The Bomb boss blind idea

[worthy portal]

💣 The Bomb
[Ante×2]
Create an Unsellable (not eternal) Negative Bomb Joker

💣 Bomb Joker
Fabricated, Negative, Unsellable
After 10 hands are played and held hand is drawn to full, destroy all cards in hand, draw again to full, then self-destruct.
This joker self-destructs after 4 Rounds, without triggering the above effects.

The idea behind this, is to have a boss blind, that can curse you with an "evil joker" that you must defuse, or get rid of somehow.

Been thinking of other evil jokers, but not sure how to force them into player's joker slots, besides boss blinds.

[brazen flicker]

people dont really like bosses that have negative consequences outside of the boss. this doesnt really affect the boss and seems like a very weak negative

[jaunty jasper]

The Tooth is quite similar in that respect

[spare drum]

aspect

[worthy portal]

Alot of roguelike games have negative equipment a player can receive in their run, where they must either adapt, or get rid of, as a challenge, and i felt like Balatro was missing something like that.

And if you think the downside is very weak, an alternative idea is to only make the Bomb Joker the boss blind creates Negative, if the joker slots are full. If there are free spaces, it will take up a slot without making it Negative edition.

[brazen flicker]

the negative effect that this joker has is very weak. discarding a single hand is barely even that bad and can even be useful in certain situations

[elder crag]

a boss that gives 2.5 free hanged men

would almost always be a strictly good thing

[lavish wave]

immolate is the same thing tho. But I atleast honestly don't play Immolate very often when I see it. 5 cards is a lot to get rid of

[elder crag]

you get less choice with immolate

but it is also a very good thing

[brazen flicker]

with this you can just play around it and use discards well to get the specific hand you want to get rid of

[worthy portal]

It's not discarding a single full hand, it's destroying the cards in your hand, meaning you potentially lost all the good valuable glass/seals/polys playing cards for the rest of the run, if you weren't careful about organizing your hand.

[brazen flicker]

It can turn into more of a positive if you can get rid of a lot of low value cards

[worthy portal]

And also, with Immolate, you get money for the destroyment, you only get to destroy 5 cards out of usually 8, and you get to choose whether you want to take a risk or not.

Here, you're forced to act quick, or risk losing good cards you cannot control it's destruction.

[clear gust]

yes you can control it's destruction
by discarding before hand to get rid of your valuables
if you lose loads of valuable cards here it's either your fault or you have too many of them

also I would buy this joker if it appeared in the shop
5oak builds go wild with this

also erosion