Chain Lightning (Uncommon)

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If first and last scoring cards are Mult Cards, enhance all scoring cards to Mult Cards

To go with my previous Mult Card-related suggestion (#1407179215492747427), I figured a Joker that converts cards to Mult Cards would be neat, and this is what I ended up with. I think this is balanced for an Uncommon if you compare it to Midas Mask, which doesn't require already having scoring cards of the enhancement, but in turn only works on face cards. However, if it seems too strong for an Uncommon, I could make it a Rare Joker. I considered making it convert non-scoring cards as well, but then it just ends up feeling like Pair spam, so I made it work on scoring cards only to incentivize 5-card hand types.

As a side note, I'm pretty happy with the art on this one. I tried to make it show how I imagine the effect working, and I think it accomplishes that well.

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the art makes it look like a duo type joker

but its not a bad concept

i like what youre doing by making mult cards lightning themed because of the design

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Yeah, that's where I styled the Joker from a bit

I could maybe change it at some point

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probably

because it could be mistaken for one

[merry kraken]

I really like this idea actually

[fleet beacon]

yeah the idea is good

also the foreground/focus objects of the art are good

but the background and color scheme look suspiciously similar to the duo series

[merry kraken]

I like the idea of having to surround the hand with mult cards so that the current flows through and modifies the middle cards.

And I feel like this is balanced

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^

[merry kraken]

One of the coolest idea i've seen actually

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Fair, maybe I'll change the background to storm clouds or something

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Thanks :)

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storm clouds you say

reference

[raven hatch]

its interesting but kinda ass ngl

[karmic barn]

Smth smth make the cards say Joker instead of the sides/j

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let s make it not ass by adding mult card synergy

[karmic barn]

Agreed

Mult and Bonus need more/any synergies

[fleet beacon]

bonus cards next?

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Yeah, I was king of thinking it could work alongside my other Mult Card suggestion (#1407179215492747427)

[neon ether]

i mean not really, they are good enhancements to just add to random cards even if they aren't necessary, it could be interesting

[elfin mulch]

Currently mult and chip are the only enhancements without an associated joker, I like this

[raven hatch]

maybe but jokers shouldn’t rely on other jokers to be good

thats not an unspoken rule its just a general balancing thing

[elfin mulch]

I think this joker is fine by itself, it’s pretty good

Every time you trigger this it’s like 1 and 1/2 tarot cards

[raven hatch]

that would be cool if it wasnt always like the second worst tarot card

[elfin mulch]

I think that’s what makes it balanced though

[faint fractal]

Yeah, but having multiple Mult Card Jokers makes it more viable to build around them in the hopes of getting one

[raven hatch]

not entirely

its better to build around things you have than things you dont have

[raven hatch]

i just think mult as an enhancement is pretty mediocre

[elfin mulch]

Yeah it is, but this joker gives you the numbers, and they’d also be less mediocre if there were more mult jokers like overlord pointed out

[raven hatch]

the existence of one rare mult card joker does not make them viable

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I wonder if there's a way to buff Mult Cards directly without making them busted earlygame

[raven hatch]

they’re already very good early game

[faint fractal]

I know, that's why I'm worried that making them better would make them OP

[elfin mulch]

Yeah making jokers around them is a good idea

[raven hatch]

making them 5 mult for example would not be op

[elfin mulch]

That’s how you could potentially keep them late game

[raven hatch]

thats like splitting a holographic edition onto two different cards

great early, decent mid if you got nothing else or maybe this joker

[faint fractal]

The main problem with Mult Cards as I see it is that they just get severely outclassed as you level up your hands

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yes

[elfin mulch]

Exactly

[raven hatch]

as do all flat mults

eventually its just better to replace them for chips or xmult if you can

[cobalt finch]

cute art! :3

but also I'm thinking, to make this more viable later in the game, that maybe it should have an added "1 in 20 chance to add a random edition to a scored card"

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I think that's just extra bloat to a card that already takes 4 lines to explain

Also, I think it's okay that it's less useful once your deck has been mostly converted

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Another thing to add, since this is a card that creates enhancements, it works well as Vampire fuel

Although not as well as Midas Mask since you lose 2 Mult Cards in the process

[sacred marsh]

this seems a bit too hard to trigger to be useful.

You need some decent deck consistency (or an empress) to play those mult cards, w/o getting any other enhanced card in the middle (mult is one of the weakest enhancements)

But that deck consistency is only obtained a bit later, in ante 4/5, where mult cards are alr not very worth it

[crisp island]

Maybe we add chance to the mult trigger and make it bigger

And add gold to it too why not

[faint fractal]

I feel like having too many chance-based enhancements would be annoying, there's already Lucky and Glass

What if Mult Cards had some kind of effect where they're stronger with more of them?

[crisp island]

.....

my joke

[crisp island]

mult cards give +1 additional mult for each 5 mult cards in deck

maybe bonus works the opposite

so its a huge amount of chips if you only have 1

but the more you have the more it goes down

idk spitballing