#🕹・game-discussion
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Anything more for shop? I would drop below 25.
Misprint is unreliable but personally I like it, especially with stones
"Ya got it, boss" looking-ass shop
why is it all just jimbo
Should I next round
both look good but you dont need them
Yarn
id go next, no cosumable to buy for perkolator
stones can do square's work i think, it's 13 hands to get him to 52 which is just 1 stone card
absolutely
always
greed all you can while you can
Doing a round of balatro but you decide what I do
try and get a hermit or a fool or a temperance if you can
free money from perkolator
get Perkeo a job
I need help. All out of discards.
What should I do
play garbage and moneymaxx, easy
no no no no it cant end like this
till the last hand
not the plant please
So high card right
PLEASE LUCHADOR I NEED THIS
So everything except face and stone, play it?
yup mhm
Should I play this
aaand now ill go
I feel like im gonna loose like this.
Contemplating opening Thos up
Could I get some help lol
Sure
Spades and diamonds same amount
i've been stuck on purple stake for a few days now what do i do
Discard spade
Well im out of discards
Play a two pair
Yay I got past that level
Nice
Lovers on king
It tanks your score
Hologram obviously wins here, but I don't know what to sell.
(flash card is at +98, I have both reroll surplus and glut)
Hermit and don’t use it
Vagabond temperance with egg, hell yeah
Shit
fuckkkk
To late
Someone made me reroll 💔
okay well thats true
REC CARD IS LIKE ONE OF THE BEST SCALING +MULTS

To money max hermit
copy hermit with perkeo (just keep it in your pocket)
buy hermit and dont use it
take vagabond
yes
leave shop broke
Please
Bought and not used
wait no??
What now
Now just keep it in your pocket
Pls
So do I buy anything else

cuz you just can afford it
selling lucha for leaf is like double 500 iq play
Vagabond will give you lots of tarots if you agree and go broke, he can be very strong
yoo juggler, more parking money
This is my hole, it was made for me!
i think play for us this time is moneymaxxing, not brokemaxxing
ohh photochad thank you for this run
bazinga
Anything else
vaga is good but this is not the run
Do I go next round
id go next
For Naneinf?
so perkeo copies the thing
It made a shiny tarot card
they wanna get first win, no
As expected.
use the non shiny one
and keep shiny
now youll get free 20 bucks every round from perkeo duplications
Sickkkkkkk
How god is this lay out
which means parking can be dropped and replaced for score when needed
What now
Apparently very go like
can you still moneymaxx the parking?
if score is still fine do it
All of them?
if i have money should i just buy like every pack in the shop? i usually skip arcana and standard ones
and keep stone if you draw one
One didn't get me any more faces.
skipping arcana 😭
if you're above interest cap, yes
use all, if you get faces youll probably have a good hand as well
since theres only 3 ranks of faces they are likely to have 3oak/4oak/fullhouse in them
No discards left and only 2 faces 💔
idk i really only care about the hermit
okayy uhhh what are card looking like
DESCENDANT 😭
Arcana can give you soul dude
im getting concerned at how ive played over 20 glass cards and nothing has ever broken in my run yet
Tempered glass
use the non shiny hermit to get above 25$ and maybe look for flush/fullhouse/straight by using hands as discards
arcana is very useful, standard can be useful but only buy if you have the extra cash
i thought that was onky from spectral which i do always buy
0.3% in arcana as well
What does stone even do? It's a chuddy card Imo.
also what does this mean there's no descendant card is there??
free chips for pairslop runs
best unseeded photochad ive ever done fs
nevermind twin
if only the aura spectral card hit polychrome and not foil, and I was on plasma deck
Whats the best looking spectral card
arcana packs can have hermits so that's already good enough reason to buy them
I passed that round I guess? I don't think I did good tho.
since you got money from perkeo copying hermits
use the non shiny hermit ‼️‼️‼️‼️
Perkeo is my homeboy
i was just asking because i can't win for the life of me. was me avoiding arcana packs a potential reason for that?
Another soul
if nothing in there that straight joker isnt horrible combined with +10 from holo joker
Do I do these arcana packs
absolutely
yeah arcana packs can really help
i just got a negative baron is that even good it's like $13
buy all packs you can if you can afford without hoing below 25$
under 99% of scenarios there is no reason not to open a pack if you have the money
you shoulda taken that red card ong
temperance is wild
death idk
what would they even death
id take temperance to maybe reroll shop
Do I do temperance
2 rock
marble joker
money is always good
temperance and check other pack
Rocko
id maybe chariot or devil
Hey go to main menu then return
or hanged actually
if i get a standard pack with no seals or enhancements is it even worth picking any
Hanged for why
kill bad cards
to have better chance at drawing good ones
Like 3
Like who
thats a question for you to decide
Hey do this as well
Out of all, is that what I pick
It’s in settings
Chariot on what
what youre likely to not play
Like who
welll uhhh your build isnt very concrete rn so i dont really know
id maybe do on a face i guess
Or is hanged better
is this run okay
Ehh yeah
campfire is insane
you can kill low ranks to have better chance at drawing high straights
I killed 2 low rank
its good even without perkeo, $2 per X0.25
unfortunately the green joker kinda sucks because i have to discard for castle
id drop the parking, buy straights joker and maybe reroll for potentially better option
Well you can
Sell a negative tart or planet
since you got perkeo + hermit for econ
Go to main menu real quick
straights joker as like a safe option in case nothing better comes up
Go to main menu it unlocks a joker similar to red card
But better
Also return
To the same one
should i stop discarding to build up green joker, like is this good enough
I did that
Ok
So do I buy anything
isn't throwback really bad
throwback is bad because skipping is bad
So it depends do you want hearts
I have to go actually. I'll be back tomorrow though.
but if they gonna do straights marble is bad because its gonna add garbage to the deck which is very detrimental to the straights
id look for marble replacement
goog luck 🎉🐈
is this enough chips? my green joker is only at like 9
more than enough
ok thanks
Is it bad that I haven't gotten my first win and I've been playing this game for 10+ hours
actually not at all
people get no wins with like 20+ hours
no i think that's normal. i'm at 40ish with no win
this game is kinda hard to get the gist of, but gets easy once you know what youre doing
What if there was a deck that if you got the exact number for the blind 3 times in a row you don’t have base chips but have 2x the normal mult
what
true
For the type of hand
I play on the school Chromebook at school sometimes but it doesn't save my progress. So surely way over 10h by now.
I should have gotten my first win by now. But I haven't.
i have no idea how long it took me to get the first win but it was a very scuffed one
is ante 5 too late to pick up scaling jokers? i got red card but i don't really like it tbh
i won by getting saved by Mr Bones 😭
Hypackel
red card is still good at that point
its got really high scaling
the rest is ehh idk
red card id take
I feel it's not normal to not have gotten first win atp.
if i were you id get farming campfire
just reroll, buy and sell all consumables you find and so on until you get to 25 bucks
Bro this seed
i've been buying and selling most consumables
campfire is really good even if it seems mid
it's at 3.5 this ante
ive been getting it to like X5 every time i get it
if you somehow savescummed to before the moment where to-do list changes its hand type, would it select a different hand type? Given how to-do list is not seeded
yet again this game is hard to get the gist of
so like
can we really say that its bad
I can't escape from this freaking leaf
what hand should i be playing anyways or do i skip for red card
sell rocket?
take one planet and skip for card
mega packs are good because you can still get something out of it and get red card mult as well
what are you playing anyway
i didn't think about that
i don't know just pairs ig but i was just playing bullshit and it working cuz i have chips and mult i think
then take whatever youre more likely to play
aka pair
and skip
take mercury and skip yea
well i guess not
Is there like a perfect set of decisions per game or can you win from intuition
$70 per round is pretty great right?
well i think like
- secure some +mult, +chips (joker OR planet levels) and xmult
- stay above $25 if you can
- any scaling jokers (except throwback) are really good, especially if gotten early
i guess this is like the tips i can give
and also pairs are overpowered but it takes a bit to explain why
No im interested. I've seen that pants joker that adds onto pairs and it's gotten me far in one run.
Holy god hand

pairs just win the game for you, thats what you need to learn
WAYY too many jokers directly or indirectly synergise with them
High card is way more easy to scale ig
Wait im curious now
your hand count is an xmult joker you have access to at all times
That sounds smart
thats how i like to think about it
well any small hand, ive had both pair and hc runs
if you can get value from every hand you play, then thats pretty much like having x4 score
although not all hands are equal value
for example scaling mult jokers - ride the bus, green joker, supernova - benefit from hands you can easily consistently spam the most, that being pair/high card
same goes for scaling chips like square joker
Hanging Chad is peak
Wasted potential
Why???
also any held in hand card effects like steel, shoot the moon or baron also benefit the most from small hands and more cards staying in hand
same for blue seal
especially blue seals
When I was first reading up on balatro I saw a strategy of getting a lot of planet cards for high card.
pairs are just way too good
thats mostly for a baron run, but yup
pairs are generally a bit better
Pairs. Does this count 2 pairs and full house?
nope
Good seed
no, just pairs
just 2 same cards
pairs scale 5 chips faster and allow you to throw away cards easier
just pairs
first you play big hands to get out of low score blinds while you dont have pairslop synergies, then you pairslop
8PHSTNEV
Try this
Skip first blind
it's because pairs are easy to draw when you have chips and mult
2 pair is good only when you have pants joker, full house is just bad
wait but i love full house :(
Pairslop lol. How do you not loose from low score doing pairslop?
i like it too but like
full house won me black deck gold stake
its such a chuddy hand
ill never hate on it
two peas in a pod
scaling +mult and +chips and planet levels
Why not flush house tho?
if your jokers and/or hand levels are strong enough your score will actually be fine
and even if your score is "low"
because i hate flush house because im evil and i didnt find enough suit changers
like idk 15k when the required blind is 50k
I mean I’m trying to get like a good long run 8+
if you got scaling mult you can play whatever and the accumulated unconditional mult will still apply
you can play 4 pairs pretty much every time
Ok
Scaling multi is the x2 mult jokers and whatnot right?
and synergise with a lot of things
Pair glazing too much here 
thats xmult
I see now
no, more like green joker or ride the bus
scaling is jokers that accumulate something
for example +1 mult every hand played (green joker)
or square joker
Oh I see now
or wee
green joker gains +1 mult for every hand played and loses 1 for every discard, so if you play every hand for four antes and dont discard thats +48 mult
or castle
or rocket
i love castle
their mult/chips is unconditional and applies on any hand which is why they are good
and especially scaling xmult like hologram or constellation
Castle is the best for checkered deck
And so when you accumulate a lot pairslop is okay on score
theres like a video by Balatro University where he goes over why exactly pairs are overpowered and need a balance update
Ts has more strategy than chess
and remember, because you can play 4 pairs with ease, pairs accumulate x4 as fast as a hand you can only consistently play once per blind
Don't worry we'll see that in 1.1
coming on February 30th
q1 2026 guys
My parents got me into this game but they won't teach me
I'm just playing it because we own a copy
they prolly dont know all the insane strat
Gamble addiction
if you introduce a game to someone, i feel like either you just started playing and are ecstatic, or you've been playing for a while
I feel like we need a joker other than throwback that synergises with skipping blinds
we need ANYTHING to make skips not ass
i feel like we need literally anything to make skipping even a little bit viable
which legally means you need to teach the new person about the game no?
shared braincell
Are skips always ass all the time.
Like when you skip a blind
You got a call from Local thunk
2fool 1thought
hear me out
every skip is negative tag
Is there a useful use case ever
nope
ante 1 investment tag is insant take
Nope
that makes it even worse
i mean that improves the average quality of a skip
($25 after beating the boss)
what if i find negative brainstorm for 0 dollars
I had a few magicians
Only on anaglyph deck
oh yeah
maybe ante 2 even
ante 1 im just taking
investment tag ante 1
boss reroll on a boss that kills you
handy tag after being destroyed by the Ox
voucher skip late endless
A bit hard run
Has anyone here 100% and is replaying or no
rare skip sometimes
a lot of people actually
several people here have 100%
I 100% then loaded an old version of the game and it wiped my save, so yes 🥲
a lot of people get 100% on all three profiles
im halfway through beating gold stake on all decks
GS Ante 1 first blind coupon tag
i assume 100% means all achivements
C?
ima beat c+ first
which is unheard of for me
How many hours y'all have
then ill farm gold stickers on like ghost probably
ghost and yellow are what im doing
a lot probably
?
Personally why sock and buskin look like they are doing something
a little under 100 on steam and probably a lot uncounted on my phone
but i dont know how to check on mobile
only ~450 im not really THAT good just yet
wdym something
going for gold stake gauntlet and failing
They should change the design
its just the two masks
It looks kinda like they’re doing the 69
Right up my alley lol
Ok what
🎭
performing_arts
Does anyone know what the highest score/ante on version 0.8.7c is?
Meh
i finally did unseeded high card only🥹
Good ig
version 0.8.7? isn't that the old one
Ye
I just rerolled an do got same fuckin cards
XD
not sure most people know about that version
Fair
I've been playing it lately and it's so wildly different than the final release, honestly super fun to mess with
I got 10 undecillion and ante 137
wait WHAT
is the ante scaling different?
Extremely
wait really
more than 2
i need to try this now
LMAOOO
T.T
Damn
We need a new version with binary numbers
Huh?????????
132 mb
i remember seeing bean play it, and seeing double makes every 7 of clubs give 2x
I saw it on yt
That was 0.9.2 I think
man
this one is 0.8.7 which is even pretty different than that one
how many jokers are there roughly
Oh yeah there’s a joker unlocked for playing 4 clubs 7
yes there is
have you unlocked it yet
guess what its called
You won't even believe my predicament to 100%ing this version 😭
what's the 1 voucher you need
Vouchers
illusion?
wait, there aren't usually 30 blinds are there
petroglyph
oh what
I thoguht thtere were we3 2
.............
....ok what
polychrome skip
that's not a voucher
I got a natural polychrome in the shop, it's $20, I had $19 😭
It is?
This is an old build of the game
could you sell anything
ohhh
Had nothing o7
is that the 1 voucher which creates your most used joker or something
that should be FIFTEEN
in that 1 area at the top
Nightmare stake
also why are there 6 joker slots
ohhh
why are there 10 antes
Probably because they all share the one area
jokers and consumables are combined
They are shared with joker slots
thats so ass
that's interesting
It's insane
I'm telling ya, this build should be like dlc or something, it's so interesting
free black deck at the price of consumables
OH YEAH THE DECKS
honestly kinda interesting
Yall no way
yaoi
that is a mask, good sir
im calling any joker synergy yaoi or yuri too bad
so glad they removed these
what joker do you start with on silver
ive seen these before theyre so dumb
is it random
Random
random iirc
can reroll for any joker
oh those last three are ass
From what I can tell, they're the only way to get those on playing cards in this version, though
Super weird
really...
Pretty much everything here works differently
no aura?
WHAT
Huh
holy balancing
Packs don't exist in this version
this version of mad joker still exists on the steam page btw 😶🌫️
dude is definitely mad
it feels wrong for anything in a run to be impacted by what you've done in previous runs
is this also the version when steel cards give +5 mult
364 rerolls. No bluepritn brainstorm or baron smh
although unlocking jokers is slightly different
Couldve survived longer but i didnt realize i was on last hand lmao
But whatever
Dogshit run anyways
Glass gives +5 when held in hand, steel gives 1.5x when played in a specific hand 😭
Like, you chariot, and it picks a random hand from base, plus 5 of a kind, and flush house
flush five doesn't exist
this is hilarious on so many levels
Face build probs
whats scholar doing in a face build
He has a face 🙂
well damn
Dawg, fool disables boss blind when used in this version
i am at a loss for words
does chicot even exist
THEN WHAT DOES HE DO
Wait why are they’re only 90 jokers
is this where they're getting stuff from
Old version of the game
Oh
Is this a joker in crypid? 😭
Like what IS this bro
double oops synergy
the stuntman we have now is better
no hidden hand types?
Nope
I got 5 of a kind to like level 337 in my insane run, too
All using space joker 😭
Scholar bye bye
(1 in 5 in this version)
what happens if you play a flush five then
this is a balatro fever dream
Plays as 5oak
Kinda?
Oh yea they're hidden from the poker hands tab in run info
5oak and flush house
Space joker my beloved 😭
I played... a few 5oak
that is a lot of 5oak
Scaling is wayyyy slower
100% space joker
i want to see the naneinf number without e's
what's the score to beat ante 132?
This run took me just under 8 hours straight btw
lemme see if I took a screenshot, I could make it easily, but the plant diddled me 😭
I think he likes two pairs
I could have made it to ~ante 145 I think with my setup
what was the setup though
Ante 132 boss
Rip
Idol and sock and a lot of copies w/blueprint and brainstorm
F in chat to play respect
Playing jack 5oak
134,800,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
1.348e35
WHY DONT YOU JST EXTINCT
J
that's like ante 17-18 in modern balatro
dude, you can't tell gros michel to kill himself, that's like so messed up
i want the better gross michel
I fucking hate needle
needle is a galactic threat
love how i dont see the needle or the eye
the 10 hands litterly carried the whole run
Plant will kill you
i dont even play face cards , the sock jst come from the jugdment
why
have to sell my buglar
sock doesnt seem to be doing anything in this loadout
nobody invited him
i love pair
why are they not staking 😭
You reach naneinf in ante 39 btw
Older version of the game
Specifically 0.8.7c from July 3 2023
Oh yeah, I could have with the high priestess
lemme see if I can scum and get the fool back
wait why are tags in the top left
Straight build
Bro EVERYTHING is off 😭
and the deck is in the top right
Think of a joker, it doesn't work how you think
ok actually
Okay, I used the high priestess and now I can't use the fool, guess it checks for an active boss
what does rocket do
aw man
Wtf
rare joker
i knew satellite was my goat
Actually wtf
are blue seals still here
is there any rare joker that give you money (expect blue print or brain storm)
Can someone explain this
and do the blue seal thing
Four fingers
damn
OH MY GOD SEALS
4 fingers
Ik but it’s a straight flush
4 card of a straight and other 4 card of a flush
wait so you can just play it over and over?
UH HUH 😭
Ohh
Only way to get it is from a skip tag
THATS INSANE
This version is SO FUN
they also have that in cryptid lmao
If nothing else, amazingly unique
is finisher blind still exist?
You can start with ANY skip tag btw
Negative, polychrome, anything
Oh but those ones are kinda really terrible
wait you start with it?
oh...
1 in 6 for the negative 8 ball
omg even the skip tags have a weird layout
why the skip tag look so pretty
wait those are fun
was the perkeo-observatory interaction intended?
GUH
Heheh Ak47
that's crazy
HWAT
I had 36 discards at one point.. the water took them all 😭
that's so good
whats about buglar
Not in this version
shoulda used a fool...
tch
Couldn't reroll into one 😔
i mean it would probably only give you three but still
Oh magic deck and nebula deck are insane in this version
or any scoring discard joker when you need a lot of scoring in a tight spot
good enough
nebula insane in every version
holy cryptid
nebula is insane in a bad way
insanely bad
exactly
In this version, you get a "tarot reading" before each round with the crystal ball voucher, and omen globe adds 3 more tarots to it, telescope/observatory is the same, but with "planetarium"s
ok so like booster packs
the only booster packs in the game btw
so you jst gain 1 level of your most played hand every round?
wait... there arent any card packs either
No, it's random planets each time
not many seals to find either
ONLY way to add cards is with skip tags
enhanced card skip, or gold seal card skip
ah
is there magic trick
so there shouldnt be any hologram?
Trying to reroll to screenshot those, but they aren't coming up
There is not
is there any deckfixing at all
All with strength and world/sun etc
and death
OH DEATH IS WILD
Copies over TWO other cards
nah....
death is already so good
photochad!
finally
but seriously
hanging chad + photo graph
This version has no photograph 😶🌫️
1 in 3 chance for a holographic joker in the next shop
actually whatever i can afford it
isnt chad only 1 retrigger
damn maybe i should play the beta version
anything dude
1 in 5...
i heard that at some point satellite was $4 per unique planet
finally balanced
Scroll up a lil
anthing for xmult
A lot
idk if that was the case in any of the demo versions but it was in patch notes
so many 1 in x
holy shit
the dice would be so good
oops would be so so broken in this yeah
Oops is so nice for space joker to level 5oak
hm i wonder how much would satellite need to give/unique planet for it to be good
ONLY way to level it 😭
Guess the hand
Nah
"broken"
look inside
polychrome tag is now twice as good (i.e. useful 0% of the time)
Royal flush I didn’t get the ten in
gay tag is useful! i will die on this hill
Yea
rtb highcard
is the 25$ tag exist'
why
xmult
$15 in this one 😔
still... ok i guess
shop gives xmult
playing the blind gives you money
15$ is like 15 rental joker
skipping is the meta, embrace it
true
Rentals don't exist 😶🌫️
Or eternal, perishable
throwback is actually better than rick
so orange stake does nothing or even exist
or black and gold
if throwback scaled x0.5 for every blind skipped
No stakes in this version 😭
would it be usable
Default "stake" is red
would still be pretty bad
oh 1 extra $ on green deck
can someone explain this? yesterday i ve won with the ghost deck in red stake and today morning i ve opened my phone and the game told me i ve unlocked this deck. after i ve played endless mode on that game i lost and i went back in main menu to play the deck that the game told i had unlocked but look! its locked🙏🙏😭
bug or smt
yeah but this thing happens the sane way with the jokers i need to unlock
the joker that to be unlocked u have to do at least 100.000.000 in one hand the game told me i ve unlocked it like 5 times but i still have it locked and i did a hand like 1.1e^11
are you confusing locked with not discovered or is it actually locked
i finally get obelisk joker ive been englightend
@shell rock ring master 😭
I think that version of Yorick made it past 1.0.0
merry andy synergy 🔥
I like how blueprint looks in this version
the rocks are so different
Exact same
they nerfed my boi arrowhead...
I'd like to point out that the steam page for balatro has an even more different texture for ceremonial dagger that I've never seen anywhere else
rough gem is buffed, onyx agate and bloodstone reversed roles, and arrowhead is nerfed
why did onyx agate and bloodstone reverse roles?
locked
isnt cerem green?
hm
Ye
idk
my biggest wee on non-endless gold stake
onyx agate is the best oops synergy ive seen
like look
strongest plasma build
it's ghost deck
Oh yeah wee is wild in this version
yea ik
i had a 400-something wee today
also ping me when you reply i only check the cord when i get pinged
mhm
+20?!?!?!?!?!?!
Good set up
what
u see at the right the nessage that i ve unlocked that joker?
that's... i think that's pretty good
Old version of the game
look now
photochad calls
Yes
cracked
at least that would give 7s a use
thats an uncommon huh
I’m a get a louchisbre
Genuinely unusable 😭
Is there a stat to see how many stickers you have completed?
it's always been
that hasn't changed
no the old one
perkeo-in-training
no negative, no spectrals (i suppose spectrals didn't exist)
@molten thicket
o7, it was indeed a run
canio?
All 5 yes
oh could you duplicate soul cards?
how were they changed
Nope
the same with triboulet why it seems its locked but i won a run with him
THAT'S NOT DISCOVERED
ARE YOU READING THE TEXT
are you doing seeded runs?
x5 mult after 23 discards LMFAO
aaaaaaaaaaass
but the game told me i ve unlocked that joker while i was playing. u can see that
chicot is the only one where the text remains unchanged
read the text
no i do them in another profile where i ve decided to unlock all
understand it
Funny, considering
than why the game tell me that 5 times in that game
LUCHADOR'S JOB
who the hell is caino
Not in yet, but matador is
you need to find it in the game...
Where it says "Purchase or use this card in an unseeded run to learn what it does" it means "Purchase or use this card in an unseeded run to learn what it does"
and its effect is?
why are balatro players all illiterate
$10
