Took me ~120 "New Runs" to get my first GS run complete

brutal @@crackersphdinwumbology2831

I’m still stuck on Green and Black Stake (depending on the starting deck) but it’s still fun to learn how to scale up enough. Just had an early-ante DNA run that was insane. Highly recommend trying it out!

very late but if you're really desperate for completion you should basically always try to force flush or high card builds

​@nobodyatall9044 yea high card is OP, I first tried black and purple back to back with a high card build

and then you look and they have 2 hours of playtime on balatro

I don't even know what it is but obviously my opinion is more important than yours ​@@WooperButBetter

Wow, a comment that displays metacognition.. refreshing.

​@@coRnflEks Metacognition 😂 aka a joke

painter first shop saves the run?

that's right where i am right now its brutal

@@mangouschase I think buying voucher in first ante in generally bad idea, because it's ruining your economy a lot

less money then, but bigger hand makes better hands which make more points which makes you use less hands which makes you money@@gosunov more cheese is less cheese

@@mangouschase you still have to play 10 rounds if you're saving a full hand every round to make your money back, which is not ideal

Yeah I think you're right actually, he's really underestimating how good it is having Overstock to start with. Its definitely an A tier deck, because it just gives so much value, makes every reroll worth infinitely more.

As someone who also did this (and FINALLY beat white stake on the black deck after a few days of concentrated effort), I also found black to be the “what the heck am I doing wrong” setup and feel really vindicated by this list. I only made it after unlocking almost all the jokers, it was wild.

Yeah, I've gotten 24 hand size, $200 or 5 negative Jokers just from a single skip. I love it

Blue deck and Red deck are the best decks in their own ways. Blue is obvious but Red is very good for these decks where you fish for a specific hand, or to look for more steel and gold cards

Live and die by negative an polychrime joker skip tags

Yes It is good but B-tier is good to

and then you hit 3 absolutely garbage no-synergy negatives POGCHAMP!!

So basically, Pop-off chance.

It took a lot of hours and numerous failed attempts. If you can beat the high scaling blinds on purple, you're very close to getting there on both orange and gold.

I was probably one of the first people to gold stake ghost deck. It's pretty brutal and very RNG heavy. You can pretty much tell if the run is doomed right from the get go, getting the right tags for the blinds is critical

@@RoffleLite should I try to unlock cards, and jokers, and stuff, or try to rush a higher stake?

Flush House, Flush Five, Straight Flush, even Royal Flush can be fairly reliable with the right Jokers, there are a lot of outs in terms of Tarot/Spectral/Cards/Jokers you can get to make the deck go wild. It's my favorite deck so far to grind on the way to Gold, I feel like there are a lot of things to build off.

I think it should just come with another upside, like +1 Joker slot and you start with the Tarot card that gives you a random Joker. The downside of -1 hand per round is fine imo even with the nerf to income

+1 joker slot, -2 consumables slots. Trade one for another.

The only time black deck feels good is when you get a very specific set of jokers early like the one that has a higher multiplier for reach empty joker slot or riff-raff. If you get 5 good jokers chances are you are winning the run anyway and the 6th one isn't making much of a difference.

​@@ausiidndor just give a random joker at the start

naw in gold stake everything is anal

KZfaq's auto-generated comments also caught that LMAO

​@@bin0thow?

Anal GIF

​@@gaminglol5492he meant auto captions. The auto captions say "a**l GIF"

It really depends on how well you can finish fast with the green deck. If you're not optimizing your hands, you're not getting the ball rolling. Interest is more consistent when you run into bad luck, whereas if you end a blind at the last hand -- without an econ joker -- you're sh*t outta luck.

agreed but when I hit the stake that gave -1 discard felt a lot worse. still my highest steak deck for sure and consistent

Green deck helped me learn how to play optimally every hand to maximize income. Highly recommend for starting out, it teaches good habits

I've had many runs shattered like that, and not even by the final boss. The no repeat hand types boss screwed me a lot, and so did the final boss that forced a card to be selected, but it was actuallu that boss that I won against for my first gold stake clear ever, and on Checkered. Sometimes you can graze by, sometimes RNG cucks you over

I think the giant HS logo behind him is a clue 😅

when i started playing i was in the same spot as you, i could only win with flushes lol, since flsuhes are so easy to fish, they dont scale well into the late game, lvling up with planets is less eficient and the other hands get more chips and mult, and cards that give mult/chips for flushes are always worse than cards for pairs, 3ok, 4ok. my recomendation would be to force yourself to not play flushes, in fact there is a joker that gives 2x if hand contains a flush that can only be unlocked if you win a run without playing a flush, try unlocking it and you will realize how many different options you have for synergies and interactions, that you will end up almost never going for flushes since they dont end up scoring as well as other hands. good luck!

Interesting bit about Flush scaling: Despite being ranked higher, it scales up 5 chips slower than Straights. Check the Celestial cards for those hands if you don't believe me.

Some of the decks don’t influence your build too much because they just give a generic benefit (like the +$10 one). While others heavily impact your build. I also find it’s difficult to force each run into a single preferred build. You have to be flexible based on the jokers you get.

I might be late, but you can compare it to HS battleground. It is not just about the hero/deck you pick, it is mostly about minions/jokers you get. Be flexible, adapt your gameplan, and enjoy. The game is designed so Ante 8 can be defeated with every kind of build. There is obviously a meta for later antes but the replayability is really great

For me, if you count 'new run'ing at the start of balatro runs then gold stake by far. If you get past that with a good start on most decks in balatro I find winning the rest of the game is pretty okay. Basically, %wise I'd say balatro is much harder but Sts you are going to spend more time playing runs that die close to the end

Glass is best

*Glass brake sound* ^^

​@@kamilczyzkowski1213| IIRC that just thins the deck and buffs Glass Joker 😉

Green stake win It's also good if you're playing high card or pair and you just include the face cards as non-scorers to cycle them out. It doesn't reset the mult Decent card if you commit to it early, abandoned deck or not