Energy Drink (common)

[scarlet saffron]

1/2 chance for played cards to gain a random enhancement. Expires if played hand contains a card with and enhancment

i just realised this is complete ass pretty much but whatever too late

[sour terrace]

this isn't ass

its good

[upper schooner]

vampire with this 🤤

[wooden bane]

This seems like a good idea, but maybe Uncommon is more reasonable

[upper schooner]

Only issue is the rarity or the chance

[wooden bane]

Also Driver's License

[broken parrot]

This is better vampire synergy than midas mask I like it

Also needs oops to be reliable

[lavish compass]

I dig

[silent elm]

Except that you can't fuel Vampire with it

Since.. this gets destroyed if you play a hand with any cards w enhancement

[somber forum]

I think if the vampire is positioned first it will remove then before it is destroyed

But yeah should be uncommon

[broken parrot]

Oh yes that's true, for some reason I thought you could trigger Midas and then Vampire on the same hand

[somber forum]

you can

you objectivly just can

[wide helm]

Whether or not it works depends on Joker ordering left to right

This makes it so that you have run Vampire left of Energy Drink or you risk destroying Energy Drink, but that's the better way to run this Joker Pair anyway

(because then you can actually benefit from the enhancements)

[silent elm]

But this isn't worded like vamp, vamp isn't "remove all enhancements from played hand" this is "if played hand contains an enhancement" and should be checked before Vampire checks for scoring

Or atleast thats how itd make the most sense in my head

[wide helm]

The Midas Mask already has a similar interaction with Vampire, and this is how that interaction works.

[silent elm]

Midas specifices on score

They are not the same thing

Vamp doesn't change played hands (wild flush doesn't change into a HC) so id assume those enhancements still count as part of the "Played hand"

Which is my entire point- this isnt worded to act like Midas, it should check for "a card with an enhancement" when the hand is played.

This would work for using this to fuel vamp, but should still be destroyed if you play a hand with enhancements that Energy Drink didnt apply; which makes it a decently powered common

[wide helm]

@silent elm 9 times out of 10, when a person posts "played" they mean scored. So I have taken to simply assuming this until proven otherwise.

@scarlet saffron did you mean "played" or "scored"? Most effects in Balatro only consider scored cards (highlighted cards that give chips)

[fluid aspen]

if it was common and the chance was more like 1/4 I think it would be more balanced, or uncommon and 1/2 chance it would be better.

[silent elm]

I assumed it was "scored" for application,

I assumed "played cards" was meant to be "scoring cards"

I dont see how "played hand" could mean much else personally

And if vampire cant change a played hand, the played hand is determined as soon as you touch the button to play it. Thats how I view it

Now if this was meant to be whenever an enhanced card scores this destroys itself; yeah itd work w vampire just fine

Edited for clarity

[wide helm]

well, the reason why I don't think it's intended is because other Jokers that perform similar checks only check the scored cards. It's why Splash has anti-synergy with Ride the Bus for instance.