finally beat balatro on gold stake, got carried by duplicate ancient jokers. once i leveled up flush and stacked my deck with mult/holographic cards those two were unstoppable
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Nice! The first deck I beat gold on was the checkered deck. Made it so I could focus on flushes from the beginning and stack gold if I couldn’t get a good card for flushes.
You can avoid this, when you get a boss blind that debuffs a suit you just skip the Big Blind (unless Ancient is on the debuffed suit at that point, then playing Big Blind guarantees it’ll be a different suit for the boss)
nope, since ancient jokers select a different suit each time at random i wanted to keep a good balance of each suit in my deck and just buy every tarot card i could get my hands on to add mults and stuff
I always mix up which ones are based on what’s only in your deck like idol vs all possible cards like ancient. Definitely killed a few runs with ancient after eliminating a suit from my deck.
nice. I do think they only choose from the cards you have though so the other strategy is to winnow down to as few options as possible. I may be wrong about this
Just realized I posted with zero context, I've been doing gold on Anaglyph and Checkered and I have just gotten crushed over and over... Interesting tip on yellow, I'm only up to blue stake on that deck so maybe I'll try to work that up
Rough Gem gives you $1 for every scored Diamond card, good econ if you can fix your deck that way, unlocked after getting 30 diamonds in your base deck.
I just got my second win and these screenshots look like another game from what I’m playing. Haven’t unlocked all of Balatro parts of my brain to get builds like this yet.
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That being said, gold stake is hard af to beat so it’s pretty awesome.
Pulled off a very fun 2s deck the other day
Fibonacci is up there like “I’M HELPING”
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Congrats though! It's a huge grind lol.