Seasonal Jokers

[spring talon]

Spring Joker - Upon blind selection, adds a random card to your deck. If this card is scored this round, creates a negative egg joker and self destructs.

Summer Joker - If first hand played in a blind contains a <random hand>, gain 0.25x Mult (Currently x1 Mult)

Autumn Joker - On the final hand of the blind, grants $2 for each card scored.

Winter Joker - At the end of the round, destroy all consumables, generate a random consumable for each destroyed (must have room).

All uncommon, $7

Mechanics notes:

Spring - random cards have the same distribution as Standard Packs.

Summer - same as Todo list.

Autumn - on scoring effect, so it is retriggerable.

Winter - Consumable is generated from the available consumables (as if Showman were in effect). No Soul or Black Hole. Consumables are generated uniformly at random. Secret hands must be unlocked for their card to appear.

Theming notes:

Spring is Easter, and specifically an Easter Egg hunt.

Summer I'm kinda bankrupt on ideas, so it's kinda just a "halfway-ish through the blind" effect. Soliciting more interesting ideas.

Autumn is referencing harvesting.

Winter is referencing trading gifts on Christmas.

[vocal stream]

Winter feels underpowered to me?
Could change Spring to be a perishable negative egg because otherwise that might be too good

otherwise i really like everything here

[spring talon]

It's a way of generating spectrals, which are reasonably rare, so I kept it pretty tame.

And hunting down which card was generated by the Spring Joker is relatively difficult and it gets worse as your deck gets bigger. But perishable negative egg is probably fine, would make running this at lower stakes weird though.

[vocal stream]

ig if you have a decent way of generating consumables mid-round it'd be better, though my main issue with it is it's awful with blue seals

[spring talon]

I believe jokers trigger end of round before held in hand cards.

[vocal stream]

to be fair, base $7 + four rounds of +$3 = $19 temperance value permanently*, which is quite a lot of value for playing a single card
and it's true that it might feel weird on lower stakes, but at the same time, there's nothing really saying you can't have stickered jokers on low stakes, it's just not something that exists yet

[vocal stream]

either it's before, which means you'd have to block consumable slots and get less blue seal value, or it's after which means you can't get your planet at all
either way it's pretty awkward

especially for what imo looks like the worst option of these jokers already-

[spring talon]

Well. Instead of a weighted pool, would it be better if it's an unweighted pool? So that spectrals show up about 1 in 3 cards?

That would make it slightly less than one spectral per round, which is about the same as other generators.

You don't always find your 6 for sixth sense, and seance is difficult to make straight flushed unless you lean into it hard

[vocal stream]

that, or you could do something along the lines of "...if you destroy at least one consumable this way, fill your consumable slots with random consumables" instead of needing to destroy two to get two, idk

[spring talon]

But then that completely blocks blue seals

Instead of allowing you to get one blue seal value and one winter card.

(for instance)

[vocal stream]

yeaa
it's hard to balance since they're both consumables at the end of round

[spring talon]

And because theming I don't want to move the timing of the effect.

[vocal stream]

might feel too modded but maaaybe you could say that while you have that joker, blue seals now just upgrade the poker hand instead of giving you the planet for it

probably too modded ngl

[spring talon]

Well, I changed the weighting instead

[vocal stream]

fair enough

[spring talon]

As far as Spring, I might make it a mod and see if it's too easy to trigger for it to be balanced