Balatro: Roguelite Poker Deckbuilder (NSW/PC/PS/Xbox) - Out Now

Finally got a win with the Black deck - Hanging Chad (first card gets retriggered) was once again a great addition, but with:
Greedy Joker (diamonds get +4 mult)
Photograph (first Face card gets a X 2 bonus) and
Blueprint (copies the joker to the right - I'd move him around but usually had him to the left of photograph)

And putting diamond face cards as the first scoring card in a diamond flush I was wracking up the multipliers in no time, sailed through.

Second try with the celestial deck and I sailed through again, 2 copies of the fool is very fun and powerful if the luck goes your way!

aayl1 wrote:Finally got a win with the Black deck - Hanging Chad (first card gets retriggered) was once again a great addition, but with:
Greedy Joker (diamonds get +4 mult)
Photograph (first Face card gets a X 2 bonus) and
Blueprint (copies the joker to the right - I'd move him around but usually had him to the left of photograph)

And putting diamond face cards as the first scoring card in a diamond flush I was wracking up the multipliers in no time, sailed through.

Second try with the celestial deck and I sailed through again, 2 copies of the fool is very fun and powerful if the luck goes your way!

I had a lot of fun with the celestial deck after finding the black deck rather tricky :msgreen:

Magic deck is pretty fun. Spectre cards can be massively powerful. Guaranteed polychrome joker is very good if you get the right one.

I'm still plugging away with the Red Deck. This game is brilliant. It can be a bit heartbreaking when you have a promising deck on the go and it's suddenly torpedoed by an unexpected boss quirk (you can only play one hand?!) but the temptation to pick yourself up and go again is massive. I've been thinking about it lots when not playing which is ~~troubling~~ a sign of a classic.

I built a deck around several suit-based modifiers and massively boosting the power of Two Pair using Planet Cards, but then got undone by the boss that requires you to play hands of different kinds.

I'm currently on a deck with a Joker that allows any played card to contribute to scoring, and another that gives a multiplier to cards with an even value (2, 4, 6, 8, 10). Combined with a couple of suit-mult jokers (I can't remember the names) it lets me rack up big mults but the biggest change this time has been me amending my base deck with tarot and celestrial cards - I've got a lot of Multipliers through just playing or holding Kings etc. I have a sixth joker (I can't remember my fifth) which allows me to have an extra joker plus one free reroll at each shop - which has been helpful in getting plenty of cheap tarots and thus affordable deck modifiers. It claims to be a "negative" joker but I think this only refers to the coloration. I've also had quite a lot of luck with some of the skip bonuses - free jokers, free tarots, doubling my money. It seems the most promising run yet. The only flipside being I'm more reticent to discard than before as so much of my deck is valuable!

One thing I've not figured out - when you start a new run with the Red Deck, it states you get "+1 discard per round" (IIRC) but every time I play I start with 4 discards regardless?

Herdanos wrote:It claims to be a "negative" joker but I think this only refers to the coloration.

"Negative" is a joker card status a la Foil or Polychrome, giving you +1 joker slot. Ie. that joker won't take up a slot.

Herdanos wrote:One thing I've not figured out - when you start a new run with the Red Deck, it states you get "+1 discard per round" (IIRC) but every time I play I start with 4 discards regardless?

Yeah, all the other decks start with 3 discards

taken a while but got my first win with the plasma deck, the last of the decks i needed to get a win on. midas mask and vampire made it a very easy victory.

Just got to the final level on blue deck and scored just under £150,000. Not really sure what I could have done better but I'm learning more with each play through.

aayl1 wrote:Yeah, all the other decks start with 3 discards

Nice one, cheers.

poshrule_uk wrote:Just got to the final level on blue deck and scored just under £150,000. Not really sure what I could have done better but I'm learning more with each play through.

The wall boss can screw you on final level. Look out for skips which re roll it or the voucher that lets you spend $10 to re roll. You almost want wall to come out early (my understanding is that boss ability don’t repeat during a run)

Thanks for the tip, next few games were awful and hardly got anywhere. Will try again tomorrow.

the last joker i needed to discover has finally turned up in the shop, so that's 150/150 done now. just got 3 vouchers to go for 100% in the collection.

What are tags and double tags?

Herdanos wrote:What are tags and double tags?

Those are the things you get for skipping blinds.

Herdanos wrote:What are tags and double tags?

If you skip a blind you'll get a tag like $1 for every skipped round so far etc. Double tags double up your next tag, unless the next tag is something like all card packs free in next store.

Thank you both! That was something that had not registered yet, at all. I was sure I'd been paying attention...

Memento Mori wrote:
Herdanos wrote:What are tags and double tags?

If you skip a blind you'll get a tag like $1 for every skipped round so far etc. Double tags double up your next tag, unless the next tag is something like all card packs free in next store.

You'll get the next two store visits free in that case, double tag only won't work on another double tag.

FatDaz wrote:
poshrule_uk wrote:Just got to the final level on blue deck and scored just under £150,000. Not really sure what I could have done better but I'm learning more with each play through.

The wall boss can screw you on final level. Look out for skips which re roll it or the voucher that lets you spend $10 to re roll. You almost want wall to come out early (my understanding is that boss ability don’t repeat during a run)

Thanks for the advice, finally completed blue deck tonight with a reroll and only had to hit 100k.

Pretty much did this on pairs only all the way through.

I will pick up again tomorrow's and see how far I get on endless mode.

now i can play for fun... white stakes for the rest of my life thanks

Picked this up last night and got a really solid run going on my third one. Straights focused with my jokers being:

-Skip a number in a straight
-100 bonus chips on a straight
-+4 mult for each even card played
-+2 mult for each shop reroll
-Random mult buff each hand

And I ended up with a bunch of cash because of lucky tarots and having a couple gold 3s in my deck I was never going to use, and a straight buff that was like level 10 or something because I could keep rolling the shop until I got it.

Was comfortably making 25k a hand, up to 30k on a good mult roll and if I had the 1.5x in my hand.

Then got robbed by the ante 8 boss being violet vessel needing 300k. Apparently it's usually only 100k which would have been easy with my set up.

Overall fun game.

On a good run at present. I don't recall the exact joker names but an early tag gave me a jumbo buffoon pack from which I chose the joker that gives two random jokers every blind plus the one that gives a multiplier based on how many planet cards redeemed this run. So I was selling lots of random jokers early on. Then I got the one (holographic?) that adds a multiplier for every card added to the deck. So I'm going mad on buying extra cards and planet cards between blinds. Every hand I play ends up with a massive multiplier as I have several other good jokers to add to my initial mult, including the one that gives a higher mult for every joker owned. Hoping I might win this time! Just depends on the bosses...

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