How do you score with Stone Cards? (besides High Card)

[Raven]

Title. I keep getting offered them, but I never know what to do with them, since trying to score one with any card combinations seems to either invalidate the hand or not score the Stone Card.

[Ronald Brain]

Stone cards are best to pair with 2 pair / 3 of a kinds, since they add chip value to your total hand (Plus foil/holy/poly). If you level up a lot of 2 pair / 3 of a kind, they are excellent to buff your hand, otherwise they could still be useful to play a filler hand when you desperately need to get rid of some cards to cycle your deck.

Pro tips: Stone cards CAN be converted back to normal card, so if you have holo/poly Stone Cards but can't use them in your 5-cards build, save an enhancement Tarot card (bonus, mult, glass, steal, gold, wild) and use on them, they will revert back to number/face cards.

[alastair]

I tried converting a Stone card to a Diamond and it didn't work, so I don't think that's true

[Goblin]

What Ronald said, but he didn't quite explicitly point out that stone cards get counted no matter what. So any card + 4 stone cards = high card with +200 chips. Your claim that it could "or not score the stone card" is an incorrect assumption.

Originally posted by alastair:

I tried converting a Stone card to a Diamond and it didn't work, so I don't think that's true

It's when you convert them to another type of enhancement. Stone is an enhancement, any card can have only one of those (plus a seal and an edition) so overriding it turns it back to non-stone. If you did that after your diamond change it would be a "whatever it was before-of-diamonds ".

[brickey.8]

Stone counts as a card enhancement, so you should be able to overwrite it by giving it another enhancement from a tarot card.

[alastair]

If it works for you guys, that's interesting.

Maybe it didn't change for me because I got the stone card from a pack. So I guess it never had a rank before.

[Goblin]

Originally posted by alastair:

If it works for you guys, that's interesting.

Maybe it didn't change for me because I got the stone card from a pack. So I guess it never had a rank before.

Nah, they just have a random rank and suit in that case. They're just normal cards with an enhancement that happens to hide what they are.
It's purely because you used a suit changing card on it. That doesn't remove enhancements, same way it doesn't change a +mult card into a normal one. Wild card for instance would have worked. You can see what counts as an enhancement in your collection.

[Ronald Brain]

Originally posted by Goblin:

Originally posted by alastair:

If it works for you guys, that's interesting.

Maybe it didn't change for me because I got the stone card from a pack. So I guess it never had a rank before.

Nah, they just have a random rank and suit in that case. They're just normal cards with an enhancement that happens to hide what they are.
It's purely because you used a suit changing card on it. That doesn't remove enhancements, same way it doesn't change a +mult card into a normal one. Wild card for instance would have worked. You can see what counts as an enhancement in your collection.

Yeah I kinda remember it wrong, the demo was a while ago. The correct way to un-stone them is to apply mult, bonus, wild, glass, steel, gold. Edited my response to reflect this.

[alastair]

thanks for clarifying how it works