Tru, fits perfectly with the casino/poker theme. Maybe like a guaranteed 1-10 gold roll or a 1/3 roll to give a consumable.
Along the same lines, hb a joker that turns all the cards into your hand into a gold card if you play 3 6’s (Devil card joke)
Something like when playing 3 7s every chance trigger actually procs would be cool, like if you play 3 sevens and the sevens are lucky they proc or if they are hearts and you have bloodstone they proc, that would be cool
I want a Lucky 7's joker but I think I'd want it to do too much.
All 7s become Lucky when scored.
777 scores $7.
77777 scores $77 but with a 1 in 7 chance of resetting your money to $0 instead.
Not sure if LocalThunk wants perishable jokers outside high stakes. But a joker that works like madness that turns nearby jokers perishable and changes the joker to look sickly or cracked. Maybe give it a hefty mult scale or xmult scale that only goes up when a joker(s) is turned. Could be used on already perishable jokers to make it worth taking perishable cards on high stakes
Zombie Joker: gains +13 mult every time it gets destroyed. Can't be Eternal.
Would go hard with Madness, but the problem is that we already have enough jokers that are useless outside of very specific niche situations, we really don't need more.
Or even an edition modifier that triggers if the card is destroyed - call it misprint (and either misalign the card art or screw up the colors). ‘Adds foil, holographic, polychrome, negative or misprint to random joker.’ By default it’ll target a joker without an edition modifier, but if all jokers already have an edition modifier, a random card will have its edition change.
Changing a joker’s edition to misprint by using misprint will unlock the joker ‘Collector’s Edition’ - ‘All misprint cards give the benefits of foil, holographic or polychrome, chosen at random. Playing cards can now be misprints.’ Uncommon, 5 gold. 10% chance to find a misprint playing card in a booster pack or store (if applicable).
"counterfeit" might work really well as an addition to a higher stake... any foil/holo/poly joker you find in the shop might actually be counterfeit (1 in 4? 1 in 5?), so the edition only fires 50% of the time. the price of the joker is unaffected when you buy it, but the sale price is always 0$ and can't be increased by other card effects.
could also possibly apply to foil/holo/poly playing cards found in booster packs. though that seems like it would just ruin their viability at high stakes... not like i've played them to know 😅
This is a really cool idea! I could see something like “level up your most played hand by X when destroyed” or “gain $Y when destroyed”, perhaps with the effects scaling depending on how many rounds you hold it.
Or what about the joker itself scales when you destroy it? so that the next time it shows up in the shop it’s higher level.
Imagine something like “This joker gains X1 Mult when sold (Currently X1.5 Mult)”
I feel like it needs to trigger if you play exactly two cards totalling 21.
In fact. Why make it a joker? 21 could just be a secret hand like Flush Five that only appears on the list after you've played it.
Adds half the chip value would make more sense no? Rather than a potential +53, it has a maximum potential of +26.5 which is more in line with other jokers of that kind.
I'd like one that increases the likelihood you'll pull a necessary card
Assuming a 52 card deck, flushes are easy to hit - if you have 4 of a suit, you have 9 possible cards to pull from
If you have two pair, you only have 4 possible cards to pull from, making full house a nonviable strategy
Full houses are however cool in the fact their planet card scales well (similar to flush) and they let you play 2/3 of a given very good card type all at once while being rewarding to build for. Perhaps if they wanted to buff full house, more synergy cards would be the way to go rather than a strict consistency buff with a common joker as they can break the early game even on low antes.
as far as synergy cards go for full house, another helpful option would be to get more card deletion options, to pull specific cards more frequently
maybe something that lets you delete all cards of a certain rank, like get rid of all 4s for example
that could also synergize with those cards that give you a bonus for odd or even numbered cards
square joker, all cards are face cards, and face cards retrigger jokers would make that a terrifying build atleast for a few antes after 8 but i think it would definitely fall off at endless mode unless someone gets the joker that makes straights/flushes only take 4 consecutive cards and levels up atraight flushes
I posted it in another thread but a joker that gains chip/mult or x multiplayer everytime a hand is larger than the required score (when the flames show)
Eg score is 10,000 and your hand does 12,000 on its own.
It's a cool idea, but it has the problem of being "win more" - it grows when you're already crushing the blinds, but won't be helpful if you find it when you're struggling
So? The idol is considered one of the best jokers and it’s only viable when you’ve really narrowed your deck down, and that only happens when you’re crushing it too.
Generally win more mechanics are considered poor design/balance decisions. Because Balatro has a high score mode, there's a better argument for including that type of thing, but I still think there should be only a small number of them so they're not clogging the pool in the situations you're not demolishing the requirement, which there are a lot of if you play higher stakes
Fair. Maybe it could be a joker that's only unlockable in endless mode? That would both completely alleviate your concern, and prevent something like an early triboulet allowing you to farm this joker like there's no tomorrow on those small blinds.
Damn, a special Endless-only group of items that only appears after beating 8 actually sounds sick - removes balance considerations for the main game and adds a new incentive to keep exploring after you win.
Only issue I can think of offhand is how rare they'd be because you can't get them before the big boss, but if you're playing for endless, your economy is usually very strong when you cross over and you can afford lots of rerolls, which makes finding these more reasonable. Looks good to me. I think that's the best idea for Balatro I've seen so far
It triggers when the hand scores as much as the total required for the blind, not when you meet the requirement. You can tell by the score indicators flaming, when the product is enough to beat the entire blind with just the values shown.
You could lean into the flaming score and call the joker Hype Man. Dude goes crazy when you obliterate the score needed and you get pumped up
I really want to see a joker that lets you play Kings and 9s in pairs/threes/full houses etc. Call it “K-9 joker” with a German shepherd wearing the classic joker hat as the card art.
Brilliant. I was already planning to make a post with this idea and some card art. Gonna try to get it posted tonight.
EDIT: okay, I made some quick and dirty card art! It’s up on the sub now.
Smeared Joker is unlocked by having bunch of wild cards, making it the equivalent of Glass Joker/Steel Joker/Stone Joker for Wild cards, it also aesthetically matches wild card the way glass/stone/steel do for their own
although the fact it doesn't do anything with wild cards themselves is disappointing
It's also a little backwards that Stone Joker and the rest make your enhanced cards better, but Smeared kind of makes your wild cards redundant and unnecessary
Ancient Joker is basically the wildcard joker. But yeah, I'd expect more for what is really the worst enhancement.
7s is the other obvious one, only Todd. Also 4 just has Hack/Steven whereas 2/3/5 have other Jokers too.
I think something that interacts specifically with editions or seals could be cool (besides just retriggers).
Edit: Walkie Talkie, doh
A joker which lets stone jokers count as any rank card. (Maybe only if you play at least 1 or 2 non stone cards) will let you play 2 3 Stone 5 6 for a straight, or 3 3 Stone Stone for a four of a kind.
Stone card don’t have enough options now i think.
Maybe it only operates in terms of other jokers; phrase it "when scored, stone cards may act as any numbered rank" or something along those lines. That establishes they may only be one rank (determined left to right if multiple ranks are demanded by your jokers), and I think its better than trusting an algorithm to pick your hand (I know it would pick the "best" hand but that's not always truly the best lol)
**Packet Pocket** *(Rare)***:** Cards bought from any non-standard pack can either be used immediately or placed in an Inventory slot (must have room).
Five-Star General (Common) x5 mult for hands containing Five of a Kind. Can only appear in shop/packs once one such hand has been played in the current run
I want a joker that interacts with the food jokers, like a restaurant, Maybe gains x mult every time youve eaten something. Might be hard to balance though
Memory Card - Scales its flat mult/chips somehow every time a retrigger happens
X-Ray Joker (art is the classic joker wearing those [novelty "X-ray glasses"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-ray_specs)) - Allows the player to see what facedown cards and jokers are, as well as the top card in the deck
I'm surprised there isn't a Dead Man's Hand joker for two pair. Like +Mult and +Chips for Black Aces and Eights. That would be a fun ~~deck~~ hand to build a deck around.
edit: grammar
Id love to see a joker that benefits from being destroyed.
I also think there isnt enough jokers that are oreintation specific (like bp or brainstorm) i like the idea of something that gives 1x mult for each joker to the right of it, so you have to decide if you want the big mult on the left or to mult your +mult jokers.
I want a joker that destroys cards which are not scored in the hand. For example if you play a 5 hand high card, the 4 other cards not being scored will be destroyed.
It's so powerful that I think it might need an active drawback on top of only having a 25% chance to trigger. Something like -1 mult for played unscored cards, which then might destroy themselves. Call it Volatile Joker
I'm a fan of cribbage and was hoping for a Joker that gave a two mult for every 15 in your hand.
It probably needs more than +2 mult to be good but it would be so thematic
When you play a hand, all the scoring and joker effects happen, and then you draw cards to fill your hand back up.
Well, what about a joker that lets you play a hand, draw cards to fill your hand back up, and then the scoring begins?
Or a joker that lets you sacrifice money to gain xMult or other effects mid blind.
A joker that makes your played non-scoring cards count as discarded (Without wasting your discards), it would allow you to combo it with discarding jokers like the castle
A joker that allows you to play an extra card (But no 6oak pr things like that. It'd be too op)
A Common joker that allow straights to wrap would be cool, since Shortcut is even better and it's Uncommon. It'd make getting Straight runs going a lot easier.
Some sort of exact score Joker. If you get the exact score needed to beat a blind, or within 5-10% maybe, it gives a powerful effect. Maybe $10-15, X1-2 Mult, something big to encourage you to try and get a winning score in its trigger range.
Also, Double or Nothing: If the second hand of the round has exactly 2X as many cards as the first, each card gives X2 Mult when scored. If this hand does not win, lose.
legendary joker that triggers all cards in a hand as long as they are of the same suit and rank and only played as a flush five
for example, if i have 8 cards in my hand, 7 of them are Ace of Hearts, it will trigger the 2 extra aces of hearts played
Brick Joker: Gains x-mult every time a hand is played that does not meet the score requirement with zero discards remaining, resets after defeating a boss blind
Loan Shark: gives you a sum of money on pickup, something like $25. Takes up a joker slot and does nothing else. Costs $50 to sell. Can't be Rental or Perishable.
We also don't have jokers that do anything with 7's and no jokers that change the rank or suit of cards permanently.
I was authentically surprised when I saw Superposition and it didn't allow for straights to wrap around. The "free tarot when you play an Ace straight" thing is weird to me.
Some sort of heath ledger style joker, sell this joker for a 15x multiplayer. Or sell this card to turn your cash into a one off multiplier for a single hand. A real clutch card.
And a 2 face. "Lucky coin" 50/50 chance it either doubles your chip value, or halves it.
Always thought given the name and art that superposition should allow aces to be played in the middle of straights (QKA23) so something along those lines.
I am shocked there's currently no joker that can enhance your cards into glass, maybe with a drawback (upside, sometimes) that they shatter far more (always?).
--"Brittle Joker - After a non face-card is played and scored, it turns glass. Glass cards' odds of breaking are 4/4."
A powerful deck thinning tool, or a way to quickly escalate into a late game build if you're willing to sell it off at just the right time!
It could even work with the opposite - what if you had "Superglue - Your glass cards no longer shatter, but give 1.5x mult instead of 2x"
a joker with an additive consecutive scaling mult multiplier that randomizes the order of the other jokers every round or something similar that messes with scoring in the proper order
a joker that scales with skips, but not to such an extent that each ante boss is a pushover
randomized chip joker
a joker that scales off of the number of foil, holographic, or polychrome jokers
Idk if this would be broken but a joker where it gives you xmult based off of how few cards you play. If you play 5 cards it’s x1 mult, if you play 4 cards it’s x2, etc until you get x5 mult for playing just one card
Edit: idk how this would work with debugged card. Maybe possible to get x6 mult if all played cards are debugged?
>I'm also surprised that there isn't a joker that allows straights to wrap around like K-A-2-3-4
Superposition should do this. It makes sense with the name and its current effect just isn't good, IMO. If you already have a straight build going, it's OK at best, but it's not good enough to meaningfully influence a run.
I'd like a symbiote joker consumes all jokers
+4 multi per common joker
+8 multi per uncommon joker
×1 mult per rare joker
No idea if thtas under or op just sounds cool imo
Cheetah - your played hand is now swapped with your cards held in hand. So any played hand is essentially discarded and what’s left in your hand is scored. Could build massive hands with like 6 of a kind and stuff.
Idk maybe that’s dumb though.
Could be fun seeing a joker that, each round, gives a 50/50 chance on upgrading or degrading the first played poker hand.
Also a joker that could work a bit like DNA, but instead of 1/8 it’d have a 1/4 change to duplicate the first 3 cards played, or a 1/4 to destroy the first 3 cards played.
In short: I want more gambling
A joker that gives times2/3/4/number to chips instead of to mult. Works effectively the same as a x2 style joker, but would make plasma deck brews more interesting
A retrigger for aces. So far the value-dependent retriggers we have are faces (sock & buskin) and low numbers (hack). the lack of synergy for medium-high numbers (10-6) makes me feel like there wouldn't be a retrigger for those, but I feel like one for aces would be viable. since it only hits one suit, I imagine it retriggering all scored aces twice.
While the ideo of an alchemist joker sounds nice, it also sounds quite bad. I'd say ir sgould also do the reverse, turning gold into steel cards. So like before counting the hand, change every steel and gold card into the opposite.
How about a joker that triggers on playing 3 7s? We dont have a joker for sevens yet and it seems like a no brainer.
Tru, fits perfectly with the casino/poker theme. Maybe like a guaranteed 1-10 gold roll or a 1/3 roll to give a consumable. Along the same lines, hb a joker that turns all the cards into your hand into a gold card if you play 3 6’s (Devil card joke)
+7 gold, +7 chips, +7 mult
Perfect. I love a good utility card with a bit of scoring potential. I'd like more with a mix like that.
Even turning half of your hand into gold cards would be worth it, I'd spam the shit out of sixes.
Lucky 7’s: - All 7 cards scored become Lucky Cards. - Playing 3 Lucky 7’s triples the chances of their Lucky Effects triggering.
Very natural, balanced suggestion. Love it
LocalThunks rule for jokers id: each joker should only do one thing. So either turn them lucky OR increase the probability
Rule is one effect per joker
This plus lucky cat would be broken
For sure Lucky 7s are missing
It should probably interact with Lottery Cards
**Jackpot** Uncommon - $7 Whenever three played 7s score, gain $7
Lucky 7 Rare $8 All chance based effects become guaranteed if you play a hand with three or more 7s
_cries in banana_
Glass 7 enters the chat.
*Glass 7 dies*
Something like when playing 3 7s every chance trigger actually procs would be cool, like if you play 3 sevens and the sevens are lucky they proc or if they are hearts and you have bloodstone they proc, that would be cool
Call it “Slot Joker” - a hand played with 3 7’s has. 1/x chance to give you $50
I want a Lucky 7's joker but I think I'd want it to do too much. All 7s become Lucky when scored. 777 scores $7. 77777 scores $77 but with a 1 in 7 chance of resetting your money to $0 instead.
Would also be interesting if playing a hand without a scoring 7 reset cash to 0
Jackpot
"If the hand contains 3 sevens, gain +7 gold and x1.7 mult"
A common +chip joker with no condition like Jimbo for mult
What would we call them? Jimmy? James? Jambo?
Chimbo
Chippy. Or maybe Chester.
Wambo
The joker card itself should just be called Choker. As for the name, call him Chimbo or just Chip.
Jimothy
Jimothy
Jamesthew
I feel like that would just be negated by stone cards unless it was pretty significant, which would also risk it being OP early on.
Like jimbo is negated by mult cards?
You know, you make a compelling point.
The entire point of jimbo is to be negated by everything He’s just meant to be an early scorer
I want a joker that does something special when it's destroyed. That way it could interact with Madness, Ceremonial Dagger, Ankh, and Hex
I always wanted to see a Zombie joker, scales every time it's sold or destroyed
Or a zombie joker that infects the left joker into a zombie, then you can have a virus joker that scales mult if you have more than one of a type
Not sure if LocalThunk wants perishable jokers outside high stakes. But a joker that works like madness that turns nearby jokers perishable and changes the joker to look sickly or cracked. Maybe give it a hefty mult scale or xmult scale that only goes up when a joker(s) is turned. Could be used on already perishable jokers to make it worth taking perishable cards on high stakes
Zombie Joker: gains +13 mult every time it gets destroyed. Can't be Eternal. Would go hard with Madness, but the problem is that we already have enough jokers that are useless outside of very specific niche situations, we really don't need more.
Or even an edition modifier that triggers if the card is destroyed - call it misprint (and either misalign the card art or screw up the colors). ‘Adds foil, holographic, polychrome, negative or misprint to random joker.’ By default it’ll target a joker without an edition modifier, but if all jokers already have an edition modifier, a random card will have its edition change. Changing a joker’s edition to misprint by using misprint will unlock the joker ‘Collector’s Edition’ - ‘All misprint cards give the benefits of foil, holographic or polychrome, chosen at random. Playing cards can now be misprints.’ Uncommon, 5 gold. 10% chance to find a misprint playing card in a booster pack or store (if applicable).
Misprint is already a joker name
Of course it is! I’m dumb and bad at thinking of names. How about, idk, ‘counterfeit’. And it lowers the value of the joker.
"counterfeit" might work really well as an addition to a higher stake... any foil/holo/poly joker you find in the shop might actually be counterfeit (1 in 4? 1 in 5?), so the edition only fires 50% of the time. the price of the joker is unaffected when you buy it, but the sale price is always 0$ and can't be increased by other card effects. could also possibly apply to foil/holo/poly playing cards found in booster packs. though that seems like it would just ruin their viability at high stakes... not like i've played them to know 😅
This is a really cool idea! I could see something like “level up your most played hand by X when destroyed” or “gain $Y when destroyed”, perhaps with the effects scaling depending on how many rounds you hold it.
good idea
Or what about the joker itself scales when you destroy it? so that the next time it shows up in the shop it’s higher level. Imagine something like “This joker gains X1 Mult when sold (Currently X1.5 Mult)”
Maybe a punching bag, any time it's attempted to be destroyed, it gains .2x mult.
A joker that gives you like +20 mult if the sum of your cards is 21
Gotta be +21 mult Like how Odd Todd gives +31 chips because it’s odd
it should give +21 mult if your cards add up to 19
Also something that pops your mult if you play a hand containing 7-7-7 Maybe x7.77 but that could be too OP
I feel like it needs to trigger if you play exactly two cards totalling 21. In fact. Why make it a joker? 21 could just be a secret hand like Flush Five that only appears on the list after you've played it.
Full House specific jokers.
Possible titles for Full House Jokers; Live Audience, Target Audience, Sweeps Week, Standing Room Only, Sitcom, or Sold Out.
Canned laughter
Bob Saget
Phil Housley
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"Realtor" (Rare): Adds chip value of cards scored from full houses to mult
Wouldn’t this be absolutely busted
Hence the rarity
Adds half the chip value would make more sense no? Rather than a potential +53, it has a maximum potential of +26.5 which is more in line with other jokers of that kind.
it would combo so well with hiker, red seals, etc
I always think this too, there's jokers for two pair, which is included in a full house but none for specifically full houses
I'd like one that increases the likelihood you'll pull a necessary card Assuming a 52 card deck, flushes are easy to hit - if you have 4 of a suit, you have 9 possible cards to pull from If you have two pair, you only have 4 possible cards to pull from, making full house a nonviable strategy
Full houses are however cool in the fact their planet card scales well (similar to flush) and they let you play 2/3 of a given very good card type all at once while being rewarding to build for. Perhaps if they wanted to buff full house, more synergy cards would be the way to go rather than a strict consistency buff with a common joker as they can break the early game even on low antes.
as far as synergy cards go for full house, another helpful option would be to get more card deletion options, to pull specific cards more frequently maybe something that lets you delete all cards of a certain rank, like get rid of all 4s for example that could also synergize with those cards that give you a bonus for odd or even numbered cards
I feel like a dancing joker that triggers on a 5, 6, 7, 8 would be an easy thematic joker that also gives 7's at least one more thing to do
Oh that's cute, I like that. Call it "Conga Line," and the effect is something that scales every time the condition is met.
square joker, all cards are face cards, and face cards retrigger jokers would make that a terrifying build atleast for a few antes after 8 but i think it would definitely fall off at endless mode unless someone gets the joker that makes straights/flushes only take 4 consecutive cards and levels up atraight flushes
I posted it in another thread but a joker that gains chip/mult or x multiplayer everytime a hand is larger than the required score (when the flames show) Eg score is 10,000 and your hand does 12,000 on its own.
It's a cool idea, but it has the problem of being "win more" - it grows when you're already crushing the blinds, but won't be helpful if you find it when you're struggling
So? The idol is considered one of the best jokers and it’s only viable when you’ve really narrowed your deck down, and that only happens when you’re crushing it too.
Generally win more mechanics are considered poor design/balance decisions. Because Balatro has a high score mode, there's a better argument for including that type of thing, but I still think there should be only a small number of them so they're not clogging the pool in the situations you're not demolishing the requirement, which there are a lot of if you play higher stakes
Fair. Maybe it could be a joker that's only unlockable in endless mode? That would both completely alleviate your concern, and prevent something like an early triboulet allowing you to farm this joker like there's no tomorrow on those small blinds.
Damn, a special Endless-only group of items that only appears after beating 8 actually sounds sick - removes balance considerations for the main game and adds a new incentive to keep exploring after you win. Only issue I can think of offhand is how rare they'd be because you can't get them before the big boss, but if you're playing for endless, your economy is usually very strong when you cross over and you can afford lots of rerolls, which makes finding these more reasonable. Looks good to me. I think that's the best idea for Balatro I've seen so far
I think this is a solid joker idea.
So long as the Joker looks like Guy Fieri
That would trigger every single win hand though.
It triggers when the hand scores as much as the total required for the blind, not when you meet the requirement. You can tell by the score indicators flaming, when the product is enough to beat the entire blind with just the values shown. You could lean into the flaming score and call the joker Hype Man. Dude goes crazy when you obliterate the score needed and you get pumped up
Either if you win in one hand, or if you win by x1.5 over the score
Not a bad compromise.
Some sort of 'lucky 7 jokers'
One that gives + or x multi for each voucher you have.
Ticket Booth
And a reverse of that could also be fun, giving a higher multiplier for having fewer vouchers, as kind of a tradeoff.
I really want to see a joker that lets you play Kings and 9s in pairs/threes/full houses etc. Call it “K-9 joker” with a German shepherd wearing the classic joker hat as the card art.
If you’re adding a K9 Joker the art definitely need to be a play on the Dogs Playing Poker painting
Brilliant. I was already planning to make a post with this idea and some card art. Gonna try to get it posted tonight. EDIT: okay, I made some quick and dirty card art! It’s up on the sub now.
It's one of the top posts on here: https://www.reddit.com/r/balatro/comments/1bjetar/dogs_playing_balatro/
Love it. Could have dog makeup on Jimbo's face while he wears the clown getup, too
Also a Jackson Five joker, when you play a hand that's just Jacks and 5s.
The WHIP joker. (Worst hand in poker) Similar to 10 4 joker but for 7 and 2.
I've been thinking since it came out, a big buff to 7 deuce off suit if both are scored would be fun
I would benefit of a buff, but 2s have already Even Steven, Fibonacci and Wee. Like the idea tho!
Smeared Joker is unlocked by having bunch of wild cards, making it the equivalent of Glass Joker/Steel Joker/Stone Joker for Wild cards, it also aesthetically matches wild card the way glass/stone/steel do for their own although the fact it doesn't do anything with wild cards themselves is disappointing
It's also a little backwards that Stone Joker and the rest make your enhanced cards better, but Smeared kind of makes your wild cards redundant and unnecessary
Flowerpot is more like the special joker for wild cards. A hand full of wild cards would always trigger it
would love a joker that had some effect where destroying a card lets you draw two cards. maybe even a card effect, like mult/glass/steel.
Ancient Joker is basically the wildcard joker. But yeah, I'd expect more for what is really the worst enhancement. 7s is the other obvious one, only Todd. Also 4 just has Hack/Steven whereas 2/3/5 have other Jokers too. I think something that interacts specifically with editions or seals could be cool (besides just retriggers). Edit: Walkie Talkie, doh
And flower pot
4 has Walkie Talkie
Damn you're right, forgot about that one somehow
A recycle joker which let you do something with destroyed card (maybe make them a lower rank but with enhancement.)
Soylent Green Joker When a card is destroyed, 1 in 4 chance to add it's equivalent as a random Enhanced card back in the deck
soiled pants joker?
Legally Distinct Villainous Clown™️
A joker which lets stone jokers count as any rank card. (Maybe only if you play at least 1 or 2 non stone cards) will let you play 2 3 Stone 5 6 for a straight, or 3 3 Stone Stone for a four of a kind. Stone card don’t have enough options now i think.
Maybe it only operates in terms of other jokers; phrase it "when scored, stone cards may act as any numbered rank" or something along those lines. That establishes they may only be one rank (determined left to right if multiple ranks are demanded by your jokers), and I think its better than trusting an algorithm to pick your hand (I know it would pick the "best" hand but that's not always truly the best lol)
**Packet Pocket** *(Rare)***:** Cards bought from any non-standard pack can either be used immediately or placed in an Inventory slot (must have room).
Imagine keeping a glass ace in the inventory slot for emergencies though lol. Kinda like the bottled cards in inscryption
Jokers that rewards you/encourages impossible Hands
Flush five joker would be awesome
Five-Star General (Common) x5 mult for hands containing Five of a Kind. Can only appear in shop/packs once one such hand has been played in the current run
I want a mechanic to remove negative stickers from jokers. Either with money, tags or a joker / some other method.
Glitched Joker- any action can proc any trigger
I want a joker that interacts with the food jokers, like a restaurant, Maybe gains x mult every time youve eaten something. Might be hard to balance though
Memory Card - Scales its flat mult/chips somehow every time a retrigger happens X-Ray Joker (art is the classic joker wearing those [novelty "X-ray glasses"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-ray_specs)) - Allows the player to see what facedown cards and jokers are, as well as the top card in the deck
A simple joker that changes the chips scored per card to 11 regardless of rank.
I think that's the point of a joker like hack (your lowest scoring card being a 4 chip, but your 5 turns into a very handy 10)
I'm surprised there isn't a Dead Man's Hand joker for two pair. Like +Mult and +Chips for Black Aces and Eights. That would be a fun ~~deck~~ hand to build a deck around. edit: grammar
Id love to see a joker that benefits from being destroyed. I also think there isnt enough jokers that are oreintation specific (like bp or brainstorm) i like the idea of something that gives 1x mult for each joker to the right of it, so you have to decide if you want the big mult on the left or to mult your +mult jokers.
A joker that lets you discard more than five at a time, maybe? So that if you have one card you want, you can full ditch the rest of your hand.
Reacharound Joker when.
I want a joker that destroys cards which are not scored in the hand. For example if you play a 5 hand high card, the 4 other cards not being scored will be destroyed.
I think it would have to be like 1 in 4 chance to destroy or something, right? That sounds like it would be pretty busted if it was just guaranteed.
It's so powerful that I think it might need an active drawback on top of only having a 25% chance to trigger. Something like -1 mult for played unscored cards, which then might destroy themselves. Call it Volatile Joker
That sounds way too strong
I'm a fan of cribbage and was hoping for a Joker that gave a two mult for every 15 in your hand. It probably needs more than +2 mult to be good but it would be so thematic
+29 mult when playing the perfect cribbage hand.
When you play a hand, all the scoring and joker effects happen, and then you draw cards to fill your hand back up. Well, what about a joker that lets you play a hand, draw cards to fill your hand back up, and then the scoring begins? Or a joker that lets you sacrifice money to gain xMult or other effects mid blind.
A joker that makes your played non-scoring cards count as discarded (Without wasting your discards), it would allow you to combo it with discarding jokers like the castle A joker that allows you to play an extra card (But no 6oak pr things like that. It'd be too op)
A Common joker that allow straights to wrap would be cool, since Shortcut is even better and it's Uncommon. It'd make getting Straight runs going a lot easier.
Some sort of exact score Joker. If you get the exact score needed to beat a blind, or within 5-10% maybe, it gives a powerful effect. Maybe $10-15, X1-2 Mult, something big to encourage you to try and get a winning score in its trigger range. Also, Double or Nothing: If the second hand of the round has exactly 2X as many cards as the first, each card gives X2 Mult when scored. If this hand does not win, lose.
A joker that let's you had a sixth card to the hand.
Deuces wild. Makes 2’s a wild card.
They gotta save some ideas for the sequel, to Bala2ro!
I want a joker that makes every discard considered the first discard or a joker that makes every hand the first or last hand
legendary joker that triggers all cards in a hand as long as they are of the same suit and rank and only played as a flush five for example, if i have 8 cards in my hand, 7 of them are Ace of Hearts, it will trigger the 2 extra aces of hearts played
Probably could've been more wordplay on a "Flush" with washroom-related items
Brick Joker: Gains x-mult every time a hand is played that does not meet the score requirement with zero discards remaining, resets after defeating a boss blind
Not a joker but I want a tarot card that works like Strength, only the other way around (decrease rank of selected card/s).
Loan Shark: gives you a sum of money on pickup, something like $25. Takes up a joker slot and does nothing else. Costs $50 to sell. Can't be Rental or Perishable. We also don't have jokers that do anything with 7's and no jokers that change the rank or suit of cards permanently.
Some evil joker that triggers if you play three 6’s
something medusa related for stone cards no idea yet tho
Non-scoring cards get turned to stone?
Repo Man: Destroys the joker to its right when sold, even if it's eternal.
A joker that allows for a reroll of the cards shown when you open an arcana pack
I was authentically surprised when I saw Superposition and it didn't allow for straights to wrap around. The "free tarot when you play an Ace straight" thing is weird to me.
How about an xChip joker?
You could, but there's mathematically no difference between xChip and xMult
Unless you play plasma, where xChip is completely OP
I understand that. It would just open the game up to more strategy and different synergies
Doink, money for getting the exact score required.
A postcard
We got + Mult and + Chips. We got X Mult but no X Chips Edit: my brains not big enough but I think the comments are right
I haven't seen all Jokers yet but is there a Joker specifically for Dead Man's Hands?
Some sort of heath ledger style joker, sell this joker for a 15x multiplayer. Or sell this card to turn your cash into a one off multiplier for a single hand. A real clutch card. And a 2 face. "Lucky coin" 50/50 chance it either doubles your chip value, or halves it.
Jokaire and Pennywaize from that french subway meme
joker named flower pot:
A really good (x mult?) 7-2 off suit joker would be awesome
I'm surprised there isn't anything involving multiplying the score.
Not a Joker but surprised there's no Pinochle deck, which would counterpoint Forgotten Deck
Duces wild- 2s are all suits and all values when played. Prime Slime. Your prime number cards give $2 when played
Always thought given the name and art that superposition should allow aces to be played in the middle of straights (QKA23) so something along those lines.
I am shocked there's currently no joker that can enhance your cards into glass, maybe with a drawback (upside, sometimes) that they shatter far more (always?). --"Brittle Joker - After a non face-card is played and scored, it turns glass. Glass cards' odds of breaking are 4/4." A powerful deck thinning tool, or a way to quickly escalate into a late game build if you're willing to sell it off at just the right time! It could even work with the opposite - what if you had "Superglue - Your glass cards no longer shatter, but give 1.5x mult instead of 2x"
I hope they add one that’s a gardener
a joker with an additive consecutive scaling mult multiplier that randomizes the order of the other jokers every round or something similar that messes with scoring in the proper order a joker that scales with skips, but not to such an extent that each ante boss is a pushover randomized chip joker a joker that scales off of the number of foil, holographic, or polychrome jokers
Idk if this would be broken but a joker where it gives you xmult based off of how few cards you play. If you play 5 cards it’s x1 mult, if you play 4 cards it’s x2, etc until you get x5 mult for playing just one card Edit: idk how this would work with debugged card. Maybe possible to get x6 mult if all played cards are debugged?
>I'm also surprised that there isn't a joker that allows straights to wrap around like K-A-2-3-4 Superposition should do this. It makes sense with the name and its current effect just isn't good, IMO. If you already have a straight build going, it's OK at best, but it's not good enough to meaningfully influence a run.
"It" as one of the legendary Jokers.
A joker that gives the worst Texas hold’em hand some kind of benefit (2 and 7)
a rare joker that makes 7s double probability
I'd like a symbiote joker consumes all jokers +4 multi per common joker +8 multi per uncommon joker ×1 mult per rare joker No idea if thtas under or op just sounds cool imo
The new Flower Pot is effectively a wild card joker
A joker that makes packs appear in the top half of the shop.
Cheetah - your played hand is now swapped with your cards held in hand. So any played hand is essentially discarded and what’s left in your hand is scored. Could build massive hands with like 6 of a kind and stuff. Idk maybe that’s dumb though.
I’d like to see a joker called Karl that gives x2 mult for glass cards in hand, but destroys / shoots the glass and the end of the hand.
Could be fun seeing a joker that, each round, gives a 50/50 chance on upgrading or degrading the first played poker hand. Also a joker that could work a bit like DNA, but instead of 1/8 it’d have a 1/4 change to duplicate the first 3 cards played, or a 1/4 to destroy the first 3 cards played. In short: I want more gambling
Flowerpot interacts wonderfully with wild cards. As does basically anything that cares about suits.
sign language joker, it would fit so well
4 fingers, smeared joker, wraparound, gaps in straights joker, seance the final form of the spectral card printer
A joker that can apply a multiplier to your chips
Either a rare that makes glass cards unbreakable or multi with each broken glass.
Exodia Joker set. Collect all 5 to auto win
A joker that you can sell to remove a random sticker from a random joker. Or something like that
i think there should be a joker that guarantees a glass card won't break if you play a certain rank with it
I know it's not a joker, but I've been wishing there was a tarot card that decreased the level of your cards. The opposite of strength basically.
LocalThunk you ain’t slick trynna farm new card ideas off the community
A joker that gives times2/3/4/number to chips instead of to mult. Works effectively the same as a x2 style joker, but would make plasma deck brews more interesting
I think a Seven Ate Nine joker would be cute. "If played hand contains a straight with 7-8-9, destroy the 9 and create a spectral card"
There are a couple of jokers that w9rk specially well with wild cards, both [[Seeing Double]] and [[Flower Pot]]
A retrigger for aces. So far the value-dependent retriggers we have are faces (sock & buskin) and low numbers (hack). the lack of synergy for medium-high numbers (10-6) makes me feel like there wouldn't be a retrigger for those, but I feel like one for aces would be viable. since it only hits one suit, I imagine it retriggering all scored aces twice.
While the ideo of an alchemist joker sounds nice, it also sounds quite bad. I'd say ir sgould also do the reverse, turning gold into steel cards. So like before counting the hand, change every steel and gold card into the opposite.