🕹・game-discussion

[stone shell]

gotta get that burger value

[torn totem]

fuck

fuck

fuck

fuck

fuck

i got to e 307

so close to nanimph

[stone shell]

nah its calculated trust

[lost vault]

mrrrrph :3

[lost vault]

man wtf is nanimph

[torn totem]

its getting 1.8 with 308 zeros

[fringe nebula]

how was it btw

[stone shell]

never got the chance

schools kicking my ass harder than gold stake black deck forced rental

[fringe nebula]

understandable

[lost vault]

thats called naneinf

[humble gulch]

Burglar gaming

[zenith raven]

Do I sell Burnt Joker here….? Feel like it’s Perkeo/Trib or bust, and Burnt is already killing it with Brain Storm

[humble gulch]

Solo leveling

[upper spade]

Does this game want me to win?
Everything aside from Throwback and Credit Card were natural.

[humble gulch]

Why would u take throwback

[upper spade]

It was good at the time.

I had Misprint and Mystic Summit before getting all the good stuff.

[zenith raven]

Why wouldn’t you. It has +10

[wintry ice]

this had the potential of being a fun photo run but now sticking with grimbo is optimal

sad

[tawny ridge]

gg

[humble gulch]

Yeah, but why commit to it

[upper spade]

I h a v e n o s p a c e.

[zenith raven]

…..you don’t have to?

[humble gulch]

Of course not

[zenith raven]

That’s my point. You don’t have to. Clearly he didn’t

He sold it for brainstorm

[humble gulch]

Round 8, ante 5

[zenith raven]

+10, maybe nothing better came up

[humble gulch]

He said that he had it from early

[upper spade]

This is bs.

(For context, never used Photochad before)

[honest grove]

do i double brain storm or

[proven gulch]

ts took so long

[zenith raven]

Yeah. +10 early on is super useful. Still not seeing why you wouldn’t take it then keep it until something better (like brain storm) comes along.

[upper spade]

Wheel of Fortune baby!

[humble gulch]

But he started skipping to scale throwback

[tawny ridge]

why does this game make me choose between my 2 besties. thats so cruel

[zenith raven]

Could kill you! Also DNA is awesome. But go for what you’re feeling

[proven gulch]

Mediu%

[honest grove]

idk what im doing im playing anaglyph for fun cause i keep losing my hex deck runs whatd the most fun method?

[upper spade]

That's Anaglyph deck for you.
Gotta skip from time to time.

I don't know why I was worried to be honest.

[humble gulch]

You don't need to skip THAT much

[zenith raven]

Still not seeing the issue

[humble gulch]

Skipped 9 times, that's way too much

[honest grove]

should i just medium and keep dna flame brainstorm?

[proven gulch]

medium dna

[honest grove]

maybe it was just good tags

[proven gulch]

easy game

[zenith raven]

Most fun for what? If you find a rly good card, you can use Brainstorm on DNA and get double that card every round. A double brain storm could be really good too, but no guarantee you’ll get a card as good as DNA

[proven gulch]

no such thing

[honest grove]

okie ty

[fringe nebula]

hahaa that's what i'm talking about

[humble gulch]

Skipping its almost never good

[honest grove]

i already won the lottery this run i used by my double tag on rare jokers and got brainstorm flame with dna in the shop before

[upper spade]

M o n e y.

[zenith raven]

9 is a lot, but also. He won lol

I love a good well timed skip

[humble gulch]

Yeah, but i'm talking about that you don't have to commit to the first joker you see

In this case, throwback

[upper spade]

I once got a Hologram and about 8 double tags.
I got a Mega Standard Pack after.

[upper spade]

The first joker I got this run was Misprint.

[serene forge]

tower, temperance

[upper spade]

I got Throwback later.

[zenith raven]

Love it

[humble gulch]

Well, the early jokers you get, not literally the first

[serene forge]

I hate Throwback

[wintry ice]

hey atleast they recognize that suit tarots aren't all that

[zenith raven]

Or, just play however you want and have fun

[upper spade]

F u n m o n e y

[humble gulch]

It'll be fun when it isn't throwback

[zenith raven]

[humble gulch]

At least buff throwback to x0.5 per round skipped

[honest grove]

is voucher and chad better or pack chad seltzer and sell burnt

[proven gulch]

i hope this never happens

if throwback runs are viable the game just becomes infinitely more boring once you get it

[humble gulch]

Voucher and chad

[honest grove]

ty

also if i already have level 9 high card should i try for a high card run?

[humble gulch]

Probably

Burnt joker is really strong

Even better with brainstorm or blueprint

[honest grove]

only way for me to do high card i know is mime baron king spam

im also terrible at deck fixing

[humble gulch]

You don't need to do baron mime

[honest grove]

ok ill be back for help in a few blinds whne i need help again

[humble gulch]

Not everything in Balatro is about synergy

[honest grove]

also is it good or bad that half my ghost deck runs i dont use hex

[pliant jewel]

yes

[night turret]

Chat are we cooked?

I completely forgot the next one was this

[pliant jewel]

massive temperance value

[night turret]

It is

It won’t matter once I’m dead

[humble gulch]

There's people that sell hex at the start for extra interest

It doesn't really matter

[honest grove]

okie

[night turret]

It really depends on what you get

[honest grove]

uhm also should i just go queen of hearts for my deck i have like 5 already from having to dna to stay alive cause idk what im doing

[night turret]

Like you get a good eternal? Then hex it, but if you just need the money? Sell it

[night turret]

Show your deck

[honest grove]

base deck with 3 extra queen of hearts and one jack of hearts with purple seal

my wifi sucks will take like a minute to load ss

[pliant jewel]

do you have shoot the moon or something

[night turret]

Fuuuuck

There goes the run😭😭😭

[honest grove]

no im in ante 3 and dont know what im doing

[honest grove]

rip looked like a fun run though

[night turret]

It def was, I was barely getting by

Was scoring like 4k more then needed every time

[honest grove]

i think i should be going high card cause i got brain storm flame on ante 2 but idk how to play highcard

[honest grove]

i trolled my favorite run so far by greeding

[pliant jewel]

you should uh

play pairs

[ancient gyro]

bruh

you're doing great 😀

[foggy sun]

I think this baron is bait

[honest grove]

ok i try but im noob i only know how to play flushes and flush five pivot if no die

[proper juniper]

High card + half joker is BUSTED

[icy flax]

Ethereal pair build

[honest grove]

i got sidetracked i need help deciding again

[woven spire]

fuck you showman.

[tawny ridge]

let's goooooo

[honest grove]

does brainstorm work with certificate

[pliant jewel]

yes

[honest grove]

ok so i should brainstorm certificate if i buy it yes?

to try and find red seal

[cosmic sun]

blue

🦅

[honest grove]

ok blue because im playing pairs or blue because blue

[cosmic sun]

blue

[honest grove]

k

[cosmic sun]

🦅

[pliant jewel]

what does the red seal even do for you here

[honest grove]

idk

idk what im doing but i got a negative oops all 6s

[stone shell]

magician

gambling is fun

[icy flax]

Fuuuck we’re so fucking fuckeddd

[tawny ridge]

this is so peak

[rancid gull]

this pfp is insane lmao

[honest grove]

bro made a whole new run while im like 2 antes further in

[honest grove]

negative oops though

[stone shell]

shouldve brought the sun as well

[fringe nebula]

true

[cosmic sun]

Grace looks like she has strong opinions on Bloodstone

[stone shell]

bean carry

[rancid gull]

mime try not to be goated challenge

[cosmic sun]

Grace looks like she spends 5 hours arguing about gold stake balatro

[icy flax]

#fuckvioletvessel

[honest grove]

should i sell my certificate since i got my blue seals and buy sell cola for another double tag?

[stone shell]

showman carry featuring bean and mime

[fringe nebula]

let's see

[honest grove]

you will win before i reach ante 6 trust

[stone shell]

its white stake

do you need to

[fringe nebula]

just felt like doing it

[tawny ridge]

good game good game

[honest grove]

nice

[tawny ridge]

(i changed some placements later)

[fringe nebula]

ok i don't see how i lose now gg

[honest grove]

if im winning blinds and have no use for one of my jokers do i sell it for a rocket?

[tawny ridge]

got me 3 billion once which is the highest number i got so far
still lost miserably shortly later

[stone shell]

this is the equivalent of bringing a rocket launcher to a paintball match

[fringe nebula]

LMAO

true

[stone shell]

but just for funs sake how much can you overkill vv

[plain briar]

does madness go

[fringe nebula]

madness can go

because it's red stake

[stone shell]

im pretty sure madness alone can already win runs pre black stake

since scaling is much more lenient

[honest grove]

ive saved 5 skip tags looking for a econ skip and i havent found one

[charred sierra]

help (i cant for the life of me deck fix wild)

im thinking of picking up chad for smiley but idk

[stone shell]

maybe pants instead of smiley for chad

since its added after all ancient xmults trigger

[fringe nebula]

maybe chad instead of pants

[charred sierra]

its at +38 if that affects anything

[fringe nebula]

actually, the foil from pants is carrying hard

[charred sierra]

ye

[stone shell]

what's your flush mult at

im like half sure even 3 levels is strong enough to remove pants

[charred sierra]

yeahh its at lvl 4 rn

[stone shell]

you can definitely ditch pants

foil is only like 40%ish increase

[charred sierra]

LOL okay

js need to fix 😔

[honest grove]

how many 6 is to many 6

[tropic mulch]

Yo fellas does anyone know if DNA triggers hologram?

[fringe nebula]

yes

[tropic mulch]

Sweet thanks

[fringe nebula]

dna, certificate, and marble joker do trigger hologram

[charred sierra]

fuck the plant

i forgot

[honest grove]

how does one fix this deck

[fringe nebula]

death on purple seal

[honest grove]

ok ty

i also need to stop duping my gold blue 6

[charred sierra]

DUDE poly obelisk

[fringe nebula]

using death on purple seal is like causing a plague

because there will be more death

[honest grove]

out of curiosity is rocket or foil business card better if i have a oops all 6 negative

[tropic mulch]

Gonna be 1665 up in here

[fringe nebula]

def foil business card

[honest grove]

ok

should i be brainstorming for money or mult cause i have like no mult

rn i do brainstorm burnt then dna then mult when i score

and i found faceless

[charred sierra]

i love you all

[honest grove]

if i have 6 doubles should i skip to get the next shop all rerolls start at 0? im rerolling alot

and have no reroll vouchers

[fringe nebula]

double tags on d6 is really strong yeah

[honest grove]

ok ty

[honest grove]

what i do here

so four dollars or an extra 18 mult

[honest grove]

sorry for spam is half joker better or abstract joker for playing pairs i think its abstract cause of card cycling to alwyas have a pair

[rancid gull]

half joker

[honest grove]

ok ty

[fringe nebula]

if you have a blue seal, abstract is better

[honest grove]

should i sell for a hologram since im dna spamming?

and know i can buy sock

[stark karma]

That one challenge deck type beat

Wait nvm

[honest grove]

idk what ur referncing but hi

[glossy mortar]

Hey so what happens if you have an eternal food joker?

[wintry ice]

you can't have one

they're exempt from eternal tags because of their gimmick

the only exception is egg because it doesn't have a self destruct mechanic or explicitely need you to sell it to benefit from it

[plain briar]

what do i replace

[light oak]

should I sell anything for showman

[plain briar]

show ur deck and lvls

[plain briar]

do u need ancient joker to survive?

[light oak]

for right now as it helps with base mult

[plain briar]

probably trading card goes

unless u got telescope

for planet lvls

[fringe nebula]

i mean, what can i say

[stone shell]

except, youre welcome

[stone shell]

anyway poor guy

im guessing you scored like 1.2 million

[honest grove]

what do i replace with blueprint?

[fringe nebula]

3.432.694.542

[honest grove]

what was ur flush five level?

[fringe nebula]

you don't do flush five with mime build

[honest grove]

oh what was ur high card level?

[charred sierra]

whats the order yall

yorick is 7x

[fringe nebula]

level 47 pair

[honest grove]

nice

[digital pewter]

clear your plate bro

[plain briar]

W showman

[honest grove]

also what should i be removing to buy blueprint?

[charred sierra]

get a job

[digital pewter]

already have one lil bro

[wintry ice]

both on aj

[weak relic]

Showman carrying

[plain briar]

what do i replace

[night turret]

Oh welp the run is chopped

[serene forge]

I hate Bloodstone

[serene forge]

i love hrt

[night turret]

Well I hate it

[night turret]

I love bloodstone

[night turret]

As you can see here

[lilac ruin]

high card only win

[serene forge]

transphobic smh my head

[icy flax]

Yea ggs

[serene forge]

never skip for anything except investment tag ante 1

skipping on plasma is also particularly bad because your early game is already so easy and you're not taking advantage of that by skipping

[stone shell]

i think all on yorick is worth it when its 8x

unless you have red seals

[lilac ruin]

ante 1 rare tag in plasma ☝️

[serene forge]

they did that

twice

and look at where it got them

[stone shell]

i sometimes skip for ante 1 coupon tag

[lilac ruin]

yeah thats the strat if you wanna get a quick and dirty plasma win

coupon tag is garbage in gold stake

[serene forge]

it's not really quick when you have a 1 in 20 chance of hitting wee jonkler

[lilac ruin]

wee stuntman bp brainstorm

burnt

[knotty zodiac]

TRIBE

[stone shell]

i remember someone doing math and something about it strictly better to skip small blind for coupon tag than playing it

[serene forge]

stuntman doesn't win the game on the spot like a lot of people think it does

they did get brainstorm which again is useless

[lilac ruin]

it doesnt but it gets you through like 4 antes

[digital pewter]

@charred sierra

[night turret]

It was a double skip of a rare joker, I always take em

[lilac ruin]

rare tag isnt an auto win but it makes the early game a lot easier

thats why a lot of speedrunners reset for a rare tag in plasma

you cant say "rare tag bad" why "they didnt win these 2 runs"

[serene forge]

when you cut your hand off with a kitchen knife do you complain about how you're now bleeding and need emergency care

[stone shell]

speedrunning is a different context though

[knotty zodiac]

EV for round 1 skip is $5, at the cost of a slightly scarier ante 1
EV for no skip is a bit less than $3 and a shop

I think taking the shop is correct?

[serene forge]

???

that was never the point of contention

we care about winning ante 8 gs runs

[lilac ruin]

im saying top players for the game reroll for rare tags in the early game

its optimal

rare or investment

[stone shell]

but

thats speedrunning

[lilac ruin]

speedrunners still have to beat ante 8

[stone shell]

speedrunning you want a great start

[knotty zodiac]

imo the top players are winstreaking, not speedrunning

[stone shell]

but for normal play you take good enough starts

[lilac ruin]

if the goal is to just win a run i dont see why not skip with rare

for winstreaking yeah thats diff

[serene forge]

citation needed

[knotty zodiac]

if the goal is to win a run, just reroll until investment right?

[stone shell]

most rares need setup is the problem i think

[serene forge]

investment tag is universally agreed to be the only good tag in ante 1

[knotty zodiac]

a campfire is no good when you have no money to feed it

[serene forge]

who even speedruns on gold stake

[stone shell]

like sure if i got a free obelisk at the start im taking it but

[serene forge]

speedrunning is barely a thing to begin with afaik

[stone shell]

thats not helping me until ante 3-4

and i shot my foot getting something useless

[weak relic]

Ello balala chat

[wintry ice]

hi what's the discussion about

[stone shell]

some guy saying rare skips ante 1 is a good idea

[weak relic]

Eww

[serene forge]

you'll win more often if you learn how to actually play the game instead of just holding r until you get some god seed

[lilac ruin]

https://youtu.be/jmieUtPvQek?si=aYmQOTVvHsd8Zuia https://youtu.be/4SH4ho6eQYA?si=cLf64uACMnEUqPIu

see start of run

[wintry ice]

well speedrunning isn't the main part of the game

[cosmic sun]

The same channel does gold streaks btw

[wintry ice]

for you to beat the game fast you need to get a highroll

and rare tags are THE highroll tag

[cosmic sun]

You know, the thing that you can't reroll for

[lilac ruin]

a lot of people?

[wintry ice]

they're inconsistent in actual games

[cosmic sun]

Otherwise it resets the streak

[stone shell]

speedrunning is a different context is it not

[weak relic]

Huh

[wintry ice]

most people here talk about regular gold stske gameplay

[lilac ruin]

if youre trying to win a run and top players are doing it then why not

again for streaking its different

[wintry ice]

well top speedrunners are doing it because it helps them win faster

[lilac ruin]

it just makes the game easier

not necessarily faster

easier = faster bc less decisions

[wintry ice]

winning fast isn't something most gold stake players necessarily want

[weak relic]

@deft sandal I triggered crimson bean bug yet I still fucking died

[serene forge]

there's a reason why balatro university isn't particularly known for being a great speedrunner

[weak relic]

[knotty zodiac]

sure i guess if the context is c+ or just trying to win one tonight before you do sth else. after a while it gets boring no?

[serene forge]

which i'm sure he is but that's not what most people are interested in

[lilac ruin]

well sure

[stone shell]

in general chances for high rolling in speedruns is basically always done since thats how you get to the limit

[wintry ice]

well given that you increase how much you need to score early on and the fact that the tag can give you an unhelpful eternal rental like baron which you can't even sell

[cosmic sun]

I think streaks are more standard

[wintry ice]

it ends up making you need more resources overall

[serene forge]

but yeah, suggesting speedrunner tactics to a guy trying to win is not really a great idea

[lilac ruin]

just reset

[wintry ice]

which makes the game ststistically harder

[wintry ice]

so basically forfeit the run which results in a loss

[lilac ruin]

and?

[weak relic]

I cant even naneinf anymore

[serene forge]

that's like me playing celeste and telling some random guy to learn chained ultras and cornerboosts to finish the base game because that's what i do as a speedrunner

[wintry ice]

which means it's less consistent

[weak relic]

Im washed

[lilac ruin]

okay

[stone shell]

if the plan is to only win one run then i can say anything

[lilac ruin]

i wasnt talking about win streaking

[wintry ice]

and consistency is the thing that matters for high stakes

[stone shell]

like i can full skip the entire gold stake with black deck and win because of throwback shenanigans

is THAT optimal? hell no

[cosmic sun]

No but like I have never heard resetting being a standard for anything

[wintry ice]

if you just want to win once don't take the rare tag either because you're better off with the money and the extra shop

[serene forge]

gonna bring this up again

[lilac ruin]

yes

i was not talking about getting better at the game or getting better at gold stake

just strictly for winning a run on plasma rare tag is good

[wintry ice]

there are like 4 rares that are more helpful than commons if you get them before ante 3/4

[lilac ruin]

like a singular run

for c+

[wintry ice]

and we're telling you that it's not

[serene forge]

are you the guy on reddit that said they do c++ with plasma rare tags because wee jonkler makes the game easy

[knotty zodiac]

thats a lot of resetting for one wee. is it really faster than learning how to play with suboptimal starts?

[lilac ruin]

no i got c++ normally

[wintry ice]

you're statistically likelier to be better off playing the round and taking the shop

[cosmic sun]

My first C+ plasma I just unknowingly did all chips

[lilac ruin]

or just reset

[stone shell]

is there really a contextual difference between wanting to win 1 gold stake and being as consistent as possible in winning gold stakes

[lilac ruin]

if the goal is to win a run

[wintry ice]

which is a loss

[cosmic sun]

And then I've been doing xmult pivots on other platforms

[wintry ice]

and therefor doesn't help you win

[serene forge]

i think my first plasma win was some perkeo observatory bullshit i pulled in like ante 4

[lilac ruin]

well yeah getting better at gold stake is better

[narrow scroll]

had the perfect htr run!

[lilac ruin]

thats more fun

[serene forge]

i love hrt

[fringe nebula]

sup i just tabbed in

[wintry ice]

hi we're having the average rare tag discussion

[narrow scroll]

just y'know
minus the htr

[serene forge]

I hate Bloodstone

[cosmic sun]

I did C++ gimmickless, just pick the deck you like and be consistent.

[knotty zodiac]

both valid playstyles but highrolling is not really fulfilling after a while imo. the game is solved if you hit r at any sign of trouble

[cosmic sun]

Another highroll argument I've seen is "anaglyph is good for stickers" and I'm like hell naw

[stone shell]

if you dont losses then the game is solved 👍

[wintry ice]

it feels better to barely get through a tough seed than to reset for a broken build

[lilac ruin]

i used it for whenever i was starting to get stickers and i could afford to skip

otherwise i think ghost is better

[fringe nebula]

i was forced to crash my bus and pivot towards photochad red seal lmao

[knotty zodiac]

one secret trick THEY dont want YOu to know to never reach game over

[wintry ice]

anaglyph is good for stickering early on

[stone shell]

i like running magic deck because double fools are cool

[wintry ice]

yeah

[cosmic sun]

Ghost for the power of spectrals

[fringe nebula]

ay 🤝

[wintry ice]

i'm doing a full painted deck c++ profile

[lilac ruin]

ghost for wraith and ectoplasm

[cosmic sun]

Mogs anaglyph already

[wintry ice]

because painted is the only one of the harder decks that i like playing

[fringe nebula]

double fool is really cool i agree

[lilac ruin]

i think both are valid

[stone shell]

you use double fool because of devil

i use double fool because of judgement

[cosmic sun]

Anaglyph more gimmicky tbh

[stone shell]

you like money and i like gambling and thats okay 👍

[knotty zodiac]

double lovers or bust

[fringe nebula]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/912721942539304960.png?v=1&size=48&quality=lossless

[cosmic sun]

I think the people who argue for it for stickering just think they'll always get their sticker joker from tags

Oh yeah Painted stickering sounds like hell

[stone shell]

it really isnt imo

[cosmic sun]

It's technically slower

[smoky niche]

nebula deck is my opp

[cosmic sun]

Mind you I did it all on blue

[stone shell]

i think my braincells exploded

[cosmic sun]

1 less slot most of the time to get an extra sticker in on painted

[knotty zodiac]

dat flush splash synergy 💦

[serene forge]

I hate Bloodstone

[fringe nebula]

ok they're kinda slow, but i'm 100% sure they will realize it sooner

or layer

later

[stone shell]

its for speculative 4fingers :copium:

[cosmic sun]

that stm dont look nat negative

[knotty zodiac]

its for the obelisk transition

[fringe nebula]

just won with this setup few hours ago

[cosmic sun]

I hate Bloodstone

[stone shell]

to be fair thats the least bloodstone can do

[serene forge]

no you didnt

[smoky niche]

what are the odds of 0 hits per 5 card hand here

[serene forge]

photoshopped image

[knotty zodiac]

1/32

[cosmic sun]

survivor bias screenshot

[smoky niche]

there are 3 bloodstones and a chad

[cosmic sun]

🦅

[stone shell]

1/2^(7*3)

[atomic trout]

Bull.

[smoky niche]

does brainstorm do that normally or is that a mod

[serene forge]

mod

[fringe nebula]

no xmult gameplay

[knotty zodiac]

casual +480 chips

[smoky niche]

top 10 erosions

[stone shell]

who needs xmults

actually wait now im curious

[smoky niche]

20 mult from erosion putting in work

[stone shell]

could you win a non-plasma gold stake run without using any xmult type

[fringe nebula]

S6HZ88N8, magic deck gold stake

i beat this seed without xmult

[smoky niche]

wouldnt this be jokerless but easier

[stone shell]

no xmult jokers or just no xmult at all

[fringe nebula]

no xmult at all

[stone shell]

because im talking no glass and steel

[smoky niche]

oh wait jokerless has glass cards

[fringe nebula]

not even glass retrigger

[smoky niche]

right

[stone shell]

do you have a picture of the final setup

really curious

[fringe nebula]

didn't save

[stone shell]

smile with single tear

[smoky niche]

i dont think its possible tbh

[fringe nebula]

i also have this one

[stone shell]

ahhh okay that makes sense

[smoky niche]

wait huh

oh thats a lot of money

[stone shell]

did you take money skips by any chance there

[fringe nebula]

it's different seed

[stone shell]

nope you didnt

yes i only saw the round counter now

unless you took hieroglyphs and skipped

[fringe nebula]

the one before i just had supernova, grimbo, square and burglar

[stone shell]

that is hella stupid

[serene forge]

here, win

[knotty zodiac]

something like 600 chip 120 mult ig. lots of planets money and bootstrap/bull?

[atomic trout]

Even with Bull shit and a goood eco. I failed.

And boot.

[weak relic]

The two paths of endless

[stone shell]

youre at ante 11 you did not fail

[fringe nebula]

here, win

[atomic trout]

😭

[stone shell]

buy and sell todd trust

[unreal jolt]

I'm jimboing it

[stone shell]

(ignore the eternal sticker)

(just peel it off)

[atomic trout]

I wish to see Naneif 😄

[stone shell]

gonna go off now

[weak relic]

Wow bull and bootstraps

[knotty zodiac]

googone joker- removes 1 joker sticker. destroyed when used

[cosmic sun]

🤨

[unreal jolt]

Guys, do we think the stickers are the good smelling scratchy kind, the good smooth acrylic kind, or the cheap, hard to peel don't stick very well paper ones

[knotty zodiac]

the ones that look like theyre going to come off cleanly but they leave a little piece of goo at the end

[unreal jolt]

Oooh I can see that

Btw question for y'all, these a good buy or no?

[knotty zodiac]

im a sucker for mesh. cop

[stone shell]

ask off topic

[unreal jolt]

No it's balatro related

#on-topic

[knotty zodiac]

looks kinda like a gros michel to me

[stone shell]

totally a bootstrap reference

[cosmic sun]

hell naw get the ultraboost 1.0s

[unreal jolt]

Wuzzat

[granite ridge]

new shoes in buffoon pack

[unreal jolt]

Oh

Ok

[granite ridge]

what

[unreal jolt]

They're nice but I really want a pair of mesh/rubber shoes

[knotty zodiac]

sneakerhead: +23 mult. resets money to $0 at the end of every round

[unreal jolt]

Rn I have some ugly ahh Nikes

[unreal jolt]

Nah sneakerhead: gains +5 mult for each joker but every round they all have a 1/10 chance of getting destroyed and a 1/5 chance of getting debuffed for the next round

[night turret]

☹️

Jeez I just like rare tags man

[serene forge]

stockholm syndrome

[weak relic]

Skipping very potty unless reroll or investment

[unreal jolt]

I hate that I can't post freaking gifs here

I had the perfect blueprint gif

[night turret]

Do you even know what that means

[weak relic]

[night turret]

Send it to me

[unreal jolt]

Lowk this dude who kidnapped me is kinda a baddie, might let him keep me

[humble gulch]

He has ohh shiny syndrome

[unreal jolt]

🗝️ & 🍌

[fringe holly]

Question, own balatro on mobile. Bought it on another phone a while ago. Recently bought a new google pixel 9, but google play says balatro isn't available for my device. How can i get it

[unreal jolt]

🏴‍☠️

Yarghhh

[weak relic]

Hmm

[unreal jolt]

Also what was your previous phone

[fringe holly]

S21 fe

[fringe holly]

Lol thought about it, but idk whats safe

[unreal jolt]

It should transfer fine, try going to your Google play settings and refreshing your purchase history

[unreal jolt]

Little research and its easy to find a safe link, plus if you download one that's bad 99/100 times your phone will just become a bit slow until you delete it

[fringe holly]

Thinking of pulling the apk off my phone onto my laptop and putting it on the pixel

[unreal jolt]

That would also work

But I've never had a pixel so what do I know

Went from a s21+ to a iPhone XR to a base s25

[fringe holly]

Lol went right back to android

[unreal jolt]

Absolutely

[fringe holly]

Android master race

[unreal jolt]

I didn't choose the iPhone, my s21 took a dive in a pool

And the iPhone was actually awful, I hate not having modded discord, modded yt, modded music, modded insta, modded million other things

[granite ridge]

revanced?

[unreal jolt]

Indeed

[errant brook]

Let's see how this goes

[unreal jolt]

Although for insta I use instafel

[humble gulch]

Money

[unreal jolt]

I could say something really political rn

🌚

(I won't tho)

[manic vault]

nooooo my money will be gone

[lost vault]

boing

[unreal jolt]

I wanna be a joker

[lost vault]

cant help ya

[unreal jolt]

[lost vault]

:3

[unreal jolt]

Gimme

[manic vault]

cant take mah moneh if i have none to take from

[fringe holly]

Pulling the app from my phone didn't work

Looks like im putting on a pirate hat

[peak crest]

i never thought stuntman would have real value until i played plasma deck

that changed my life

[stone shell]

stuntman has a place in a lot of lobotomy runs tbh

the raw scoring is hella strong if your hand only has 50 chipz

[peak crest]

stuntman goes insane with those damn grimbo builds

stuntman/square and grimbo + cavendish/card sharp/hologram if you want endless

oh my lord

most braindead lobotomite build

[vocal rose]

stuntman has real value on every deck

[peak crest]

i realized that after i played plasma

it’s a near instant take if i’m playing pairs now

scaling chips besides like bull with an econ can’t really reasonably catch up to it before endless begins

unless you like

super greed

idk

[stark karma]

Joker Idea: Masquerade Party
Uncommon
transfer the seal, enhancement or edition of your first scored card this round to your last scored card

Thoughts?

[deft sandal]

you died on the boss or after the boss?

[heavy heron]

violet vessel is slowly becoming my favorite boss

when i play flushes i ironically rely on card scoring more, meaning verdant leaf or crimson or even bell are more problematic

[honest latch]

rare joker skip tag gave me brainstorm but i have no idea what to use it with

[heavy heron]

open buffoon pack to find something to copy

[honest latch]

i got hologram

and died

im going to do this run on ghost deck

[heavy heron]

yeah i mean

not a good joker to find shop 1

since it does nothing that early

[sullen mantle]

Well that's unfortunate

[heavy heron]

not your fault HAHA

[honest latch]

i got odd todd because i have like nothing to dupe

[heavy heron]

you can afford it

just sell drunkard

[sullen mantle]

Still not enough money

I was already in negative

[heavy heron]

why not?

[heavy heron]

you have credit card

which allows you to go -20

selling drunkard puts you at -7

[obsidian patrol]

Only for genius

[heavy heron]

which means you can buy brainstorm for 10, putting you at -$17

[sullen mantle]

That's the Inflation challenge

That Brainstorm costs $18

[heavy heron]

WAIT

ITS $18

WTF

OK I SEE

i thought it said $10

i understand

well good thing you don’t need the brainstorm!

[subtle drum]

heh

[heavy heron]

blueprint + ancient is probably just enough

[honest latch]

that skip tag is calling to me like the green goblin mask

[sullen mantle]

Just kinda hope I have some budget to level up my Jupiters a bit

[heavy heron]

yeah that’s all you really need

some kind of base mult

whether that’s an empress card or even glass

[subtle drum]

too risky

[honest latch]

it was worth a shot

[subtle drum]

oh balright

lol

you survived and that's what matters

[honest latch]

could the ecto work this ante

because of paintbrush

[fringe nebula]

no

do not

like, do NOT reach ante 3 while being that poor

[subtle drum]

11 WS ON GS WHAT

[fringe nebula]

(unless necessary)

[heavy heron]

i recommend not because it can hit odd todd AND it’s super expensive AND you’d need to save money for voucher to offset the hand size damage

[sullen mantle]

Y'all think this is good to take or nah

[subtle drum]

hell nah

also why is it so expensive

is that a challenge

[fringe nebula]

my 11 winstreak ended with the goofiest thing imaginable

[subtle drum]

3 ws on gold stake is unbelievable let alone 11 holy shit

[heavy heron]

LOOLLL

i can’t even remember how my 11th streak ended

[sullen mantle]

Inflation

[heavy heron]

it’s crazy how mine is exactly 11 too

we got smth in common

[honest latch]

i opened a tarot pack, got the emperor and used nothing else, got a useless card for my deck, then got a wheel of fortune which failed

[worthy tinsel]

Nah just ancient till the end

[subtle drum]

damn

[honest latch]

fuck my chud life

[subtle drum]

y'all god level wtf

[heavy heron]

[and i don’t play pairs :]

[heavy heron]

NAHHH you play the game long enough and it kinda just happens

win streaks

[subtle drum]

ig

[sullen mantle]

Holy peak

[heavy heron]

$19 astronomer..

[fringe nebula]

i beat inflation with swash

funny how inflation challenge makes swash stronger

[heavy heron]

i’ve consumed twice as many flushes as i’ve consumed hermits

[fringe nebula]

show jokers

[heavy heron]

i really have no idea how that happened

[heavy heron]

sure

[fringe nebula]

lmao

[heavy heron]

i’ve taken twice as many chads as i’ve taken photos

that’s pretty funny

[fringe nebula]

yeah

chad can work without photo

while photo...

[heavy heron]

chad BEEN working without photo

[heavy heron]

can i see yours

[worthy tinsel]

Someday AJ will be top 1

[fringe nebula]

my winstreak exclusive stat

[heavy heron]

pair gaming?

[fringe nebula]

yep

[heavy heron]

bro the drastic difference between our jokers is crazy

how tf is abstract my second most picked joker

[fringe nebula]

sometimes i go 4oak with vagabond/trading card hallu but that's it

i also do mime fist steel sometimes

[heavy heron]

yeaaaa i’m surprised hallucination isn’t in my top jokers

i pick him up a lot

[heavy heron]

yeaaa

i mean i do everything

depending on what i’m offered

unless vagabond

then i can do whatever i want

rather than what the game gives me

vagabond allows you to play literally any hand type you want

high card steel or flush five glass steel…

both of which win without jokers

[sullen mantle]

Massive Tarot generation

[heavy heron]

yum..

[fringe nebula]

my favorite rare is vagabond
my favorite uncommon is cartomancer
my favorite common is halu
my favorite deck is magic deck

am i cooked?

[heavy heron]

NO YOURE NOT COOKED

BECAUSE

[honest latch]

i just died

[heavy heron]

THATS MY FAVORITE RARE TOO

favorite uncommon?

carto maybe not..

there’s a lot of uncommons

BUT YES HALLUCINATION FAVORITE COMMON TOO

[fringe nebula]

bl**dstone?

[heavy heron]

you caught me..

my favorite joker is the ones that do nothing

[worthy tinsel]

ew
then again the highs are like AJ but the lows..

[north smelt]

Not bad

[fringe nebula]

also, my favorite legendary is perkeo

[north smelt]

My fav joker is fibbonachi

[heavy heron]

bean, trading card, cartomancer, rough gem, onyx, and arrowhead all kinda are competing for my favorite uncommon

dice too

[heavy heron]

mine is chicot

[worthy tinsel]

Good one

[heavy heron]

chigoat

[honest latch]

wasted my skip tag on this shit

[worthy tinsel]

Splash time

[heavy heron]

no dw we were joking, everybody universally hates bloodstone

[tacit stream]

straight time

[honest latch]

I FUCKING GOT SPLASH IN THE BUFFOON PACK

[worthy tinsel]

Enjoy

[north smelt]

I hate bloodstone

[heavy heron]

YOOOO

[north smelt]

Why bloodstone has 1/2 chances

[heavy heron]

now just find some flat mult and chips (splash is your chips on the short term)

and you win!!!!

[vestal copper]

wait how does flot work with wilds

again

[sullen mantle]

Are we serious 😭

Legendary in Inflation

[heavy heron]

it works

[worthy tinsel]

Nah I have seen some loving it and hating on AJ

[heavy heron]

i’m pretty sure there’s a bug

with flower pot wilds

[vestal copper]

[heavy heron]

but in my experience

it works perfectly fine

[north smelt]

Aj is good with chad

[heavy heron]

so if you got like

spade heart club wild

[vestal copper]

bloodstone is genuinely useless

[heavy heron]

flower pot works

if you got… like… spade spade heart wild, it won’t work

[heavy heron]

because no matter what you’re missing a club or diamond

[sullen mantle]

AY

[north smelt]

Smh not chigoat

[sullen mantle]

That's funny

[heavy heron]

now you can afford one thing

maybe two

[north smelt]

Challenge?

[heavy heron]

yup

inflation

[subtle drum]

me encanta baraja anaglifo jaja

[vestal copper]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/1008707962249941102.png?size=48&name=true~1&lossless=true

[heady narwhal]

there should be a gold stake emote

[worthy tinsel]

[vestal copper]

the closest we have sad enough

[somber barn]

All I want for Christmas is..

3 card sharps

[vestal copper]

5 stencils

[worthy tinsel]

where is the true flush joker emote AJ 🥀

[somber barn]

5 neg stencils

[vestal copper]

[sullen mantle]

[vestal copper]

u might need to get that ccard out

[subtle drum]

even more

[knotty zodiac]

skip skip skip skip skip skip skip skip

[subtle drum]

"skipping is bad" they said

[vestal copper]

me when anaglyph

[subtle drum]

real

[knotty zodiac]

but it is bad for winstreaks 😉

[vestal copper]

hit that throwback

[knotty zodiac]

throwback to 39x lets go

[sullen mantle]

Hell to this challenge

[royal ore]

i guess we just doing only red jokers now

[night bridge]

Whenever i hit ante 25 burglar disappears from shop ffs

[spring lion]

my best run yet with only 14 hours on record

[smoky niche]

goated riff raff

[jovial gust]

has anyone noticed the ice cream uses the joker hat color scheme?

[lapis lion]

i mean

yeah

[jovial gust]

dude I just now realized that

[stone shell]

what flavor is the yellow one

[jovial gust]

pineapple

[stone shell]

physical gag

[jovial gust]

what would be a better fit? Lemon?

[stone shell]

i was thinking mango

or banana

[jovial gust]

oh yeah forgot those existed

mangoes not bananas

[restive magnet]

Alright I need to know, is the invisible able to he taken here? If so what do I sell for it

[vestal copper]

wait what ???? 😭

[toxic lichen]

Seltzer on gold finally

[smoky niche]

i have splash happy face photo chad and blueprint do i need to bother rerolling this guy

[restive magnet]

Depends on what your scoring is and if you're comfortable living and dying by that Crimson Heart picks to debuff

If it's splash or happy face it's fine probably

[smoky niche]

yeah i guess i'll just bank on this

[restive magnet]

Also what hand are you playing?

[smoky niche]

pairs

turns out i didnt even need blueprint because red seal king + 2 glass cards was enough

splash is surprisingly useful

[heady narwhal]

splash is underrated

[vestal copper]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/1008707962249941102.png?size=48&name=true~1&lossless=true

[vagrant wagon]

Should i be worried?

[vestal copper]

you should be happy

[wanton breach]

Am I trading rn?

[vagrant wagon]

This was fun 🫠

[proper pollen]

sheer skill

[knotty zodiac]

5 antes to go. surely youll find the other 3 to complete the collection

[ebon condor]

and who says pair builds only ever score just enough to win 🙄

[restive magnet]

I sold canio for a soul card...and got canio AGAIN

[vagrant wagon]

I‘m thinking about taking the ancient but i never know how to get it online

[stone shell]

free 10 bucks :copium:

[stone shell]

retriggers

win

you have until ante 3 i think to get it online anywag

[vagrant wagon]

Do i also use wildcards?

Or not

[stone shell]

optional but i personally dont recommend it

too many boss blinds can ruin it

[vagrant wagon]

Yeah you right ok i try it

[knotty zodiac]

lovers too mid
wen abstinence tarot?

[ebon condor]

temperance kinda

[vagrant wagon]

And I don’t know why I do it but every time I lose i go a stake down and if i win i go a stake up (beginning from white)

[ebon condor]

hey temperance can just mean restraint in general so my point stands

[knotty zodiac]

brilliant. means when drunk or tilting, youll still eventually win one. like elo rating for balatro

[vagrant wagon]

A bit yeah

And i will do it on every deck this way all the way to gold 😅

(I never got past orange)

[ebon condor]

that sounds torturous but go for it

fucking progression edging

[knotty zodiac]

ya orange is hard. learning to pivot took me hours

"wdym the cornerpiece to my strategy is gone permanently"

[ebon condor]

simply dont make it your cornerpiece

[knotty zodiac]

wish i was smart enough to learn that 2 or 3 games in 😅

[ebon condor]

admittedly learning new gold stake is not nearly as bad as learning old gold stake

that shit took me im not kidding like 60 runs for my first win

[knotty zodiac]

i heard you basically couldnt buy anything

[ebon condor]

pretty much

[restive magnet]

Shit had me tweaking as I would've killed for a Perkeo

[ebon condor]

may i tempt you with a $10 celestial pack?

[vestal copper]

was old gold this bad

[ebon condor]

yes

[vestal copper]

ik it had -1 hand size

[restive magnet]

No I'm broke

[vestal copper]

aka pair slop central

[knotty zodiac]

neptune earth venus

[ebon condor]

PAIR wasnt even good

it was HIGH CARD meta

[vestal copper]

why

:nails:

[ebon condor]

multitude of reasons

-1 handsize makes even pair not super consistent for one

blue seals werent op yet, so that strategy wasnt super effective

[jovial mica]

if you have drunkard[?] before the fact it just reverses those effects

[ebon condor]

that still takes a joker slot

and it was pretty much forced chips + scaling mult + 3 xmult

[jovial mica]

ahh

[unique pecan]

😮

[knotty zodiac]

so basically once you find the joker, youre playing painted but with +0 hand size

wonderful

[ebon condor]

as many issues the current meta has, at least you CAN choose not to play it and be somewhat effective

high card was pretty much forced every single run on old gold stake

[knotty zodiac]

what else is wrong with current meta

besides 🍐 and rebate

[jovial mica]

dam my message got blocked for some reason 😭

anyway

[ebon condor]

i mean yeah its mainly how excessively strong pairs are rn

and how that generally creates pretty uninteresting gameplay

[frank grove]

yeah i think things will be slightly better once blue stake is reworked but it wont solve everything

[jovial mica]

all fun and games until pair builds get changed for the worse permanently

[vestal copper]

1.1 soon i hope

[jovial mica]

and pair gets ruined too :D

[ebon condor]

itll open up gold stake for sure, but its unlikely to dethrone pair

[jovial mica]

"ruined" except the game becomes more interesting

[frank grove]

yeah pairs will still be more consistant

also you cant ruin pairs cause they just are there all the time

[ebon condor]

the issue is that the nature of any form of unconditional value will always be better on the hand you can play the most

[frank grove]

yeah

[knotty zodiac]

you can make them scale worse with planets and joker vals

[frank grove]

that will make the game harder wont really make higher hands better

[vestal copper]

give pairs hc scaling :clueless:

[knotty zodiac]

so that even with planets and econ you die occasionally

[jovial mica]

lmao?

[frank grove]

cause making scalers scale slower hurts other hands more than pairs

[ebon condor]

so literally every single mult, chips, and xmult with little to no condition will always be best with pairs

unless you somehow make deckfixing substantially easier

[knotty zodiac]

ex. how would nerfing mercury hurt other hands more than pairs?

[ebon condor]

the second issue is that on-score value is always going to be inconsistent

[frank grove]

mercury nerf would hurt pairs but thats not the only reason pairs are good with scaling jokers

even if you put it down to 10 chips it wouldnt change much at all

[ebon condor]

and the game actively disincentivizes it with the boss blinds

further leading you to play pairs

the problem is that the way that the game is built naturally leads to low hands being the strongest hands

[vestal copper]

the game is just fundamentally broken ig 😭

[jovial mica]

pairs are just the ol' reliable here

[ebon condor]

unless things are majorly reworked thats likely going to still be the case

[frank grove]

yeah

[knotty zodiac]

mm wouldnt go so far. its still pretty fun

[frank grove]

i think there will be more interesting fun jokers to play around that dont really work with pairs hopefully

[vestal copper]

are there literally no balanced games that exist

[jovial mica]

if its balanced fundamentally we WILL find a way to break it HAHAH

[knotty zodiac]

every strategy game develops dominant metas that only shift when patches happen

[jovial mica]

like imagine if pairs get shifted we'd switch to hc because that's the next best thing

you can always draw a high card

[knotty zodiac]

what if default hand size was 9?

[frank grove]

that would do something

[jovial mica]

such as?

[frank grove]

make 3oak the default

[knotty zodiac]

makes it more like painted

[frank grove]

but i think increasing default hand size would make decisions in the game that used to be actual decisions just not really decisions anymore

[jovial mica]

"but there's a joker for that" atp there's a joker for everything

[knotty zodiac]

ecto/stuntman/troub would prob need adjustments ya

[frank grove]

yeah stuntman is the thing

[knotty zodiac]

stuntman -3 handsize +300chip

[vestal copper]

1st april update that removes pairs and hcs as a valid hand types :clue:

[manic kettle]

natural negative burnt joker helped me get some crazy flush five levels

[jovial mica]

oh we would RIOT

and that's putting it lightly

[fringe crest]

i have no idea what the hell is going on but its winning right now

[knotty zodiac]

would never happen xD

[jovial mica]

would make for a funny challenge deck though

blocking the top 2 hand types per your planet stats

and forcing you to pivot

[knotty zodiac]

ooh i like this. "death star blew up mercury"

[jovial mica]

but of course with all games you gotta think how it would be implemented into code first 🥀

[knotty zodiac]

thunk can build it. doesnt sound that complicated

[jovial mica]

I don't know anything about coding so

[frank grove]

yeah it wouldnt take too long at all

would be cool if that also banned your top 10 most played jokers as well

[jovial mica]

what would such a challenge be called?

[jovial mica]

ooooo

[knotty zodiac]

not my rebate 😭

[jovial mica]

rebate enjoyers staring at golden knowing it's their only good option

[knotty zodiac]

eternal rental biz card only option

[jovial mica]

HAHAHA

[vestal copper]

eternal rental :clue:

[jovial mica]

bro got clocked immediately LMAO

[vestal copper]

i remember picking it up once

got 2 luchadors and killed both plant and eye

[jovial mica]

to this day I've never picked it up

[jovial mica]

showman?

[fringe nebula]

so uh.....

[vestal copper]

nope

[frank grove]

LMAO

[vestal copper]

just 2

[jovial mica]

yep there goes your whole run

[vestal copper]

unwinnable

[fringe nebula]

i can do vagabond build tho

[knotty zodiac]

who needs scaling mult 🤷

[frank grove]

fist carries

[jovial mica]

can't believe squoker gets recognition here 🤮 /j

[stone shell]

succumbed to lobotomy 😔

[fringe nebula]

lobotomy and fist stm steel are the reason why i can winstreak

[jovial mica]

ooh wait but I don't see dagger OP might have a chance

[fringe nebula]

maybe hallu too in case of 3oak

[jovial mica]

but dagger is like a high maintenance girlfriend
your wallet will always be struggling

[fringe nebula]

it's fine

dagger midas mask

can do

worst part of a dagger is when all of the jokers on shop are eternal

[jovial mica]

depends on the stake [I've only done white so far]

[fringe nebula]

i'm fine with not using these except hallu

not being able to use hallu at all sounds like a nightmare

[knotty zodiac]

prayge for cart

[stone shell]

i asked a classmate who can read tarots and apparently the tarot effects in balatro do not have a connection with their actual meanings 🥲

probably just more connected to the images shown

[knotty zodiac]

i should go to a tarot reading and during the sesh, start mumbling about gros michel going extinct

[fringe nebula]

hmmmmmmm

soo much thinking to do

i'll take sly joker why not

[maiden peak]

Doing a pair build what should I sell