Best Joker Order in Balatro - Pro Game Guides
The best way to order your Joker Cards. When it comes to ordering Jokers in Balatro, you’re generally going to want to follow three simple rules: 3. Any Jokers that multiply the multiplier only under certain circumstances should be moved to the far right side of the Joker Card slots. 4. Any Polychrome Jokers should be placed in the next rightmost slot. However, if the card in the right slot multiplies the multiplier value by less than 1.5, place the Polychrome Joker into the far right slot. 5. Carefully examine your Jokers to see if they rely on the positioning of other Jokers, like the Blueprint and Ceremonial Dagger cards. These need to be placed carefully to maximize their value. If placing them on the far right would be more beneficial than placing a Polychrome Joker there, do so.
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For most commonly used jokers: 20+: Supernova, Stuntman (da goat), Blackboard 15-19: Square Joker, Hologram, Vampire, Green Joker 10-14: Blue Joker, Card Sharp, Ride the Bus, Abstract Joker, Baseball Card Glad to answer any questions~ Had a ridiculous build playing flush five of a kind Kings.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqxSRicCZ70 absolutely bonkers luck. run still going. dont think i owe any infernal powers for this, not entirely sure though e: instant hubris karma as the very next small blind got me. still, gives a good idea of what its gonna take to crack the highest Ante’s e2: yknow what thats probably enough balatro for one night, got some good unlocks that’ll really help future runs I have broken the ??? barrier? I don’t know what number that is! EDIT The run finally died on Ante 14, the seed is H1VSVW7D with the Erratic Deck. If you want to toy with optimizing it yourself. I certainly didn’t do things the smartest things in the run. well its not getting better than this for me. blueprinted a triboulet. has the face cards trigger twice joker. and the one that makes everything retrigger on the final hand. got a negative baron too, but it barely mattered Not sure if I’m ever gonna get this lucky again:insert e run here I was starting to get annoyed that I hadn’t seen a legendary jokers yet until I was blessed with 2 legendaries from the same shop. I ended up with 12 jokers thanks to the anaglyph deck. My deck was pretty much just steel and glass kings and got my highest score ever. I swapped out one of my jokers for the one that retriggers everything on the last hand played. I also recently bought the voucher that drops the ante at the expense of -1hand. My dumbass immediately miscounted how many hands I had left and I played high card instead of 5 of a kind completely punting my run at ante 12.. I hope someone who has more than a timeshare of a single braincell can take this seed to it’s true potential. I think I hit a new record for the thread. Seed is in the screenshot if you want to try it out with the Ghost Deck, White Stakes. Final Jokers were:Yorick Perkeo Triboulet Sock and Buskin Negative Driver’s License Blueprint Polychrome BrainstormGameplay spoilers:I ended up getting a Cryptid and an Eris (flush five planet) in my inventory, and with Blueprint+Brainstorm+Perkeo I was able to make 3 copies between the two every time I left the shop. Eventually I got a Polychrome King which I copied a bunch, then I made one of them glass and copied that one a bunch, then I got to add a Red Seal to one of them and copied that a few times, but the Ante 14 boss was The Plant and ruined all my Kings before I was able to ever play a 5x Glass Red Seal Polychrome King Hand. For Joker ordering I think the optimal was the following: Triboulet, Sock and Buskin, Blueprint, Brainstorm, Driver’s License, Yorick Flush Five was somewhere around level 15-20, so I around 550x50 or something like that. I’ll say 500x50 for ease of math. Had I been able to play a full Flush Five of Polychrome, Glass, Red Sealed Kings, it would have been the following: Base: 500x50 For each King: +10 chips, x2 (Triboulet), x2 (Blueprint), x2 (Brainstorm), x1.5x (Polychrome), x2 (Glass) (Total +10 chips, x24 mult) repeat all of the above from Red Seal (Total +20 chips, x576 mult) repeat all of the above from Sock and Buskin (Total +40 chips, x 331776 mult) Do that all 5 times (Total +200 chips, x4019988717840603673710821376 mult) x3 mult from Driver’s License, x1.5 mult from Polychrome Brainstorm, x5 mult from Yorick (Total +200 chips, x90449746151413582658493480960 mult) +500 chips and x50 mult from the base hand = 700 chips x 4522487307570679132924674048000 mult orScore: 3.16574e+33 chipsI’m so sad I didn’t get to play the best possible hand, but this was amazing fun either way. Well that’s going to be hard to beat, could have kept it going to but I played 4 queens on the loosing hand instead of 5 
The jokers: YEShttps://i.imgur.com/RMtkXGm.mp4 Interesting i love using the anaglyph deck to load up on negative jokers Don’t think I’ll ever see these heights again. The two copy Jokers and DNA to generate (3 new kings per match) a deck mostly of Red Seal, Holographic (not Polychrome , Glass Kings. This is why most played is High Card - my winning hands were all Flush Five or Four of a Kinds. During the matches the copyjokers switch to copying one each of Sock and Buskin and the X2 Mult for scored Kings and Queens Legendary, for complicated mathematical reasons that I kind of get but the excellent Balatro simulator helped me confirm (add Five of a Kind please, could only run the numbers with 4). A smattering of other jokers, one the X2 Mult to first played face card, that was an extra little boost but at those heights I was looking very specifically for retriggering or ways to get the last few non UltraKing cards out of my deck. Everything else was pretty irrelevant. Ghost Deck, spectrals make breaking the game way easier. Yeah, but when it works well it works REALLY REALLY well Though who knows, maybe a regular deck would have been just as good. Triboulet is pretty awesome. Finally got my first E score! This was when I realised I might have a good run on my hands. I’d gotten to about Ante 6 or 7 with Campfire, but dropped it for either Hologram or Vampire, I forget which came first. Previous to this point, I’d also had Cartomancer which created a Tarot card each blind, which fed Fortune Teller directly, and Vampire indirectly through the enhanced cards. Marble Joker added a Stone card each blind, which directly fed Hologram, and again indirectly fed Vampire with the stone cards. I also had vouchers that gave me more interest, cheaper cards in the store, and the ability to buy playing cards from the store, so I could just pour cards into Hologram. The next couple of shops went nuts. Cavendish just did it’s thing and I’d been playing pretty much just pairs up until that point, so I had a huge window with Obelisk. I had enough econ that I didn’t need Marble joker to create enhanced cards for me, I could just buy packs to increase the flat mult on Fortune Teller then 5 mult multipliers after that should go crazy. By the end I had around 75 mult x 3.5 x 3 x 15 x 17 x 17 and finished up in Ante 14. As always, an element of luck with getting the jokers in the first place, but it definitely felt like a run that I was able to build from the knowledge of the game I’d built up, knowing when to pivot and such. The wild thing is that a Vampire + Blueprint setup is still only quadratic scaling (or quartic scaling on the Plasma Deck, I guess) and will rapidly fall behind the greater-than-exponential-growth of the blinds. One of the “in-hand” multiplication builds seems like the only real way to stack multiplications repeatedly and get a long way into Endless - I had one just now which got me to Ante 14 and probably could’ve got me further if I managed my deck better/I didn’t get really unlucky on one of the blinds and fail to get a hand full of Kings for the first time in ages. Beat Ante 14 for the first time ever with Blueprint/Brainstorm/Hologram/Burned/DNA. Got high card leveled up to the 90s with a deck that contained 80+ Red tag/holo/Steel aces. Deck was already producing e numbers at the end of ante 8, feels like I could have gone a lot further if I transitioned from upgrading high card to upgrading flush 5 with Burned around then. I have a lot of trouble swapping hands, feels wrong to give up dozens of levels on a hand in the hope your new hand will outscale it 6 rounds from now assuming you survive till then with your ‘primary’ hand no longer scaling up. e: Thinking about it would flush 5 even be better than just holding 4 extra red tag/steel cards in hand? Game rules. Tried to get the 100,000,000 point hand to unlock that joker, ended up going quite a bit beyond New best run on white stake/yellow deck: a deck consisting entirely of queens of hearts, half steel and half glass. Two triboulets doubling multiplier for every queen I play for x32 each, campfire with a stupid economy for x6-10, a polychrome family for x6, and a steel joker for x4.5. And it still died to the first blind of ante 14, getting 9.3e11 with an optimal hand out of 2.9e13 needed and ending at a mere 2e12. I think to take it further I would have needed mime and/or seltzer bottle and/or red seals… Still, at least I got the ROI and flushed achievements at the same time. Purple stake’s not loving around huh e: Guess which Joker’s the one I duped to make a second polychrome Baron lol Those babies, Mime and Brainstorm finally got me 1.7 billion in one hand for stuntman lol, then 4.6e14 lmao. I finally won Balatro Got my first E hand, haven’t really been shooting for them but I was just climbing on blue deck for my next gold and stumbled across a midgame polychrome 2 and hack so I shot for it. Couple jokers could have taken it to the next level (ended up with 6 slots due to voucher). And I legit never saw a glass tarot for the rest of the game but can’t complain. Finally hit scientific notation! Two poly triboulet + poly supernova + hanging chad + sock and buskin. Got to ante 12, died to the plant because I was never offered any sort of boss reroll by the time I realized this would go the distance. It got very silly very quickly. In a situation like this, where most of your points are coming from cards left in your hand, yeah, you should just be playing high card. That would be two more queens in your hand, each of them multiplying your mult by 1.5 twice, vs whatever base mult you’re getting from 3 of a Kind. Also, you’ve got Perkeo, but nothing in your inventory. That’s a massive mistake, Perkeo is incredibly powerful and you should always have at least one card sitting around even if it’s just to sell them I’m upset that I hosed this run up: At the start of Ante 18, a spectral pack offered me an ectoplasm “Oh, brilliant!” says I, not thinking about the consequences of -2 hand size Alas. Ayy I did it. Spent too much time adding cards to my deck before I got the Baron, but not bad for my first time past ante 12 small blind. Went through like 20 hands digging for Mimic in the shop with no luck. Probably should have dropped the Burnt Joker earlier but I couldn’t resist temptation to keep double leveling high card every hand. Finally unlocked Stuntman and got my first e-value hand, thanks to Shoot the Moon, Mime, Hologram, Obelisk, and Blueprint. Also Burnt Joker for the first 7 antes and Square Joker for the first 3. I made it to ante 13! Made it to scientific notation for the first time. 5e24, crashed out on the boss blind of ante 16. If I had managed to slip a red tag into my king duping engine it would have been something amazing. loving finally 
Lived the dream with a negative tag, along with Bull which was a legit part of the build I got to sneak in useless copies of Jolly Joker, Drunkard, Zany Joker, and Shoot the Moon If only ios had the update they’d have all been free and I could have cashed in the last few without potentially shutting down Bull, oh well I finally got into scientific notation scoring on a pretty wild run. I played Anaglyph with the intent of getting a ton of negative jokers via double tags, and got a Perkeo in like the first shop, and over time managed to get an entire deck full of polychrome steel kings, with Mime to double the steel and Blueprint + Brainstorm + Baron to stack a bajillion 1.5x bonuses off of everything in hand. Unfortunately I never found any red seals and I imagine they would have helped me get up into Ante 17 and beyond, but my best hand was 3.311e19 and by god I
How does your deck stack up? Screenshot via TierMaker
The Plasma Deck blows out the competition out of the water. Screenshot by Dot Esports. The Plasma deck averages the values of Chips and Mult before multiplying with all extras factored in. This means that your first rounds will be an absolute breeze, as even low score can balloon into massive hands. With the Plasma deck, it’s absurdly easy to get high scores.
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- Joker cards in Balatro are game-changers, adding passive abilities that can break the game if used strategically, especially the Shortcut.
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Here’s the effect of every Joker card and how to unlock them all in Balatro.
| Legendary Joker | Disables the effect of every Boss Blind. |
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Chicot is a Legendary Joker that has an extremely strong ability, but only under some circumstances. Due to the random nature of Boss Blinds in Balatro, sometimes you can breeze through the early Antes, encountering bosses whose abilities have no effect on your deck. Then, you may face a boss that directly counters your deck, creating a situation where it’s nearly impossible to win.
With Chicot, you never have to worry about that random Boss Blind that completely counters you. In times like that, Chicot is one of the most valuable Jokers in the game. However, when the Boss Blinds don’t counter your deck, Chicot just takes up a valuable Joker slot. This drastic difference in power puts Chicot in the last spot on this list.
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If you’re looking for the best Balatro Jokers our tier list has you covered for clearing the Gold Stakes difficulty.
We’ve ranked every Joker from best to worst with descriptions for why they’re placed where they are.
Be sure to check back whenever there is a new balance patch and just in general as the meta develops.
