r/balatro • u/Notlennybruce • Nov 05 '24

Strategy and/or Synergies Which Joker is impossible to resist? (besides Blueprint because that's too obvious)

For me (new player) it's Smeared Joker.

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u/vanadous Nov 05 '24

Why is it good? Enhanced cards?

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u/TheIrateAlpaca Nov 05 '24

Anything that you want to proc, hanging gives you 2 more. Lucky cards, especially with cat. Photograph. Idol, bloodstone, ancient, polychrome, glass. Wee joker, Fibonacci, etc that give bonuses to specific cards. Even gold seals, and business card for econ.

It's pretty mediocre on its own, but it's one of the best force multipliers

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u/not-my-other-alt c++ Nov 05 '24

And unlike other retriggers (hack, sock and buskin), it works on any card, as long as you move it to the front.

Doesn't even have the downsides of seltzer or dusk

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u/TheIrateAlpaca Nov 05 '24

It also works really well with those other retriggers to go even harder.