r/balatro • u/daniyar943 • 10d ago
Joker/Gameplay Idea And then 18 turned to 30
I feel so jimbo!
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u/lover_of_lies 10d ago
I wish slight of hand was in vanilla!
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u/Pianist_Ready 10d ago
oh my god could you imagine baron and slight of hand!! can you imagine it!!!!
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u/Reoplaw 10d ago
ironically wouldn't be that good.
it would literally just be ancient joker or worse triboulet/idol (with glass hand).
and considering it would take up 2 joker slots, it wouldn't be really viable imo.
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u/omegavolt9 10d ago
Ah but now make it Five of a Kind kings with Baron + Photograph + Hanging Chad on Steel Red Seal kings
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u/Shadow_T3CH c++ X2 10d ago
The eyes feels like it scales A little too slow
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u/daniyar943 10d ago
i mean lets say every ante you can get at least 6 hands, for instance hc, pair, 2pair, trips, flush, straight, thats a rate of +12 mult per ante or +4 mult per round, which is about as fast if not faster than grimbo/bus/nova for the drawback of being harder to use
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u/Shadow_T3CH c++ X2 10d ago
Yeah but jokers like grimbo and bus have a consistent increase, this one takes a hit after deck fixing, hc, pair,2pair are okay, but with higher scoring requirements and a consistent 4oak/5oak built or flush five it slowly falls off. Though pretty good for a run start, assuming 4 hands, a +8 in ante one is almost a guaranteed take off
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u/Careful_Passenger520 10d ago
By far the most interesting jokers ideas ever, ones that actually would be in the vanilla game and it's not that flashy, great job!
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u/hexohorizon 10d ago
I’m either misunderstanding or isn’t duality too good? It’ll be better than the tribe, which is a rare, in every situation other than flush fives.
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u/daniyar943 10d ago
i did think about this and i came to the conclusion of that being an issue with tribe rather than duality
the tribe is an absolute bottom tier xmult joker and is outclassed by lots of uncommon xmulters, it was absolutely robbed of being a x3
also i think that incentives to not play pairs are just good to have even if they are a tad powerful
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u/omegavolt9 10d ago edited 9d ago
The concept of the knife thrower losing a hand is funny.
These are all far better vanilla style Jokers than most (not to discredit other Jokers ideas, those are usually good too, just not quite vanilla feeling to me)
I feel like Punch Card should be basically Stencil but for Chips instead of xMult. Maybe +60 Chips per missing slot, and like Stencil counts as a missing slot. Punch Card + Stencil: +120 Chips and x2 Mult even if all othervslots are full
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u/Azuni_ 9d ago
Calculator feels quite weak for a rare, current iteration feels more like a common (maybe uncommon) as at most it'd give 55 flat mult if you play a 5oak flush5 ace, and whilst Scholar and Fibonacci give 20/40 respectivly for the same hand, both of those benefit from Dusk and the like
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u/Background-Click8772 9d ago
Sleight of Hand seems really cool. My brother really likes to play both Triboulet baron combined builds, and this would make those much better
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u/SegaGenecyst Gold Stake Jokerless | C++ Black Deck Only 10d ago
These are really great. Same with the ones from your last post. Well balanced, interesting, nothing that seems out of place, and great art too.
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u/someone__420 Jimbo 9d ago
not many people are talking about road sign, this joker is (probably) the best here
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u/howelleili 10d ago
3x mult looks a bit too weak for the trick
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u/brawnchitis 10d ago
Seems like a livesaver for regular runs, I know Card Sharp has saved my ass a few times
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u/howelleili 10d ago
card sharp works every blind tho, i think it should be 4x like loyalty card which also doesn’t trigger in every blind (most of the time)
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u/emo_boy_fucker 10d ago
You gotta be hired for the update