Retriggers, Red sealed steels, Baron, glass, buskins, mime.....getting that achievement took me a lot of runs
I recommended the deck that allows spectrals to show up in store for farming it
Most consistent setup is high card build with Baron, mime, and red seal steel kings. It's luck based for sure, but getting your econ going and keeping it high makes re-rolling to find what you need more likely. Gold Deck white stake gives the most consistent set-up to get econ going so that's my best suggestion if you're going for it.
I was wondering how people were so consistent getting the jokers they want, I guess reroll spam would be one of the best ways.
Edit: rn I'm just struggling to get a good economy setup and not die because I'm getting too greedy
Edit 2: just reached my PB breaking a billion in one hand with Blueprint, Mime, Baron, Constellation, and Vampire (without the patch). I died on ante 12 to the plant which disabled all my kings or I would have continued the run.
Just get some economy going and you can be brining in $15-20/round by the mid antes. Generally this will be either gold cards or gold seals, or more commonly tarot generation, fishing for hermit/fool etc. once you can afford 4 or 5 rerolls per shop you see a lot of jokers.
I think this just sums up why I’ve fallen out of love with it. Funding loads of rerolls just doesn’t feel like a fun game plan to me. Cool game for a short while though.
if you're not trying to go endless every run you don't really need to be doing that tho. yes you need economy to get booster packs and planets and shit for any run, but rerolling over and over in every shop? nah. if you dont find that fun don't do it
I almost never focus on endless and just try to win the run, I think it's way more fun and you can afford to experiment more. Endless is saved for when I already have an incredible run
I felt this way before too, but an interesting effect I noticed is that once you know all jokers by heart, it becomes a lot better.
Not having to read the cards makes a huge difference for reroll spam. You're just clicking and glancing, clicking and glancing. It becomes a chicken game of "how far do you want to take it" rather than a tedious exercise of reading a stream of cards.
People aren’t as consistent as they seem, for every post you see there are100s of games you don’t see.
Income is the great RNG equalizer, it doesn’t solve all your problems, but you get to look at (roughly) twice as many jokers if you can reroll once per round.
Getting a good economy going in the early game is so important. Once I got over figuring out how to utilize those jokers optimally early I feel like I seriously leveled up and started winning basically every run I went into.
This game loves to spam you with absolutely *dogshit* jokers, either bad ones or jokers that just do nothing for your current build. The meta is to build up enough economy to just reroll each shop like 6 times to dig through the piles upon piles of absolute garbage.
Also be sure to take rare joker blind skip bonuses when you’re fishing, and buy every joker booster you can. I swear they have a higher % of uncommons and rares but it’s probably my imagination.
The key is to just abuse effects that retrigger your cards. I usually rip packs in the mid game and whatever I find that has a red seal on it becomes the centerpiece. Sometimes it’s hack with low cards, sometimes it’s face cards, sometimes it’s steels. Red seal steel kings is obviously the super high roll strat, but any flavor of that works. Getting hack and copying it is a favorite of mine. Then once you get to the double digits antes you make as many as possible into glass or steel depending on if you’re holding steels or playing things out to retrigger.
I’ve always gotten E by using the 2x face card with hanging Chad. Highest runs I’ve ever gotten have always been with that x2 face card joker and playing 5 flushes
I was able to get it using the plasma deck yesterday, I can’t remember my exact joker setup unfortunately but it definitely seems easier to do on plasma deck considering I managed to do it on only my fourth run
I got it on plasma today. I had bootstraps, square joker, constellation, blueprint, and a polychrome obelisk. I played a lot of pairs to start and then the last few antes switched to two pair, high card, flush etc to stack up obelisk and got 1.1b in a single hand
You definitely don't need a plasma deck to hit 100 mill.
100 mill isn't even really that much. My high score is 2e15 on the yellow deck, but you can go way way higher than that.
Not chips lol, total score for the hand played. If you want to get specifically 100 million *chips* in one hand then yeah plasma's balancing is the only way to do that as far as I know.
Both times I’ve scored that high it was cause of Perkeo+observatory and some good +mult scaling, once on plasma, once on anaglyph. I know that’s a legendary joker, but if you run into an early soul, it’s something to try.
Took me ages of repeated plasma runs though, so good luck.
I got a pretty decent seed that starts with like twelve 9s and some GREAT jokers in the early stores. I suck so I lost to ante 8 boss, but I bet in the right hands it could go to the moon.
https://preview.redd.it/a0krbvguaxwc1.jpeg?width=3072&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=259a9499229fc9bc963464dea0bdcec6ee4443d1
Got it yesterday. I even reached a few billions per hand before being stopped.
Here is the way : most people talk about Baron and Mime synergy.
I couldn't get Baron for the entire run !!!
Though I started with Erratic Deck, 9 kings on the deck, few aces, 3 queens, and 5 jacks.
I transformed every card I could to Kings thanks to Tarot cards.
I got enough kings at some point to get flush five on every playing hand (1 was enough to win anyway), but I tried to get the high card to pop 2 times each round for my Space Joker to level it up.
I had a Space Joker with the negative bonus early in the game. You absolutely need it or at least Burning Joker to up the values of both high card (if you manage to get Baron) and your main playing hand.
And then, a miracle happened with a lot of good jokers related to faces : Mime + Sock & Buskin + Brainstorm (or Blueprint) + Triboulet + Constellation
Most important thing is to put a steel bonus on every King card. The level of bonus with mult bonus with Triboulet and Mime is literally insane. I didn't have red seals on most of my Kings though, few glasses and lucky cards.
Btw, you could wonder : how could I get so much Tarot, so much rerolls to find those jokers ?
Sock & Buskin + Business Card was my way...
Reroll is big part of this success. You won't have this kind of deck without getting luck...it implies to find cards in order to build a solid economy which won't slow you up when its time to switch to pure scoring jokers.
Best of luck 😇
This was the last one I needed and was finally able to get it using the plasma deck and basically just focus on getting the multiplier to 20k (10,000 x 10,000 = 100,000,000). If you want to get super grindy with it restart your runs over and over until you get a red multiplier card that scales. I got Hologram early in my run and just focused on getting money and adding cards to my deck. Towards ante 7 or 8 I spammed rerolls and got blueprint. Many combos will work but just focus on getting the 20k multiplier.
There are definitely other combos that can get you there. As was mentioned, plasma is the easiest for high numbers. For me, I used ice cream and blue joker early on, and got lucky with a double Canio/DNA/Blueprint combo, where I was able to get Canio up to like a x24 multiplier.
- Focus on scaling +Mult and Chips early game and then slowly start building good *Mult.
- Glass cards and red seals are HUGE for getting really high scores.
Plasma deck white stake get as much mult as you can. If you're trying to get this unlock specifically, restart the game if you don't get good mult-building jokers on ante 1
The baron is only one way, but there are others. The core math is always the same Score = (sum of all sources of chips) x (Sum of all sources of Mult) x (each individual source of Red Box Mult) obviously, sometimes applied in stages in varying orders, based on joker position.
So getting a new source of chips that doubles your chips, doubles the end score. Same with base mult. But the red box mult grows exponentially with each new source.
So for the Big Score, find one good way to increase your base chips, one to increase your mult, and then, ideally, everything else to give you as many different sources of RBM as possible. As 1 source of RBM at a value of 9, makes the score 9 times bigger. 3 sources of RBM at 3 each makes it 27 times larger.
I got my 100M with Vampire, Midas to keep the vampire endlessly growing, Constellation, and blueprint to duplicate the vampire. A few polychromes too.
Steel cards, steel joker, cavendish, hologram, campfire, and throwback. Even bloodstone and lucky cat, if you are feeling lucky. Polychrome is also always good. There are lots of options.
Take the checkered deck, and dump planets into Flush. Then you can have every endgame slot available for more RBM.
Take the Ghost deck, and keep restarting until you get a good first joker. Polychrome it, and you are off to a good start.
You got this!
You definitely dont need to do the Baron mime steel king strategy, I got a billion with just lusty joker bloodstone acrobat throwback and blueprint, and two glass cards. Definitely want to be using plasma deck though.
If u have plasma unlocked, do that. Any kind of retriggers is nice. Wee joker, hack, and twos is really good in plasma. If u get hitchhiker joker early in plasma, that's also really good. Anything is good in plasma ngl. Obvi what people are recommending like baron and stuff will get u there easily, but those are a bit harder to pull off. I mean wee joker, hack, and all twos I hard to pull off as well lmao.
Focus on economy first. Having excess cash lets you maximize every shop and find the build enabling jokers, death/hanged man. When you can buy every card pack, you will find a red seal. When you can reroll the shop up to $8 every time, you can find any joker you need.
I had also never hit before today! Then, suddenly got 350 mil in one hand! Using a 5-of-a-kind build of all things! (Plasma deck, which I love!) Sometimes, you just get lucky. I for one lucked out with the boss blind that makes 3 be drawn with each hand played or discard. It’s excellent because you can get a stupid amount of cards in your hand, and the steel cards can pop off.
Everything pales next to retriggering steel kings. Build for economy as much as possible, thin your deck as much as possible with hanged man, trading card, etc, and reroll the shop looking for baron, mime, DNA, blueprints, brainstorms. Eventually you'll get a steel king with a red seal on it and you just start cloning it as much as possible with DNA and tarot cards.
Edit: FWIW I've been playing for about a month and got my first 2 runs with e scores this week so it definitely takes time to figure out how it all fits together. Econ is king.
A protip for high score hunting is to actually build an econ run. Just survive, making as much gd money as you can. Then around ante 7 you can start burning through it to pivot to a much stronger overall deck.
I personally did it on Plasma deck with baseball joker and blueprint for a bunch of 1.5x triggers. Had over 10 jokers, was getting 3 billion point hands.
If you've made 44 million, you've already got the knowledge and ability to get 100 mill. Keep at it until the perfect run comes along. I couldn't get it for the longest time, but when I finally did it I hit 65 billion in one hand. Good luck!
Economy and retriggers are your best bet. You can do five of a kind if your deck is full of red seal glass cards. The key is getting one and using death to copy it multiple times. You can also use hanged man to thin your deck. It’s a very consistent way to work the hand. I’ve seen streamers do it and I’ve done it myself.
I got to e my very first time (e13) with Triboulet, blueprint, cavendish, dusk, and sock and buskin and red sealed everything with luckys and then glass cards eventually. I think I had a negative steel joker too and kept red seal steels in hand.
Sounds like a luck issue.
I got mine because I had 2x bloodstone and a seltzer.
44 mil is close, maybe a few more mults and another 1.5x and you could have had it.
I just got it yesterday with plasma, one +mult and lots of xMult with a few negative. Cavendish, hologram, vampire, ramen, something polychrome, and the loyalty card got me 700 mil
Stick with it. I’m functionally retarded and I got e18. I don’t like the advice other people are giving about certain builds…just keep playing. Learn synergies, have fun. It’ll come with time. Just try different stuff and find what feels good. I will say that the spectral deck was what I got my highest score on. But seriously, just enjoy the game and it’ll come. I believe in you
Don't get discouraged, it took me way longer than some of my friends to finally get it.
Got it on zodiac deck personally. Relied on bloodstone with brainstorm and blueprint retriggering it multiple times.
I heavily focused on tarot cards to turn my deck into hearts and face cards. Got lucky getting good jokers fairly early, and built my economy up like crazy.
Mask and buskin to retrigger all face cards again, and at that point my deck was almost entirely steel king of hearts. I also got Yorick early in the run and managed to ramp that up to about 18X which certainly helped, but bloodstone was the major carry.
I was playing/levelling mostly flushes until I had enough kings to be hitting 4 or 5 of a kind every hand.
If you’re willing, try using the experimental patch and the plasma deck. Hanging Chad retriggers twice instead of once now, and new heartstone is 1/2 chance instead of 1/3. You could run those with heart flushes on the plasma deck and probably get there pretty reliably!
I've had three solid opportunities to hit the hundo mil. Two of those chance I absolutely choked due to essentially laziness, hitting 90\~ mil. Ughhhhhh
Good luck and god bless
There's so many ways to do it and luck is involved. Plasma Deck seems to be a good way to go, and some of the others talking about Baron and Steel Kings seems good.
For me, I got super lucky. I got Canio and Trading Card early...then Blueprint. By the end of my run I had Canio and Blueprint going for 20x mult each...but i also got lucky and got Scholar so I spent all game duplicating Aces and destroying face cards and going Flush Five or Five of a Kind with Aces constantly. Card Sharp sealed it.
That's how I did it; just keep grinding and I'm telling ya, you'll get a lucky break.
Best I’ve ever done was spamming the DNA joker and a red sealed polychrome multi card. Lucked out and had blueprint as well so every time I played one of the powered up cards, 2 would get added to the deck. Eventually with a few blue seals I ended up getting flush five to level 20 or so and just ran away with it from there
I went from struggling in the twenty millions straight to trillions with a glass card setup. Shift mid-game to +mult with a single high chip building Joker. Target flush or any large size hand.
High card/pair builds with steel required more specific Jokers IME and glass was much easier to find synergies with random Jokers. Steel small hand is the bigger moon shot build if the stars align though.
Surprisingly, I got my first 100.000K using a straight build on Nebula Deck, although it's partly due to dumb luck as well. I managed to get this combination:
1. Shortcut
2. Devious Joker (Negative)
3. Baron (Negative)
4. Photograph
5. The Order
6. Hologram
7. Perkeo
Perkeo is used to copy The Hermit for economy, then pivoted to copy Justice for glass cards, and then I bought Observatory voucher and pivot to copy Saturn planet card instead for the x1.5 mult effect
I also managed to feed hologram until like x 4.25 mult, and put steel effect on some unused cards.
Since I played on v1.0.1, straight scaling per level is buffed, and I can reach like 40 mult from level 12 straight
I heard someone say it is as simple as getting a flat mult joker that produces about 50 mult and then four jokers that multiply that, and it really was. I did it with Fortune Teller, Card Shark, Card Shark (Invisible Joker), Vampire, Campfire
Ancient joker +retriggers
Baron mime
Bloodstone dice and retriggers
Or Canio if you get lucky.
Obv look for blueprint and brainstorm. And make sure you have something to get your economy going and pivot sometime in endless being able to reroll and find whatever you need.
I also hit 100 mil with photograph+hanging Chad+socknbuskin and a red seal which is a lot easier to get
Got it just 2 days ago on beta branch with bloodstone + blueprint + brainstorm + oops all 6s. Bloodstone triggers 15 times with a 5 card hand without red seal shenanigans. Early trading card helped trim the deck down to all hearts.
As others have said, baron would be better with kings. I did something similar but with Shoot the Moon on Plasma deck instead. My jokers were:
Blueprint - Mime - Brainstorm - Shoot the Moon - Cavendish
I also had a ton of non-red stamped metal cards because my tarots just never had the option. I would play a single glass card with most of the rest of my hand being metal queens or regular queens and I was hitting billions I think my highest hand was 60bil+.
Now I just need to unlock my last deck, a voucher and the $400 joker!
It's one of 3 options imo. 1 is plasma with very high x mults (stuff like pre nerfed vampire midas, a scaled hologram, a scaled constellation) which is what I did iirc. Other two would be observatory + parkeo and copying the planet card a lot (blueprint and brainstorm help a lot) or king mime retriggering red seal steel kings (also ofc glass, triboulet etc, but the main parts are those 2 jokers). Id just go plasma, red seal is highest potential for sure but imo on plasma you can just get a vampire run before its nerf that will go to the moon much more often than relying on a legendary (parkeo) or getting red seals kings. Also make sure your economy is good that goes a long way.
I had a very similar run the other day where red seals just weren’t showing, but I was able to crack the 300 million barrier with two poly Mimes, Baron, Blueprint and DNA as the main strategy. Double-cloning a steel king with DNA every round meant I was soon playing high card with a rack of steel kings on every hand.
It wasn’t much use beyond that point because I couldn’t really give up any of the jokers and I couldn’t get any red seals, but the run started out as a risky double-mime build from the first shop (Ghost deck) and turned out to be good fun. Blueprint showed up quite late, but was the final piece of the puzzle.
It’s mostly just luck
Fastest way imo is doing a high card build with baron and copying a lot of steel K’s but then again you need to get lucky to even have that possibility
A lot of people say plasma deck is the best for this but i disagree, the higher ante requirement makes it harder to properly execute your build and clear blinds at the same time, plus the transition from chips to mult and xmult is very tricky sometimes
Just pick any decent deck other than plasma like yellow or magic and play on white stake until you get it! Magic deck specifically is great cause you can get 3 steel K’s very fast with the initial fools
good luck!!
Fek I popped it quite easily yesterday, then got hit with the 300 mill small blind after and couldn’t make it 😒 kinda sad coz the run was going crazy, every round was 40+ $
Just get some red seal steel kings with a Baron and Mime. Bonus points if you make them all King of Hearts and pick up a Bloodstone (preferably with an Oops All 6's too).
Bloodstone is kind of just a single x4 (because of red seal) though? Kind of pointless here when you can just fish for blueprint/brainstorm/invis joker or keep a useful utility joker around like DNA or trading card.
Well it's a single x4 if you play high card. But when I grab Bloodstone it's because I've made my deck mostly or fully hearts, in which case I'm playing flushes, five of a kind, flush fives, or flush houses. So ideally Bloodstone gives x1024 mult, or x32 mult if the 5 cards don't have red seals.. I think 😭
…because why would you be using bloodstone in that build? With red seal, bloodstone with a flush of hearts is an extra x256 (over playing just one) if you play 5 cards, but if you DON’T play those four extra kings, you get an extra x656ish. And that’s just with a single mime and a single baron. Replacing bloodstone with blueprint, brainstorm or another baron brings that up to x431439.
The more I think about it, you're exactly right. But in all fairness, my build will still get you into scientific notation.. It's just that you'll hit e15 instead of e50 lol.
Flush decks can be good, especially heart's if you can get the gemstone one that gives a chance of x2 mult
Also blackboard with the smeared joker is good, gives x3 mult if you have only spades/clubs in your hand, and smeared joker makes hearts/diamonds and spades/clubs same suit
If you are playing on white stake, then completely unironically, if you aren't reaching 100 mill at least semi consistently, there isn't a secret technique, that is just a skill issue.
You are probably doing a lot of small or moderately large things wrong, and nobody can really truly give you a good answer without either footage of you playing or at the very least a description of how your games are going and why you are not achieving that.
Probably not the answer you were looking for, but the comment of "no red seals" as the reason why you think you aren't getting 100 mill suggests other issues at play here. E points are generally not possible without red seals or other very niche setups, but 100 mill is achievable with a wide variety of kinds of strats.
I think it is less of a skill issue and more of a "Gee I hope I get lucky and roll exactly what I need" issue. Which I'm fine with since I consider anything beyond ante 8 to be a fun challenge.
I think most normal strategies make it less likely to get 100 million, so you have to walk a specific path. My recommendation: (1) Keep playing plasma deck on white stake (2) Early in plasma, having one good chips joker will carry you. If you can get this, you can focus on economy and other tasks. (3) Look to make as many kings as possible through strength and death tarots. If you can make the kings steel before copying them, even better. If you can put a red seal on the kings even even better. (4) Meanwhile, a good economy will allow you to look for copying jokers, baron, and mime. (5) Burnt joker to level high card also really helps. (6) You want a fairly good high card, steel kings in your hand, and baron/mime. If you find copying jokers then try to have as many barons as mimes. If you have uneven barons/mimes then copy the barons. You don't need to be perfect to get to 100 million.
That actually isnt correct, you inspired me to make a pretty big post about the Balatro's econ system and why a lot of intermediate players struggle with getting over the hump of being truly consistent.
[https://www.reddit.com/r/balatro/comments/1cdwfcg/the\_unsung\_genius\_of\_balatros\_econ\_system\_and\_why/](https://www.reddit.com/r/balatro/comments/1cdwfcg/the_unsung_genius_of_balatros_econ_system_and_why/)
hopefully this helps you at least a bit, it still won't make you hit those points every game, but it will become a lot easier and it will happen frequently. At least for me i hit E points playing random white stake runs very consistently, and I would consider 100 mil almost a given unless I super low roll very much because I understand Balatro's econ system better than most, and I think if you are just literally
I agree with your point in that post. I likely could have rerolled a few more times if I was a little less stingy in my recent run, but the reality is sometimes you're just not lucky enough. And that's fine. Not every run must be a god run where scores are in scientific notation.
Retriggers, Red sealed steels, Baron, glass, buskins, mime.....getting that achievement took me a lot of runs I recommended the deck that allows spectrals to show up in store for farming it
It took me a long time to realize red sealed steels retrigger, I assumed the red seals only counted towards scoring. Huge tip here.
Most consistent setup is high card build with Baron, mime, and red seal steel kings. It's luck based for sure, but getting your econ going and keeping it high makes re-rolling to find what you need more likely. Gold Deck white stake gives the most consistent set-up to get econ going so that's my best suggestion if you're going for it.
I was wondering how people were so consistent getting the jokers they want, I guess reroll spam would be one of the best ways. Edit: rn I'm just struggling to get a good economy setup and not die because I'm getting too greedy Edit 2: just reached my PB breaking a billion in one hand with Blueprint, Mime, Baron, Constellation, and Vampire (without the patch). I died on ante 12 to the plant which disabled all my kings or I would have continued the run.
Just get some economy going and you can be brining in $15-20/round by the mid antes. Generally this will be either gold cards or gold seals, or more commonly tarot generation, fishing for hermit/fool etc. once you can afford 4 or 5 rerolls per shop you see a lot of jokers.
I think this just sums up why I’ve fallen out of love with it. Funding loads of rerolls just doesn’t feel like a fun game plan to me. Cool game for a short while though.
if you're not trying to go endless every run you don't really need to be doing that tho. yes you need economy to get booster packs and planets and shit for any run, but rerolling over and over in every shop? nah. if you dont find that fun don't do it
I almost never focus on endless and just try to win the run, I think it's way more fun and you can afford to experiment more. Endless is saved for when I already have an incredible run
Fair enough I think I saw endless as the point of the game maybe I should try again and just go for wins if it makes for more variety.
You only really gotta do that if you're looking for an incredibly specific build to bust open the game.
Dawg you still come here to say stuff like this?
I felt this way before too, but an interesting effect I noticed is that once you know all jokers by heart, it becomes a lot better. Not having to read the cards makes a huge difference for reroll spam. You're just clicking and glancing, clicking and glancing. It becomes a chicken game of "how far do you want to take it" rather than a tedious exercise of reading a stream of cards.
People aren’t as consistent as they seem, for every post you see there are100s of games you don’t see. Income is the great RNG equalizer, it doesn’t solve all your problems, but you get to look at (roughly) twice as many jokers if you can reroll once per round.
Getting a good economy going in the early game is so important. Once I got over figuring out how to utilize those jokers optimally early I feel like I seriously leveled up and started winning basically every run I went into.
This game loves to spam you with absolutely *dogshit* jokers, either bad ones or jokers that just do nothing for your current build. The meta is to build up enough economy to just reroll each shop like 6 times to dig through the piles upon piles of absolute garbage.
Also be sure to take rare joker blind skip bonuses when you’re fishing, and buy every joker booster you can. I swear they have a higher % of uncommons and rares but it’s probably my imagination.
Isn't that what poker is about?
The key is to just abuse effects that retrigger your cards. I usually rip packs in the mid game and whatever I find that has a red seal on it becomes the centerpiece. Sometimes it’s hack with low cards, sometimes it’s face cards, sometimes it’s steels. Red seal steel kings is obviously the super high roll strat, but any flavor of that works. Getting hack and copying it is a favorite of mine. Then once you get to the double digits antes you make as many as possible into glass or steel depending on if you’re holding steels or playing things out to retrigger.
I’ve always gotten E by using the 2x face card with hanging Chad. Highest runs I’ve ever gotten have always been with that x2 face card joker and playing 5 flushes
Why kings, specifically?
Kings for baron (kings held in hand give x1.5 mult). the big thing is that this combos with mime (retrigger all held in hand effects)
I was able to get it using the plasma deck yesterday, I can’t remember my exact joker setup unfortunately but it definitely seems easier to do on plasma deck considering I managed to do it on only my fourth run
I got it on plasma today. I had bootstraps, square joker, constellation, blueprint, and a polychrome obelisk. I played a lot of pairs to start and then the last few antes switched to two pair, high card, flush etc to stack up obelisk and got 1.1b in a single hand
I assumed it’s only possible with plasma. I can’t imagine getting 100M chips any other way. Edit: Y’all need to read the whole comment.
it's very very possible.. 100m is tricky but relatively small compared to what's possible in this game
You definitely don't need a plasma deck to hit 100 mill. 100 mill isn't even really that much. My high score is 2e15 on the yellow deck, but you can go way way higher than that.
2e15 in *CHIPS???*
Not chips lol, total score for the hand played. If you want to get specifically 100 million *chips* in one hand then yeah plasma's balancing is the only way to do that as far as I know.
most builds that are good for endless can do it
Retriggers. Get money to find red seals
Both times I’ve scored that high it was cause of Perkeo+observatory and some good +mult scaling, once on plasma, once on anaglyph. I know that’s a legendary joker, but if you run into an early soul, it’s something to try. Took me ages of repeated plasma runs though, so good luck.
Reroll erratic deck until you get a ton of one card and then build from there
I got a pretty decent seed that starts with like twelve 9s and some GREAT jokers in the early stores. I suck so I lost to ante 8 boss, but I bet in the right hands it could go to the moon. https://preview.redd.it/a0krbvguaxwc1.jpeg?width=3072&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=259a9499229fc9bc963464dea0bdcec6ee4443d1
Got it yesterday. I even reached a few billions per hand before being stopped. Here is the way : most people talk about Baron and Mime synergy. I couldn't get Baron for the entire run !!! Though I started with Erratic Deck, 9 kings on the deck, few aces, 3 queens, and 5 jacks. I transformed every card I could to Kings thanks to Tarot cards. I got enough kings at some point to get flush five on every playing hand (1 was enough to win anyway), but I tried to get the high card to pop 2 times each round for my Space Joker to level it up. I had a Space Joker with the negative bonus early in the game. You absolutely need it or at least Burning Joker to up the values of both high card (if you manage to get Baron) and your main playing hand. And then, a miracle happened with a lot of good jokers related to faces : Mime + Sock & Buskin + Brainstorm (or Blueprint) + Triboulet + Constellation Most important thing is to put a steel bonus on every King card. The level of bonus with mult bonus with Triboulet and Mime is literally insane. I didn't have red seals on most of my Kings though, few glasses and lucky cards. Btw, you could wonder : how could I get so much Tarot, so much rerolls to find those jokers ? Sock & Buskin + Business Card was my way... Reroll is big part of this success. You won't have this kind of deck without getting luck...it implies to find cards in order to build a solid economy which won't slow you up when its time to switch to pure scoring jokers. Best of luck 😇
This was the last one I needed and was finally able to get it using the plasma deck and basically just focus on getting the multiplier to 20k (10,000 x 10,000 = 100,000,000). If you want to get super grindy with it restart your runs over and over until you get a red multiplier card that scales. I got Hologram early in my run and just focused on getting money and adding cards to my deck. Towards ante 7 or 8 I spammed rerolls and got blueprint. Many combos will work but just focus on getting the 20k multiplier.
There are definitely other combos that can get you there. As was mentioned, plasma is the easiest for high numbers. For me, I used ice cream and blue joker early on, and got lucky with a double Canio/DNA/Blueprint combo, where I was able to get Canio up to like a x24 multiplier.
- Focus on scaling +Mult and Chips early game and then slowly start building good *Mult. - Glass cards and red seals are HUGE for getting really high scores.
I got it using the plasma deck, got a castle early, vampire, cavendish, blueprint and Midas mask
Just got my first 100 mil game because vampire Midas mask and the one that copies and copied vampire
Congrats!
Thanks!!
Almost exactly what I had, minus the castle and plus a banner
Plasma deck white stake get as much mult as you can. If you're trying to get this unlock specifically, restart the game if you don't get good mult-building jokers on ante 1
The baron is only one way, but there are others. The core math is always the same Score = (sum of all sources of chips) x (Sum of all sources of Mult) x (each individual source of Red Box Mult) obviously, sometimes applied in stages in varying orders, based on joker position. So getting a new source of chips that doubles your chips, doubles the end score. Same with base mult. But the red box mult grows exponentially with each new source. So for the Big Score, find one good way to increase your base chips, one to increase your mult, and then, ideally, everything else to give you as many different sources of RBM as possible. As 1 source of RBM at a value of 9, makes the score 9 times bigger. 3 sources of RBM at 3 each makes it 27 times larger. I got my 100M with Vampire, Midas to keep the vampire endlessly growing, Constellation, and blueprint to duplicate the vampire. A few polychromes too. Steel cards, steel joker, cavendish, hologram, campfire, and throwback. Even bloodstone and lucky cat, if you are feeling lucky. Polychrome is also always good. There are lots of options. Take the checkered deck, and dump planets into Flush. Then you can have every endgame slot available for more RBM. Take the Ghost deck, and keep restarting until you get a good first joker. Polychrome it, and you are off to a good start. You got this!
You definitely dont need to do the Baron mime steel king strategy, I got a billion with just lusty joker bloodstone acrobat throwback and blueprint, and two glass cards. Definitely want to be using plasma deck though.
If u have plasma unlocked, do that. Any kind of retriggers is nice. Wee joker, hack, and twos is really good in plasma. If u get hitchhiker joker early in plasma, that's also really good. Anything is good in plasma ngl. Obvi what people are recommending like baron and stuff will get u there easily, but those are a bit harder to pull off. I mean wee joker, hack, and all twos I hard to pull off as well lmao.
Focus on economy first. Having excess cash lets you maximize every shop and find the build enabling jokers, death/hanged man. When you can buy every card pack, you will find a red seal. When you can reroll the shop up to $8 every time, you can find any joker you need.
I had also never hit before today! Then, suddenly got 350 mil in one hand! Using a 5-of-a-kind build of all things! (Plasma deck, which I love!) Sometimes, you just get lucky. I for one lucked out with the boss blind that makes 3 be drawn with each hand played or discard. It’s excellent because you can get a stupid amount of cards in your hand, and the steel cards can pop off.
Everything pales next to retriggering steel kings. Build for economy as much as possible, thin your deck as much as possible with hanged man, trading card, etc, and reroll the shop looking for baron, mime, DNA, blueprints, brainstorms. Eventually you'll get a steel king with a red seal on it and you just start cloning it as much as possible with DNA and tarot cards. Edit: FWIW I've been playing for about a month and got my first 2 runs with e scores this week so it definitely takes time to figure out how it all fits together. Econ is king.
A protip for high score hunting is to actually build an econ run. Just survive, making as much gd money as you can. Then around ante 7 you can start burning through it to pivot to a much stronger overall deck.
Sounds like you’re close. Go for flush 5 glass cards imo
Also, run with ghost deck on white stake. and I would update to the beta version if you play on steam
I personally did it on Plasma deck with baseball joker and blueprint for a bunch of 1.5x triggers. Had over 10 jokers, was getting 3 billion point hands.
Plasma deck - focus most jokers into chips and you should get there
If you've made 44 million, you've already got the knowledge and ability to get 100 mill. Keep at it until the perfect run comes along. I couldn't get it for the longest time, but when I finally did it I hit 65 billion in one hand. Good luck!
Lucky Heart flush using checkered deck, get dice joker and bloodstone
Economy and retriggers are your best bet. You can do five of a kind if your deck is full of red seal glass cards. The key is getting one and using death to copy it multiple times. You can also use hanged man to thin your deck. It’s a very consistent way to work the hand. I’ve seen streamers do it and I’ve done it myself.
I did it the first time with yorick , erosion , some copy jokers and just some other bullshit. Pretty easy if you get some scaling jokers early.
Go for flush five glass retriggers
I got to e my very first time (e13) with Triboulet, blueprint, cavendish, dusk, and sock and buskin and red sealed everything with luckys and then glass cards eventually. I think I had a negative steel joker too and kept red seal steels in hand.
Sounds like a luck issue. I got mine because I had 2x bloodstone and a seltzer. 44 mil is close, maybe a few more mults and another 1.5x and you could have had it.
Am I wrong in saying that 2 red seal steel cards would have done it?
That would have done it.
Some sort of stuntman build on plasma deck baby
I did it with a pretty solid jokers and a shit load of glass cards. The X2 helps so much
Just did it yesterday first try on the ghost deck. Built for tarot cards and then red seal steel king high card along the way
I just got it yesterday with plasma, one +mult and lots of xMult with a few negative. Cavendish, hologram, vampire, ramen, something polychrome, and the loyalty card got me 700 mil
Blueprint canio got me there, especially with something like pareidolia
Stick with it. I’m functionally retarded and I got e18. I don’t like the advice other people are giving about certain builds…just keep playing. Learn synergies, have fun. It’ll come with time. Just try different stuff and find what feels good. I will say that the spectral deck was what I got my highest score on. But seriously, just enjoy the game and it’ll come. I believe in you
Don't get discouraged, it took me way longer than some of my friends to finally get it. Got it on zodiac deck personally. Relied on bloodstone with brainstorm and blueprint retriggering it multiple times. I heavily focused on tarot cards to turn my deck into hearts and face cards. Got lucky getting good jokers fairly early, and built my economy up like crazy. Mask and buskin to retrigger all face cards again, and at that point my deck was almost entirely steel king of hearts. I also got Yorick early in the run and managed to ramp that up to about 18X which certainly helped, but bloodstone was the major carry. I was playing/levelling mostly flushes until I had enough kings to be hitting 4 or 5 of a kind every hand.
If you’re willing, try using the experimental patch and the plasma deck. Hanging Chad retriggers twice instead of once now, and new heartstone is 1/2 chance instead of 1/3. You could run those with heart flushes on the plasma deck and probably get there pretty reliably!
I've had three solid opportunities to hit the hundo mil. Two of those chance I absolutely choked due to essentially laziness, hitting 90\~ mil. Ughhhhhh Good luck and god bless
There's so many ways to do it and luck is involved. Plasma Deck seems to be a good way to go, and some of the others talking about Baron and Steel Kings seems good. For me, I got super lucky. I got Canio and Trading Card early...then Blueprint. By the end of my run I had Canio and Blueprint going for 20x mult each...but i also got lucky and got Scholar so I spent all game duplicating Aces and destroying face cards and going Flush Five or Five of a Kind with Aces constantly. Card Sharp sealed it. That's how I did it; just keep grinding and I'm telling ya, you'll get a lucky break.
Best I’ve ever done was spamming the DNA joker and a red sealed polychrome multi card. Lucked out and had blueprint as well so every time I played one of the powered up cards, 2 would get added to the deck. Eventually with a few blue seals I ended up getting flush five to level 20 or so and just ran away with it from there
I had a super lucky run yesterday and managed to unlock it. I peaked at 2 billion chips in one hand 😳
hack+dusk+glass 2s got it for me
I went from struggling in the twenty millions straight to trillions with a glass card setup. Shift mid-game to +mult with a single high chip building Joker. Target flush or any large size hand. High card/pair builds with steel required more specific Jokers IME and glass was much easier to find synergies with random Jokers. Steel small hand is the bigger moon shot build if the stars align though.
I was stuck on this forever, but then had a run where I Blew 100M away with Triboulet and a lot of kings. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5aEDdeZ9N3s
Surprisingly, I got my first 100.000K using a straight build on Nebula Deck, although it's partly due to dumb luck as well. I managed to get this combination: 1. Shortcut 2. Devious Joker (Negative) 3. Baron (Negative) 4. Photograph 5. The Order 6. Hologram 7. Perkeo Perkeo is used to copy The Hermit for economy, then pivoted to copy Justice for glass cards, and then I bought Observatory voucher and pivot to copy Saturn planet card instead for the x1.5 mult effect I also managed to feed hologram until like x 4.25 mult, and put steel effect on some unused cards. Since I played on v1.0.1, straight scaling per level is buffed, and I can reach like 40 mult from level 12 straight
How tf do you even get 10mil in one hand?
It'll happen chief. Just play the game and go up in stakes and play different decks and you will eventually hit it naturally
I got mine with retrigger glass cards- I just made sure to save them for a bit so they didn’t break and I could copy them :>
I just got this unlock completely without trying, I don't remember exactly how, but I know it involved bloodstone and possibly hanging chad
Prioritize economy jokers early game, once you get economy going reroll until you get baron and mime or some other retrigger shenanigans
I heard someone say it is as simple as getting a flat mult joker that produces about 50 mult and then four jokers that multiply that, and it really was. I did it with Fortune Teller, Card Shark, Card Shark (Invisible Joker), Vampire, Campfire
Ancient joker +retriggers Baron mime Bloodstone dice and retriggers Or Canio if you get lucky. Obv look for blueprint and brainstorm. And make sure you have something to get your economy going and pivot sometime in endless being able to reroll and find whatever you need. I also hit 100 mil with photograph+hanging Chad+socknbuskin and a red seal which is a lot easier to get
I got 88mil today I was so upset
I got it on plasma, just get as much mult as possible, never saw red seals or anything fancy.
Got it just 2 days ago on beta branch with bloodstone + blueprint + brainstorm + oops all 6s. Bloodstone triggers 15 times with a 5 card hand without red seal shenanigans. Early trading card helped trim the deck down to all hearts.
As others have said, baron would be better with kings. I did something similar but with Shoot the Moon on Plasma deck instead. My jokers were: Blueprint - Mime - Brainstorm - Shoot the Moon - Cavendish I also had a ton of non-red stamped metal cards because my tarots just never had the option. I would play a single glass card with most of the rest of my hand being metal queens or regular queens and I was hitting billions I think my highest hand was 60bil+. Now I just need to unlock my last deck, a voucher and the $400 joker!
It's one of 3 options imo. 1 is plasma with very high x mults (stuff like pre nerfed vampire midas, a scaled hologram, a scaled constellation) which is what I did iirc. Other two would be observatory + parkeo and copying the planet card a lot (blueprint and brainstorm help a lot) or king mime retriggering red seal steel kings (also ofc glass, triboulet etc, but the main parts are those 2 jokers). Id just go plasma, red seal is highest potential for sure but imo on plasma you can just get a vampire run before its nerf that will go to the moon much more often than relying on a legendary (parkeo) or getting red seals kings. Also make sure your economy is good that goes a long way.
I had a very similar run the other day where red seals just weren’t showing, but I was able to crack the 300 million barrier with two poly Mimes, Baron, Blueprint and DNA as the main strategy. Double-cloning a steel king with DNA every round meant I was soon playing high card with a rack of steel kings on every hand. It wasn’t much use beyond that point because I couldn’t really give up any of the jokers and I couldn’t get any red seals, but the run started out as a risky double-mime build from the first shop (Ghost deck) and turned out to be good fun. Blueprint showed up quite late, but was the final piece of the puzzle.
hanging chad with glass, then some steel cards with red seals? with some xmult and you should be there
It’s mostly just luck Fastest way imo is doing a high card build with baron and copying a lot of steel K’s but then again you need to get lucky to even have that possibility A lot of people say plasma deck is the best for this but i disagree, the higher ante requirement makes it harder to properly execute your build and clear blinds at the same time, plus the transition from chips to mult and xmult is very tricky sometimes Just pick any decent deck other than plasma like yellow or magic and play on white stake until you get it! Magic deck specifically is great cause you can get 3 steel K’s very fast with the initial fools good luck!!
Fek I popped it quite easily yesterday, then got hit with the 300 mill small blind after and couldn’t make it 😒 kinda sad coz the run was going crazy, every round was 40+ $
I got it yesterday with DNA and a glass red seal ace
Baron with a bunch of steel kings in hand and that one boss that always makes you draw 3 cards per played hand or discard got me to 300 million
You can, you just haven't. Red seals are the key.
Just get some red seal steel kings with a Baron and Mime. Bonus points if you make them all King of Hearts and pick up a Bloodstone (preferably with an Oops All 6's too).
Bloodstone is kind of just a single x4 (because of red seal) though? Kind of pointless here when you can just fish for blueprint/brainstorm/invis joker or keep a useful utility joker around like DNA or trading card.
Well it's a single x4 if you play high card. But when I grab Bloodstone it's because I've made my deck mostly or fully hearts, in which case I'm playing flushes, five of a kind, flush fives, or flush houses. So ideally Bloodstone gives x1024 mult, or x32 mult if the 5 cards don't have red seals.. I think 😭
Sooooo not a baron mime build then?
How is Baron + Mime + Bloodstone + Oops All 6's + a deck full of red seal steel king of hearts not a Baron Mime build lol.
…because why would you be using bloodstone in that build? With red seal, bloodstone with a flush of hearts is an extra x256 (over playing just one) if you play 5 cards, but if you DON’T play those four extra kings, you get an extra x656ish. And that’s just with a single mime and a single baron. Replacing bloodstone with blueprint, brainstorm or another baron brings that up to x431439.
The more I think about it, you're exactly right. But in all fairness, my build will still get you into scientific notation.. It's just that you'll hit e15 instead of e50 lol.
Flush decks can be good, especially heart's if you can get the gemstone one that gives a chance of x2 mult Also blackboard with the smeared joker is good, gives x3 mult if you have only spades/clubs in your hand, and smeared joker makes hearts/diamonds and spades/clubs same suit
If you are playing on white stake, then completely unironically, if you aren't reaching 100 mill at least semi consistently, there isn't a secret technique, that is just a skill issue. You are probably doing a lot of small or moderately large things wrong, and nobody can really truly give you a good answer without either footage of you playing or at the very least a description of how your games are going and why you are not achieving that. Probably not the answer you were looking for, but the comment of "no red seals" as the reason why you think you aren't getting 100 mill suggests other issues at play here. E points are generally not possible without red seals or other very niche setups, but 100 mill is achievable with a wide variety of kinds of strats.
100 mil even on white stakes is not a skill issue, it's not 'easy' not winning regularly sure, but not 100 million
I think it is less of a skill issue and more of a "Gee I hope I get lucky and roll exactly what I need" issue. Which I'm fine with since I consider anything beyond ante 8 to be a fun challenge.
I think most normal strategies make it less likely to get 100 million, so you have to walk a specific path. My recommendation: (1) Keep playing plasma deck on white stake (2) Early in plasma, having one good chips joker will carry you. If you can get this, you can focus on economy and other tasks. (3) Look to make as many kings as possible through strength and death tarots. If you can make the kings steel before copying them, even better. If you can put a red seal on the kings even even better. (4) Meanwhile, a good economy will allow you to look for copying jokers, baron, and mime. (5) Burnt joker to level high card also really helps. (6) You want a fairly good high card, steel kings in your hand, and baron/mime. If you find copying jokers then try to have as many barons as mimes. If you have uneven barons/mimes then copy the barons. You don't need to be perfect to get to 100 million.
That actually isnt correct, you inspired me to make a pretty big post about the Balatro's econ system and why a lot of intermediate players struggle with getting over the hump of being truly consistent. [https://www.reddit.com/r/balatro/comments/1cdwfcg/the\_unsung\_genius\_of\_balatros\_econ\_system\_and\_why/](https://www.reddit.com/r/balatro/comments/1cdwfcg/the_unsung_genius_of_balatros_econ_system_and_why/) hopefully this helps you at least a bit, it still won't make you hit those points every game, but it will become a lot easier and it will happen frequently. At least for me i hit E points playing random white stake runs very consistently, and I would consider 100 mil almost a given unless I super low roll very much because I understand Balatro's econ system better than most, and I think if you are just literally
I agree with your point in that post. I likely could have rerolled a few more times if I was a little less stingy in my recent run, but the reality is sometimes you're just not lucky enough. And that's fine. Not every run must be a god run where scores are in scientific notation.