Hydra (rare joker)

[jolly niche]

Whenever a playing card is destroyed, add two copies of that card to your hand.

(This might be broken tbh, just more so sharing it for the theme of it)

[uneven shoal]

Hm

I like this tbh

Its very strong; and can spiral quickly, but I'd locked behind needing other items to help

[silent scarab]

I dont see why it could spiral quickly

[uneven shoal]

Its not the "clear right choice" since unless you already have a strong deletion joker- it's dead weight. Which is to say its ability to spiral is very nicely balanced with its stricter requirement

[uneven shoal]

Glass

[jolly niche]

Just realized Immolate is basically adding 5 random copies of cards to your hand and gaining 20 dollars now lol

[silent scarab]

It has the same replicative power as DNA , bt yeah I see the point

[uneven shoal]

It has theoretically more replicative power

This can trigger multiple times a round

[silent scarab]

Mmm you're saying it as it was better but it looses the deck thining potential, it may be just a nerf

[uneven shoal]

Its a nerf unless you're heavily deckfixed already

Baron, Mime, Hydra, Perkeo with Immolate

[fast crypt]

I actually really like this

[jolly niche]

I guess it depends on how the card is destroyed but yes

[uneven shoal]

Everyone be liking this

Tis peak

[fast crypt]

Kinda like glass doesn’t break but actually useful

[silent scarab]

A hand of full glasses breaks aprox 1.25 cards , so if you play a realistic 1 glass hand, DNA has more replicative power, as it is guaranteed i guess ? But Idk

Although whith DNA you just "burn" a hand

Maybe this is bettet

[uneven shoal]

So it's ability to surpass DNA is relatively balanced by its stricter requirement?

Which is what I'm saying

Its theoretically better, but it ultimately comes down to current build

Also this + BP is crazy

4:1 ratio

[silent scarab]

Whats BP?

[uneven shoal]

Blueprint

[silent scarab]

This + doble OA6...

[oak crystal]

oops goes crazy with this

[fast crypt]

Plus this has a big downside of no hanged man

[oak crystal]

yeah no removale of cards

[silent scarab]

It depends

[fast crypt]

Sixth Sense = 5oak build 🔥🔥

[silent scarab]

Downside?

[jolly niche]

True actually

You can only really use death to remove things you don’t want

[silent scarab]

You could just use it as a replicative tarot

[uneven shoal]

Oh no my idol build 😕

[silent scarab]

You just death two red seal glass card and now you've got 4...

[uneven shoal]

You're swapping Hanged Man for a slightly worse but doubled Death

[silent scarab]

Slightly worse?

[oak crystal]

immolate gives 2.5 Xmult to hologram

[silent scarab]

I mean its DOUBLE

[silent scarab]

I mean this joker gives a lot of ×mult to hologram

Anyways

[uneven shoal]

Doesnt thin unwanted ranks like Death does

[oak crystal]

it does

[fast crypt]

Idk, never being able to lose cards is a pretty big downside

If you take this with the default deck it kinda sucks

[uneven shoal]

Turning destruction into duplication outweighs that 8/10 times IMO

[silent scarab]

Yeah, but at least you have 1 way to thin your deck, the normal death

[uneven shoal]

But like- I still think this is balanced

It isnt a "clear take"

[oak crystal]

unless you have hologram

[fast crypt]

You can get too many bad draws with a default deck, that’s why it’s balanced

You gotta put some effort in

[naive stratus]

i can just imagine taking this and forgetting i have it

[fast crypt]

That’s cause you dumb smh

[stone knoll]

perkeo + hanging man + baron synergy

insane idea man, I love it

[jolly niche]

No no
Perkeo + immolate + baron synergy

[stone knoll]

ooooh you right

[fast crypt]

Nuh uh

Perkeo + immolate + blue joker synergy

[naive stratus]

im not dumb im @naive stratus

[haughty cosmos]

Fragile challenge abt to be crazy

[fast crypt]

Oh my bad I confused myself

[signal harness]

this nerfs immolate

and hanged man

but like Katie said, this allows for an easier way to dublicate desired cards

with the side effect of no deck thinning

[tranquil perch]

It's a fun idea
But mainly I wanted to comment that the art for this should be in the same style as castle. Even more so, it could be a continuation of the same picture. Showing a hydra attacking. So when you put them next to each other, Castle and Hydra, you have a bigger picture

[jolly niche]

I had the idea of the art being a two headed serpent dragon on the style of a playing card as the joker art

Kinda like shoot the moon

[ember stump]

It should be that one hydra meme but the third head is Jimbo /j

This one