Merry Andy (Joker)
Merry Andy (Joker) Wiki
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Buy Price
- $ 7
- Sell Price
- $ 3
- Type
- Effect
- Activation
- N/A (Passive)
- Unlock
- Win a run in 12 or fewer rounds
- Effect
- +3 discards each round -1 hand size
Merry Andy Effect +3 discards each round -1 hand size Rarity Uncommon Stats Buy Price $ 7 Sell Price $ 3 Type Effect Activation N/A (Passive) Unlock Requirement Win a run in 12 or fewer rounds
Merry Andy is an uncommon joker that provides additional discards but at the cost of a reduced hand size.
Synergies
Poker Hands
♥️ Straights usually require more discards to set up.
♥️ If you need to draw a specific enhanced card to win Merry Andy allows you to sift through up to 15 more cards every round.
Jokers
🃏 Juggler helps with negating this jokers downside.
🃏 Banner can combo with Merry Andy to provide additional chips early game.
🃏 It also works well with Delayed Gratification for economy increasing the payout by an extra $6.
🃏 Burglar has anti-synergy as Burglar always removes all discards (no matter the order of the 2 Jokers).
Juggler
Banner
Delayed Gratification
Burglar
Trivia
📚 In the playtest build Merry Andy was a rare joker that allowed unused Discards to be carried over to the next blind. This led to some broken strategies such as farming large amount of money with Delayed Gratification or granting huge amount of chips with Banner. Its effect was completely overhauled upon release.
📚 Andy is commonly used as a term on Twitch as a generic way to refer to a person. Its often preceded by any other combination of words e.g. Balatro Andy would be a way to refer to someone playing this game.
📚 If you generate Merry Andy through a Judgement Tarot Card you will get the extra discards for the current hand without cards being discarded from your hand but will drop your hand size when you next draw.
Merry Andy (Joker) Languages
- Chinese (Simplified)
- 快乐安迪
- Chinese (Traditional)
- 快樂小丑
- Dutch
- Vrolijke Andy
- French
- Andy le gentil
- German
- Fröhlicher Andy
- Indonesian
- Merry Andy
- Italian
- Risparmio di scarti
- Japanese
- メリーアンディ
- Korean
- 즐거운 앤디
- Polish
- Radosny Radek
- Portuguese (Brazilian)
- Jogada de Descartes
- Russian
- Веселый Энди
- Spanish (Spain)
- Loco por el circo
- Spanish (Latin America)
- Andy el alegre
Pros and cons
FAQs
Do you keep Jokers in Balatro?
Jokers are special cards at the core of Balatros gameplay. Instead of being included in Decks and played alongside standard cards Jokers are obtained through the Shop and occasionally other means and are held in the players dedicated joker slots until the player sells them or they are destroyed.
How do you copy the Joker in Balatro?
Once a Poker hand is played Blueprint will continue copying the last Joker to its right even if its moved around afterward. This can be exploited by first playing the winning hand then moving Blueprint to copy the end-of-round effect Joker such as Reserved Parking or Mime while scoring is calculated.
How to get more Jokers in Balatro?
Jokers can be found in Stores Buffoon Booster Packs and certain Spectral or Tarot cards. The amount of Jokers youre allowed to hold throughout any given run is not static as there are ways to increase these slots through means like giving the Negative condition to Jokers you already have.May 9 2024
