Enhancement ideas | Balatro | Page 1

mortal nest Oct 16, 2023, 4:40 AM

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Ethereal: Grants 2x it's chips value (encouraging you to put it on higher-value cards) and discards itself when it stays in hand (kinda like Metal cards, but helps indirectly thin the deck slightly)
Appearance: teal-white mix-texture, slight transparency

Mummy/Zombie/Infected: When played, may turn a random other played card into a copy of itself (overwriting that card's enhancement/edition/seal)

Putty: Loses it's rank and suit, copies the rank and suit of a random other card in hand when played (BEFORE hand starts being scored)
Appearance: Brown or Purple putty

Smudge: Next time it's played, it's permanently transformed into a random card. 50% chance to have a random Enhancement and 5% chance to have a random Seal.
Appearance: Center symbols are replaced with a "?"-shaped smudge similar to wildcard.

Dog-eared: If a dog-eared card is in the next 5 (buff/nerf as needed) cards you'll draw, an indicator above your deck will say so
Appearance: Top-right corner is folded over like a dog-eared page in a book

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Decks where you start with some putty cards or some random cards are set to ethereal/smudge at the start of a run could be cool

molten onyx Oct 16, 2023, 4:48 AM

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Ethereal is very weak.
Infected is very strong.
Putty is very strong.
Smudge is very weak.
Dog-eared is very weak.

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That said, there's a lot of room for tweaking.

mortal nest Oct 16, 2023, 5:54 AM

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Do you have any suggestions for rebalancing?

molten onyx Oct 16, 2023, 6:16 AM

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Ethereal should give much more in chips, +50 might put it on the same power level as a stone card
Infected is actually not that bad if it removes buffs, now that I think about it
Same with Putty, it just helps to make better hands, but its unpredictability makes a good downside.

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I’m not sure if Smudge can be buffed

sinful axle Oct 16, 2023, 6:17 AM

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Ethereal could grant 2x to all chips from the card or before.
Maybe just have smudge give one of the better card enhancements 100% of the time on a randomly transformed card.

molten onyx Oct 16, 2023, 6:18 AM

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The concept of dog-eared, only being able to tell when you’re going to draw a specific card, is the same, I don’t think it can be buffed. It could always appear in your starting hand, but that’s already been suggested elsewhere

mortal nest Oct 16, 2023, 7:04 AM

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what if they have an increased chance to start in the top half of your deck?

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