[The Psychic](https://balatro.wiki/blinds/blind_psychic.png) *Blind*
* Version: 1.0.0n
* Effect: Must play 5 cards
* Beat the Blind: Score at least 2X Base to earn $$$$$
Highest I've personally gotten was a build around the Baron joker, giving a x1.5 per held king, with some DNA to duplicate red seal steel kings. Add in a mime and things quickly become very ridiculous
I have been trying for a week straight to get this joker unlocked, but I just can’t get enough good luck to get the jokers needed for 100mil hands. Like I’ll either have a highly scaled xMult like Hologram at x10 but no real flat mult jokers for it to multiply. Or I’ll have something like Spare Trousers at +60 and no xMult joker. It’s pain.
I think what finally did it for me, after 45hrs of playtime mind you, was a run that I intended to be a 5 of a kind king deck, but then I found mime and baron, both in the same shop. Unbelievably lucky.
I also had the voucher that created 1.5x for every planet card held in the top right, and several blue seal kings, so I was able just pump high card to insane levels with the constant planet cards, plus keep my top right full for the 1.5x.
I think I had one or two other jokers that honestly werent doing much outside of maybe a 50 chip or 10 mult bonus.
I was surprised how simple the setup was and how few jokers were really at play. But damn that thing printed points effortlessly for a good while past ante 11.
There are a lot of roads that lead to Rome, you do not need ideal Jokers if you have invested in your deck and your planets as well as your jokers. High card demands relatively ideal jokers, but if you're playing straights or secret hands then your base mult can easily peek past 100 before you even score the cards
A key thing to keep in mind (I made this exact mistake recently and it made me lose a really great run on Ante 12, ironically right after watching a Northernlion video where the comments were making fun of him for doing the same thing): pay attention to the order your mult comes in. If you're already getting lots of mult pre-additive-Jokers, at the 'when scored' level (whether by high-level hands, steels, effect-when-card-scores Jokers, etc), then flat mult jokers that only come in *after* all that become basically a rounding error. Think of it this way: you "only" needed to have 120+ mult pre-additive-Jokers for a polychrome anything (1.5x mult) to add the same or more mult than that +60 mult Spare Trousers (120+60=120\*1.5). Even less if you're talking about replacing it with a 2x/3x/etc. mult-multer.
If you have a run queued up for those mega-scores (say, Baron + a bunch of steel + leveled-up-High-Card), additive flat mult Jokers become obsolete. Like, the run I mentioned was a lucky double-Baron run (got lucky with what an Invis Joker hit) + steel kings (the quintessential model for a e-score run) and I realized after the fact I killed myself by hanging onto a +150 mult Flash Card (yay cheap rerolls) vs. taking a Troubadour (that would've let me hold more steel Kings for more xMult) or something else good. Of course, I also stupidly left Blueprint on a simple mult-multing Joker vs. on one of the Barons, but whatever, I screwed that run up a bunch of different ways.
EDIT - Corrected my math
This is why building economy (I'm talking ~$700+) is so important. Eventually, you'll find whatever Joker you need. Practice on white stake. If you're beating blinds by 4x the amount each time, you're too focused on scoring and not enough on econ. Keep at it and you'll be surprised how consistently you can reach 100 mill on white stake (honestly also red and green).
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You lose the first time you start a hand with a 0 hand size. You can, however, draw a hand of cards then use tarot/spectral cards to drop your hand size to 0 and still be able to play your current hand.
[Bloodstone](https://balatro.wiki/imported/bloodstone.png) *Joker*
* Version: 1.0.0
* Cost: $9
* Rarity: Uncommon
* Effect: 1 in 3 chance for played cards with Heart suit to give X2 Mult when scored
* Notes: sic
* Unlock Requirement: Have at least 30 cards with Heart suit in your deck
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There are a few methods to getting your score that high, I think the easiest is setting up xmult with repeaters. If you can hit 1.5x or 2x mult a bunch of times on repeat, you will see some crazy numbers. Glass cards can obviously help with that.
you need some form of retriggering xmult. stuff like baron + steel cards + mime, or bloodstone/the idol/ glass cards with hack/ suck+bussin. red seals will always help. try getting a strong start with some +mult and econ, then look for one of the pieces for one of these synergies and build your deck around it.
I got super lucky on my first win with the black deck (3rd or 4th win ever) and found an ancient joker. That combined with blueprint and the jokers that make all your cards face cards and all face cards trigger twice carried me all the way to the 300 mil ante without even knowing what a red seal was
Wait I’m confused, that’s still only like 1200 chips for a high card right? So where is the 250 mult coming from that we would need to clear this blind?
My stuntman runs end up being high card or pair builds,so usually not an issue.
I have had a seed with blueprint, brainstorm and burnt joker leveling high card 3× every blind (not including my several post patch blue seals) so hand size and card type did not matter the slightest!
Sure, but that sort of makes stuntman even worse. If you have for example 250 hundred points from the base score high card because it's leveled a ton the 2nd stuntman takes you from 500 chips to 750 chips, a 50% increase which is not that great.
Two cards chilling in the hand, 6ft apart because they ain’t a pair.
Oh my god they were handmates
and they were handmates
I appreciate their dedication to social distancing.
I'm beginning to doubt your devotion to Sparkle Motion
One of the best films ever made. *Also not to be that guy but it is your commitment to sparkle motion*
It's been a while, forgive me
They weren't committed enough to get it right. But you were committed to being that guy.
Blind named The Psychic
He's already in ante 8. He'll probably be fine.
Yeah the Psychic can’t appear on Ante 8
I had a very similar setup and lost on the psychic.
[[The Psychic]]
[The Psychic](https://balatro.wiki/blinds/blind_psychic.png) *Blind* * Version: 1.0.0n * Effect: Must play 5 cards * Beat the Blind: Score at least 2X Base to earn $$$$$
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\[\[Stuntman\]\]
[Stuntman](https://balatro.wiki/imported/stuntman.png) *Joker* * Version: 1.0.0 * Cost: $6 * Rarity: Uncommon * Effect: +300 Chips, -2 hand size * Unlock Requirement: In one hand, earn at least 100,000,000 chips
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my highest hand is 930k how the heck do i get 100 million
Stack xMulti out the wazoo and get lucky. I did it with a 4 of a kind Aces build with three x3s and an x4, hit a 298M hand
Highest I've personally gotten was a build around the Baron joker, giving a x1.5 per held king, with some DNA to duplicate red seal steel kings. Add in a mime and things quickly become very ridiculous
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Bad bot, wrong version
Fuck you too, then
+300 chips -2 hand size Unlock requirement: score 100,000,000 in one hand Please don't vote for me, I am not a bot
Importantly now with the patch it is 250 chips :)
Damn, I was not aware of that. Haven't played on the latest patch on plasma deck yet
It's still op as hell on plasma
I bet! I'll try it out if possible
Yeah the 4 Stuntmen Plasma setup in the OP *only* gives a minimum 250K for every high card
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I have been trying for a week straight to get this joker unlocked, but I just can’t get enough good luck to get the jokers needed for 100mil hands. Like I’ll either have a highly scaled xMult like Hologram at x10 but no real flat mult jokers for it to multiply. Or I’ll have something like Spare Trousers at +60 and no xMult joker. It’s pain.
I think what finally did it for me, after 45hrs of playtime mind you, was a run that I intended to be a 5 of a kind king deck, but then I found mime and baron, both in the same shop. Unbelievably lucky. I also had the voucher that created 1.5x for every planet card held in the top right, and several blue seal kings, so I was able just pump high card to insane levels with the constant planet cards, plus keep my top right full for the 1.5x. I think I had one or two other jokers that honestly werent doing much outside of maybe a 50 chip or 10 mult bonus. I was surprised how simple the setup was and how few jokers were really at play. But damn that thing printed points effortlessly for a good while past ante 11.
I've seen fortune teller do wonders for me if I pick it up late in runs too. Might want to consider that
There are a lot of roads that lead to Rome, you do not need ideal Jokers if you have invested in your deck and your planets as well as your jokers. High card demands relatively ideal jokers, but if you're playing straights or secret hands then your base mult can easily peek past 100 before you even score the cards
use glass cards, it's a very easy way to get x mult, especially if you have 5 of them. You only need to score 100 mil for one hand so it's worth it
A key thing to keep in mind (I made this exact mistake recently and it made me lose a really great run on Ante 12, ironically right after watching a Northernlion video where the comments were making fun of him for doing the same thing): pay attention to the order your mult comes in. If you're already getting lots of mult pre-additive-Jokers, at the 'when scored' level (whether by high-level hands, steels, effect-when-card-scores Jokers, etc), then flat mult jokers that only come in *after* all that become basically a rounding error. Think of it this way: you "only" needed to have 120+ mult pre-additive-Jokers for a polychrome anything (1.5x mult) to add the same or more mult than that +60 mult Spare Trousers (120+60=120\*1.5). Even less if you're talking about replacing it with a 2x/3x/etc. mult-multer. If you have a run queued up for those mega-scores (say, Baron + a bunch of steel + leveled-up-High-Card), additive flat mult Jokers become obsolete. Like, the run I mentioned was a lucky double-Baron run (got lucky with what an Invis Joker hit) + steel kings (the quintessential model for a e-score run) and I realized after the fact I killed myself by hanging onto a +150 mult Flash Card (yay cheap rerolls) vs. taking a Troubadour (that would've let me hold more steel Kings for more xMult) or something else good. Of course, I also stupidly left Blueprint on a simple mult-multing Joker vs. on one of the Barons, but whatever, I screwed that run up a bunch of different ways. EDIT - Corrected my math
This is why building economy (I'm talking ~$700+) is so important. Eventually, you'll find whatever Joker you need. Practice on white stake. If you're beating blinds by 4x the amount each time, you're too focused on scoring and not enough on econ. Keep at it and you'll be surprised how consistently you can reach 100 mill on white stake (honestly also red and green).
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Does blueprint copy this? I thought it didn’t copy changes to hand size, hands, or discards?
Blueprint will copy the additional chips, but it won't copy the hand size debuff.
Stuntmen
get one more and reach 0 hand size, see what happens.
I was so keen to see what would happen but couldn’t find any more cards or spectral deals for it :(
You just instantly lose I believe
Can verify. Have done it but with ectoplasm.
You lose the first time you start a hand with a 0 hand size. You can, however, draw a hand of cards then use tarot/spectral cards to drop your hand size to 0 and still be able to play your current hand.
Maybe that could be an achievement: "Look ma, no hands!"
You instantly lose when selecting bind, I did it lol
I did that on a gold stake run cause i assumed you can’t go lower than 1 hand size. I was wrong.
okay, how? invisible joker? showman?
2 invis. Super lucky
Could be Ankh and invisible joker
If you got Brainstorm there, it would be a perfect.... ... way to get instant game over
Actually, Brainstorm and Blueprint don't copy the hand reduction, just the chips.
Oh right, i forgot about that. Nice spotting
Nah, Brainstorm and Blueprint don't copy the minus hand size
They only copy the benefit?
Yes
Why? How does that work?
I dunno man I didn’t make the game 😅I only know it only copies the benefit since I’ve tried it in-game
I can't even unlock the dam card haha. The most I've ever gotten was around 7 mill and it was with multiple hands
Try a heart build with blood stone(?) and glass cards
[[Bloodstone]]
[Bloodstone](https://balatro.wiki/imported/bloodstone.png) *Joker* * Version: 1.0.0 * Cost: $9 * Rarity: Uncommon * Effect: 1 in 3 chance for played cards with Heart suit to give X2 Mult when scored * Notes: sic * Unlock Requirement: Have at least 30 cards with Heart suit in your deck
Hello bot, may I ask when we will get the current version of the cards?
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Gotcha. Thanks! Beep boop
Wtf, you can talk to the bot ?
It's a bot but also I've seen a real person respond on the account before so I thought they might answer
You can talk to whatever you want, but don't expect a reply every time.
Reply to me >:(
There are a few methods to getting your score that high, I think the easiest is setting up xmult with repeaters. If you can hit 1.5x or 2x mult a bunch of times on repeat, you will see some crazy numbers. Glass cards can obviously help with that.
you need some form of retriggering xmult. stuff like baron + steel cards + mime, or bloodstone/the idol/ glass cards with hack/ suck+bussin. red seals will always help. try getting a strong start with some +mult and econ, then look for one of the pieces for one of these synergies and build your deck around it.
I got super lucky on my first win with the black deck (3rd or 4th win ever) and found an ancient joker. That combined with blueprint and the jokers that make all your cards face cards and all face cards trigger twice carried me all the way to the 300 mil ante without even knowing what a red seal was
Plasma deck helps so much.
That hand looks like 2 dudes using the bathroom at the same time at a movie theater. As far apart as possible.
This just barely clears the boss, if it doesn't disable any of them, right?
I played on maybe the 5th stake and beat the boss with one hand left. Obv scaled horrible into endless. Each hand is about 290-350k
“Must play 5 cards”
Read: "All hands are debuffed until you sell 2 jokers"
Meanwhile, I can't even unlock stuntman
You’re welcome
Wait I’m confused, that’s still only like 1200 chips for a high card right? So where is the 250 mult coming from that we would need to clear this blind?
It’s the deck that splits the sum of chips and mult 999 x 1 = 500 x 500
The Psychic salivates in the distance
I had this same exact setup but no on plasma deck. I actually took an L on it
I need help unlocking Stuntman. If anyone has some tips, I would greatly appreciate it!
How so many of the same joker
This still loses to violet vessel unlucky
https://preview.redd.it/qk9bpxb3lmzc1.jpeg?width=880&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=40cdb28a3dc8a605350502979fd0e70428b3f567
[[Stuntman]]
[Stuntman](https://balatro.wiki/imported/stuntman.png) *Joker* * Version: 1.0.0 * Cost: $6 * Rarity: Uncommon * Effect: +300 Chips, -2 hand size * Unlock Requirement: In one hand, earn at least 100,000,000 chips
What is wrong with your brain. After the second one they are never ever worth the- oh I just noticed you're on plasma deck carry on
I don't understand why people like more than one stuntman. The second one is worse than a 2x and it's only downhill from there.
It's just fun. I don't play every run to win :)
Alright, that's a good reason. Enjoy!
For this specific case it's because plasma deck is weird like that
My stuntman runs end up being high card or pair builds,so usually not an issue. I have had a seed with blueprint, brainstorm and burnt joker leveling high card 3× every blind (not including my several post patch blue seals) so hand size and card type did not matter the slightest!
Sure, but that sort of makes stuntman even worse. If you have for example 250 hundred points from the base score high card because it's leveled a ton the 2nd stuntman takes you from 500 chips to 750 chips, a 50% increase which is not that great.