#Fridge - Uncommon

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snow elk
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Fridge: Debuffs all Jokers to the right of it.

Alternatives: Debuffs activate per hand or per round if arbitrary switching is too overpowered. Instead only debuffs the one joker directly to the right of it.

Would require internal reworking of some jokers to make debuffing more consistent. eg To Do List saves the poker hand it is targeting if debuffed at round end but Idol, Mail-In Rebate, Ancient Joker and Castle doesn't seem to (tested via Crimson Heart.) Loyalty Card's round counter still counts through debuffs (seems to already be reported as a bug.)

(You may have seen this on r/balatro, i created that post, decided to post it here because i got a lot of good feedback on it)

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for the sake of discussion this is every potential joker synergy i have found so that we could go straight to balance problems/discussion instead of needing to rehash potential uses

General - in most situations you can guarantee you won't win the round until the specific hand you want to. Allowing you to fish for utility cards or farm econ/scaling jokers in cases where you win rounds too fast.
Food Jokers - allows you to save almost every food joker from degrading, either partially or completely. notably, Turtle Bean becomes a unconditional +5 hand size and Ramen becomes a unconditional 2x mult. the fridge depiction is meant to hint to this being one of its direct synergies.
Ride the Bus, Green Joker, Obelisk - allows you to debuff it when activating its down sides to get only the upside activations.
Ancient Joker, Castle, The Idol, Mail-In Rebate - allows you to stop rerolls if you debuff it on final hand played. currently only Mail-In Rebate works this way, i would imagine this joker would make either all of these or none of these work for consistency.
Campfire, Hit the Road - stops scaling from being reset if debuffed on final hand.
Vampire, Midas Mask - allows you to play enhanced cards if you're ok not having its effect that hand.
Ceremonial Dagger - in very rare cases where you can't put dagger all the way to the right when it activates, this can save it from activating.
Loyalty Card - allows you to save its activation hand for when you need it most. currently does not work this way because of a bug (already reported by someone else.)
Paredolia - can disable it without needing to be sold, potentially saving a run with a innoportuned The Plant.
Madness - allows you to decide when madness has scaled enough by making it no longer destroy jokers.
Oops all 6s - allows you to selectively decide when you should be lucky.
Stuntman - avoid -2 hand size unless you specifically play a hand with stuntman active

fallow rain
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It feels like bug abuse even though that’s what it’d work like

snow elk
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testing it out, stuntman does properly apply the -2 hand size mid round, but obviously you won't be effected by it until you draw more cards (play a hand or discard). it's mechanically sound with applying hand size mid-round compared to any other mechanic that does it

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so it's not completely avoidable if you play a hand with stuntman active

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reworded the stuntman effect to make this more obvious for future discussion

hollow phoenix
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the bug abuse joker 🔥

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while i do love an effect that is simple on its own and has crazy synergies

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but

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most people don't like a joker completely reliant on other jokers to do shit

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not me though i love pareidolia to death

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but this could maybe potentially idk not sure benefit from a secondary effect like +5 mult for every joker to its right (which would be all debuffed) but idk if that wording makes sense with the definition of debuffed

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maybe it could also just not have a secondary effect

snow elk
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if the joker is to have any secondary effect i think "debuffed jokers generate $1 every hand played" fits best. maybe make it 1 in 2.
but i also like purely supportive jokers and i really really like how this joker seems literally less than useless on first pass. and honestly i think the joker would be more fun if kept that way

plush kestrel
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imagine this with the crimson bean

chrome temple
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would be cool

plush kestrel
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it would be broken

hollow phoenix