Pokemon Face Cards

[lament eagle]

Choose your Pokemon team with 1736 new deck suit skin options, each with a themed combination of 3 Pokemon. - Yes, every pokemon is here!

This is a purely texture adding mod (using steamodded deckskins), compatible with everything adding 101 additional deck skins for each suit. Each set has at least one low contrast version matching the base game, and most have a high contrast version or a reasonably close match. There are also many additional colour choices, often switching out forms or themed Pokemon. Eg. Bulbasaur has extra slots for Mega Venusaur, Gigantamax Venusaur, and also the original starter trio together.

There's a 'Random' option at the end which selects 4 different designs each time you load the game, with at least one guaranteed to match the Low Contrast colours. Check it often enough and maybe you'll find a secret option or two!

If you play with mods that add extra ranks (eg UnStables 21 or Pi ranked cards), I'd advise sticking to the more vanilla looking colour sets to match with those.

Github: https://github.com/Jinglefruit/PokeTeamCards
Gamebanana mirror (has some more promo images too): https://gamebanana.com/mods/578263
Nexusmods: https://www.nexusmods.com/balatro/mods/319

Future plans:
No more significant additions / new designs planned.
I plan to swap some pokemon around to add variety instead of having 2 Cloyster sets on Lapras and 2 Manaphy sets on Lugia, but this won't be anytime soon. With that I'll probably rework the menu selection to make things easier to find too, but still not sure quite how to go about it.
Currently some pokemon come in different sizes depending on the selection. I intend to make all of these uniform, but for now just pretend it's intentional extra options to chose how much of the card is covered. I'll probably have a minor update in a few weeks for some of the biggest size differences.

And have some extra images.

[winter pawn]

When I saw that there were 435 files, I could only say that you were amazing

[lament eagle]

Yea, I don't do things by halves. Tried to make sure every reasonable group of 3 pokemon are available for anyone who happens to like them.

[tiny phoenix]

As a huge Pokemon fan, I absolutely adore this mod. But as a person with slight signs of OCR, I will cringe every time when I see three unrelated Pokemon (like Paras, Parasect and CRUSTLE) or missing member (like Ponyta, Galarian Ponyta, Rapidash and nothing instead of Galarian Rapidash)

Sad there are no trimmed down version of this mod only with three-stage families (i.e. Fletchling-Fletchinder-Talonflame), two-stage families with fossil or mega in them (i.e. Dome-Kabuto-Kabutobs, Houndour-Doundoom-Mega Houndoom) legendary trios (i.e. Uxie-Mesprit-Azelf), related trios (i.e. Hitmons, Elemental Monkeys, Meowth regional forms) and branched two-stage families (i.e. Exeggcute-Exeggutor-Alola Exeggutor) available to choose from. Yes this way there will be no "ALL 1736 Pokemon" in it, but still plenty 🤓 😉 😁 👍

[lament eagle]

So the combined 2 stages, you can then change the 2nd high/low contrast option to pick who is missing most of the time. Sometimes there's not a whole line of options depending on the theme though, so Kricketot matches Volbeat and Illumise on design, but Kricketune less so, and isn't included there.
A couple have a hidden bonus 4th on the Ace, eg Aegislash shield form can be on the Ace when the unsheathed form is on the King.

I can definitely make a stripped down lua file which removes a bunch of options and just keeps the 3 line pokemon. I probably wouldn't bother shuffling all the files for it though, so you'd just have unused assets, but that would make the scroll bar more manageable. - Gimme a couple hours and I can post an alt lua file for that.

[tiny phoenix]

Wow, that would be great! Thank you very much 🙂

[lament eagle]

I'm just about done with it, It's only a new pokecards.lua file, because changing the assets around is way too much work (but this way the random option on the end can still pick removed things)

Less options version. I've probably missed some things, but that should be pretty much only 3 stage lines and 'trios'. There is still Vulpix and Arcanine on Hearts though, because there was a lot less hearts to begin with, and I wanted an even number on all suits (because otherwise the menu buttons jump around the screen when you swap between them!)

[drowsy zinc]

wow

[true island]

I kneel

[lament eagle]

Added to Nexusmods and updated pages: https://www.nexusmods.com/balatro/mods/319

[iron isle]

I totally get where you're coming from, and now I kinda want to take a crack at this.

The problem for me is, like, what do if you have a two-stage with no third member?

[lament eagle]

We have this for now which hides a bunch of options. I'm looking into setting up a config menu so you can just show/hide each entry to customise the menu yourself. - though as mentioned if you have uneven numbers of options of each suit the menu can go a bit funky

[lament eagle]

Planning an updated version with some of the prevo images slightly larger and sharper, a bit more variety in the selections (instead of 5x farfetch'd/sirfetch'd, one option is replaced with lilligant, calyrex, sirfetch'd as a food theme) and where possible sets with multiple families appear under each option, (so the food example would also show for Lilligant, but not calyrex as they're a different suit)

Any thoughts or suggestions I could implement while I go through these?