gentle rivet
Hello Balatro Devs, I would love to see different adaptations of mr.bones, such as Dr.bones, dad.bones, joe.bones and other Mr bones variations. I believe that Mr bones deserves his own collection pack or different adaptations of Mr.bones. I believe that Mr.bones could do so much more in Balatro.
(Btw this is a serious idea, I can't stress enough to say that Mr bones does actually deserve more play ability in Balatro)
Thanks and I hope this idea helps with the next update of Balatro.
And yes I forgot to mention that each Mr.Bones variation deserves their own ability and info. (Get creative with the abilities and info)
gentle rivet
I'm literally playing the Einstein card, I'm using every part of my brain in order to get this Idea working
gentle rivet
UPDATE: I have now decided on what each Mr bones variant should do.
Dr.Bones: His ability should be where you can modify one joker after losing a stake. This card would only last until you lose a stake
Dad.Bones: this card gives you the Dad Of The Year badge which is placed on a joker that you choose. This badge/sticker would allow you to buy Dads payroll (a new joker card) that allows you to gain +2 money and +1 mult per round, but if you buy something in the shop the badge would deactivate making Dad's payroll card useless. (Note that after losing a stake the dad.bones will be destroyed and gives you the badge and a second life, also after buying something in the shop, the badge and dad's payroll joker will be destroyed.)
Joe.bones: (this would be a legendary joker not a rare.) This card will allow you to stay alive after losing multiple stakes but if you have no more money then joe.bones will be destroyed but you get to choose what other legendary joker you want (note that you can only obtain one legendary joker but having to pick from 1-3 legendary jokers)
Corrupt.bones: this joker activates after losing, the effect is unknown. Meaning that it could either destroy or add jokers or it could reset your balance or your hand levels. It is a risk card. It gets destroyed after losing a stake.
The last Mr.bones joker variant: Dev.bones: this joker would give you the dev card, the dev card is a one time use card. Allowing you to choose to add extra lives, add extra money, add extra joker slots and add the developer coin. The add money, joker slots and lives would have a random quantity (Up to 20 cash, up to 5 lives and up to 5 extra joker slots) you would be given a slot machine to spin that if you get a row of: money, lives or joker slots you would be given a random amount of money or lives or jokers. It is pure luck and chance to get a high quantity on lives and joker slots.
The Dev coin would activate after winning a run. This will give you the Dev Stake.
*The Dev Stake is the hardest difficulty that you will get. I will let the Developer of Balatro choose how hard the difficulty would be.
I have also not made designs of these jokers. So I'll let the community make the designs which should be added on this suggestion.
hollow shoal
I'm literally playing the Einstein card, I'm using every part of my brain in ord...
Ain't no way
wraith prairie
I'm literally playing the Einstein card, I'm using every part of my brain in ord...
Every part of your skeleton*
gentle rivet
Nuhh
left stream
I think Joe bones and dev.bones are too op. For Joe.bones you might need to also remove money after each round or use. Despite the balancing issues, I would really like to see this happen though since mr.bones is super under-utilized.
south scaffold
I love the certainty you have in your idea
gentle rivet
Trust in the Mr.bones Process 
vocal shadow
I'm not inherently opposed to this idea, but it needs more work. The main problem with this is (despite what balatro university would have you believe) losing balatro is very easy
I've seen roguelikes that pull this concept off really well, and the main way they do it is by making death risky, (take voodoo doll from skul the hero slayer, which, the next time you die, puts you at 25 hp(a.k.a two hits from death) and massively boosts your magic power)
I think a joker like that could be interesting in balatro(something with massive gameplay ramifications that you need to choose when to trigger), but as it stands, theres not really a risk to triggering these.
untold edge
pallid warren