[Deck] Gimmicky decks pack

[open verge]

Here are the three decks I've made bundled together in a pack. Steamodded required. Compatibility issues with other mods rewriting Enhancers.png (mod decks might appear without covers/with wrong covers)

Joker Deck is something I really wanted in the base game and it's what inspired me to start doing these. Somewhat akin to TBoI's Eden, you start with 2 random eternal jokers from the entire pool and have to construct your strategy around them.

Flood Deck answers the question no one asked: what would make Blueprint suck? Whenever you acquire a joker, all joker slots are filled with this joker. Whenever a joker is destroyed, destroys every joker you have. ||Negative jokers get a special treatment, obviously.||

Curse Deck downranks every discarded card, allowing for easy rank manipulation, but be careful where you click.

Nihil deck makes every joker negative, and adds a few extra hands/discards/hand size at the start, however every time you pick up a joker, one of the resources randomly gets taken away. The idea is to make the early-game less prone to fishing failures, while still not breaking end-game too much.

Gacha Deck replaces the shop items with booster packs and adds an extra shop slot.

Would love to hear your thoughts on these. I will probably make more and update the pack, I have ideas for a couple more and then I'll probably move on to jokers or vouchers.

Link to latest version: (check the more recent posts in the thread or search from: kusoro has: file - as it becomes longer it becomes more and more annoying to scroll up to replace a link every time)

[jade tangle]

sounds funny. will try

[open verge]

i recommend curse deck first, i wish i could claim i came up with whatever i did there to nerf it, but its courtesy of my friend

[jade tangle]

I actualt downloaded a deck that upgrades the rank of discarded cars

also hat happens to 2's?

[open verge]

they wrap around to aces

[open verge]

some bugfixes and rebalances
flood deck now requires beating ante 10 to win
curse deck has normal hand size now and 4 discards, but 1 discard is taken away at ante 3/5/7/etc

[glass shore]

wait these are all cool as hell

gonna give these a try real soon

i especially love the art for the Joker Deck

[open verge]

thanks

[open verge]

added another deck
Nihil Deck turns every joker negative and you start with extra 2 hands/discards/handsize, but picking up any joker takes away a random resource

[Deck] Gimmicky decks pack

the idea of the deck is to make the earlygame easier to fish while the endgame can be as hard as youre willing to push it by losing your hands/discards/handsize/dollars (joker slots also count as a resource so you have a 1/5 chance to grab a joker without the downside to it)

[tight mango]

Ooh

[nocturne lantern]

these are pretty sick

[tight mango]

I love Flood Deck
Cursed Deck I have repeatedly rried to figure out its logic and I swear it's like it only changes when I'm not looking

@open verge Like
I streamed playing with it and I swear it changed when THEY were looking but never ME

Whenever I stare at it
I don't see it change
I blink, I look away, I play

But never do I seem to see it

I am convinced it is powered by cosmic radiation

And the paranoia it induces? Delectable
Fitting

[nocturne lantern]

amazing

[open verge]

incredible

its random so rng gods are messing with you

[tight mango]

Flood is hilarious

Seeing how nasty scaling effects can go? Amazing

At one point I had 5 Polychrome Dusks

Me when I um trigger all cards 6 times at the end. (And still lose.)

One thing I've figured out is that you may be tempted to ignore Planet cards but you Must Not. You Mustn't. or you will suffer

I'm testing Nihil now

[nocturne lantern]

yeah flood is a double edged sword

its easy to get good flat mult, which is good early, but hard later, or you get good X mult, which is nice, but not having base mult to multiply it, doesnt do much

[tight mango]

@open verge I shoulda never smoked that shit now I'm in the Benadryl Clown Tent

This looks like a banana that kills you

• Baseball player that uses EVERY banned substance, even the ones that make you worse at baseball
• Bus that only takes you to Gary, Indiana

Nihil Deck is quickly teaching me how TERRIFYING some Negatives look

[open verge]

yeah inverting colours makes a lot of them spooky

[tight mango]

It's rough to be indecisive with Nihil Deck

[nocturne lantern]

nihil deck seems incredibly overpowered, until you try to beat ante 13 with it

[tight mango]

not even as a negative, buddy

i got rif raff

💀

ITS WORKING

[open verge]

jokers it generates also debuff you btw

[tight mango]

THIS IS NOT GOOD

BUT IT IS FUNNY

AND THAT'S BALATRO, BABY

[solid bluff]

These sound interesting

[tight mango]

oh it is VERY BAD if you do this
My hand is
Not big

i have 5 hand size

I have 5 hand size and 1 discard

I CANNOT TELL WHAT IS HAPPENING

i have 25/24 jokers and i cant get under the max

probably because of sac dagger

sac dagger bricks the deck after a while

[open verge]

once youre over joker slot limit you cant get jokers even if theyre negative i think

[tight mango]

yeah

[open verge]

so joker slot reduction you can get is sort of an implicit limit to how many you can get

[tight mango]

amber acorn blind
Buddy I have 23 jokers. I don't know what I'm doing even when I can see them

So I ended up with 5 cards in hand and 1 discard

But for some reaqson I had 7 hands

[nocturne lantern]

yeah that deck is funny like that

[tight mango]

oh my god

i took stuntman

and then i started the next blind and instantly it gave me a game over

on ante 2 small blind

apparently you can have neg/0 hand size and just DIE

i thought i was funny
i was very wrong

[tight mango]

oh my god

i got quintuple perkeo

this is so stupid and will absolutely backfire but i love it

i then lost immediately

but at least i unlocked perkeo

[south sleet]

i could see that working if you get it early, especially if you infinitely dupe a planet card with the upgraded telescope voucher it'd probably be very easy to win, could also get 1 enhanced special edition red seal and death and the game is pretty much finished probably even if its missing one of those upgrades

[tight mango]

if you don't have SOME functional jokers or other strategy you're dead ante 2

so Flood is extreeeemely swingy

[south sleet]

5 yoricks ;-;

seeing them all tick down is so satisfying and it'd be very funny if i somehow activated them so i'm going to keep them till the end of this run

got them to 14 and lost by 400 chips ante 3 from a bad play, not even yorick's fault tbh i could've gotten further

[south sleet]

my cavendish died

[sudden furnace]

i downloaded it and put it in my mod folder

nothin is showing uo

up*

[jade tangle]

i love flood dock

if you get gross michel and it breaks it will not destroy all. if you then buy a joker well...

MY FRAMES

2.3k bananas

2.4k

[south sleet]

my gros michel worked how its supposed to, not sure what happened there

[jade tangle]

mine did um not work'

o 3k banana

[south sleet]

get revenge on the crimson heart for me

[tight mango]

oh my god

what happened there
WHAT HAPPENED 😭

[jade tangle]

it took 15 minutes to go from shop to this. im also running at 3 fps

this/

[south sleet]

oh ante 1

[jade tangle]

yha

[tight mango]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yModCU1OVHY&pp=ygUVdGFsbHkgaGFsbCBiYW5hbmEgbWFu

[jade tangle]

9k banana

[south sleet]

getting a negative joker does the same thing it would seem

thousands of card sharps now

[jade tangle]

i got a neg maddness and it just gave me some extra holos and polys

[south sleet]

huh

maybe its more specifically having 5/5 and then picking up a different 6th joker

anyway i'm almost at 8k now

[jade tangle]

nope

24k? mabey 29k

1fps

[south sleet]

what other mods do you have on? it might be because of some other random mod i have on

[jade tangle]

im back. oh no

I MISCLIKED

ok i managed to reastart in time

i was getting like 50 bannanas a sec

[south sleet]

hmm, yeah almost definitely because of another mod i have on

[jade tangle]

Finaly

[south sleet]

based

[south sleet]

ok i'm very confused but yeah i think its some other mod causing it

[south sleet]

even with 5 space jokers they still don't go off ;-;

[jade tangle]

HAH. same

[south sleet]

the top up tag triggered the infinite joker spawn

[regal ridge]

i don't get flood deck from the description how does it work

[south sleet]

buy 1 banana = gain all bananas, lose 1 banana = lose all bananas (and other negative jokers)
final boss is at ante 10 and as usual you need to beat it to win, but it takes a lot more chips now

[regal ridge]

oh you get 5 copies of the joker

[south sleet]

yup

or i think 6 with the voucher? i haven't gotten it in a run yet

[regal ridge]

god bless

[open verge]

uh oh

i thought i fixed all that infinite loop business

ill look into whats happening

[open verge]

i cant reproduce it, it might be some interaction with another mod, @jade tangle if you dont mind show me your list of mods so i can look at what can conflict there

alternatively, are you using an old version of the pack? the first version had a bug specifically with bananas

0.3.1. onwards should be fine

[tight mango]

I made a terrible mistake

Wheel made one of my five throwbacks negative so I grabbed rocket

Later I sold a rocket thinking I could use the negative space for something else

All of my throwbacks which I had gotten to three or more times molt were destroyed instantly, gone, reduced to atoms

Good deck

[open verge]

yeah it destroys all, not just the same ones

[tight mango]

good

flood is indiscriminate. that is the power of flood

[open verge]

new deck

[tight mango]

oh lordy

trying it right now @open verge

to see what awful thing i can do to myself

ok i actually love this already

WHAT IN TARNATION

[open verge]

the hardest choice

[tight mango]

can Gacha Deck get the free booster pack tag

[open verge]

i forgot it was a thing

[tight mango]

wow. gros michel instantly died

[open verge]

but yes it should be

[tight mango]

anyway
ok good

making sure that's intended cause like

it seems like it could be very strong until you find 0 of the booster pack you want at first

btw
doesnt this mean like, holo, negative tag etc are totally unusable

or does 'shop joker' include booster packs

[open verge]

i think it includes those, not sure though

the free booster packs tag and joker are gonna go next update for sure, too powerful when rerolls are a thing

[south sleet]

do they all go up in price at orange stake or just the ones in the bottom right?

[open verge]

should be all

[tight mango]

well the free booster packs are only for the first selection

it explicitly doesn't apply after rerolls, they get normal costs again after a reroll

[open verge]

ah thats fine then

[tight mango]

so if you get dogwater boosters on the top row reroll can't fix that for free

[open verge]

and planet packs are bad enough its ok if theyre free i guess

ill think about it

[tight mango]

TRYING to get it to give me a joker tag and a joker pack at the same time

but its being finicky

ok so

holo tag is just consumed and makes its 'hey i upgraded a joker!' noise

but it DOES NOT affect a buffoon pack, at least not if you rerolled first, STILL trying to QA it

[open verge]

ah that makes sense actually

yeah that would be how it works because to implement this im hijacking the function that places cards into shop to destroy them and replace them with jokers, i would guess the tag applies before they get nuked and replaced

ill probably try to come up with the less hacky way to do this once i understand better how shop generation works

[tight mango]

ok yeah then my best guess is that
even if you got a buffoon deck first try it wouldn't apply to that

maybe as a hotpatch you can ban those tags? like

no uncommon-rare holo-foil-negative-poly tags since they're a totally dead tag on gacha deck

[open verge]

yeah thats gonna be the next update prolly

[tight mango]

aight cool :>

hallucination would go dummy with this deck

[south sleet]

fortune teller + astrologer + constellation + hologram combo of the gods

[jade tangle]

i already posted it.

[open verge]

changes to gacha deck:

• orange stake+ now makes reroll cost scale by 2 instead of scaling booster packs cost by ante
• tags and vouchers that do nothing for this deck can no longer appear

[tight mango]

bless

[south sleet]

i like the stake change

[solid bluff]

in gatcha deck the house and the fish don't work for some reason

[candid bloom]

could this become the new base game orange stake localthunk pls thank u

[frozen crystal]

Just had that happen. LOL RIP

Also Flood Deck card back was working yesterday but I installed a couple new mods and now it's not. Hmmm....

Oh wait, just reset the game and now it's fine. 🤔

[south sleet]

if you have another mod that includes a custom deck back or enhancement images then only one can be applied without editing them both into 1 sprite sheet

so for example if you have pact deck and these decks only 1 mod can load the visuals, but if you put all of them on 1 sprite sheet and use that in both mods then it'll load both visuals

[scarlet mason]

Does this deck work with negatives?

[south sleet]

yes but with caveats

[jade tangle]

yes. if its your first it will give you 5 more plus the neg with them being randomly polycrome, holografic and foil

[jade tangle]

yep

100+ resets

it says i have it but it wont show up

[open verge]

its an archive, you need to unpack it into this folder

also since you have dice deck and pack deck the sprites will likely not work

[open verge]

fixed a bunch of really embarrassing bugs that probably have broken the game before in various hard to test ways

theres also a new deck, but i couldnt make it fun so its not enabled, if you wanna try it anyways, edit the lua file with notepad or similar and remove -- in the "--rpldeck.register()" line

[jade tangle]

why?

[jade tangle]

how do i do that?

[open verge]

because different mods can overwrite the same file used for the sprites

[open verge]

right click the file and choose unpack to this folder or something similar

alternatively, open the archive with any of the programs for that like 7zip or winrar and drag the contents into the mods folder

[tight mango]

What's the gimmick for the deck?

[jade tangle]

ah. thanks

[open verge]

the idea was to reverse the way the game is played and try to minimize scores, your hands final score is the difference between chips * mult and target score, and if you score above it you just get 10% of the target score

[tight mango]

hmm
novel idea but I can see where it would be rough

[open verge]

but it just devolves into spamming lowest high card so eh

[tight mango]

what if you made a funny evil jimbo pop up and say 'high card is forbidden'

B)

[open verge]

then it would be spamming pair

[tight mango]

no but i could imagine it having interesting interaction with utility cards and seals, but i see the issue

[open verge]

the boring part is that you just play whatever the lowest

ill see if i come up with some way to make it fun but for now its disabled

[tight mango]

im thinking about a round robin deck where you can't use whatever you used the last two times without a penalty

but even then you can just be bricked pretty easily i imagine

[finite mist]

Does this deck still interfere with other decks that modify enhancers? Curious if I can add this to my steamodded balatro yet as I love the deck ideas!

[south sleet]

reverse balatro is the same as normal balatro

[open verge]

sadly its not fixable without just going manually through all the mods you have that use enhancers.png and merging those together

for now that is

[south sleet]

doing that manually is pretty easy tho just saying

[open verge]

for the most part yeah its just a matter of editing pngs, unless 2 decks happen to use the sprite that would be in the same position in the sprite sheet

then you have to move one of them and edit the lua file

so that the deck uses the new position for the sprite

[south sleet]

oh yeah do make sure to not literally overlay them, i did that cuz i'm dumb and ended up with a very ugly glass card

[tight mango]

even on white stake i get owned by bad luck when i try to do high card builds

[south sleet]

how?

[tight mango]

unfortunately, i am stupid

but also i think i pivot into it at the wrong time and then don't get the right jonks

[south sleet]

honestly i do think before orange stake the best build is flush instead of high card since you can spam arcana for enhancements and suits to easily play 5 enhanced cards, but any build works if you throw enough tarots at it

[solid bluff]

hey kusoro, what

[umbral token]

Bros most common joker boutta be that joker

[solid bluff]

luckily I use a diff save for modded then vanila

[umbral token]

yep

[jade tangle]

where is unpack?

[tight mango]

ARE YOU TOPPED UP YET

[south sleet]

"open with..." and select an unarchiver like 7zip or winrar or something, if you don't have one then download one

[jade tangle]

would any these work?

[south sleet]

i don't think so

[solid bluff]

too much top up

[tight mango]

NONSENSE! [pours you a brimming, overflowing, flooding glass of jokers]

[south sleet]

i do not but my most common last i checked before mods was egg from the egg challenge so its super inaccurate anyway

[jade tangle]

is judjment banned on nihil deck?

[solar wedge]

i guess the issue of flood deck is probably related to how the game overfloods the joker slots
cuz like notice how it does 6/5 jokers through top-up tag, then 10/5 jokers
i know nothing about the code tho so idk the true issue

[open verge]

flood deck should no longer overflow in situations when 2 or more jokers are added simultaneously

[solid bluff]

okay but what about negative invis joker

because that also caused it

[open verge]

should also be fixed, i rewrote the entire thing

[manic star]

I'm trying to get it loaded but it's doesn't load it

it's in the modded folder

is there any other reqs than steamodded?

@open verge

[open verge]

no just steamodded, did you unpack it

also you need to reinstall steamodded every time balatro updates, so maybe theres that

[manic star]

Unpack??

What is rar file?

And how do I unpack it

[manic star]

something is wrong

[final mesa]

Hey buddy, I recently made a card back injection module that allows batch append of card backs, would you consider modifying your enhancer mechanics to use that so every mod that uses it would be compatible with each other?

[open verge]

sure, ill look into it tomorrow, sounds like a good idea

[open verge]

compatibility update
~~now optionally requires this mod: https://github.com/Ken-Shi/Balatro_CardBackInjection~~
should now be fully compatible with any deck mods that optionally require that mod
deprecated, use the newer version

should work the same as usual if you dont have cardback injection mod

[open verge]

same as above, but for the newer version of the compatibility mod found here: #1219099261883519046 message

[tight mango]

"take your time"

this is actually really terrible lmfao

it took me 10 of those hands to beat the ante 2 boss

[hollow rover]

shy joker wave pack

[manic lichen]

The card backs are not showing up at all for me

[hollow rover]

common bug i guess

happens when using multiple mods

[final mesa]

did you use the vanilla one or the one with cardback injection?

[vital radish]

These are all really cool designs!

[manic lichen]

The one with cardback injection

[final mesa]

What other mods do you have?

[final mesa]

i think pactdeck currently replaces enhancer.png, so if it is loaded after kusomod it will not show up

[coral trench]

flood deck kinda crazy with legendaries

[umbral token]

lol

[south sleet]

plant boss incoming

the real value is the $50 temperance uses

[umbral token]

lol

I mean just get the voucher to reroll boss and you are set

[hazy quartz]

lol

what does flood do wiht a negative

[glass cape]

Hello @open verge , I'd like to feature your mod in a modpack. For this modpack, I don't want to put some mods code in my own github repository directly since I did not made the mod myself. Could you please put the code in a github repository ? Like that (if you agree of course), I could feature your mod with a submodule (a link from my repository that points to your repository)

[open verge]

new version, fixed a bug in which plasma deck didnt work correctly (the visuals were working but the values didnt actually update)

[open verge]

ive never used github but ill look into it later sure

[glass cape]

thanks

[tight mango]

UH OH: YOU JUST GOT BEANED

[candid bloom]

what the hell is aqua

[south sleet]

https://discord.com/channels/1116389027176787968/1221916334372290620

[tight mango]

this image is several levels of cursed, honestly

5 turtle beans
this many cards
literally alchemy
different deck

[summer sage]

dont forget 6 suits

[celest turret]

literal Amalgam of mods lmao

[open verge]

new version
no longer requires CardBackInjection to display deck backs properly
installation as always, delete the previous version of the mod from your Mods folder and unpack into Mods folder

[shrewd rapids]

Hello, great mods by the way When you attempt to delete your jokers in flood deck when inside a booster pack and then pick up another the game crashes

Would you happen to know why?

I messed around a bit ypu have to count to like 3 mississippi after you delete the previous joker to take the next one or else it crashes. I guess it is till checking to delete?And when you take a card too fast it crahses

[open verge]

hmm ill look into it

[shrewd rapids]

I believe because it goes to dupe the joker you took but it is deleted in the previous action and it throws a nil

[open verge]

new version
fixed a bug for Flood Deck that leads to crashes (see above)

[crude scarab]

You at least getting a lot of Mult?

[thorn cliff]

Crashed as soon as cleared the first round before going to the shop using the Nihil Deck.

[open verge]

looking at the traceback, might be a bad interaction with some other mods, do you mind posting your mod list?

if i had to guess, maybe some custom joker doesnt like being set to negative, or something like that

[open verge]

see if this fixes it though i doubt it

[thorn cliff]

Sorry, it didn't work

[open verge]

ill look at what the mods listed in traceback do that conflicts with mine later

[night bane]

I got joker stencil in flood deck
and got 2 million chips on ante 3

[broken hare]

I love flood deck, so silly ❤️

[hot stratus]

It always crashes when I try to use the flood deck with any joker, maybe mod conflict?

[polar briar]

same

walkie talkie

nihil deck crashes when loading the shop

[lilac patio]

no mods and this happens:

aka flood deck

[thin tree]

I got the same crash just now :(

[hot stratus]

So has anyone had luck getting this mod to work?

[thin tree]

Only crash for me is from the flood deck, the other decks are working so far

[hot stratus]

@lilac patio @vague jasper I fixed the code, I HAVE 0 CODING EXPEREINCE BTW

on line 197 in the code add ksr_ infront of cardareaemplace(self, newcard, location, stay_flipped) and it doesnt crash

it should look like this

ksr_cardareaemplace(self, newcard, location, stay_flipped)

:)

It also works with modded jokers

[hot stratus]

@open verge Bro what does the Repel Deck do Im so confused

Nevermind I Figured it out, Holy shit its cool

[lilac patio]

Thanks

[hot stratus]

I gochu homie, I was tired of waiting for a fix so I did it myself

[thin tree]

oh no! how horrible!
what ever will I do!

[thin tree]

thank u btw, this got it working

[lilac patio]

why are your deck fliped tho

also whats the thing in the bottem right

[thorn cliff]

That’s “curses” from “cursed tarots” at DX-Tarots mod.

Most curses are weaker version of vanilla game’s boss blind effects.

And the players has the House curse, making each card of the starting hand has 2/3 chance to draw flipped.

[lilac patio]

explains, i have the dx mod on but then it seems to have an update

do you have a link to this mod? I cant find it

yea i needed to update lmao

how do you get a curse?

[lilac patio]

ahh got it, cursed op versions

[twilit gale]

Hello. other decks are good. but Nihil deck is not working 😭

[lilac patio]

yea thats been mentioned alot

[hot stratus]

I've ran it and never had an issue

I read your crash it, Its something with Mika's mods thats conflicting with it, I don't use Mikas mod pack which is probably why it doesnt crash for me

@twilit gale

[thin tree]

noooooooo come on

this is the first time I ever got the soul on the wave deck

I wanted another hanged man so bad 😭

[lilac patio]

this isnt a gimmicky deck but i find it funny

bunnco goes crazy

[toxic pawn]

hey idk if this is where i should post this, but I made an edition of this mod where the flood deck still allows the egg, gift card, and diet cola jokers to be treated as being used 5 times when you sell them

[jade portal]

this will do

[vital radish]

foil!

[signal stone]

drat! foiled again!

[finite lark]

I don't think I have enough 2's

[gentle chasm]

honestly, peak

[nocturne summit]

Idk why for some reason I thought this was way more recent than it was 😭

Sorry dude I replied to for pinging you for something you said literally last year

[nocturne summit]

Tragic

[coral trench]

this message has perished, no need to respond

[paper sage]

is this the most recent version / will this still work on the current version?

[paper sage]

btw game crashes on flood deck

can't send the crash log for some reason (I think my clipboard is broken or smthn)

here's some shoddy screenshots of what it says

[distant pendant]

Our disappeared lord and savior, Elbe did have a fork of this mod for more recent smods

https://github.com/lshtech/KusoMods

Might work better

@gentle chasm you probably wanna be using this version too

Actually, pretty much every one of the nods you have that Elbe had a fork of that don't have a more recent fork, you should be using

[paper sage]

muchas gracias

[gentle chasm]

if it aint broke, dont fix it

[distant pendant]

But... it do be broke tho?

[gentle chasm]

shii im broke too

jkjk

ill try refixing it

[delicate frigate]

@frozen wasp another mod to add to our ever expanding list of mods

[thin tree]

i miss this mod 😔

[thorny glacier]

does it not work any more?