Mini-gun - Rare

[steel vine]

500 chips, -5 chips per card played, resets after boss blind is complete, like reloading

[tardy ibex]

Pair slop

High card slop

[short flower]

Feels a bit strong. Even with 5 card hands, it requires 10 full hands to be worse than stuntman

[muted surge]

this is way too strong

[muted surge]

note that unlike pairs and high cards. most 5 card hand strats do 1 or 2 hands

so around 150 chips lost before reset. thats still a stuntman with no hand size downside

the direct comparison is stuntman which would almost always give less and have a hand size down as well

[tardy ibex]

Make it a flat +250 chips but -2 hand size because you need to hold the minigun

[steel vine]

Trye

Ture

True jesus

500 chips but lose chips that is the same amount of cards played, 7 -7, 5 -5, reset after boss blind

This better?

[tardy ibex]

Make it 300 chips and go from there

[idle tiger]

250 chips and you lose per rank held in hand

[short flower]

I think it should start a lil bit higher than 250 if you go that route

[muted surge]

if you want a declining chip route youd have to go 350 rather than 250

not 500 tho

hell 300 would be fine since to be on par with stuntman by the boss blind youre sacrificing your digging power you usually have with pairs

[idle tiger]

Do you even though, with 5 card hand one shots this is still at over 200 by the boss blind. It just makes it closer to uncommon than stuntman equivalent.

[short flower]

It’s def not a stuntman equivalent; it’d be a stuntman sidegrade depending on your build

Held in hand penalty heavily punishes HC/pair while big hands suffer from -2 handsize

It works out imo

[muted surge]

the original issue was just the insane starting amount

like id say the original effect at 300 chips would already be a fine sidegrade to stuntman

[coarse bronze]

i like the idea of a joker value resetting back up instead of down but here its too strong and just further boosts pair meta

also its completely insane on plasma deck

[steel vine]

Plasma deck honestly needs more use

[native nova]

hey wait a minute

[steel vine]

What is it?

[native nova]

+250 chips? -2 hand size?

that's just stuntman

[steel vine]

Lol, i aint doin that

[native nova]

what about +5 chips gained per card played, resets each ante?

like, playing a bunch of cards is like sustained fire for hands

or, what about resets each discard?

[cold osprey]

I feel like this would be balanced more if it was 250 chips and -2 chips per card scored

actually

no

still 5 cards

[junior bone]

everything slop bro

this is a win button

[wise blaze]

Is this allowed for #1405413818443632682 bingo as HC/Pair slop?

[junior bone]

Wait that's a bingo slot?

Seems kinda harsh

Obviously not to this extent, but I'm down with interesting suggestions that favor hc/pair

[steel vine]

Why is everything slop bro
“Straight slop”
“H slop”
“Winmore slop”

[alpine wind]

It predates the new bingo

[native nova]

because anything that isn't wholeheartedly welcomed by the community is "slop"

[misty gust]

Who says straight slop

But this as originally designed is hc slop

Because with a high card it only goes down by 5

Where as a 5 card hand it goes down by 25

So yeah it favors spaming high card

[grave pulsar]

Yeah, it punishes you for not using high card which is the problem

[misty gust]

Off topic but To be fair I had this thought. What if half joker never existed. And then was suggested here

We'd all say hc and pair slop (because i mean it is)

Anyway that's off topic

[junior bone]

there is no such thing as straight slop

[copper glen]

make it 100 chips and have it lose 3 chips per card and we have a deal

wait that's a rare

holy shit it's a rare

nah balanced at 200 chips

[wise blaze]

Tons of jokers would get 'd here if they were suggested instead of already being in the game.
Altough half joker would be high on that list.

Like
Imagine If legendaries weren't in balatro and someone suggested it.

[junior bone]

I don't love the argument that "if they were suggested here and not in the game already they'd be noped".

[alpine wind]

It's a matter of quantity vs quality

The vanilla game provides quantity enough

so we'd best focus on quality