random lark]

they both benefit you in different ways
oops with lucky cards is decent +mult and money while mime with steel cards is xmult and gives more money with gold cards

[fiery nymph]

i wanna win a game with ts

[lost vault]

it synergizes with more tha njust one joker