Because I am insane and ran a calc, with half, joker, and Cavendish affecting scoring (the knife is probably ceremonial dagger, but no way to know current mult), the selected hand would net you 63x81 or 5,103 chips, this will carry you through the small blind of ante 4.
I honestly think that the banana is Gros Michel, because the banana is facing the left. Cavendish is a right facing banana. I think the Barnes and Noble Card is the “loyalty card” joker, and as a result, would net you a Three of a Kind hand worth 63x123, or 7,749 chips.
Gros Michel does not exist anymore, that is a Cavendish varietal, regardless of orientation. A loyalty card is a paper card that you get stamped or punched, getting a discount or bonus after a certain # of visits, hence the game mechanic. That is a gift card, which increases sell value.
I agree with your point about the gift card instead of the loyalty card, but I would love to hear your reasoning behind your choice of Cavendish over Gros Michel.
Not a bad start, taking gift card early to cover you if anything really good comes up but I'd sell it as soon as something shows up, don't know what egg's value is right now, but good synergy with half going for three of a kind. Have you started stacking your deck yet?
Depending on what point in the run (I ran a calc in another comment and figured this hand will clear up to ante 4 small blind), I actually prefer to keep the egg to rack up sell value if I don't have another good source. Absolutely shred the credit card though.
Oh! You're right. I was just associating it with credit card in my head. I don't use gift card often unless I have a run where I already have swashbuckler.
I didn't put it together until someone said gift card in the thread and it clicked. I still had credit card on the brain from the inflation challenge run.
You see, the dagger is buffed on black deck because you get an extra slot for daggerable jokers. It really just becomes a question of when do you kill the egg. What isn't obvious, however, is how much work Cavendish is putting in. Half Joker is just there because three of a kind is levelled up.
I never understood the hype around Balatro so I bought it "how good could a poker rogue like actually be?". I can't stop playing it now, I wish I bought it sooner
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https://imgur.com/gallery/i-just-had-dream-about-poker-UmIK1zo
https://www.reddit.com/r/balatro/comments/1eb3bba/thoughts_on_my_build/
a few days later i literally have carpal tunnel from the dang jokers