Balatro

I took the pair pill, and I loved it. Made it to ante 11 green stakes with a pair build.

Picked up an early burnt joker and always discarded a pair, got pair up to level 20.
Was spamming 2's and had a wee joker that gave +500 chips

Was playing the anal deck, in ante 8 small blind I saw an opportunity to burn like 5 saved double tags to boost four of a kind to level 24. Did it.

Never got a single decent X multiplication joker but had 3 polychrome ones and only playing two cards for a pair gave a hell of a lot of room for steel cards in hand. By far the dumbest and funniest deck I've beat Ante 8 with.

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  1. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    >open spectral deck in ante 2
    >turns a whole hand into 9s
    >immediately pick up cloud 9 joker
    >eventually end up with 20 9s in the deck and >400 gold with bull
    >carried to ante 11

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      I just got to $400 with the Analglyph deck with Bootstrap and To the Moon to unlock Satellite
      it seems okay

  2. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    that wasn't that bad, why do people cry about speedrunner?

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      kys, moron

  3. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Get Gros Michel
    >Lasts 1 round
    >Get Cavendish in the shop it broke on
    >Lasts 1 round
    Very impressive rolling mister Joker

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      I don't believe this happened

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        It did just five minutes ago. Maybe, the gros michel lasted two rounds. But the cavendish? Poof.
        I wish I was the recording type right now.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      The moment this happens I'm uninstalling the game and removing it from my library.

  4. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    Okay I beat the game like 3 times. What do I do now besides beat it again

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      beat it with every deck
      beat it on the highest difficulty
      get all the unlocks
      beat all the challenges
      beat the game on the highest difficulty with every single joker to collect all the gold stickers

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        If you're mentally well you won't get the gold stake chip on every joker. I even struggle to justify getting the gold stake chip on every deck. I did it once, and I don't know if I'm doing it again. Probably stopping on purple with the rest of the decks unless they balance this shit.
        I could play Balatro for the rest of my life and I'd probably never make it.

  5. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    am i missing something or does the plasma deck actually suck? it's extremely joker dependent. yeah, maybe you can get some crazy shit going but it's harder than any other deck.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      >ante 1-3 the score requirements are too low for the x2 to matter
      >4-6 the scaling kicks in and ruins your run if you don't have some decent chips or a godly set of jokers by this point
      >if you made it to 7+ it's pretty much always an ez clear

  6. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    For me, it was ante 11 Full House spare pants, and some legendary that gave 5x after 23 discards.

  7. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    got lucky and beat orange stake on my 2nd or 3rd run, i forget. time to do gold stake and then never touch stakes again

  8. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    AAAAAAAAAAAA I CANT STOP USING FLUSHES HELP MEEEEEEEE

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      You'll stop on your own when you want to climb higher than green stake.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      Flush deez

  9. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Negative, useless jokers keep popping up within the same run

  10. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    If I frick this up, I am the worst player on the face of the earth.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      I curse you with banana explode within the next ante

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      >The Tribe
      It's already joever.

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        It's nice this early in the run, I just replaced it with a scaling mult. I will not lose.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      Violet Vessel almost cucked me but I didn't choke.

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        >banana survived
        anon fumbled the curse.

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          Balatro gods just trying to get me to gold stake so I can never use the red deck again.

          I have no idea when to skip blinds and when not to.
          Please help.

          What stake/difficulty are you on? Higher difficulties take away the money reward from the small blind, so skipping that one becomes kind of a no-brainer.

          Generally speaking, you skip blinds if the tag is better than a shop visit. Simple as. If your scores are popping and you feel confident that you can beat the next blind without a store, evaluate if the tag is worth taking, and if so, then take it. Most of them are worse than a store visit in almost all cases, so skipping is usually not a great idea unless your run is going well and you're going for a win-more option (like a guaranteed negative joker, or doubling your money).

  11. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    Patiently waiting for more modding tools so I can make all my cards and jokers be erotic, pure coom, by using the latest AI slop generation technology.

  12. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    I didn't read the full description of Hex and used it before the ante 8 boss

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      RIP

  13. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    >30 runs
    >0 wins
    I can't get a damn run off the ground. I DON'T GET IT. THE JOKERS ARE USELESS IN MY GAMES AND I CAN'T GET POINTS AFTER THE THIRD BOSS AAAAAAA

  14. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    I have no idea when to skip blinds and when not to.
    Please help.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      This is when you skip blinds. And then you take -1 ante to skip even more.

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        a good scaling joker would get better scaling by playing through the blinds

  15. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    What's the value of retrigger effects? Why are hack, sock and buskin, and mime always sss tier? Is it about glass cards or mult cards or what?

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      Retriggers can retrigger the card's on play effects, and retrigger any jokers that proc off them being played, and retrigger in hand effects like steel depending on the situation

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      the very best endless scaling is based on retriggers. but even before that there are plenty of jokers that trigger on scoring so doubling them can be quite useful.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      steel and lucky cards are broken

  16. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    >only challenge left is jokerless

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      embrace steel

  17. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    I think I'm just quitting at purple. Nothing I do can possibly keep up with this shit.

  18. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    I dont know why i went in for another dip but i won

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      Was it fun? I'm climbing with plasma deck a little bit, it's very different and it's enjoyable so far.

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        Erratic is fun it's my personal favorite

  19. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    Pairgods... This is as far as I go.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      BECAUSE I FRICKING WON AND YOU'RE CRAZY IF YOU THINK I'M GOING INTO ENDLESS, PAIRCHADS CAN'T STOP WINNING

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      BECAUSE I FRICKING WON AND YOU'RE CRAZY IF YOU THINK I'M GOING INTO ENDLESS, PAIRCHADS CAN'T STOP WINNING

      BASED pairchad

  20. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    High Card, Pair, Two Pair, and Full House are the best hands.

  21. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    Beat blue stake with a Flush and Pair deck.
    I honestly think yellow deck makes a lot of these higher stakes so much easier.

  22. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    The Plasma deck is fricking brainless levels of easy to use, holy shit.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      it's not even the same game
      +chips jokers early are busted using the plasma deck, they carry you for the first 3 antes, you don't even need multipliers until ante 4 and you win by playing high card

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        You don't need multipliers at all. Just chip stack.

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          I haven't reached higher stakes yet, I don't know if purple onwards you need to stack thousands of multiplier to balance your score and beat ante 7-8 since everything is x2
          afaik it's impossible to scale your chips beyond a few hundreds unless you have bull and insane turbo scrooge mcduck economy or something
          but yeah the first stakes are so derpy, I beat them while listening to a video and only half paying attention

          • 3 months ago
            Anonymous

            Since its finding the median between the two numbers all you need to do is stack as many chips as you can and have the lowest amount of mult for the best result. You need no mult stacking for the deck.

            • 3 months ago
              Anonymous

              It's the average, not the median. Mult still adds to the value, it doesn't subtract from it.
              I get it, the other anon posted a good example showing that you can beat orange stake stacking chips with some moronic commons. I just thought that you couldn't stack enough chips normally but turns out you can.
              I still haven't reached purple so I couldn't tell beforehand.

              My point is that mult stacking can get you to couple dozen thousands which would average for insane points and there's no way to stack that many chips. But I guess stacking 800 chips with cards I don't normally use just fricks.

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          I haven't reached higher stakes yet, I don't know if purple onwards you need to stack thousands of multiplier to balance your score and beat ante 7-8 since everything is x2
          afaik it's impossible to scale your chips beyond a few hundreds unless you have bull and insane turbo scrooge mcduck economy or something
          but yeah the first stakes are so derpy, I beat them while listening to a video and only half paying attention

          it's true, I just won with this hand on Orange Stake by just playing any 4 cards, not even going for hands
          grabbing both Ante Down's really helped me get my Square Jokers up, the most played hand being high card is because I just always picked the lowest 4 cards lmao

          • 3 months ago
            Anonymous

            god damn this game is even more moronic than I imagined
            alright chipstackchad, I kneel

            • 3 months ago
              Anonymous

              plasma deck is the deck that should've been locked behind beating any deck on gold stake

  23. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    I hate that when there aren't much jokers left to discover, you have to just throw the game away and sell one of your jokers to buy it and 'discover' it just to check it off.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      that's why you play as far as you can in endless so you don't feel bad about dumping your run to discover something

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      you dont actually have to do that. the developer has trapped in you in a maze of illusions and has made you think you need to check it off. you really dont

  24. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    If you look at this picture and genuinely believe this game doesn't have a desire sensor, you're moronic. Glad I pirated.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      What hand were you going for with this?

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        Could any of the 3 remaining cards in your deck have gave you the hand you were looking for?

        Sorry, wrong pic. BULLSHIT

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      Could any of the 3 remaining cards in your deck have gave you the hand you were looking for?

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      Happens to me all the time
      >going for flushes
      >4 spades in hand
      >discard 4 non-spades
      >draw 4 non-spades
      >discard again
      >draw 4 non-spades

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        You're close my child... close to being enlightened and understanding the power of pairchads...

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          I've already accepted pairs into my life. Flushes are just too good for the early game...

          • 3 months ago
            Anonymous

            Good, good... congratulations on understanding the power within.

  25. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    Hearts represent nobles.
    Diamonds represent merchants.
    Clubs represent soldiers.
    Spades represent workers.
    Choose your faction carerully...

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      clubs > spades > diamonds > hearts
      from a purely gameplay perspective

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        You mean the jokers that trigger from different suits are not all uniform? So the club focused ones are the best?

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          there's a cycle of 4 that has a different effect on scoring a card of each suit. Clubs is +8 mult, spade is +50 chips, diamond is +1$, heart is 1 out of 3 chance for 2x mult. There's two more relevant jokers that don't have an equivalent. Blackboard gives you 3x mult if your hand has all clubs or spades. There's a club one I forget the name of that gives you 2x mult if you score a club and at least one other suit.

          [...]
          Bloodstone > Arrowhead > Rough Gem = Onyx Agate

          bloodstone is too random and whenever I tried it I would only ever get 1-2 procs out of a flush at best.

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          Seeing Double, Onyx, and Gluttonous give x2, +8, +4 to clubs

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      clubs > spades > diamonds > hearts
      from a purely gameplay perspective

      Bloodstone > Arrowhead > Rough Gem = Onyx Agate

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        they all have their uses, my personal favorite is arrowhead because its a source of chips instead of mult, which pairs really well with wrathful joker, and the both of them solve both your chips and +mult at once if youre lucky
        onyx agate is also pretty good, getting double the mult than you would with gluttonous joker is a bargain. personally i like arrowhead more since you just get more mult on top of the mult you already get from gluttonous joker, but thats still a very decent effect.
        rough gem seems alright on paper but i havent managed to get it to work super well. bloodstone always fricks me when i need it most. kind of starting to hate it even when its really good in theory.
        does this track well?

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Diamonds represent merchants.
      >Rough Gem gives you $1 every time you play a diamond card

      You mean the jokers that trigger from different suits are not all uniform? So the club focused ones are the best?

      There's 4 more suit-based jokers that you can unlock by having 30 of a suit in your deck

  26. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Matador doesn't work on The Tooth

    WHAT ARE YOU GOOD FOR THEN YOU ABSOLUTE PIECE OF SHIT

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      >doesn't work on The Hook either

      What DOES it work on?

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        I had it work on The Fish, but it only procced once.

  27. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    >very first blind has a polychrome tag
    >skip for it
    >second blind is $5 per skip
    >skip so I can afford the polychrome joker
    >defeat the boss
    >shop has two planets for sale
    >not enough money to both reroll and buy the joker
    I got fricking scammed holy shit

  28. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    this reddit meta thread literally ruined the game for me hopefully it'll ruin it for yall https://www.reddit.com/r/balatro/s/5mtLa7mk4A

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      >been playing like this for days
      damn guess the secret's out, but that's just the way I learned to play from these threads

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      saw this same thread. this is exactly the kind of person that is appealed by a challenge that strips away the #1 most unique and fun mechanic of the game

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      Nope. Not touching. I'm having FUN.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      I was expecting more out of this, this is just generically good advice that you'll probably figure out on your own after playing for a while.

  29. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    worth it?
    what should I sell though

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      Sell Baseball Card, trust

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        Baseball, you might get a worse card out of the legendary cuz some are pretty bad, fair warning.

        but baseball is 3.3x or so, guaranteed, while the pair one is not guaranteed

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          If you're not running a pair deck, then yeah, get rid of that one. Just noticed all the spades, guessing this is a flush build.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      Baseball, you might get a worse card out of the legendary cuz some are pretty bad, fair warning.

  30. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    >madness on first shop
    The run was pure excitement, indeed. I'm suprised that it's possible to get incredibly far relying only madness and a high scoring hand

  31. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    UPDATE'S OUT
    hope you got your bugged Completionist+ cheevo :^ )

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      >removed option to continue a run you are currently playing
      am I understanding correctly? no more save & quit?

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        Can't be that.
        Doing this is one of the joker unlock criteria.
        Probably some weird behavior of actually continuing the same run you're already on.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      >hope you got your bugged Completionist+ cheevo :^ )
      Eh, if I wanted it without doing the pain of Gold Stakes of every deck, I'd just CreamAPI it.

      >removed option to continue a run you are currently playing
      am I understanding correctly? no more save & quit?

      I think it has to do with being able to bug out the game (probably something to do with RNG) by just reloading your save every time while in the run. You can still continue from the main menu.

  32. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    Thoughts on painted deck? I think it's pretty okay

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      I just used it to get the Invisible Joker. It's alright, but I don't think it can climb up super high in 8+ Antes because of the Joker limit unless you get the Antimatter Voucher or lots of Negatives. The increased hand size is really convenient for making good hands and also negating the weakness of Ectoplasm.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      feels like jokers that dont give mult or chips are basically unusable with it
      makes it hard to scale

  33. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    i fricking hate acrobat

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      Why? If your deck is consistent it's like getting three more hands.

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        basically i have to sacrifice 3$ every round just to survive if i choose to build around it, it also makes me play lazy

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        It's really more like two more hands if you think about it

  34. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Ox as Boss Blind
    >Forgot to spend money at shop right before it
    >Guess I'll lose all my money
    >Play Straight to set money to 0
    >Accidentally get Straight Flush hands and pass it without losing a dime
    It's as shrimple as that.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      >been dumping hands to trigger dusk
      >ox targets high card instead of my flush 5 I'm actually playing
      Did have to find some pairs to dump but still easy win

  35. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    Please god just give me a score joker god please.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Gold Stakes
      We're praying for you, bro

  36. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    high card pill me
    what jokers do i get, and how do I play it?

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Jokers to get
      Burnt Joker, Half Joker, multipliers, Splash is nice but not necessary, and whatever synergizes with your deck
      >How to play it
      Play the highest card in your hand that gives you the best multipliers, discard a card every turn to activate Burnt Joker (make sure it's only a High Card hand).

  37. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    Took me a week to realize you should put +chip on low rank cards and +mult on face cards

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      This isn't really the case. You should put whichever one you need on whichever cards you're going to play. Scoring is about balance, so you want whichever modifier you're lacking.

  38. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    why does wheel of fortune not work?

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous
  39. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    gib tips for nebula deck
    What are some good tarot cards to copy with ze fool

  40. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    >only 80 hours in and alrady getting bored
    it's over...gaming has fallen

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      im at 74 currently, i can see myself having 200 by the end of the year at least. ill at least try to get gold stakes on every deck

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        I must suck at this game because red stake stumped me for a while restarting at the early game.

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        I honestly can't see myself grinding every deck through orange and gold stake unless they make ante 1 more consistent without resets or just let you skip ahead to gold stake if you beat it with one.

  41. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    Flushsloppers rise up

  42. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    weeman

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      holy shit lol

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        I need this little guy.

        its only worth using if you find him early and have some form of retrigger. Hack, seltzer, hanging chad

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      I need this little guy.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      How the frick

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      How the frick

      That's 128 activations of a 2. Or 32 4-of-a-kind hands. It would also work with Hack and Fibonacci, so it could be 16 4-of-a-kind hands, which isn't too unreasonable through a run.

  43. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    I am getting absolute jack shit for jokers on green deck

  44. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    Am I wrong in thinking that one should try to go for flushes?

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      they are the easiest deck to build for, yes
      don't let that turn you away from other options if you see support for them

  45. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    I SUCK AT RUNNING A TWO PAIR RUN AAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!
    PANTS NEVER DROP!!!!!!!!!

  46. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    >turn my entire deck into diamonds
    >lose because I get no jokers that synergize
    COOL!!! 🙂

  47. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    surely it's not worth it

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Disable all Boss Blinds
      >Copy Consumables
      >Gains mult for destroying face cards
      Are you willing to risk that 1/3 chance

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        Don't USE the SPECTRAL card

        I skipped it and finally cashed in my double tags

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      Don't USE the SPECTRAL card

  48. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    so how win gold stake

  49. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    Should I get this for a long fail two pair and pair run?

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      Get it and make sure to buy that fricking voucher

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        i pretty much always buy credit card just to have the option open
        also free chips

        buy it, and hope for the blind that resets your money to $0 if you play a specific hand so it brings you out of the negatives

        So far so good, just idk when to drop the debit card. I also got a chance for a poly card after skipping the small bind.

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          drop it when you find something better to replace it with, also keep in mind staying in the negatives makes it so you don't earn interest after every round (typically you want to stay at around $20-$25 dollars for maximum interest)

          • 3 months ago
            Anonymous

            thank you for the advice

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      i pretty much always buy credit card just to have the option open
      also free chips

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      buy it, and hope for the blind that resets your money to $0 if you play a specific hand so it brings you out of the negatives

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      i pretty much always buy credit card just to have the option open
      also free chips

      Credit card fricking sucks. If you're not getting interest on your money you just fall way behind. It's literally about half your income if you don't have a dollar-generating joker. Use case of credit card is specifically only when you need something else from that particular shop but can't afford it.

  50. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    I spent all day at work thinking about how to even beging to approach "The Omelette" and decided I'd need to restart until I got Swashbuckler, then I got it on the first try and everything played itself exactly as planned. ez frickin challenge

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      just treat eggs like your income and slowly sell them over the course of the game to get good jokers
      its literally impossible to lose omelette

  51. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Blueprint and Brainstorm can't copy the effects of Rocket and Golden Joker, probably Satellite too
    My money farm...

  52. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    Any guides for challenges so far?

  53. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    >play on switch
    >accidentally press wrong button once
    >run is immediately lost

  54. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    For me, it's the Misprint

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      He is the essence of gambling.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      Misprint and communism are good early game, but they are rather sad endgame

  55. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    wat

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      Bug fix, you can still suspend and resume a game.

  56. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    >polychrome on a joker that already has Xmult
    Better than sex

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      >ghost deck
      >do the ante 1 small blind
      >shop has spectral pack
      >it has Wraith
      >it gives me Campfire
      >I still have Hex
      Earliest I've ever won a run.

  57. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    Kinda hate how the those two good spectral pack options frick you over with reducing your hand size. There aren't many ways to increase your hand size, so those spectral options really frick you over pretty quick. And considering how necessary negative jokers are for endless and how fricking rare they are without spectral cards it's really obnoxious.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      Joker packs desperately need to have their edition drop rate increased. At this rate they're functionally a more expensive shop re-roll.

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        >packs cost $4
        >rerolls are at least $5
        >AND you have to pay for the joker itself
        >more expensive shop re-roll
        ???

        Does blueprint copy the effect of another blueprint or will it just not work

        Blueprints/Brainstorms don't copy each other per se, but they chain along. So Blueprint Blueprint Joker Brainstorm will activate the Joker 4 times.

  58. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    of course i get this on the faceless deck

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      What an actually shit legendary.

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        It's up to a 32x multiplier that can become a up-to-1024x multiplier if you double face card activations. The frick you talking about.

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        brainlet detected

  59. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    If I play a Spectral deck, am I increasing my chances of finding a legendary joker?

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      I don't think so. That soul card seems to show up in tarot packs just as often. I think it's only spectral in the same way the black hole one is spectral, which doesn't show up in spectral packs.

  60. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    How the frick do you beat the glass card challenge

    Feels like three of a kind is the best bet and try to best every blind with one hand

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      I beat it first try by skipping every blind that I could, and going for flushes
      The math adds up, managed to beat the game before running out of cards.

  61. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    Does blueprint copy the effect of another blueprint or will it just not work

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      They'll be marked incompatible I believe.

  62. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Jokerless challenge

    AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
    IM GOING FRICKING INSANE

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      take the stone and steel pill

  63. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    Post custom card ideas
    >Snowman - Jacks are also 8s and 8s are also Jacks
    >Darkroom - Sell to make random joker negative
    >Jelqer - +4 Mult whenever you score your highest hand this game

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Regal Destiny - After playing 10 Royal Flushes, this Joker turns into a Legendary.

      Thats it. This is all i want.
      Make Royal Flushes actually important
      And add a reliable way to get a Legendary thats decently hard

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        I would love this. Royal Flushes never got any loce in the game.

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        >Flush decks getting a buff
        LOCK ME UP

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      >808s - any card scored between two scored eights instead becomes a multiplier bonus
      >substitute - this joker can be modified like a playing card, and can be dragged into your hand once per round, where it acts as a card with a wild rank and suit

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      I'm surprised there's no Joker for a hand that adds up to adds up to 21. Then again Pair/3oak builds don't need any more buffs.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      >six shooter - can play 6 cards
      >ouroboros - straights can go through aces
      >charity - playing your least played hand levels all your other hands

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Bear
      Can go up to -100 in debt.
      -2 chips per dosh of debt.
      Can't be sold whilst in debt.

      >Polymerisation
      At the start of the round destroy this joker , and the two next to it. Then create a new joker that has 1/2 chance to trigger the (former) left joker and 1/2 the (former) right joker.

      Both can trigger, works with the dice.

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        >turn 2 Jokers into 1 Joker that needs another card to have the base functionality of the 2 original cards

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Loan
      >Instantly gives you $10 x Current Ante
      >subtracts 1.5x amount from your wallet after beating the next boss blind

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      snowman and darkroom are cool ideas. darkroom would probably have to be rare though, seems too op otherwise

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Encore: Blinds only end when you run out of hands/discards.
      >Travel Case: Cards can have multiple enhancements/foils/seals
      >Polished: Enhancing an already enhanced card, applies a random Seal/Edition
      >Straitjacket: Played Straights converts all cards played into a random suit after scoring.
      >Antimatter: Playing five different hands in a row, produces a Blackhole.
      >Tourist: +0.1x multiplier per unique Joker seen after this was bought.
      >Fratellini: All Common Jokers are Negative.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      >BBJ
      Spade face cards are activated twice, Queens thrice
      >Jockold
      x2 mult when a queen of spades is scored, 1 in 4 chance to turn any queen into spades suit when scored

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Ringleader
      x4 mult if none of your other jokers share the same edition.

  64. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    Whenever I try a new deck if I win I usually lose by ante 10-11 because I usually frick up and make decks that don't exponentially scale, but are there any gameplay incentives/unlocks to go for 16/8 or is it just for pure fun?

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      Gotta' hit 100mil and beat ante 12 for 2 of the jokers.

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        So glad I got midas and vampire together to get those so I don't have to seethe searching for them.

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        legendary?

  65. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    So is this game about finding a single synergy early and going all in on it?
    Maybe it stops working on higher difficulties but I don't see it, all you need to do here is score big points, there are no other considerations in a deck like attack/defense/frontload/scaling

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Maybe it stops working on higher difficulties but I don't see it, all you need to do here is score big points, there are no other considerations in a deck like attack/defense/frontload/scaling

      Scoring big is hard without fricking with your deck like putting 10 Glass aces in it, and you can't frick with your deck if you don't have an economy to do so, the game is really all about trying weight economy with scaling

  66. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    face decks are becoming my fav for higher stakes

  67. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    Hope they add a lot more shit to the game. And don't just take the bag.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      >they
      Solo artist/dev

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        Yes. So I would refer to them, as 'they'. Dumb b***h.

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          LocalThunk is just a normal dude though. Read an interview.

          • 3 months ago
            Anonymous

            Yes, he's normal. You have mental illness.

            • 3 months ago
              Anonymous

              But he's the only guy working on the game. He's the artist and the dev. So no need for they.

  68. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    the frick...

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      Yeah, it's very not fun to play with colored stakes.

  69. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Orange Stake
    >I get a good start
    >Get to Ante 3
    >My draws are terrible and I lose
    >Repeat ad infinitum

  70. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    3rd time today i've gotten a high card gold stake run going only for the eye to appear on ante 7. i'm never beating this stake am i lol. haha!

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      >high card build
      >struggling with The Eye
      oh shit homie what r u doin
      Didn't even realise builds like this were possible. What, you've used 20 plutos without a single other planet or something?

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      finally, a few runs later. didn't take me as long as i thought it would but it also took longer than i thought it would. frick off. time to play white stake forever. the stakes really do ruin your enjoyment of the game

  71. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    The Eye is too powerful. The game revolves around powering up the same combinations and playing them again and again. Unless you're too OP or roll a reroll option, you're toast.

  72. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    she looks like Meiling from Touhou

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      Here he is in real life, he looks like an ai shitpost all the legendary jokers are real court jesters

  73. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    Its Balatrover

  74. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    Wait I took a voucher that said -1 ante -1 hand but I still have to play all 8?
    Where's the upside?

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      get an extra round to scale and fish for an OP synergy

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        But I don't see what changed.
        I still played 8 antes 3 blinds each with a boss at the end.

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          you play 3 extra rounds

          • 3 months ago
            Anonymous

            Ohhhh it makes you play one ante again. I thought it looked rather easy from the scores required.

  75. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    Higher difficulties should have some bonus to balance the maluses
    As of now higher difficulties is just playing the game again but worse

  76. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    >end up with negative money after that one boss blind
    >use tarot card that doubles your money
    >use tarot card that plays the previous tarot card
    Frick you I won't do what you tell me.

  77. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    Assume the people who made The binding of Isaac are called to balance the game.
    What will change?

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      Nothing will be buffed, the devs will just ruin the handful of Jokers that can carry people through Endless and ensure nobody plays Gold stake again.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      They'll add 20 decks you can only unlock by beating Gold Stake with other decks and they'll all be worse than Black.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      You can just call him Edmund lmao

      Clearly he'd just blow out the item pool with bad jokers

      Most of Balatro is sincerely derivative of Isaac, Spectral Packs are just devil rooms

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        >giving strong boons with a drawback is the invention of edmund
        yo zoomer, video games existed before 2011

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      add 300 jokers that are stuff like +3 mult when you play a 6 and a 9 in the same hand
      add 15 new decks, one for beating each deck gold stake
      make cavendish 1 in 50 chance
      nerf stuntman

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      Boss rush
      Boss rush again
      Boss rush again again

  78. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    am I doing something wrong or do I just have terrible luck? i seem to pull the same 8-10 shitty jokers non stop no matter what deck I try

  79. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    there are no shit jokers only shit players

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      There are shit jokers

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      >superposition
      >not shit

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      Bus stop joker scales like shit even in the one deck it shines at

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        >a good run plays about 30 hands
        >have to scale it under very restrictive conditions unless you're running abandoned deck
        >have to forego all face-buffing jokers for a +mult that might hit +25 by the time you play the final hand of ante 8
        would chips save bus stop

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          They should make it more restrictive by making it only work when you're under $5
          But in return it should scale like mad
          Say +4 or more per hand but resets if you start a blind with more than $5

          • 3 months ago
            Anonymous

            Back in the beta ride the bus was the only joker that scaled and scaled twice as fast and it was pretty much the only way to win the game, shit was dumb as frick
            Also no idea what the other anon is about, you have 3 blinds, 4 hands x blind and 8 ante, 8x3x4 = 84, you subtract the first blind, if you buy ride the bus as earlier as possible it would get to 80

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          its called riding the bus because the bus is short and you are moronic if you pick it

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          Maybe it could also give something like 0.5 every time you discard a face card, so that you still have to keep them in your deck and play around them which adds dead draws but in turn lets you make the joker stronger.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      Half of them are shit in higher difficulties, they simply don't scale well at all even if you pair them with jokers that synergy and your deck is fit for them

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        >half of them are shit
        Wouldn't be much of a game if they weren't

  80. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    I finished the game 4 times, just now with the black deck and i found out that you can only have one modifier each card :')

  81. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    The joker that increases odds makes glass cards and bananas worse not better, right?

  82. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    What makes a High Card deck? Can anyone give me examples of Jokers that make it work?

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      Can you see past runs somewhere? I just had one (only on the basic difficulty though).

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      Got 3 levelups for skipping a blind. In the end pairs ended up scoring more, but a single face card oneshotted every non-boss blind throughout the run.

  83. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    >25% chance to level up joker
    >copy the ability joker
    >double all odds joker
    Got two pair to like level 35. Still couldn't beat ante 11

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      it's a meme build
      burnt joker does everything you want for 1 joker slot

  84. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    >get pic related
    >get any card that gives chips (even a foil will do)
    >just click the on the lowest cards in your hand every turn
    >find literally any other jokers that do anything to make you win in the 3+ antes this strategy will carry you all on its own on any stake difficulty (I won gold stake on green deck with this powering me for well over half the run)
    >win

    its just that easy, this card is so versatile and strong

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      Now try that with the fortune teller joker that procs all cards in your hand again.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      Yeah. I like it.

  85. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    Whelp this was totally cracked, wont be beating this soon or ever. No idea how you're supposed to scale past this point without foil jokers or red seals and even then it seems like a drop in the ocean. Died in Ante 16

  86. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    just had to deal with credit card fraud should i play flush or try to do high card today

  87. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Reach Gold Stake
    >"Come on it can't be that much worse"
    >Struggle to clear Ante 1
    >Get to Ante 2 with no money
    >Can't buy shit
    >If I can the Jokers are shit
    >R
    >Repeat

  88. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    kek
    https://twitter.com/GermanStrands/status/1765866360054137215

  89. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    Can we get much higher

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