negative perkeo + brainstorm ante 1 small blind skip, red seal or blueprint + overstock ante 2 | Balatro | Page 1

keen pecan Apr 3, 2026, 4:48 AM

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small guide for ante 1/2, i am doing this on gold stake so you will probably be able to get away with a lot more on white stake
ante 1:
skip small blind, take judgement and soul for negative perkeo + brainstorm, you can skip big blind aswell for a four of a kind to win the boss blind
big blind, you can go for the k/10 full house, you'll get the hand in 2 discards and that'll win if you're on ghost and used your hex on brainstorm, if you aren't playing ghost discard for the diamonds flush. in shop, you can roll once and find a swashbuckler for decent earlygame mult, there aren't any consumables that you can copy from this shop
boss blind, if you didn't pick up a mult option, discard looking for aces and 7s, in one discard you should have a full house and a two pair will be in your hand after which wins with the poly bs
ante 2:
pick up the free reroll if you wish to, roll once in the small blind shop, and pick up one of the mult options if you didn't earlier. you can roll again or wait until the next blind to pick up a mercury so you have something to copy and sell or use as you wish
small blind should be pretty easy if you picked up any mult along the way
big blind shop will have a mercury if you rolled once in the small blind shop, pick that up to copy
big blind is not very difficult if you picked literally any joker at all up throughout this
boss blind shop, you have a choice to make.
option 1: you roll down until you have 4$ or more, nothing found in the shop is especially valuable except the egg on orange or lower stakes, open the spectral pack and take the wraith to get a clean blueprint.
option 2: save your money, open the spectral pack to get a red seal with a king visible
i have not scouted any further than here, so you're on your own now! have fun ^^

||ignore how weird the screenshot looks i just wanted it to look clean lol||

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IYG199UP

sinful igloo Apr 3, 2026, 4:53 AM

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I can see this being reasonable, it’s just a matter as to if sacrificing a few copies is worth the overstock.

keen pecan Apr 3, 2026, 4:53 AM

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left out ante 2 big blind shop woops

sinful igloo Apr 3, 2026, 4:54 AM

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keen pecan left out ante 2 big blind shop woops

I’ll check the seed. Also, is there a way to get wraith as of now in normal shops?

keen pecan Apr 3, 2026, 4:55 AM

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normal shops?

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ghost deck ig

sinful igloo Apr 3, 2026, 4:55 AM

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keen pecan normal shops?

Yea, the ghost deck exclusive ones

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In simplest terms, I plan to go for wraith and showman for more copies

keen pecan Apr 3, 2026, 4:56 AM

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there aren't any spectrals in the first 2 antes outside of that pack unless i just did terribly with econ which hopefully other people will talk about and i'll update the guide accordingly

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wait if you roll hard enough in ante 2 shops you can get a wraith on ghost deck

sinful igloo Apr 3, 2026, 4:58 AM

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I saw that. Also, there is a showman ante 3

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Ty for the seed pivot.

keen pecan Apr 3, 2026, 4:59 AM

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oh damn

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i gotta play this on white stake

sinful igloo Apr 3, 2026, 5:00 AM

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keen pecan i gotta play this on white stake

I just checked, if you skip ante 1 big blind you get quad kings for boss

keen pecan Apr 3, 2026, 5:01 AM

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added that to the guide

keen pecan Apr 3, 2026, 5:18 AM

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if you use a wraith in ante 3 you get a baron

sinful igloo Apr 3, 2026, 5:25 AM

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keen pecan if you use a wraith in ante 3 you get a baron

Where do we get a wraith though?

keen pecan Apr 3, 2026, 5:26 AM

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keen pecan wait if you roll hard enough in ante 2 shops you can get a wraith on ghost deck

ghost deck unfortunately

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ante 6 has overstock plus

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there's reroll surplus and blank somewhere between ante 3 and 5

keen pecan Apr 3, 2026, 5:50 AM

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going for the showman was a mistake

sinful igloo Apr 3, 2026, 5:52 AM

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keen pecan going for the showman was a mistake

Survived plant somehow.

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keen pecan Apr 3, 2026, 5:52 AM

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damnn

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goated

sinful igloo Apr 3, 2026, 5:53 AM

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First spectral pack ante 8 has Déjà vu

#negative perkeo + brainstorm ante 1 small blind skip, red seal or blueprint + overstock ante 2