Meteor

[slender turtle]

Meteor (uncommon): X in 5 chance to upgrade level of played poker hand, X is the number of played stone card in that hand.

Stone card works better for hand with lesser card, and this joker allows you to upgrade your hand a lot faster with stone card. 5 stone card will always upgrade highcard.

[flint badger]

Interesting idea, though it does share a name with a tag

I think this does make stones better in a sense

[dull sierra]

Very bizarre but, fun idea

[dawn dove]

High card be high carding

The idea is good but high card kills it

[dull sierra]

yes but no, leveling high card is, not so good really, so I'm honestly not sure if it would

[dawn dove]

You get to level up high card every hand

[dull sierra]

you would have a chance to, same as space joker

so unless you had a loooooooooad of stone it wouldn't actually be too helpful

[dawn dove]

Not if you play 5 stone high card

Besides, 4/5 is still insane odds

[dull sierra]

I actually think the "chance is based on how many stone are played" is the issue more'n anything

[dawn dove]

I could see a "1/3 chance to upgrade hand if hand contains a stone card"

Space joker sidegrade

[dull sierra]

mhm, or make it slightly more restrictive and go "contains exactly one stone card"

so you can't just dumpster your entire deck with stones

[dawn dove]

Trueee I like that a lot

[slender turtle]

What is the problem of upgrading highcard every hand? It is literally ride the bus with a little more chip.

[dawn dove]

High card strategies are usually frown upon since they dont require anything to do well

Other hands are balanced around the fact you might just not draw them - except high card

[slender turtle]

And this doesnt makes highcard a lot better because most strong high card build dont fill their deck with stone?

[dawn dove]

...because this joker isn't in the game yet???

"Baron doesn't work because who keeps kings on their hand"

[slender turtle]

I mean stone were suppose to be strong with highcard, and I do not think high card would be a lot stronger just for this joker.

[dull sierra]

I mean tbf stone is strong with high card

[slender turtle]

This still works really well for non high card build like pair or 3oak. And high card can easily proc space joker already.

[dawn dove]

Space joker is balanced on inconsistency. Playing 5 stone cards guarantees a proc

[slender turtle]

5 stone card for +1 mult in high card build isnt going to push high card further.

[thick prism]

by whom

[dull sierra]

well part of the thing is that Meteor doesn't need to stay in your build, you can jam your high cards up to like level 50 and then go "ok cool I can replace it" and keep all that progress

contrasted to say a Green joker where you have to keep the joker to keep the benefit

[slender turtle]

That is true that meteor is better in that sense. But still, the set up cost for this late +1 joker slot is ton of stone cards. And it makes it scale slower than green and bus.