Card Player (rare)

[burnt holly]

Gain 0.1X Mult for every scored card. -1.5X Mult after every boss blind. Destroy itself after going under 1X Mult. (Currently: 1X Mult)

[abstract spruce]

1.25x per hand what the fuck

[shrewd briar]

????????

[burnt holly]

Changed it to 0.2X. Maybe this helps to balance things out a bit

Original: 0.25X

[shrewd briar]

Not at all

[abstract spruce]

no lol

[shrewd briar]

It needs to be like X0.05 or something to maybe be balanced

[burnt holly]

Keep in mind that it gets -1.5X after every boss blind so 0.05X might be too low

Changed again to 0.1X

[shrewd briar]

I know, but you have to keep in mind retriggers

[burnt holly]

Oh. I ment without retriggers.

[shrewd briar]

Well then it's just uninteresting

[sullen swift]

There’s no condition.

No strat to it tbh

[burnt holly]

Just thinks that it encourages playing not pair or hc.

[sullen swift]

I don’t think so

[shrewd briar]

Even with X0.1, playing 3 5-card hands with no retriggers already puts you at X2.5 and safe from the destruction effect

[sullen swift]

You could easily intentionally play high card or pair to bump it higher

Before playing a highly leveled up 5 card hand

[burnt holly]

It's only supposed to destroy itself when way to less cards are scored.

[sullen swift]

Also the name of this joker just… feels extremely generic

[burnt holly]

Yes you can but scaling it would be way easier if you only play many cards

[sullen swift]

Easier? yes
Effective? No

Unless somehow you’re barely scraping by each blind by playing your strongest hand the whole time

[burnt holly]

Yeah also not happy with it. Not that creative but it was the only thing that I got.

[burnt holly]

That's the point of the joker. It should encourage playing more cards but shouldn't prohibit playing hc or pair.

[sullen swift]

You play more cards by avoiding playing a winning hand until you play your last hand

I mean I guess if you’re able to play non-winning 5 card hands then yes it would help

But that’s not very likely compared to pair or HC

Either way, the idea just doesn’t really feel like much when you can play 5 card hands aimlessly and still get something out of it

And that’s what makes this uninteresting

[burnt holly]

What about if this only counts for the first hand played?

[sullen swift]

Also there’s a huge flaw with this joker. It’s very likely to destroy itself if it appears in the shop before the boss blind. Theres barely any time to get it off and it’s probably not worth taking.

Where as getting it on small blind is significantly better

[burnt holly]

True wasn't thinking about that

[icy carbon]

what about this rebalance:

"This joker gains 0.1X mult
per hand in
played poker hand and
loses 1X mult at the end of round
[Self destructs if below 1X mult] - this might be implicit, like ramen
(Currently 1X mult)

[shrewd briar]

Why did you do
so many newlines
like it's an ingame
joker description
like this?

[icy carbon]

tbh i keep doing that since i worked on a mod and had to be writing the descriptions kinda like this all the time

i should probably stop

also i find it more readable on mobile that way (i got kinda big letter sizes)

[narrow hemlock]

how are you supposed to lose