Ceremonial Daggers should delete Jokers from the game

[keen remnant]

As it currently stands, Ceremonial Dagger is a bit of a meme. It's a very awkward design that has a lot of negative synergies and very few positive ones.

My suggestion is - when Ceremonial Dagger "eats" a Joker, that Joker disappears from that game. You can no longer get it in shops or packs. This makes it easier to hit the Jokers you really care about.
It also fits the fantasy of a "Ceremonial Dagger" doing unholy and possibly demonic things to Jokers, such as removing them completely.

It's not even that broken - at best you can eat maybe ~20ish Jokers, all while keeping one Joker slot constantly empty. But it'd give it a lot of early-game utility.

[junior skiff]

Wdym ceremonial dagger is a meme

I’d say it has a good amount of synergies honestly

Egg, gift card riff raff stencil joker

It’s also just an extremely fast scaling mult joker

Also this would be way too powerful as an actual joker with the rework

[keen remnant]

From these, only the Riff Raff is a serious synergy, and even then you need two additional slots just to feed it. It just blocks whatever build you're actually trying to get and it scores pretty low on people's tierlists.

[junior skiff]

Wdym it doesn’t synergize with stencil

Riff raff is honestly a kinda shaky synergy

[keen remnant]

It doesn't directly synergize, they work together but it's not something that scales extremely well.

[junior skiff]

I’ve gotten it to 100 mult by ante 4 before

It has an extremely good synergy with egg and stencil specifically

Especially stencil it seems like dagger and stencil are meant to be together

[keen remnant]

This is why it's kind of a meme, it's a Joker that theoretically has good numbers, but all of its "combos" rely on other mediocre Jokers, luck and tons of cash influx. What can I say, check some tier lists, it consistently scores mid-to-low.

[junior skiff]

I would say it’s almost some sort of low tier god

[vapid iron]

reddit tier lists are unreliable at best

this is a joker that can pretty reasonably get to +40 mult at minimum and that's more than enough for a main source of mult

"but synergies" all jokers that rely on synergy have inconsistent usage because of their dependency on other jokers

[vale river]

Counterbalancing , if you self-upvote you should also downvote

[halcyon osprey]

4 dollars for 4 mult is also the same rate as green btw

and bus. both of those are good jokers

[vale river]

That said I don't like this because it completely changes the point of the Joker