The Ball & Chain

[vagrant shoal]

DESCRIPTION: Debuffs all other Jokers in hand except the worst-performing Joker.

OP'S NOTE: I'm still workshopping it, but imagine if there was a Boss Blind where you were forced to only use your one weakest Joker, which would be the ball, while the chain would be you only being able to use that specific Joker. I see this being more of a late-stage Boss Blind (maybe a Finisher idk), when you'd most likely have a good amount of enhanced cards in your deck as well as having used a fair amount of consumables while also having some pretty good Jokers to work with. Also thinking about some balancing, like maybe only the worst-performing Jokers out of every 3 or 4 Jokers in your hand (but only if you have more than 5 Jokers at once), but I'm not sure this would work well in execution. Thoughts?

Here, "worst-performing" means the Joker that falls into this category gives you the least amount of help, like only a slight Mult increase or a bad Negative.

[tacit tide]

"worst performing" is prescriptive game design

and unclear how it interacts with econ/value generators

[split mulch]

worst-performing cant be defined consistently as the utility of jokers is subjective based on ur playstyle

or how the run is going

plus this just isnt a very good idea and isnt balanced in accordance with all the other boss blinds, this has barely any counterplay apart from levelling up hands and getting enhancements, and even then itll still be difficult if your only joker is Odd Todd

debuffing a max of 4 jokers with no way to remove the debuff is bs for a finisher boss blind, the highest amount of jokers ever debuffed by a boss blind which you cant play against or remove is ONE
and thats on crimson heart

[ebon wave]

The only way I could see it defined would be least played

Like on the statistics page

[vagrant shoal]

I guess that could work

Either that or it's only the best one in your hand

Idk, I hate this suggestion now, and I kinda hate myself for even suggesting it.

Thanks for the feedback, everyone.

[ebon wave]

Please don't just because its poor doesn't mean you can't have good ideas

[vagrant shoal]

Thanks for the encouragement, I'll see what I can improve to make this a better Boss Blind and if not, I'll probably have thought of something better by then

[ebon wave]

Yeah boss blinds are very difficult to come up with and have be good so I just haven't tried (Not that I don't want to) so bless you for even trying

[fathom sentinel]

ohhhh wait least triggered perhaps

[ebon wave]

yes exactly something along those lines, just something to encourage you to use jokers you normally dont (but if we are talking for real it will probably be a none scoring joker)

[fathom sentinel]

yeah

though we could exclude passive jokers like pareidolia

[ebon wave]

yeah i think just getting rid of the top 2 would be good

[fathom sentinel]

rip trib run

[ebon wave]

so like its not just Crimson Heart

[fathom sentinel]

photochad runs actually might be cooked lol

[ebon wave]

thats a really good point

legendaries would be the most safe option and i think thats funny

[fathom sentinel]

yeah

[fathom sentinel]

mistakes don't define who you are!

as long as you take this as a learning experience