Evolved Decks

[coarse oasis]

This would be a reward for beating the deck at gold stake, and would be optional/toggleable.
The intent is to make the deck "more" of what it is, not necessarily harder/easier but leaning more into what the deck is for, and to encourage people to get C+ besides just the achievement.
These are some ideas I have, open to suggestions and changes, but they would be pretty fun i think. These would be additional to the deck's current effect

Red - scoring cards count as discarded
Blue - discarded cards count as scoring
Yellow - start with an additional $10, jokers which directly provide $ cannot appear
Green - earn $1 for every empty consumable slot and joker slot
Magic Deck - +1 consumable slot and start with an additional fool
Nebula Deck - Celestial packs appear twice as often
Ghost Deck - Spectral cards appear twice as often in the shop, spectral packs appear twice as often in the shop.
Abandoned Deck - Face card specific jokers and boss blinds cannot appear
Checkered Deck - Club and Diamond specific jokers cannot appear
Zodiac Deck - start with Tarot Tycoon, Planet Tycoon, and Overstock+
Painted Deck - +1 handsize
Anaglyph Deck - Skipping while you have a double tag doesn't skip the blind, instead giving you a copy of the tag (description is difficult for me to word concisely)
Plasma Deck - shop prices are balanced (everything costs the average of all purchasables in the shop) [credit to Larswjin]
Erratic Deck - starting deck size is randomized (1/2 normal size to 5/4 normal size) and start with 7 to 16 random enhancements in your deck

[cloud perch]

I dont think it'll be added but tis a good idea for a mod

[buoyant moth]

cool, will check out later

[cloud perch]

Black deck - +2% chance for negative jokers to appear in shop and in packs

[coarse oasis]

wait yeah i forgot black

Jokers are free 😎

[cloud perch]

:brilliant:

[unique meteor]

My favorite deck was black deck, how dare thy

[hot marten]

I think we should rework evos such that once you play a deck like one or two times (depending on the cost of the deck), the next time you play it, you get to play the evolved form of the deck but then it resets the counter

[unique meteor]

[arctic beacon]

why do we have 3 people saying this is a repost

i dont think ive seen this before

[cloud perch]

repost is ♻️ isnt it

[arctic beacon]

yeah

but also

both mean repost

[unique meteor]

Yeah, again is upvote to me

Cuz its good

[arctic beacon]

youre a fake one

its been universally decided that is not to be used under any circumstances unless satirically and when both parties agree upon its usage

[unique meteor]

Ok Socrates

[cloud perch]

Naw

I dont agree to those terms

[hidden prism]

face boss blinds not showing up for abandoned is a nerf though

also anaglyph becomes stupid busted

like even more than the other ones

if im not a dumbass and read it correctly anaglyph just get free skip tags without skipping

only once per ante but since it gets double tags each ante anyway it basically gets two skip tags each ante

[cloud perch]

But face card jokers not appearing is a buff

[coarse oasis]

which is the only benefit of that deck so i dont see it as becoming "stupid busted"

it means you get the benefit of anaglyph without the horrible downside that comes from skipping normally

[hidden prism]

honestly i feel like that would lose the charm of skipping being something you should do sparingly

anaglyph is about stacking up double tags and use them when a good opportunity presents itself, not "get this one skip tag for free every ante lmao"

nullifying the downside completely is like giving nebula back its consumable slot

[coarse oasis]

I think nebula shouldn't have that downside to begin with

[coarse oasis]

and it would be best to use it that way still

you dont have to skip every ante, it's that you are no longer punished directly for skipping more often, instead you're missing out on better skips if you take bad tags instead

[hidden prism]

yeah but using it that way means that the new ability barely does anything

[coarse oasis]

it removes a barrier to skipping which is the entire purpose of the deck

[hidden prism]

also i don't agree with this

unless the tags are actually horrendous and do nothing

even a handy tag giving like 10 dollars is still free 20 dollars

why not take it right away and get the money to get more eco instead of hoping that there's a better tag next ante

in fact skipping every ante gives you one extra tag per ante compared to if you save it

[coarse oasis]

econ tags are the minority

most tags aren't anywhere near this universal

[violet gazelle]

i like the concept a lot but also some of these specific ideas are a little meh to me

[violet gazelle]

like i'm mixed on blue deck just because you're not incentivized to pick up discard related stuff on it, so i feel it could rather do something like give 2 extra hands instead of 1 but removes a discard, as something more burglar-esque. (alternatively, to make playing more hands more rewarding, maybe every played hand would give $1 or $2? offsets the drawback of playing more hands giving less money at the end of the round)

yellow deck is kinda iffy to me since banning econ jokers sounds terrible. i think it would just be cooler if you instead started with an extra $6 (meaning you start with $10 instead of $14) but also started with seed money and money tree to incentivize early interest making (as opposed to mostly being an extra burst of money to use at the start of the run)

magic deck could instead give you like, 4 extra hand size when opening packs. a buff to buying tarots and such things which fits the theming and makes arcana/spectral packs stronger, and is more interesting than just yet another free consumable slot imo

[zinc charm]

not the clash royale treatment 😭

[violet gazelle]

abandoned deck is just another joker ban which is blegh (plus it would include ride the bus which while niche is counter-productive) so i think potentially as a replacement, it could instead instead remove 1 of each rank from a random suit, taking away 13 cards and starting with 3 of each rank rather than 4 of each

checkered deck, another joker ban. if we wanna be really simple, it could instead just have you start with diamonds and clubs, but if we want it to be more interesting, it could maybe instead start you with wildcard enhancements? (i'm not putting too much effort into which cards would get them so you can just make stuff up for which ones are wild)

anaglyph deck is just infinite free tags so idk about that one. if it's supposed to reward skipping, maybe unlike the normal deck giving double tags, what if every blind skip would give you two different tags? like skipping a blind might give a hand tag and a voucher tag, or a negative tag and a reroll tag, etc (not random, both listed). would give you more reason to skip throughout a run rather than saving all double tags for like, a single skip or two