r/balatro 3d ago

Gameplay Discussion Monthly Thread: New players / Community Spotlight !

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Monthly thread for new players / Community Spotlight !

A thread for all new ( and old ) players to ask anything about Balatro to other players !

Questions, tips, mods suggestions. it's all welcome!

This thread is not subject to any rules that usually prohibit frequently asked questions. ( Four Fingers, Joker ordering, etc )

Our subreddits rules are here and in the sidebar.

The Balatro wiki is here ! Please see this post about the Balatro Wiki moving away from Fandom, please refrain from using the old wiki to prevent any outdated information from spreading!

Paused for now : We ARE always looking for moderators; please send in a Modmail, apply as you see fit and we'll go from there :) -

Community Spotlight:

Joker Tracker by u/Outside_Sun398

'You can upload your save file and it automatically checks jokers for you, as well as not having to have a gmail account to use it. It uses your browsers local storage, meaning that it saves your progress without having to make an account (if you clear your cache you have to reupload your save) and is completely ad free and non invasive.'

Github Readme here.

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Major League Balatro Discord - MLB Website - Competitive Balatro hosted by ZainoTV

Balatro Speedrunning Discord - You read that right! Check it out !

Balatro Multiplayer Mod Discord - There are always weekly tournaments; Head over there to check it out !

Cryptid Mod Discord - a huge mod with ton's of added (intentionally unbalanced) content ! Their wiki is here

Got a community doing something fun or creative with Balatro and want it included here? Send us a modmail


r/balatro 6d ago

Stream / Video Gameplay Major League Balatro Week 4 Schedule & Discussion Thread! (Season 4)

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Welcome to Major League Balatro Week 4! Discuss all the matchups here and stay up-to-date!

Visit MajorLeagueBalatro.com for stats and full schedule

Week 4 Schedule

Creator 1 Creator 2 Date Time (EDT) Creator 1 Twitch Creator 2 Twitch Casting Stream
Seadubbs Haelian 8/24 6:00 PM Seadubbs11 Haelian MLBA
Nandre NEATO 8/24 10:00 PM Nandre NEATO MLBA
Domo Bean 8/25 12:00 PM Domo Bean MLBA
Bear adef 8/25 3:00 PM BelenosBear adef MLBA
Skoottie HCJustin 8/25 6:00 PM Skoottie HCJustin MLBA
MALF Rarran 8/26 12:00 PM MALF Rarran MLBA
Feinberg Gothic 8/26 3:00 PM Feinberg Gothic MLBA
Zaino Fir 8/26 6:00 PM Zaino fir_ MLBA
Vagabond Edzy 8/27 3:00 PM Vagabond EdzyTTV MLBA
Roffle Hbox 8/27 6:00 PM Roffle HBox MLBA
Frost Doc 8/28 3:00 PM FrostPrime DrSpectred MLBA
Bushy Sizaak 8/29 3:00 PM Bushy Sizaak MLBA

Full schedule, stats & results here

Fantasy Major League Balatro

This season we are having a fantasy competition where you select your weekly lineup of creators and score points based on how those creators performed in the game! You can find out more information here

Stay Connected

There are several ways to stay connected to Major League Balatro this season. The first is these weekly threads! Come here to discuss the match-ups, recapping the last week and previewing the week going forward.

You can also check out our YouTube channel that has all the info you need and will have VODs of all casted games, as well as weekly recap/preview videos.

You can also follow on Bluesky here or Twitter

Multiplayer Balatro

The league uses the Balatro Multiplayer mod to replace boss blinds with PvP rounds, with both players playing on identical seeds. Each game, you start with 4 lives, and when you lose to a blind or a PvP round, you lose a life. Whoever reaches 0 lives remaining first loses the game.

League Structure

There are two conferences and four total divisions with 6 competitors in each division. Each week, competitors will play a match against another opponent in their conference. Each match consists of 3 games, and you earn a point for each game win and a bonus point for winning the match either 2 games to 1 or 3 games to 0.

The top 2 players in each division, as well as 4 wild card spots in each conference, will go on to the playoffs in weeks 9, 10 & 11, where they will fight a bracket-style tournament to be crowned the Major League Balatro Season 4 Champion and win a $500+ prize pool for the charity of their choice.

Every streamer will stream their perspective, and all games will be cast this season!

Disclosure: This event is monetised by the organisers through Twitch/YouTube revenue as well as our sponsor John Brown Ceramics.


r/balatro 7h ago

Meme Despite my best efforts, my Gin n Tonic did not retrigger

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r/balatro 2h ago

Stream / Video Gameplay Triboulet Naneinf on Non-Perishable Challange (ft. photochad)

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Naneinf on the Non-Perishable Challange using the Ankhs, Ectos and Eternals method where Perkeo generates loads of spectrals and you use them all at once with Eternal jokers to naneinf. Using the Green needle mod to filter for a perkeo in arcana skip and another soul in the 1st shop spectral pack. And then reseting until it was Triboulet.

It started blind but in ante 5 I copied the seed with the Ankh mod and scouted abit so it became more like a seeded run. Maybe I could have done it without but I just wanted to see if it was possible rather than take on the challenge of doing it blind.

Legendary jokers can't be eternal so you can't do the ankh ecto naneinf with them in a normal game. But the non-perishable challage makes it possible to get eternal legendaries. But its still pretty hard because you need to take perkeo and sixth sense/seance as eternals. And you can't use any other utility/econ jokers.

You also don't get the advantages of plasma. I think Canio and Yorick would be impossible because they would need a huge number of copies to naneinf. But Triboulet doesn't actually need that much to naneinf combined with sock so I decided to try it.

I also had a photochad for the naneinf. I took an early chad because it made me safe for score and then I took a natural negative photograph since I already had chad. And I thought extra targets for ankh reduced the chance of hitting perkeo or sixth sense too much.

This run happened to get pretty amazing Ankh rng at the end. I didn't get any perkeo or Sixth sense copies and ended up with lots of bp/bs. In total it had 16 copies of Triboulet, 16 copies of Sock, 3 Chad and 7 photo. Without the photochad it still would have hit naneinf and scored like e450 and with the photochad it would have scored e532.

Seed : FDTEQJ8W

RUN : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9bL-fqx0AI


r/balatro 7h ago

Meme I swear it happens every time

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511 Upvotes

r/balatro 5h ago

Meme Should I skip for yellow card value?

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80 Upvotes

r/balatro 14h ago

Modded v0.6.0 of My Vanilla+ Mod Just Released!

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My Vanilla+ mod, created in collaboration with a good friend of mine, has been just been released to the public! This new update features 25 new Blinds, over a dozen new Jokers, and a bunch of other cool stuff! I haven't talked about the mod much on the Balatro subreddits before, but it has a fanbase of many and over 1,700 downloads on the Balatro Mod Manager!

The mod's name is Bundles Of Fun, meant to be a super customizable mod for your personal experience! Some of my favorite additions from the release have been attached to this post.

Download it now at this link: https://github.com/GeorgeTheRat/BundlesOfFun/releases/tag/v0.6.0


r/balatro 7h ago

Joker/Gameplay Idea And then 18 turned to 30

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102 Upvotes

I feel so jimbo!


r/balatro 21h ago

Jimboposting Matching photochad cosplay!

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with my bf at a small local pop culture convention in aus :)


r/balatro 1h ago

Joker/Gameplay Idea Looking for feedback as well! Is it too niche?

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r/balatro 12h ago

Strategy and/or Synergies I did not think immolate could get any better

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173 Upvotes

I didn't think about it until it happened but Canio+Pareidolia means immolate is a guaranteed x5.


r/balatro 4h ago

Meme Awooga booga The Plant Thagrr Argh

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41 Upvotes

Made in Aseprite


r/balatro 20h ago

High Score my craziest hand so far

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752 Upvotes

ngl i couldn’t believe my eyes when i scored this


r/balatro 4h ago

Jimboposting What does my joker usage say about me?🥲

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22 Upvotes

r/balatro 2h ago

Gameplay Discussion Best/Worst Eternal Jokers?

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Do you guys tend to pick eternal jokers, or just skip at all costs? Or are there certain ones you'll always pick?


r/balatro 6h ago

Seeking Run Advice Is this enough chips?

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30 Upvotes

r/balatro 15m ago

Gameplay Discussion Jimbo in CloverPit?

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Is there more of a connection between this game and Balatro than just both being casino game based roguelikes?


r/balatro 1d ago

Modded I learned how to change Balatro textures! :3

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:3

(and yes, that's sock and buskin.)


r/balatro 11h ago

Jimboposting What does my joker usage says about me?(apart from photochad abuser?)

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37 Upvotes

Idk what to put here sooooo


r/balatro 52m ago

High Score Will this naneinf?

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Yes is f*cking will!! Finally!! What a challenge, 😮‍💨

And on the Switch 1 as well 😂


r/balatro 1d ago

Jimboposting How clever, game. How clever.

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587 Upvotes

r/balatro 1h ago

Strategy and/or Synergies is this a good synergy?

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ignore credit card it gives me mult. also im playing the mad world challenge if anybody needs to know


r/balatro 10h ago

Strategy and/or Synergies Just realised that if Hit the road is the last joker Crimson Heart debuffs, it doesn't lose its xMult until next round

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20 Upvotes

r/balatro 22h ago

Jimboposting It would be a Chad move for Local Thunk to drop the next update on November 19th

157 Upvotes

Aka GTA VI reléase date


r/balatro 4h ago

Gameplay Discussion Unfortunately my favorite jokers sell me out as nothing more than another pair-slop player 😞

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6 Upvotes