Tower of Babel

[gritty raft]

Uncommon joker
Costs 8$
For each different scoring rank in first hand played each round, this joker gains +1 mult.
Resets when any hand contains a pair

Basically a joker that pushes you to play straights, flushes, straight flushes, or high card (but with a slower scaling)

[zenith schooner]

Cool idea but this feels more like a common joker

Kinda disables the player from pivoting into flush fives and whatnot

[hallow harness]

Uncommon at most

[gritty raft]

Really ??
I thought it was complex and original enough to be at least uncommon?
It's joker that gives a maximum of +5 mult each round, which only needs one hand to achieve scaling, unlike jokers like the bus which pushes you to play all your hands?

Well ig i'll make it uncommon, but do I lower the price?

[zenith schooner]

Also to simplify the wording in your joker: resets if the hand contains a pair because that’s basically the reset condition

Saying contains multiples of a rank is a little confusing

[hallow harness]

Only allows 4 hand types

Also make it scored cards so it isn't great with HC

[zenith schooner]

You’re scoring a pair if you’re not scoring HC

[hallow harness]

Yeah, but if it's played cards HC can give +5 but played it only gives +1

[gritty raft]

Well that's basically what it already does ??

[zenith schooner]

Oh I didn’t read the “for each scoring card part”

Okay this is not a common then

Uncommon? Sure

[hallow harness]

There is no for each scoring card part

[echo pivot]

Since it's only the first hand each round I think it's fair as an uncommon, +5 mult a round seems neat

[hallow harness]

And that's my problem with it

[echo pivot]

For each different scoring rank in first hand

[gritty raft]

I thought it was implied

[hallow harness]

(edited)

[echo pivot]

Yeah it was fixed to clarify what the original intent was

[zenith schooner]

Actually works super well with stone cards if playing high card

And retriggers (I would assume it adds more to it for the first hand if each card retriggers?)

[gritty raft]

Well are stone cards considered as a rank ???

[zenith schooner]

Stone cards have no rank

That’s the description of stone cards in the game

[gritty raft]

Well, I wasn't planning on retriggering? I think +5 mult per round is enough?

[zenith schooner]

I see

[gritty raft]

This is what you can expect from most scaling +mult jokers I think ?
With the twist that this one only needs one hand to scale unlike the bus

[zenith schooner]

Yeah I get you

And hence why I now see this is better than common for sure

[half cloud]

True but bus and groker allow far more flexibility. This only has a minor potential pay off in comparison for a high risk

[flat gorge]

Wow resets when ANY hand contains a pair is really restrictive, specially on blue stake and beyond

But the idea is good

And the name also suits perfectly whith the effect

[gritty raft]

Thanks, I really wanted to do something with the tower of Babel because I love this concept so much

[echo pivot]

Maybe it doesn’t need the condition of once a round? Idk

[gritty raft]

Then that would be way to good, no ?
Being able to get +5 mult every hand is huge

[echo pivot]

Maybe +3 mult if hand contains 5 scoring cards of different ranks, resets if you play a hand containing pair.

+3 a hand with the stipulation of straights/flushes seems balancedish, and you can play a high card to not break it

[devout radish]

Maybe it should be +4? I mean compare it to Spare Trousers, which is easier to activate and can't reset

[gritty raft]

Alright ?

[quaint mist]

i thought it was fine as is

[kindred scaffold]

Why do we even need the different scoring ranks stipulation

Resetting on pairs covers that

[gritty raft]

Well that was to fit the theme

[kindred scaffold]

"If played hand is a 5 card hand, this gains +3 mult. Resets if played hand contains a pair"

[kindred scaffold]

Ig yeah, but it's redundant

I do like the idea btw, seems neat

[gritty raft]

Tower of Babel [Updated]
Uncommon joker
Costs 8$
If played hand is a 5 card hand, this gains +3 mult. Resets if played hand contains a pair

[plain timber]

im gonna

say the thing

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"Rizzler gyatt fanum tax," the Alphas then replied
And lo, there came a shaking as an ebon spire rose
Upon it writ the tongues of men, their generations prose
And from the sky a thund'rous voice called out unto the stone
As golden letters glowed upon its surface, newly shown:
"RIZZLER GYATT FANUM TAX, SIGMA OHIO SKIBIDI"
And all beheld the words embossed theron in great timidity
With shaking and with wavering voice, the grim refrain began
As all the generations sang the verse at its command
Their weeping and their running sores did nothing to delay
The chanting of that fevered song as night succumbed to day
But rose that morn a blighted sun whose light scoured like a flood
The sky was rent asunder and the rivers turned to blood
Their flesh peeled off in sickly strips, their bones were rendered bare
And still they chanted ever on, the words they uttered there
Until bones and flesh and earth and death were all forgotten things
And still unbidden, undesired, the blackened spire sings
Around it wind the whispers of the souls in its captivity:
"Rizzler gyatt fanum tax... sigma ohio skibidi"

[half cloud]

I need eye bleach I’m sorry