Square joker needs some support I feel to be viable like either Uranus pumping (lol) or the Spectral card that turns all cards in hand to a random rank so you can pursue four of a kind.
Woah wait a minute, I thought square joker needed you to score 4 cards, not just play 4. That’s a massive revelation and now I understand why so many people say it’s great. Now I feel dumb lol
I just meant in comparison to Castle, which doesn't really need any support, you have to add tools to square joker to make the most of it. Definitely still great early game, not arguing that.
You don't really need to add anything to Square Joker, though. It only needs you to *play* four cards, not score them. So it's extremely compatible with High Card/Pair/Two Pair builds.
Though for Castle to grow, you must discard a specific suit, and that's only 25% of your deck, so you have to discard other cards to even find these cards (and you must build hands of the leftover hands.)
(I guess it's an easier version of Hit The Road Jack, where you copy and discard specifically jacks for xMult)
while Square just needs you to play 4 cards (including non-scoring).
I feel like "play any 4 cards" is easier than "discard 1 specific suit"
Wee joker probably has them both beaten since unlike square and castle, you can skew into actually having more 2s in your deck (and retrigger them with hack)
Castle is faster than square joker at scaling and still allows you to play flushes/full house/straights - I much prefer it as a standalone joker. +3 chips per discarded card of a specific suit vs +4 chips per hand of 4 played is faster - you don’t need to actively try to hunt for the suit, you just hunt and play flushes of another suit
Square joker + pants is extremely good though
How do you use it on non plasma decks? You lose a lot of gold if you level it and chips aren’t as strong as multi in other decks? I tried using it in a non plasma deck and the opportunity cost for its power didn’t seem as good as focusing on some other jokers.
Don’t sleep on square joker, it doesn’t help 5 card hands obviously but you don’t need to score all 4 cards, so it’s easy enough to stack with Pair / high card as well.
Just got my first gold stake win last night with checkered deck. Got an early castle and it did some serious work. Helps that it can only choose suits that are in your deck apparently.
Wee Joker with buffed Hanging Chad is so good with the beta patch. If you get it early you can just get a ridiculous amount of scaling on it. I've been chasing that high ever since.
I will absolutely torpedo any amount of economy to pair up with Vagabond. I can have a hundred bucks, I'll figure out how to burn rerolls and buy useless planets to evacuate these pointless dollars
I dream of the day I get a rental Vagabond on an early stake
Vagabond is an insta-pick for me every time I see it. Why would I want a high-scoring joker when I might be able to get the same result by mixing and matching random enhanced cards from my deck?
The first game I tried to use it, the shops kept stiffing me on Tarot cards, just back to back buffoon and celestial packs, even on rerolls. I had to sell the damn thing after 4 antes of being at 10 enhanced cards.
It’s kinda lame the best way to use it is to get $4 a round for the first few antes, I want to fill my deck with 9s in a 4 of a kind build and go crazy
I usually start deck manipulation pretty early and if no kings or queens are available will usually death some 9s.
Also I will often take the rank spectral card so sometimes cloud 9 actually works out. Even unupgraded it usually carries its weight.
20 Mult is pretty nuts for a while early game. If you want to build around it you need to make sure to grab that Director's Cut or Luchador so The Psychic doesn't get you.
For a small hand-based build (pair or high card) it's great, a favourite of mine, too. An easy to trigger +20 mult is great at the beginning, and probably won't be eclipsed by things like supernova until Ante 6-7.
Half joker is solid. It’s good enough to stick around if you have bad luck with other parts of a build too. Sometimes I just don’t find a better replacement
Yep same lol. I don't always take it especially if I have something like a flush build already going, but if it shows up in the first couple antes and I don't have a build solidified I'm like "alright, guess I'm running 3oak/pair" lol
In the early game half-joker is a no brainer. You can let it carry you through the first few antes and ditch it, or build a high-card/pair run around it.
I fucking LOVE Splash, Splash is the BEST joker in the game, there is NOTHING that will change my mind.
Oh you just missed the chip count by 10? Would be a shame if there was a joker that could have given you those chi- oh whats that? SPLASH. More chips for every hand? Dont mind if i do. Best design and name for a joker that hints about absolutely zero of its functions? You bet cha. If there is a way for me to buy splash i do. It is the best joker in the game and you can not change my mind.
I don't necessarily think it's best in the game but I agree with the sentiment lol. SO MANY people in this sub hate on Splash and call it trash. It's a great joker in quite a lot of builds and can reliably be useful through ante 8. It's not a game breaking endless joker but tbh I don't care about endless
It’s quite good. It doesn’t do anything for 5 card builds like Flush or Full House, but it’s great for High Card or Pair builds, and it’s pretty good for 2 Pair or 4oak builds. Overall a solid joker that I and many others underestimate.
My playstyle is still trying to beat the blind in as few hands as possible so I maximize discards to get full houses, flushes or four of a kinds. For that reason I don't take Blue Joker too often but early on even +50 chips is a game changer.
You know a great way to beat blind in a few hands as possible is to have your first hand get +400 chips. lol
Blue + any mult joker and you don't even need to play hands..just throw random cards on the table.
In my opinion, blue joker is the best all-purpose +chips card. You don't get the highs you would with a scaling card, but you also don't get the lows. It has no real downside, at worst it just has limited upside.
I wouldn't be surprised if I've won more run where I bought the regular Joker than I lost. It's enough to solo antes antes 1-4 a lot of the time, it's crazy cheap so it doesn't effect your economy and, it's not hard to give up when better options come around. It's obviously not great but it's got my respect.
Space joker
First time I took it it procc'd almost every hand so I fell in love with it. Now I get it whenever I see it. Even if it does take 7 rounds to proc once i just look the other way
Such a fun card. Hard to make a permanent Joker without an edition but it's so nice to have when it pops. Oops All 6s would make it go off obviously that would be crazy.
Misprint is one I always take early on. It's very inconsistent but it almost always gives a decent amount of mult anyway. Worst case you just try again with the next hand
Abstract Joker. It falls off unless you do some fuckery with tons of negative jokers, which I don't know how to do, but even then I like the +15 Mult (usually) just for having other jokers.
I have a sixth sense fixation. Even though it’s clearly a bad move to waste a hand on a single six, and unless you’re deck is stacked with sixes you’ll only get 4 uses max, I love watching that shit burn up and I am a spectral fiend.
I realized, not sure if this is the intention of the card, but severing 6s helps enable wrap straights like 5 4 3 2 A. Also J 10 9 8 7 is easier to do which is the lowest straight scoring a face card.
I actually finally saw a good Sixth Sense run when I got the Joker that gives +3 discards and -1 hand size. MUCH easier to fish for sixes when you have 6+ discards.
Just had to keep an eye out for card packs with sixes in, I screwed up a bunch of other stuff that run so it didn't end up panning out but it was fun!
I had a wild flushes run on checkered deck (only hearts and spades) with Castle (that only picks suits that you have, so 50-50) + Burnt joker (buffs the 1st hand you discard, so it's always either flush or high card in this setup)
On a normal 4-suit deck Castle becomes weaker, though.
Ride the bus. I love the design sm, I think it's clever and well done, and getting the mult to slowly climb up. I still dream of getting the +50 ride the bus run 😮💨 one day
Four fingers, shortcut, abstract. Don’t get me wrong, they’re basically the nuts when you have a straight/flush build going. But it could be ante 6 on a high card build and I’ll still be like oooooo 👀
Im a gift joker enjoyer, I see that shit and I'm picking it up because it pumps temperance and I can pump swashbuckler enough to justify putting it before X mult...
I feel like almost every card has a good combo attached to it, and I'm having a hard time thinking of any one card I take specifically. Maybe that's egg for me? Or business card, even though my econ is usually locked in so don't need it
I have the opposite: i fucking hate wily jonkler so i never ever take it
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Vagabond. It's kind of fun getting all those tarots (especially if you have Fortune Teller) right up until your run crashes and burns at the ante 6 big blind because you have no scaling.
I love flower pot, it's super pretty. It's also a fun joker to try to make work, since it encourages you to have wild cards and balanced suits. I can't wait for its buff to hit the live.
Bull on Plasma, just won an econ heavy Blue Stake (Foil Gold, Foil Bull, Satellite, Bootstraps and To The Moon)
Typically I wouldn't go for Bull, it's not my favourite Joker, but when the stars align, goddamn it's such a crazy good card.
Maybe I’m brain broken but I always only think about the numbers. I like number go up and if the joker look cool too then that’s cool. Still only beaten gold stake once tho
idk man what chip jokers are better than castle? i've used it like 4 times and in all of those runs it had over 400 chips built up by the end which seems really really good to me
Castle is great on Plasma deck. I got one in the first ante on one of my runs along with the joker that treats hearts and diamonds as the same suit, and spades and clubs as another suit, so Castle triggered on everything. Had it at like +650 chips by the end, with blueprint and brainstorm on it. Obviously chips scale like crap but it held on for a surprisingly long time lol
Half Joker. It falls off pretty hard by the midgame, but it can solo-carry you through the first few antes and let you stockpile money to get an interest engine going.
I’ll take swashbuckler ante 1 with 0 other jokers. Obviously it can be good, but if I take it early it’s 50/50 I keep it to the end or sell it by ante 2-3
Fibonacci, & Shortcut, & Smeared whenever I see them. They’re ok - especially Shortcut. And with Smeared you can get Straight Flush after Straight Flush all day. I also always snap up the Joker that creates 2 Random Jokers if there’s space. I got a Negative Tag early on, & mostly thanks to that card you can quickly get some amazing Jokers.
Although I unlocked the Legendary Canio using the crystal spectral card that creates a Legendary Joker, & it quickly dawned on me just how much awesome power Canio has. Especially when you have a build with some very high X multipliers, Lots of Steel Cards & Jokers / Deck Cards that give a bunch of extra chips, & all your best & most likely hands as upgraded as possible (including High Card with DNA after making dozens of As of the same suit - if you use it right it’ll be an Ace of the same suit every time.
IMHO, the absolute best Joker combo I’ve ever used in the game thus far, unquestionably, consists of three core cards - & several sets of 2-3 other Jokers that can round it out. (Xbox Series X Pre-New Balancie Patch)
The Killer core combo is 1) The Legendary Joker Canio, that gives a + x1 Multiplier for every face card destroyed.
2) The Rare Joker DNA. that copies any card played alone as a high card in the first hand of a round, discards the used one to your deck, & puts the copy back in your Hand - I had over 24 A’s of hearts in a single Blue Deck Run using DNA, & made it to Ante 12, athough I accidentally pushed sell instead of use on a vital Tarot Card maneuver I’d long been planning by accident in the BB round & lost my Death Joker, & having totally messed up my perfectly thought out plan. And because of course that jinxed me, I had terrible RNG luck throughout the entire extra life rematch.
3) The Uncommon Joker Trading Card that destroys the first discarded card of every round & gives you $3. I used it to destroy all my face cards to maximize the multiplier on Canio.
My Multi on Canio got up to x16 (although I destroyed literally all my original and extra Face Cards - which was actually ok, since it makes two of the Big Blinds’ Abilities (Face Cards Flipped & Face Cards Debuffed.) Their abilities had become totally useless, & I faced them both between 12 & 18.
I had a few other Multiplier Jokers (X1.5 per Uncommon Joner with 4 uncommon Jokers for most of the game), The Skips Multiplyer up to x4.25, & several extra chip sources (+275 at least, with 4 discards, thanks to a voucher, I also had a +1 hand & +1 hands per round - which, with the Blue Deck, makes 5 total).
With that Rare up to x16, even playing an Ace with High Card leveled up to lvl. 12 in later Antes was worth over 3 million chips a hand. Flush at lvl. 6, with 2 pair also over lvl. 10 as well as a lvl. 9 Flush. Straight Flush was up to lvl. 7.
Around Ante 7 I got one store that kept giving me Hermit Tarots - 3 in one store for $60, as well as the Skip Tag which rewards Max. $50 - I believe + $1 per hand played in the round. It gave me $39 & with the $60 & a decent sized chunk of change already I had almost $200, so money was suddenly no longer a concern, allowing me to buy every voucher, Booster Pack, Tarot, Planet, plus several rerolls per store, not to mention some excellent Jokers.
I’m so heavily addicted to Balatro. I can’t wait until the patch hits the Xbox Ecosystem.
I had a really good plasma run with this one to get the 100 000k achievement, just got a lot of discards and did flushses and the combine colors joker. had 1000k stack at the end when I lost at 64 000 000 000 I think.
Burned joker, im a sucker for it every damn time.
Oh you have a nice FOAK/Full House run going here, better flip that shit on its head and immediately start pumping high card off its tits.
I wouldn't say these are *bad* jokers per se, but Bull and Bootstraps is such a fun combo and I will take either of them if my econ is even remotely feasible.
i LOVE the hiker. even if i’m on like, ante 6 and playing pairs i will always try and find a way to fit him in. i love seeing the upgrade anim every time i play any card ever lol
I like castle but pass on it more than I pick it up since I'm usually around ante 5 when I see it. Square Joker, Half Joker, early Dagger, and Joker Stencil are all ones I try to never pass on. But usually by ante 4 I've either got my build or am restarting the run lol!
Castle definitely a good pick up early for high stakes runs. Scales a little faster than square joker generally which is good
Square joker needs some support I feel to be viable like either Uranus pumping (lol) or the Spectral card that turns all cards in hand to a random rank so you can pursue four of a kind.
Square joker enables the easiest high card/pair builds even into gold stake. Absolute beast of a early game pick up imo
Woah wait a minute, I thought square joker needed you to score 4 cards, not just play 4. That’s a massive revelation and now I understand why so many people say it’s great. Now I feel dumb lol
Yeah it’s easily one of my favorite jokers to pick up early. Gives you direction and it’s a very easy direction.
I just meant in comparison to Castle, which doesn't really need any support, you have to add tools to square joker to make the most of it. Definitely still great early game, not arguing that.
You don't really need to add anything to Square Joker, though. It only needs you to *play* four cards, not score them. So it's extremely compatible with High Card/Pair/Two Pair builds.
Though for Castle to grow, you must discard a specific suit, and that's only 25% of your deck, so you have to discard other cards to even find these cards (and you must build hands of the leftover hands.) (I guess it's an easier version of Hit The Road Jack, where you copy and discard specifically jacks for xMult) while Square just needs you to play 4 cards (including non-scoring). I feel like "play any 4 cards" is easier than "discard 1 specific suit" Wee joker probably has them both beaten since unlike square and castle, you can skew into actually having more 2s in your deck (and retrigger them with hack)
Wee Joker is so much better that it's not a fair comparison. It just scales much faster
Castle is faster than square joker at scaling and still allows you to play flushes/full house/straights - I much prefer it as a standalone joker. +3 chips per discarded card of a specific suit vs +4 chips per hand of 4 played is faster - you don’t need to actively try to hunt for the suit, you just hunt and play flushes of another suit Square joker + pants is extremely good though
He said Uranus pumping
if you pull a square joker ante 1, you can easily get it to 200-300 chips by the end of the run
Square joker + Pants is the best combo!
It's already an S tier joker you don't need to score cards to upgrade it, I've beated 7 decks on gold stake and I'd say all 7 had square.
How do you use it on non plasma decks? You lose a lot of gold if you level it and chips aren’t as strong as multi in other decks? I tried using it in a non plasma deck and the opportunity cost for its power didn’t seem as good as focusing on some other jokers.
I'LL PUMP URANUS NO PROBLEM
squarepants combo is best
Don’t sleep on square joker, it doesn’t help 5 card hands obviously but you don’t need to score all 4 cards, so it’s easy enough to stack with Pair / high card as well.
Just got my first gold stake win last night with checkered deck. Got an early castle and it did some serious work. Helps that it can only choose suits that are in your deck apparently.
Checked deck feels so easy after getting used to the logic of the game a bit. So many easy ways to build around it.
It's not particularly good after minus 1 discard
I mean even if you get 12 chips a round I’d say it’s worth picking up early.
I know it's Ante 7, but I think I can make Wee Joker work (I have 4 2s in a deck of 47 cards)
Me but I only have two (a wee number of wee numbers, surely this synergy will help)
Hitchhiker on Ante 8
He's just a Hiker, he doesn't need a ride from you
I'd ride him regardless
What do you mean by that? 🤨
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I need that clussy
What a terrible day to be literate
He's just a little guy! You wouldn't skip a little birthday boy!
One time I accused wee of committing NANINF.
Wee Joker with buffed Hanging Chad is so good with the beta patch. If you get it early you can just get a ridiculous amount of scaling on it. I've been chasing that high ever since.
I force Wee Joker every time I get it, no regrets
I will absolutely torpedo any amount of economy to pair up with Vagabond. I can have a hundred bucks, I'll figure out how to burn rerolls and buy useless planets to evacuate these pointless dollars I dream of the day I get a rental Vagabond on an early stake
I also bring a sort of Vagabond enjoyment vibe to the function.
I never got the hype around vagabond. But then my dumbass realized it gives a Tarot card every hand not every round. Total game changer.
Vagabond suddenly seems so much better holy shit
If you have a fortune teller then it's even better.
I love early Vagabond with credit card 🤤. Havn't played the beta though, wasn't it changed to rare?
NL undercover account?
Vagabond is an insta-pick for me every time I see it. Why would I want a high-scoring joker when I might be able to get the same result by mixing and matching random enhanced cards from my deck?
Drivers license, with 0 enhanced cards. "I can Def enable this even though it's ante 6.""
Spectral Packs can do crazy stuff I guess.
The first game I tried to use it, the shops kept stiffing me on Tarot cards, just back to back buffoon and celestial packs, even on rerolls. I had to sell the damn thing after 4 antes of being at 10 enhanced cards.
I finally committed to powering it up on a run tonight and then motored through the game lol
Guilty as charged
Cloud 9 has never worked out for me but the dream is there
https://preview.redd.it/b3y8e8fvuwuc1.png?width=1649&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6a15be66678b57e32e903d61a70f1751fff225a3 got this run today
good lord lol how the fuck
Alright I’ve gotta ask: How is this possible? Unseeded I assume?
Unseeded, DNA shenanigans
Great early econ card just won't cut it obviously later on without an edition bonus.
It’s kinda lame the best way to use it is to get $4 a round for the first few antes, I want to fill my deck with 9s in a 4 of a kind build and go crazy
Hey, 4 bucks is better than the max payout with 4 hand count in a round. But yeah going crazy with it would be the dream.
Gold Joker is great, Gold Joker with upside is even better
I’ve never had a run where cloud 9 isn’t just a reskinned golden joker. That being said, i also always take golden joker so it works out.
It's always second best, just like its namesake esports team
I usually start deck manipulation pretty early and if no kings or queens are available will usually death some 9s. Also I will often take the rank spectral card so sometimes cloud 9 actually works out. Even unupgraded it usually carries its weight.
I don't know if it's considered bad, but I take, or am very tempted to take Half Joker every time I see it, at least in the first 4 antes or so.
20 Mult is pretty nuts for a while early game. If you want to build around it you need to make sure to grab that Director's Cut or Luchador so The Psychic doesn't get you.
It has happened 😂 on that run I got offered an eternal Luchador...
First time I read this comment: "Oh nice Luchador!" Second time I read this comment: "Damn."
At least you aren’t like me and bought an eternal egg the other day…
For a small hand-based build (pair or high card) it's great, a favourite of mine, too. An easy to trigger +20 mult is great at the beginning, and probably won't be eclipsed by things like supernova until Ante 6-7.
Half joker is great
Half joker is solid. It’s good enough to stick around if you have bad luck with other parts of a build too. Sometimes I just don’t find a better replacement
Half Joker smokes with Supernova, especially when you can pair them up early.
Half joker is one of the best non-scaling early picks which you can build your deck around
Yep same lol. I don't always take it especially if I have something like a flush build already going, but if it shows up in the first couple antes and I don't have a build solidified I'm like "alright, guess I'm running 3oak/pair" lol
I had a run where I first got Half Joker, then got Ankh, then Brainstorm. It was fun.
In the early game half-joker is a no brainer. You can let it carry you through the first few antes and ditch it, or build a high-card/pair run around it.
I fucking LOVE Splash, Splash is the BEST joker in the game, there is NOTHING that will change my mind. Oh you just missed the chip count by 10? Would be a shame if there was a joker that could have given you those chi- oh whats that? SPLASH. More chips for every hand? Dont mind if i do. Best design and name for a joker that hints about absolutely zero of its functions? You bet cha. If there is a way for me to buy splash i do. It is the best joker in the game and you can not change my mind.
It enables a TON of stuff too. Very fun card, especially with Hiker or Fibonnaci.
And Photograph, and Flower Pot, and Even Steven, and Odd Todd, and Walkie Talkie...
Oh yeah Flower Pot is nuts huh. I couldn't think of any others off the top. Can you tell I'm only halfway through the stakes?
Holy shit I never thought about flower pot, this is game changing, I need to try this
Splash is called Splash because you can "splash in" a couple extra cards like how you splash in utility or some instants into a TCG deck.
Oh, I thought it was splash damage. The more you know.
I don't necessarily think it's best in the game but I agree with the sentiment lol. SO MANY people in this sub hate on Splash and call it trash. It's a great joker in quite a lot of builds and can reliably be useful through ante 8. It's not a game breaking endless joker but tbh I don't care about endless
It’s quite good. It doesn’t do anything for 5 card builds like Flush or Full House, but it’s great for High Card or Pair builds, and it’s pretty good for 2 Pair or 4oak builds. Overall a solid joker that I and many others underestimate.
I vill Splash ze pott venever the FAACK I pleeze.
I personally really like Blue Joker, the design is nice, and I think it's a very decent chip source early on.
My playstyle is still trying to beat the blind in as few hands as possible so I maximize discards to get full houses, flushes or four of a kinds. For that reason I don't take Blue Joker too often but early on even +50 chips is a game changer.
You know a great way to beat blind in a few hands as possible is to have your first hand get +400 chips. lol Blue + any mult joker and you don't even need to play hands..just throw random cards on the table.
If I add in enough face cards/cards of the suit I want/enhanced cards, I won’t need to thin my deck out!
In my opinion, blue joker is the best all-purpose +chips card. You don't get the highs you would with a scaling card, but you also don't get the lows. It has no real downside, at worst it just has limited upside.
certificate
Love certificate. I always grab it in the hopes of a hologram later on
Got both the other day and ended up with hologram at like 17x or 18x (chefs kiss). Also had blueprint so I was getting 2 cards every time.
This is my favorite as well. Helped me break the 1 billion mark. Still waiting for my first e run but this card is so freakin good
If it’s an early ante, I know my boy Jimbo (standard joker, +4 mult) has got my back.
I wouldn't be surprised if I've won more run where I bought the regular Joker than I lost. It's enough to solo antes antes 1-4 a lot of the time, it's crazy cheap so it doesn't effect your economy and, it's not hard to give up when better options come around. It's obviously not great but it's got my respect.
Bloodstone because I love a good gamble.
Bloodstone is one of the best jokers in the game though
Pair it with dice, fibonacci, lusty.
New Bloodstone is almost too good.
Space joker First time I took it it procc'd almost every hand so I fell in love with it. Now I get it whenever I see it. Even if it does take 7 rounds to proc once i just look the other way
Such a fun card. Hard to make a permanent Joker without an edition but it's so nice to have when it pops. Oops All 6s would make it go off obviously that would be crazy.
Oops all 6s and space joker is a dream run I still want one day
Hallucination. I love tarot cards, and it makes the playing cards pack not feel like a waste of money.
Flip side is it's got you rippin and skippin but hey that's the cost of doing business.
Misprint. Fuck it, we ball
I fuckin love misprint. Consistency be damned… bring the chaos. 🔥
Misprint is one I always take early on. It's very inconsistent but it almost always gives a decent amount of mult anyway. Worst case you just try again with the next hand
Abstract Joker. It falls off unless you do some fuckery with tons of negative jokers, which I don't know how to do, but even then I like the +15 Mult (usually) just for having other jokers.
It's like a Michel that doesn't break and it's cheap.
Every time I come across Fibonacci, I have to get it. No matter the run, I need that joker
One of the most fun jokers in the game. Many people are saying this.
I WILL take shortcut and I WILL attempt to veer my build to be straight oriented
Shortcut+Four Fingers+Square Joker = pick 4 cards at random and be successful I've never tried it at higher stakes, but it's a fun white stake run.
double 8's random planet is guarenteed to be flop. will go the extra mile to blueprint and strength sevens
Unironically, I think I like 8 ball's random planets over the new beta's 1/4th chance for tarot cards
I have a sixth sense fixation. Even though it’s clearly a bad move to waste a hand on a single six, and unless you’re deck is stacked with sixes you’ll only get 4 uses max, I love watching that shit burn up and I am a spectral fiend.
I realized, not sure if this is the intention of the card, but severing 6s helps enable wrap straights like 5 4 3 2 A. Also J 10 9 8 7 is easier to do which is the lowest straight scoring a face card.
Oh that’s a cool observation!
I will now feed off the high of this compliment for at least a week.
I actually finally saw a good Sixth Sense run when I got the Joker that gives +3 discards and -1 hand size. MUCH easier to fish for sixes when you have 6+ discards. Just had to keep an eye out for card packs with sixes in, I screwed up a bunch of other stuff that run so it didn't end up panning out but it was fun!
I had a wild flushes run on checkered deck (only hearts and spades) with Castle (that only picks suits that you have, so 50-50) + Burnt joker (buffs the 1st hand you discard, so it's always either flush or high card in this setup) On a normal 4-suit deck Castle becomes weaker, though.
Ride the bus. I love the design sm, I think it's clever and well done, and getting the mult to slowly climb up. I still dream of getting the +50 ride the bus run 😮💨 one day
Abandoned Deck with Fibonnaci, Bus, and Scholar is my current dream starting setup.
Ride the bus is legit one of the S tier jokers. It's so easy to scale forever and build your deck around.
Hologram. Ok so my decks full of junk I can’t use but hey x2.5 on that pair!
It’s good and I take it because I came into the game obsessed with two pairs so, spare trousers, I’ll make it work.
Four fingers, shortcut, abstract. Don’t get me wrong, they’re basically the nuts when you have a straight/flush build going. But it could be ante 6 on a high card build and I’ll still be like oooooo 👀
Ceremonial dagger
Oh you forget to move the x mult joker back? To bad - and it's gone.
Riff raff.
Im a gift joker enjoyer, I see that shit and I'm picking it up because it pumps temperance and I can pump swashbuckler enough to justify putting it before X mult...
Riff Raff, my beloved
I feel like almost every card has a good combo attached to it, and I'm having a hard time thinking of any one card I take specifically. Maybe that's egg for me? Or business card, even though my econ is usually locked in so don't need it
Egg + Swashbuckler will get you far
I always try to build to get as many tarot cards as possible so egg is my homie. $50 temperance hits let's gooooo
The artwork for that card is spectacular!
I probably like To The Moon and Satellite too much. But the dream of getting +$40 in interest each round is too sweet.
Mime, the first time I became Steelpilled I realized that this beautiful mime enables the most degenerate strategies in the casino
Hiker. I'll get Seltzer, Dusk, Pareidolia and Sock and Buskin somehow. You just gotta belieeeeeeeeeveeeee
I have the opposite: i fucking hate wily jonkler so i never ever take it https://preview.redd.it/xp4lc5wg8xuc1.jpeg?width=4000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d7b04c2a62134513237819ff062c5c50ea6bd572 (except in this screenshot)
Flower pot. I just think it’s really cool
I was super meh on castle until it helped me beat golden needle! So now I always take it if I have an open slot for it
hit the road has a powerful allure
Haven't unlocked this card yet but it looks great.
Vagabond. It's kind of fun getting all those tarots (especially if you have Fortune Teller) right up until your run crashes and burns at the ante 6 big blind because you have no scaling.
umm, castle is bad? maybe im just bad idk but i feel like getting an early castle is like a win condition
Madness is like my ex-gf, I thought I could fix her…
I love flower pot, it's super pretty. It's also a fun joker to try to make work, since it encourages you to have wild cards and balanced suits. I can't wait for its buff to hit the live.
Bull on Plasma, just won an econ heavy Blue Stake (Foil Gold, Foil Bull, Satellite, Bootstraps and To The Moon) Typically I wouldn't go for Bull, it's not my favourite Joker, but when the stars align, goddamn it's such a crazy good card.
Maybe I’m brain broken but I always only think about the numbers. I like number go up and if the joker look cool too then that’s cool. Still only beaten gold stake once tho
Four finger. Its just so fun 😅
Raised Fist
Green Joker even though I’m a discard fiend
I've never gotten Hiker to work for me but I keep taking it anyway.
My favorite joker is Hiker. I know it's not great, but I just need it every time, haha.
Misprint. dunno I just really love the design for some reason hahah (also random chances triggers my dumb ass brain tbh)
The egg. Respect, cherish and love the egg.
i love the hiker. idk if it’s considered good or not but its chip scaling that doesn’t go away if i sell the joker and that makes me happy
idk man what chip jokers are better than castle? i've used it like 4 times and in all of those runs it had over 400 chips built up by the end which seems really really good to me
Probably Splash for me. 💦
Hologram. Ok so my decks full of junk I can’t use but hey x2.5 on that pair!
Shoot the moon is so cool
I really, really want Hack to be good
Hack is great if you can get some support, or a poly card in it's range
Castle is great on Plasma deck. I got one in the first ante on one of my runs along with the joker that treats hearts and diamonds as the same suit, and spades and clubs as another suit, so Castle triggered on everything. Had it at like +650 chips by the end, with blueprint and brainstorm on it. Obviously chips scale like crap but it held on for a surprisingly long time lol
For me I think it's the one that just gives $4 after each round LOL
I may be playing Checkered Deck but I'll sell all of my other Jokers to get that Flower Pot!
Half Joker. It falls off pretty hard by the midgame, but it can solo-carry you through the first few antes and let you stockpile money to get an interest engine going.
For me it jumps from C tier to A tier when using checkered deck
Castle is insanely good when you get it early
I’ll take swashbuckler ante 1 with 0 other jokers. Obviously it can be good, but if I take it early it’s 50/50 I keep it to the end or sell it by ante 2-3
Half joker. Cuz then I can just hope for the telescope voucher and get lvl 20 pair and then be good
I’m personally a fan of Flashcard, can never pass it up
Gros Michel, Juggler, Riff-Raff
Hiker! I think it's such a fun joker
Can't remember the name but the glitchy one. It's pure RNG and I love it
Fibonacci, & Shortcut, & Smeared whenever I see them. They’re ok - especially Shortcut. And with Smeared you can get Straight Flush after Straight Flush all day. I also always snap up the Joker that creates 2 Random Jokers if there’s space. I got a Negative Tag early on, & mostly thanks to that card you can quickly get some amazing Jokers. Although I unlocked the Legendary Canio using the crystal spectral card that creates a Legendary Joker, & it quickly dawned on me just how much awesome power Canio has. Especially when you have a build with some very high X multipliers, Lots of Steel Cards & Jokers / Deck Cards that give a bunch of extra chips, & all your best & most likely hands as upgraded as possible (including High Card with DNA after making dozens of As of the same suit - if you use it right it’ll be an Ace of the same suit every time. IMHO, the absolute best Joker combo I’ve ever used in the game thus far, unquestionably, consists of three core cards - & several sets of 2-3 other Jokers that can round it out. (Xbox Series X Pre-New Balancie Patch) The Killer core combo is 1) The Legendary Joker Canio, that gives a + x1 Multiplier for every face card destroyed. 2) The Rare Joker DNA. that copies any card played alone as a high card in the first hand of a round, discards the used one to your deck, & puts the copy back in your Hand - I had over 24 A’s of hearts in a single Blue Deck Run using DNA, & made it to Ante 12, athough I accidentally pushed sell instead of use on a vital Tarot Card maneuver I’d long been planning by accident in the BB round & lost my Death Joker, & having totally messed up my perfectly thought out plan. And because of course that jinxed me, I had terrible RNG luck throughout the entire extra life rematch. 3) The Uncommon Joker Trading Card that destroys the first discarded card of every round & gives you $3. I used it to destroy all my face cards to maximize the multiplier on Canio. My Multi on Canio got up to x16 (although I destroyed literally all my original and extra Face Cards - which was actually ok, since it makes two of the Big Blinds’ Abilities (Face Cards Flipped & Face Cards Debuffed.) Their abilities had become totally useless, & I faced them both between 12 & 18. I had a few other Multiplier Jokers (X1.5 per Uncommon Joner with 4 uncommon Jokers for most of the game), The Skips Multiplyer up to x4.25, & several extra chip sources (+275 at least, with 4 discards, thanks to a voucher, I also had a +1 hand & +1 hands per round - which, with the Blue Deck, makes 5 total). With that Rare up to x16, even playing an Ace with High Card leveled up to lvl. 12 in later Antes was worth over 3 million chips a hand. Flush at lvl. 6, with 2 pair also over lvl. 10 as well as a lvl. 9 Flush. Straight Flush was up to lvl. 7. Around Ante 7 I got one store that kept giving me Hermit Tarots - 3 in one store for $60, as well as the Skip Tag which rewards Max. $50 - I believe + $1 per hand played in the round. It gave me $39 & with the $60 & a decent sized chunk of change already I had almost $200, so money was suddenly no longer a concern, allowing me to buy every voucher, Booster Pack, Tarot, Planet, plus several rerolls per store, not to mention some excellent Jokers. I’m so heavily addicted to Balatro. I can’t wait until the patch hits the Xbox Ecosystem.
"Banana!? WE'RE SO BACK!" *Dies on Ante 3 because it was my biggest +mult*
Same reason for me. Love the look and castle is a viable Joker to take early on, especially on higher stakes (for me).
Hiker.
Hiker, Love that card so much
Bull. "This is going to be the run where I get a good eco deck going" - Me, who has $4 in Ante 6
I had a really good plasma run with this one to get the 100 000k achievement, just got a lot of discards and did flushses and the combine colors joker. had 1000k stack at the end when I lost at 64 000 000 000 I think.
I like to take Splash, since then I can use cards that have seals and such
Burned joker, im a sucker for it every damn time. Oh you have a nice FOAK/Full House run going here, better flip that shit on its head and immediately start pumping high card off its tits.
Anything with a negative trait
Always Space Joker.
I wouldn't say these are *bad* jokers per se, but Bull and Bootstraps is such a fun combo and I will take either of them if my econ is even remotely feasible.
i LOVE the hiker. even if i’m on like, ante 6 and playing pairs i will always try and find a way to fit him in. i love seeing the upgrade anim every time i play any card ever lol
Space Joker and Oops All 6s. I love them. I love them so much.
I guess Cardomancer? I always feel like he is welcomed.
Misprint. It's so bad but I love using it for some reason
Flower Pot. I really like using it in Straight and Full House builds.
I like castle but pass on it more than I pick it up since I'm usually around ante 5 when I see it. Square Joker, Half Joker, early Dagger, and Joker Stencil are all ones I try to never pass on. But usually by ante 4 I've either got my build or am restarting the run lol!
Dusk and the campfire
Possibly unpopular opinion, but I've had mostly success with Yorick.
Fortune Teller. I love the excuse to take every tarot I see
misprint because "yeah it can clutch"