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Ghost Deck - Gold Stake
Played a Full House (three 10s two 9s) on Round 1, got Gluttonous Joker in Shop 1 and used Hex card.
Played Club Flushes and saved money until I encountered a Jumbo Joker Booster sometime before Ante 3. Inside was an eternal Troubadour and a Business Card.
A few shops after, sometime before Round 7, I encountered an Eternal Rental Pareidolia which I thought might boost the money from Business Card.
Almost immediately after I was looking in Tarot Packs for The Moon to create more clubs, and encountered a Legendary. It was Canio, a very lucky synergy with Pareidolia.
Almost immediately after that a Trading Card appeared in the shop, which synergized even further with Canio and Pareidolia.
Before Canio got supercharged there was a boss blind with The Mark which required completely blind hands because of Pareidolia. I probably should have had a strategy for that but I got both lazy and lucky and cleared it by random choice.
I was pursuing Completionist++ at the time and chose suboptimal Jokers to fill out the rest of my slots. Other players might also find Hanging Chad, Photograph and Smiley Face several times leading up to Ante 8/9.
There was also a natural Negative Mr Bones in one of the shops before Ante 9, and a few stray encounters with Ectoplasm spectral cards to expand the joker slots if needed.
Tarot packs and purple seals were rather generous with Hanged Man cards to boost Canio. But the run never felt exponential despite an easy Ante 8 clear because Blue Seals were completely absent from booster pack and card packs. Planet cards also felt scarce, only got Flush upgraded to 7.
Easy and satisfying Pareidola and Canio seed, which someone not chasing Completionist++ might have fun supercharging even more.
