Devil's Deckbox (Open Beta) | Balatro | Page 1

oblique panther Mar 24, 2025, 7:09 PM

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5 Decks built to be completely unbalanced (or are they...?)
😈 This is my first mod. As far as I know everything works properly, but the code is admittedly messy and could probably use some streamlining. I'm also probably looking to tweak the balance a fair amount.
😈 The theme is that every deck in this mod provides the player with a powerful up-side at the start of the game, but introduces an equally devastating downside when the Ante 1 Boss Blind is defeated. It's sort of a prank mod, but I also did my best to make the balancing on each deck interesting beyond that.
😈 All the art for this mod was made by me, even the face on the Clueless Deck is a redraw. The code was also made by me, but uses https://discord.com/channels/1116389027176787968/1215417507440107540 as a template and reference.
😈 DOWNLOAD LINK: https://github.com/nightfreeze9128/DevilsDeckbox

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GitHub - nightfreeze9128/DevilsDeckbox: A Balatro mod that adds sev...

A Balatro mod that adds several custom decks. Each deck in this mod is themed around starting the run with an extremely strong boon, then introducing an equally devastating hindrance once Ante 1 ha...

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DECK LIST:

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Treasure Deck

Start with $200 and 2 copies of Temperance.
- After Ante 1, ||immediately advance to Ante 8.||

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Chortle Deck

+2 Joker slots.
- After Ante 1, ||Base Shop Jokers don't appear.||

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Clueless Deck

Start with the Tarot Tycoon voucher and 5 Negative copies of The Fool.
- After Ante 1, ||destroy all unenhanced cards in deck.||

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Scourge Deck

Start with 5 random Common jokers.
- After Ante 1, ||add a Negative Eternal Madness and set Joker sell values to $-10.||

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Contrarilogue Deck

Make a deal with the devil at your own peril.
||- Combines the upsides and downsides of all four other decks in this mod.||

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Devil's Deckbox (Open Beta)

oblique panther Mar 25, 2025, 1:36 AM

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v1.0.1 Beta Changelog

Treasure Deck now starts with $200 instead of $150.
Scourge Deck now starts with Common Jokers instead of Rare ones. (More changes to Scourge Deck TBA)
Asset update for all 5 decks.

honest creek Mar 25, 2025, 9:24 AM

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oblique panther **Clueless Deck** - Start with the Tarot Tycoon voucher and 5 Negative copies of...

this is so op

oblique panther Mar 25, 2025, 12:02 PM

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Been considering nerfing it to only 5 fools instead of 7 tbh

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Would need to test that on higher stakes tho

honest creek Mar 25, 2025, 12:07 PM

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oblique panther Would need to test that on higher stakes tho

i won a run on gold

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tho i did have cryptid

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and riftraft

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and a whole host of other op stuff

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anyway, getting rid of useless cards almost immediately is still more a benefit than a detriment

oblique panther Mar 25, 2025, 12:22 PM

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i see what u mean

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clueless deck is the one that relies the most on being a prank cuz if u dont know that that's what it's gonna do, u prob won't be able to manipulate it as effectively

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so ig the way to balance it for runs where the player knows what it's gonna do after ante 1 is to make it essentially force you to win every ante after 1 in a single hand cuz u run out of cards if u dont

honest creek Mar 25, 2025, 12:29 PM

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may be

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but

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i love flush builds

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and what i've noticed is that even without broken jokers and the like

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it's easy to grab a random enhancement tarot

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slap it on one single suit all the time

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then keep buying cards and transmuting them with death or the other suit tarots

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so it's still pretty easy to live up until ante 3

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while not spending a dollar on deck modding

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and buying jokers instead

oblique panther Mar 25, 2025, 12:34 PM

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thats still a fairly involved strategy and on purple stake + with no other mods it'd prob rely on u pulling jupiters and something like an empress or magician

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anything's broken on cryptid i reckon lol

honest creek Mar 25, 2025, 12:35 PM

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oblique panther anything's broken on cryptid i reckon lol

the clock and lavender loop killed me so many times

oblique panther Mar 25, 2025, 12:35 PM

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fair point

honest creek Mar 25, 2025, 12:35 PM

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those are singlehandedly holding the floodgates

oblique panther Mar 25, 2025, 12:36 PM

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lol

honest creek Mar 25, 2025, 12:36 PM

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still i say i got a lotta stupid boss blinds to balance it out

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and also, no extra shop slots like jen's

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so i think my game is broken, yes

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that broken? doubt it

oblique panther Mar 25, 2025, 12:37 PM

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wouldnt the tax on ante 2+ also be an instant kill for clueless deck

honest creek Mar 25, 2025, 12:37 PM

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yes

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but usually

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unpotimized decks still run outta cards or good hands on ante 2

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anyway

oblique panther Mar 25, 2025, 12:38 PM

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ill set it to only 5 fools and try to grind to gold stake with no other mods and then see how i feel

honest creek Mar 25, 2025, 12:39 PM

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that sounds reasonable

oblique panther Mar 25, 2025, 12:42 PM

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im also trying to implement something for scourge deck where after the madness appears it changes the sell value of every joker to $-10 for the rest of the run but idk how to code that in

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the concept being that ur forced to either use the madness to free up joker slots or take a pretty brutal hit to ur econ

honest creek Mar 25, 2025, 12:43 PM

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interesting

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i'm already looking at cryptid's lock card to fix that madness up

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tho i think if you got enough buffer jokers you'd win no matter what

oblique panther Mar 25, 2025, 1:48 PM

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so far, nerfed clueless is still busted clueless

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BUT this was third try

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if you dont find hierophant empress or magician within the first 2 shops it's very hard to progress

honest creek Mar 25, 2025, 2:52 PM

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maybe but this is more luck dependant than anything then

oblique panther Mar 25, 2025, 2:54 PM

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yea thats annoying

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the reason u start with tarot tycoon is to maximize the odds of finding something good but its hard to roll the shop on ante 1

honest creek Mar 25, 2025, 2:55 PM

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couldn't you make a specific random enhancing card spawn

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like out of a set

oblique panther Mar 25, 2025, 2:55 PM

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eh

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that steps a little too far over the line between deck and challenge imo

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that might just be stylistic preference

honest creek Mar 25, 2025, 2:57 PM

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maybe but i guess consistency is there if you're willing to reroll a bunch to get a good card

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reroll a run i mean

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i guess this is like eden in tboi

oblique panther Mar 25, 2025, 2:57 PM

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also i dont think its completely impossible to get a run going off of something like lovers or chariot

honest creek Mar 25, 2025, 2:57 PM

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eh, i got wilder cause wil cards suck so much

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literally the only mod that touches vanilla i got

oblique panther Mar 25, 2025, 2:59 PM

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that sounds sick with this deck if u pull ancient joker early

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just dont hit any suit debuff bosses :)

honest creek Mar 25, 2025, 2:59 PM

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i just like exotic suits more

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like, stars don't have a boss blind targeting them

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neither do crowns

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and spectrums are just a fancier flush

meager lotus Mar 25, 2025, 3:01 PM

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atp just give us 100 negative perkeos 🔥

oblique panther Mar 25, 2025, 3:01 PM

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real

honest creek Mar 25, 2025, 3:02 PM

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oblique panther real

make a deck that creates chicot every round

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that'll be balanced with aiko's mod

meager lotus Mar 25, 2025, 3:02 PM

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$10 per round sounds peak

honest creek Mar 25, 2025, 3:02 PM

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yeah i know better yellow deck

oblique panther Mar 25, 2025, 3:04 PM

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scourge deck but u start with 5 chicots

honest creek Mar 25, 2025, 3:05 PM

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oblique panther scourge deck but u start with 5 chicots

PEAK

meager lotus Mar 25, 2025, 3:06 PM

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oblique panther scourge deck but u start with 5 chicots

scourge deck but all the joker's are eternal and u get 5 chicots after each hand played 🔥

honest creek Mar 25, 2025, 3:06 PM

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meager lotus scourge deck but all the joker's are eternal and u get 5 chicots after each hand...

real

oblique panther Mar 25, 2025, 3:08 PM

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i have yet to try scourge deck on black stake or higher that sounds like a fun time

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im currently trying to fix an issue where the trigger that sets all ur sell values to -10 is lagging the game cuz i made it trigger way too often

oblique panther Mar 25, 2025, 3:47 PM

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it’s possible the lag came from my computer just being borked cuz I just had to restart cuz other stuff was lagging too

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But I made a new function that hopefully works as intended for scourge deck and doesn’t trigger that much more than it needs to

honest creek Mar 25, 2025, 3:48 PM

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Clueless~1

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let us hope

oblique panther Mar 25, 2025, 3:51 PM

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it didnt work

honest creek Mar 25, 2025, 3:54 PM

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hope is dead

oblique panther Mar 25, 2025, 4:05 PM

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playtesting run gave me instant photochad

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cant wait for both of them to get eaten :)

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nvm it crashed when i tried to select a blind

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good news:

i fixed the crash
it passed the joker buying test
bad news:
it did a little too well on the joker buying test, the sell value change can be activated before the ante 1 boss blind is defeated
it failed the judgment test

oblique panther Mar 25, 2025, 7:06 PM

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DUDE

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I TOLD YOU THE WILD CARD ANCIENT BUILD WAS REAL

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this was on contrarilogue deck but THATS BESIDE THE POINT

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anyway, stand by for v1.0.2 beta

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v1.0.2 Beta Changelog

Clueless Deck now starts with 5 Negative Fools instead of 7.
Scourge Deck now sets the sell value of all Jokers to $-10 (meaning you have to spend $10 to remove a Joker) when the Ante 1 Boss Blind is defeated, and whenever anything is bought from the shop after that. Expect this to be further refined in future updates.
Decks no longer have the mod prefix removed from their key (this was a holdover from royal deck).

oblique panther Mar 25, 2025, 7:32 PM

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omg i forgot to copy the money buff from treasure deck onto contrarilogue deck

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v1.0.2.1 Beta Changelog

Contrarilogue Deck now starts with $200 instead of $150, to match Treasure Deck.

rough spindle Mar 25, 2025, 7:44 PM

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What are the decks in this mod? Trying to see if I’d be interested in downloading it or not

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Nvm I found the descriptions lmao

oblique panther Mar 25, 2025, 7:58 PM

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if u do decide to download it lemme know what u think!!!

oblique panther Mar 25, 2025, 8:32 PM

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further proof of the clueless deck wild card build, didn't even pull an ancient joker this time

honest creek Mar 25, 2025, 8:33 PM

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oblique panther further proof of the clueless deck wild card build, didn't even pull an ancient ...

yes yes congrats flushes are my one true love

oblique panther Mar 25, 2025, 8:33 PM

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seance actually being one of the best jokers on this deck is ascended

honest creek Mar 25, 2025, 8:33 PM

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oblique panther seance actually being one of the best jokers on this deck is ascended

i never thought of that

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sèance being good

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absolutely insane

oblique panther Mar 25, 2025, 8:35 PM

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i think its balanced tho cuz even if u can hit the exact hand u want every single time, this deck essentially turns every single blind into the needle

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at least until u scrounge up enough standard packs to build ur deck back up again, and/or magic trick

honest creek Mar 25, 2025, 8:36 PM

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oblique panther at least until u scrounge up enough standard packs to build ur deck back up agai...

or you do it like me and just use unstable's +2 and +4 cards to get instant card injections

oblique panther Mar 25, 2025, 8:37 PM

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when i have free time again ima turn the 7 other mods i have downloaded back on and play all my decks on utter chaos mode

honest creek Mar 25, 2025, 8:40 PM

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oblique panther when i have free time again ima turn the 7 other mods i have downloaded back on ...

https://www.mediafire.com/file/iceh5mo634te287/mods.rar/file chaos you said

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try this

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oh don't fogret to update buffoonery

oblique panther Mar 26, 2025, 2:00 PM

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good morning chat, about to test if clueless chariot is viable

honest creek Mar 26, 2025, 2:03 PM

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oblique panther good morning chat, about to test if clueless chariot is viable

probably is

oblique panther Mar 26, 2025, 2:10 PM

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my strategy now is i have a single queen in deck and a raised fist

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so before my hand i move the queen all the way to the left and that solves the flat mult issue

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update: photochad

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honest creek Mar 26, 2025, 2:24 PM

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me when instawin

oblique panther Mar 26, 2025, 2:30 PM

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yeaaaaaa baby

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update

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i died to the plant i hate it here

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im for sure keeping it like this tho cuz it did take a lot of strategy to survive antes 2 through like 6

meager lotus Mar 26, 2025, 2:57 PM

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'no plant boss' would be peak

oblique panther Mar 26, 2025, 3:00 PM

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new deck idea: start with retcon and money tree but base reward money from all blinds is disabled

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the inverse of green deck, you have to rely entirely on interest

honest creek Mar 26, 2025, 3:03 PM

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get a single good eco joker and the deck downside is nullified

oblique panther Mar 26, 2025, 3:47 PM

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maybe you dont even start with money tree then

oblique panther Mar 27, 2025, 4:53 PM

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swashbuckler and gift card on chortle deck are absolute stonks

honest creek Mar 27, 2025, 4:55 PM

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da money

mint raft Apr 20, 2025, 10:15 PM

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oblique panther **5 Decks built to be completely *un*balanced (or are they...?)** 😈 This is my ...

Heya! The way you've implemented your mod (specifically https://github.com/nightfreeze9128/DevilsDeckbox/blob/main/index.lua#L99) seems to break plasma deck and also other mods' hooks to Back:trigger_effect

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I suggest fixing this by letting your decks have a trigger_effect (or rather calculate in newer smods) method instead of hooking Back:trigger_effect

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See https://github.com/Steamodded/smods/wiki/SMODS.Back for the docs and https://github.com/GuilloryCraft/ExtraCredit/blob/main/src/essay.lua#L3005 for a concrete-ish example

oblique panther Apr 20, 2025, 10:28 PM

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Interesting, I’ll try and fix it when I have time

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