Elite Blinds

[dry galleon]

Mechanics
Elite Blinds are stronger than regular Boss Blinds, but easier than Finisher Blinds. After beating a Boss Blind, you can choose to take on a random Elite Blind. If you choose to do so, the shop will not be entered, you will not cash out and it will go straight into the Elite Blind. After beating an Elite Blind, get 6$ and a random Spectral Card as a reward. You will also get what you would’ve got if you cashed out. There is no downside to skipping an Elite Blind. Except for The Stand, all Elite Blinds start at 2.5x base. Except for The Angle and The Pin, all Elite blinds have a parallel to a Boss Blind. The icons are based on the Ge’ez first order consonants (except for ጰ to make it a round 25).

List of Blinds
ሀ - The Well
Discards all cards in hand after hand is played

ለ - The Law
Your most played hand will not score

ሐ - The Flag
Numbered cards are face-down

መ - The Gate
For every hand played, +0.7x blind size

ሠ - The Cloud
Flips one third of the cards in deck before the blind starts

ረ - The Slope
Hands are scored as if they are level 1

ሰ - The Misfortune
If a scoring Club is played, hand will not score

ቀ - The Spin
Debuffs 4 cards in hand after scoring

በ - The Arch
Must play 5 scoring cards

ተ - The Bedrock
If a scoring Spade is played, hand will not score

ኀ - The Harm
Start with 0 discards, all cards must score

ነ - The Chisel
If a scoring Diamond is played, hand will not score

Continued in comments because character limit

አ - The Lightning
Sets hand size to 5

ከ - The Glass
Hand cannot contain a previously played hand type

ወ - The Door
Must play a (most played hand)

ዐ - The Hole
If a scoring face card is played, hand will not score

ዘ - The Ladder
After play or discard, if hand size is greater than 1, draw 1 card, otherwise refill hand

የ - The Lantern
Cards previously used in scoring this ante are debuffed

ደ - The Stand
If it is not the first hand, hand will not score. Max cards discarded at the same time is set to 3. X1.5 blind size

ገ - The Blood
If a scoring Heart is played, hand will not score

ጠ - The Mountain
Lose 1$ when a card is scored or discarded

ጸ - The Figure
Base Chips and Mult and raw scoring from playing cards are halved

ፀ - The Trap
Face cards are destroyed when scored

ፈ - The Angle
Destroys the highest ranked card scored after hand is played

ፐ - The Pin
One random Joker is shuffled and cannot be moved until blind is beaten

[meager stirrup]

this seems like it would be a mod, but is incredibly detailed and well thought out. very cool idea

[versed swift]

place these on even antes as a blue stake rework

or ante 4

[gaunt cosmos]

a few questions

1. will this reshuffle all of your cards back into your deck
2. will jokers like idol or rebate change which suit/rank it affects

[velvet fossil]

so how is the lantern harder than the pillar

[dry galleon]

Yes, it's like entering a new blind

[gaunt cosmos]

ok

[dry galleon]

Cards that influence scoring when kept in hand (steel cards) are debuffsd and it counts cards played in the boss blind

[gaunt cosmos]

i think it should just be all cards drawn to hand this ante (played or not) are debuffed

aa long as you can see which elite blind your getting b4 u choose this should be fine

[noble reef]

Why is The Stand phrased like this?

If it is not the first hand, hand will not score.

If this debuffs all hands after the first, it would seem to be morally equivalent to having only one hand, but with more steps.

The only thing I can think that this affects is you are able to try the blind before using Luchador.

Am I missing something else? Seems like a weird corner case to specifically allow

(I guess also it affects the cash out, sure)

[dry galleon]

Burglar can be used to cheat The Needle, but its rendered useless against The Stand.

[noble reef]

Good point.

[polar swan]

this is interesting but i don't know about some of them like the arch. I'd be cool with it if you knew what elite blind you'd be going into as you chose

i also don't think the rewards are good enough

[noble reef]

The fact that you get additional rewards that are useful seems like winmore.

[velvet fossil]

it could be a stake instead, as already suggested

[noble reef]

Maybe the option of taking an elite blind could make the rest of your run harder to compensate for the extra resources, like permanent x1.25 scaling per elite blind taken (based on the fact elite blind scaling is x2.5 base, so this value is 2.5/2). Then it's a risk reward mechanic.

one that you can take when your run is doing well to keep things interesting.