B-Side

[jolly sleet]

I know this channel never gets seen by thunk, and its been FOREVER since I've put anything here, but here it goes anyway because I just refined an older idea I had.

B-Side:
Rarity: Rare
Cost: $10
Effect: Upon entering a Boss Blind, destroy this joker and add a red seal to the joker to the left.
-# Jokers with red seals act as if there are two of the same joker permanently side by side.

Upscaled (didnt put much effort into the art but it gets the point across)

[glad seal]

Basically unmovable negative eternal blueprint
Kinda strong

[urban bane]

so first problem, it's impossible to gold stake this joker

second, having a joker with its own "sticker"-like mechanic probably wouldn't work out great

this is also in a sense just a better invisible joker

because it effectively makes a copy of a specific joker, and has it be negative

i do really like that art though

[glad seal]

Possible if no joker to the left i guess?

[urban bane]

well it just says "on entering boss blind, destroy this joker AND add a red seal to the joker on the left"

it'd be like madness where it doesn't need jokers to get destroyed to scale

[glad seal]

I maybe would tolerate it as legendary. Like wow my other joker is now 2x stronger once in a 30 runs or so

[urban bane]

only thing is that the entire theming of the joker would also need to be reworked

[glad seal]

Yes, seems bad

[gleaming lintel]

YALL

ISNT A THING

😭

[deep nexus]

that is some cool art but I would rather see it add red seals to select cards or something

[viscid hollow]

judgement.

also, why not have it transform into the joker to its left/right instead
solves the sticker issue and makes it slightly less op (it still leaves invis homeless & I still don’t like the concept)

[glad edge]

i think the point is that its op

[glad monolith]

ok so what if instead of that

to make it less op

it would be random

maybe thats too big of a nerf so instead of only on boss blinds it should be when you sell it

hmmmm

nah too op then

oh i got it! make it so you need to wait 2 turns first before you sell it

gg ez fixed

[urban bane]

i mean, i suppose??

imagine needing to make a perkeo build just to build judgements in the final round and use them all to get a rare joker

[viscid hollow]

its only a, what, 0.238% chance?

[urban bane]

pretty reasonable tbh

[jolly sleet]

Let me explain my thought process behind this joker:
With the update, the ratio from copying cards (blueprint brainstorm invis) to normal cards will decrease. So yes, it is supposed to be similar to invisible joker, but with a different enough effect to warrant it being an entirely different card. It is stronger than invisible joker, but blue print is just strong brainstorm - not all jokers need equal value, and its existence is more about the aforementioned ratio.

Also, for the gold sticker, just move it to the leftmost card slot.

I could just make "leftprint" and call it a day. There ARE jokers similar to this. But in the context of adding a new copying joker with a unique effect, I feel like this is one of the better ways to go about it. Also, just how brainstorm makes you play differently than if you had blueprint due to card ordering, B-side would make you decide if or not its worth skipping to get the instant red seal or not.