Aligned Mirrors (Uncommon)

[daring spear]

Makes all Jokers, Enchanced Jokers, or Playing Cards that add mult to your score give all of said mult before the hand is analyzed.

(btw, when I say analyzed I mean when the game counts up your score after playing said hand. For example if you only played an Ace with the +4 mult effect, then Aligned Mirrors will add that mult before the hand's score is counted.)

[minor monolith]

What

Like, adds to the basemult?

[honest star]

I believe that's the idea yeah

[daring spear]

This means that if you have an XMult joker, all of the additive mult will be accounted for before that joker multiplies the mult

[minor monolith]

Then ehhhh, it only really helps Steel and Baron realistically, otherwise that +mult alr comes before Xmult/Jokers 🤷‍♂️

I don't hate it

But a lil niche for my tastes

[tardy talon]

"Joker score is triggered before any other scoring effects" would be a more concise description

[daring spear]

These are all the jokers Aligned Mirrors would benefit

[tardy talon]

Really it only benefits on-score and in-hand xMult effects, as with joker xMult you can just slide the joker to the right

Niche, yes, but not as niche as Pareidolia

[daring spear]

True, but then again Pareidolia only benefits around maybe 5-10ish jokers (I'm probably wrong with my guess)

So it has its niche use cases

(Also, I counted the jokers and not including glass/holographic/+4 mult cards/lucky cards, this impacts 7 of those jokers)

[minor monolith]

The onscore +mult already comes bedore

I.E. Lusty

[minor monolith]

Half of those are regular Xmult, which can be put last regardless of prior +mult

Also the idea doesn't distinguish Xmult from +Mult, so seemingly the on-score Xmults also wouldn't apply but this one's WAY more nitpicky and not really important

[minor monolith]

Baron, Ancient Joker, Photograph, Trib, Bloodstone are the only ones with a change that can't be achieved from proper positioning
*forgot idol

Add Glass and Steel for enhancements, and Poly for editions

[daring spear]

Fair point, but I still feel like this would be the kind of joker you hope to get in certain builds like you would for Sock N Buskin or Mime

[minor monolith]

Idk it just feels sorta inefficient and not worth it half the time unless you're spamming steels/baron alr

I suppose with glass it opens up red seal glass and such to a solid +mult joker

I just feel- why not get the planets in most cases? It's nice but either "i need this" with any of the above jokers- or "is it worth holding onto it wasting a slot in hopes?"

Also dont self upvote yourself some people get fussy over it lul

Idk, I don't want to sound like I'm shitting on ur idea because it could be cool

I just feel it's too niche for my taste

[inland wigeon]

Great Idea, it ruins some synergies but makes others equally as strong

[minor monolith]

What synergy does it ruin?

[broken sun]

I think a better way to do this would be "Effects that apply Xmult are instead applied after Jokers are scored" which is effectively the same

[inland wigeon]

Any synergy with a XMult

[minor monolith]

How

Xmult still goes properly (during hand "analyzation" seemingly)

Unless we count Xmult as "adding mult"

In which case this Joker makes 0 difference

[daring spear]

It doesn't

[minor monolith]

So yeah, this is what Glowing said it was effectively

Which i personally feel is too niche; i did see someone bring up Pareidolia but I also think that's lame so 🤷‍♂️

[loud crater]

like said above, the jokers that dont trigger with the hand aren't a problem