Need help getting to $400

[Rinne]

Any advice on the best start to achieve this?
Also what is the fastest way to unlock the legendary jokers? Use the ghost deck?

[malogoss]

Vouchers that raise interest limit are great. Combine that with the joker that gives $2 of interest per $5 and you could rake $40 per round just in interest. Else you want to see/generate as many tarot cards as possible. So tarot cards voucher, +1 card in shop voucher, cheaper reroll voucher, Hallucination joker, things like that. Zodiac is probably a decent deck. But except for the green deck, they all could work.

For legendary jokers, Anaglyph deck with focus on mega arcana pack tags certainly would help. But idk if some other options would be better? Maybe.

[Sock]

play the "richer" challenge run to easily hit $400

[malogoss]

Originally posted by Sock:

play the "richer" challenge run to easily hit $400

Challenges block unlocks and achievements (except a couple achievements specifically related to challenges)

[Arzaac]

I found Anaglyph deck to work best for the $400 money achievement. Save up all your double tags until you find the double your money tag, and watch as each double tag is worth $40 a piece. If you get lucky and find it in Ante 8 the challenge is practically done.

[malogoss]

Originally posted by Arzaac:

I found Anaglyph deck to work best for the $400 money achievement. (...)

Yep, likely better than my suggestion. Nice.

[Your Neighbour]

MUST HAVE - To the moon
This doubles your interest
Complimentary - Bull + 2 chips per dollar - This scales VERY strongly with your money so if you have to choose between bootstraps and bull, pick bull
Complimentary - Bootstraps +2 per dollar so you are scaling

Other two are flexible but you will really need AT LEAST seed money
Money tree will help you get there. Also feel free to take on -1 ante cards, whatever to delay the game longer to help you get more money.

Delayed Gratification - Great at start, if you have too the moon, use to the moon instead of gratification.

[Your Neighbour]

Also if you come across bosses that can reset money - You may want the reroll voucher, since your hand is money scaled it will absolutely roll you over

[sab0t]

I did this one with magic deck. I had I think just one economy joker the whole time, and just made healthy use of tarot cards as well as the blind tag that doubles your money.

[Jaeus]

There are several ways of getting there.
It's just a matter of being able to find and stack good Gold related Jokers, and likely hoarding for Interest, without losing.
Like when I got this achievement, it was on the heels of early Bootstraps.
I was sitting on a basic Gold Joker forever, never found Rocket for example. I did find +1 Discard Voucher and Delayed Gratification. With Bootstraps for Mult and Splash for scoring everything for Chips, I could just play any 5 cards for Hands and win on high Chips+Mult.
Found a decently early Seed Money, eventually found Bull too but that was very late.

[Zelakon]

@Your Neighbour, you really don't *need* any of those cards, they just make life a bit easier.

I came here to post Arzaac's suggestion, which solved it for me, and during that run I never even saw seed money or to the moon etc.

EDIT: Although finding a Rocket early on is extremely helpful, as it scales upon use, despite its card description not being clear about that.

[Draco18s]

Originally posted by Arzaac:

I found Anaglyph deck to work best for the $400 money achievement. Save up all your double tags until you find the double your money tag, and watch as each double tag is worth $40 a piece. If you get lucky and find it in Ante 8 the challenge is practically done.

This is how I did it the other day. I was actually trying for the "buy 10 vouchers" unlock, but didn't run into a "Add a Voucher" tag, but did run into a "get money per (hand? skip?)" one and had 7 double tags saved up and ~$100 in the bank. Each tag was worth around $50-60, I don't remember how much. Did the math and went "oh yeah that's more than enough" and did that.

Still haven't reached Ante 12 (the jokers I had with all that cash weren't enough to go far).

[Your Neighbour]

Tried Anaglyph, first try $400, you can just stack infinite tags and you can have 12 negative jokers or 12x multi money all of which gets you to $400 in a blink

[Sabine the Machine]

Originally posted by Arzaac:

I found Anaglyph deck to work best for the $400 money achievement. Save up all your double tags until you find the double your money tag, and watch as each double tag is worth $40 a piece. If you get lucky and find it in Ante 8 the challenge is practically done.

I did this and got to 395 and a dead hand.... sold the jokers to make it, lol!

[Jack Ketch]

I just did it with Anaglyph. Was a little worried because I had a stack of Double Tags going into Ante 9, but then got the Handy Tag worth $58 each (times seven double tags).