Gold Deck
Jokers that had bonuses for Clubs and Flushes
The 10-4 Joker
The Abstract Joker
Joker that adds 0.25 to a multiplier for every card added to the deck.
I bought every Club I could get and converted a ton of them. I did run into a boss blind that disabled all Clubs, but I still had enough of my other suits to get past it.
Grrr, juuuust failed at purple stake when it hit the final boss of Violet Vessel - Extremely large blind. Even more annoying, it could have passed and I had the required score last blind, but I was using the '1/3 chance of score double on playing a heart' joker and of course hit a run of that not firing off just as I really needed it to.
I've been playing on the public test version and I'm loving the changes to bloodstone (1/2 instead of 1/3) and hanging chad (first card triggered 3 times, from 2), though I'm afraid to say new bloodstone might be too powerful. I've found them really synergistic with the new lucky card (applies to 2 cards at once). It seems pretty easy to get a few lucky hearts, trigger them multiple times, get lots of mult and money. If you can get oops all 6's and hack it gets truly insane.
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syndalisGetting ClassyOn the WallRegistered User, Loves Apple Products, Transition Teamregular
edited April 2024
So I have beaten gold stake on a couple decks and I have unlocked every joker except for the one for a 100,000,000 point hand; that's been a pain to achieve.
I got the 400 dollar one yesterday by abusing the deck that gives you a double tag on every boss win, waiting for the double money tag to appear, and then using it then, throwing $200 gold into my wallet in one go, where I was already at 260ish from interest increase vouchers, gold cards, etc.
With the cowboy boot joker that was a lot of points I was able to squeeze out also... I ran with 2 pair all the way up to the end while leveling the hell out of high card/pair, and then switched over to them in Ante 8 to give me lots of room to build up a multiplier with a monolith I had from the start (with polychrome on it so it wasn't totally dead weight before then).
Best hand I have ever gotten was 20ish mil though. Hitting a wall.
To get those really high counts there's really only one way and it's stacking xmult on xmult
imo the easiest way is hand full of glass cards paired with something like dusk, seltzer, or hack
red seals if you can work that in there (DNA probably)
then just make sure you've got a base hand that's been leveled some so your starting mult is high, maybe a joker which adds +mult when cards trigger (so during the xmult cascade instead of after) and something to boost your chips
life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
Also steel cards w/red seals + mime joker. Basically, if you want to go for really high scores, you have to focus on enhancing your deck over your Jokers.
EDIT: I didn't notice that there was another page when I added this post.
It's a reply to the post about the Ancient Joker in the Checkered Deck.
But if you make the mistake of adding a card via a standard pack that does not belong to the 2 main suits, you are screwed beyond belief.
And I'm not sure, but avoid Wild Card enchantments to be sure because suddenly the Ancient Joker might look at them and say "I'm in the mood for diamonds".
I think they look at the wild card's base suit. So if you had a diamond card converted to a wild card, it is still considered a diamond by Ancient Joker when deciding what suit is going to trigger.
Negative Mystic Summit
+15 Mult when 0 cards remaining
Burglar
When Blind is selected, gain +3 Hands and lose all discards
Foil Wrathful Joker
+50 chips; Played cards with Space suit give +4 Mult when scored
Gros Michel
+15 Mult, 1 in 4 chance this card is destroyed at end of round
Constellation
Gains X0.1 Mult per Planet card used (Currently X2.1 Mult)
Negative Bloodstone
1 in 3 chance for played cards with Heart suit to give X2 Mult when scored
Negative Rough Gem
Played cards with Diamond suit earn $1 when scored
Throwback X0.25 Mult for each Blind skipped this run (Currently X2.5 Mult)
Got Two Pair up to Lvl 7 on Ante 2 thanks to the Double Tag, rode that with Mystic Summit and Constellation with Odd Todd until Burgler and the others came along.
This is with the beta Bloodstone, which is now 1 in 2 chance of x2 on played Heart.
Now if I just pick up Oops, all sixes!..
fyi split your copy jokers between bloodstone and hack (at least when your hand is all hack cards)
same number of bloodstone chances (3x2 vs 2x3) but you increase the number of other effect triggers (eg trigger glass or mult enhancement 3 times instead of 2)
life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
Hadn't considered the glass/mult part.
The reason it was like this was because of Red Seals, and I was thinking 3x3 was better than 2x4.
I should leave a duplication on Hack then.
Hadn't considered the glass/mult part.
The reason it was like this was because of Red Seals, and I was thinking 3x3 was better than 2x4.
I should leave a duplication on Hack then.
Ah yeah red seals changes the game. Though so does glass, since that always hits.
Basically need to optimize for those x2s each hand.
life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
Hadn't considered the glass/mult part.
The reason it was like this was because of Red Seals, and I was thinking 3x3 was better than 2x4.
I should leave a duplication on Hack then.
Ah yeah red seals changes the game. Though so does glass, since that always hits.
Basically need to optimize for those x2s each hand.
I already hit The Head boss early in the run, so this run is shaping up to be the 2e(z) run.
Turned down Fibonacci, because Wee Joker is slowly clicking up, and Fib doesn't scale.
..
I might have to rethink going glass if I pickup Oops, all sixes! later on.
I finally found Perkeo in a run, and quite early too! Was doing the very annoying X-Ray challenge that has the 1 in 3 cards are face down debuff constantly. I then got Canio in the next shop so I hunted for a hanged man which didn't take long.
Perkeo is so much fun! Duplicated a bunch of hanged mans, got rid of all my face cards so Canio was at 18x most of the run. Got an invisible joker, it duplicated Perkeo, which I used to duplicate a bunch of temperament cards that were giving me $39 per use. Got boot straps and bull which were giving me about 200 mult and 1000 chips each at the end.
Are you absolutely sure? I'm almost 100% that it only select from suits in your deck.
Edit: Just checked the wiki. You are right!
Unlike Castle Castle, which chooses its suit proportionally to the composition of the current deck, Ancient Joker chooses evenly amongst the four suits, regardless of the current deck's composition.
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syndalisGetting ClassyOn the WallRegistered User, Loves Apple Products, Transition Teamregular
Well, it happened; I crossed the billion dollar hand.
Is there some way to see what all the upcoming boss blinds are going to be? Because I've gotten tilted a few too many times thinking I've Got a Good Thing Going, only for a boss blind to completely obliterate my strat with seemingly zero recourse. I mean yeah, there are tags and jokers that mess with the boss blind, but it's a little weird there isn't a StS style "here's all the bosses this run" thing, at least up to the endless mark.
You can't see all the boss blinds for a a run. During the start of an ante right before selecting the small blind you can see see the boss blind. Thus you have two blinds to pivot away from a hard counter but not beyond that. This is equivalent to StS where you see the boss for that act but not the next ones.
You can't see all the boss blinds for a a run. During the start of a round right before selecting the small blind you can see see the boss blind. Thus you have two blinds to pivot away from a hard counter but not beyond that. This is equivalent to StS where you see the boss for that act but not the next ones.
Upcoming (and available now if you opt into the beta on Steam) you can see the next boss blind while in the current post-boss shop, so you’ll get three shopping sessions to panic scramble.
That deck's downside is deceptively impactful. In addition to fewer hands it's also effectively -$1 per round played when it's most impactful at the start of a run.
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Gold Deck
Jokers that had bonuses for Clubs and Flushes
The 10-4 Joker
The Abstract Joker
Joker that adds 0.25 to a multiplier for every card added to the deck.
I bought every Club I could get and converted a ton of them. I did run into a boss blind that disabled all Clubs, but I still had enough of my other suits to get past it.
Oh wait no, NOW I guess I actually win:
Twitch: akThera
Steam: Thera
I got the 400 dollar one yesterday by abusing the deck that gives you a double tag on every boss win, waiting for the double money tag to appear, and then using it then, throwing $200 gold into my wallet in one go, where I was already at 260ish from interest increase vouchers, gold cards, etc.
With the cowboy boot joker that was a lot of points I was able to squeeze out also... I ran with 2 pair all the way up to the end while leveling the hell out of high card/pair, and then switched over to them in Ante 8 to give me lots of room to build up a multiplier with a monolith I had from the start (with polychrome on it so it wasn't totally dead weight before then).
Best hand I have ever gotten was 20ish mil though. Hitting a wall.
imo the easiest way is hand full of glass cards paired with something like dusk, seltzer, or hack
red seals if you can work that in there (DNA probably)
then just make sure you've got a base hand that's been leveled some so your starting mult is high, maybe a joker which adds +mult when cards trigger (so during the xmult cascade instead of after) and something to boost your chips
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
Twitch: akThera
Steam: Thera
It's a reply to the post about the Ancient Joker in the Checkered Deck.
But if you make the mistake of adding a card via a standard pack that does not belong to the 2 main suits, you are screwed beyond belief.
And I'm not sure, but avoid Wild Card enchantments to be sure because suddenly the Ancient Joker might look at them and say "I'm in the mood for diamonds".
Castle + Checkered Deck = Happy Happy Joy Joy
+15 Mult when 0 cards remaining
Burglar
When Blind is selected, gain +3 Hands and lose all discards
Foil Wrathful Joker
+50 chips; Played cards with Space suit give +4 Mult when scored
Gros Michel
+15 Mult, 1 in 4 chance this card is destroyed at end of round
Constellation
Gains X0.1 Mult per Planet card used (Currently X2.1 Mult)
Negative Bloodstone
1 in 3 chance for played cards with Heart suit to give X2 Mult when scored
Negative Rough Gem
Played cards with Diamond suit earn $1 when scored
Throwback X0.25 Mult for each Blind skipped this run (Currently X2.5 Mult)
Got Two Pair up to Lvl 7 on Ante 2 thanks to the Double Tag, rode that with Mystic Summit and Constellation with Odd Todd until Burgler and the others came along.
Rock Band DLC | GW:OttW - arrcd | WLD - Thortar
Now if I just pick up Oops, all sixes!..
fyi split your copy jokers between bloodstone and hack (at least when your hand is all hack cards)
same number of bloodstone chances (3x2 vs 2x3) but you increase the number of other effect triggers (eg trigger glass or mult enhancement 3 times instead of 2)
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
The reason it was like this was because of Red Seals, and I was thinking 3x3 was better than 2x4.
I should leave a duplication on Hack then.
Ah yeah red seals changes the game. Though so does glass, since that always hits.
Basically need to optimize for those x2s each hand.
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
Twitch: akThera
Steam: Thera
I already hit The Head boss early in the run, so this run is shaping up to be the 2e(z) run.
Turned down Fibonacci, because Wee Joker is slowly clicking up, and Fib doesn't scale.
..
I might have to rethink going glass if I pickup Oops, all sixes! later on.
Perkeo is so much fun! Duplicated a bunch of hanged mans, got rid of all my face cards so Canio was at 18x most of the run. Got an invisible joker, it duplicated Perkeo, which I used to duplicate a bunch of temperament cards that were giving me $39 per use. Got boot straps and bull which were giving me about 200 mult and 1000 chips each at the end.
I needed more glass cards in the end.
My Wee Joker was at like 1.6K chips though.
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I like new bloodstone
It will select suits you don't have.
Edit: Just checked the wiki. You are right!
Well, it happened; I crossed the billion dollar hand.
Still no scientific notation, but damn...
Twitch: akThera
Steam: Thera
If you had a fun combo post that shit!
Twitch: akThera
Steam: Thera
Upcoming (and available now if you opt into the beta on Steam) you can see the next boss blind while in the current post-boss shop, so you’ll get three shopping sessions to panic scramble.
The meta steers towards only one outcome for points, even after all the experimental changes.
Twitch: akThera
Steam: Thera
I never woulda won the basic stake without the vouchers that give you a free hand and free discard.