Escalator (Uncommon)

[manic pond]

-2 hands.
If your current hand scored more than your previous hand, gain +1 hand this round.

Notes:

• Potentially able to rack up insane scores with gradually escalating hands, but you need the right deck and the right strategy for it. Probably good with steel cards.
• Synergises very well with "last hand" type jokers.
• If it's your first hand this round, you can get an extra hand by scoring higher then your last hand last round. This is probably not the most efficient way to use the joker, though.

[ionic inlet]

Being able to keep up unstoppable momentum by scoring higher every hand and getting more hands is a really cool idea, but it may be difficult to balance. Jokers like Bus strike me as making this too easy to abuse.

Maybe there's still a way to balance it despite that. Or maybe the implementation could be tweaked, for example to require increasing your poker hand type to get the extra hands (high card -> pair or higher, pair -> two pair or higher, etc.)

[granite wraith]

Yeah, I agree, if you have any scaling joker like Bus, you can just play high cards forever.

[normal hinge]

I think its funny that this on black deck with hieroglyph would leave you with 0 hands

[silk thorn]

You can't go below 1 hand