Can someone please explain what does this voucher do?

[1mbalanced]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3169852473
thanks.

[Pingoso]

Ante goes backward by one, meaning all blinds will become easier. This gives you some breathing room before facing stronger blinds, at the loss of a hand.

[1mbalanced]

Originally posted by Pingoso:

Ante goes backward by one, meaning all blinds will become easier. This gives you some breathing room before facing stronger blinds, at the loss of a hand.

Thanks, but what exactly "per round" means? I will loose 1 hand per round played?

[Ronald Brain]

Originally posted by 1mbalanced:

Originally posted by Pingoso:

Ante goes backward by one, meaning all blinds will become easier. This gives you some breathing room before facing stronger blinds, at the loss of a hand.

Thanks, but what exactly "per round" means? I will loose 1 hand per round played?

That means you number of hands per round you have up until this point (Default: 4 or 5) will go down by 1. So you'll have 3 hands (or 4 on Blue Deck) to play after using this Voucher.

[1mbalanced]

Oh, i got it, it means "each round have -1 ante, -1 hand". Thanks

[Goblin]

Originally posted by 1mbalanced:

Oh, i got it, it means "each round have -1 ante, -1 hand". Thanks

Almost. You get -1 ante once, and have -1 hand on every round.

[akaplan1]

You go back an Ante, and you have one fewer hand for the rest of the run.

[Zero]

Originally posted by Goblin:

Originally posted by 1mbalanced:

Oh, i got it, it means "each round have -1 ante, -1 hand". Thanks

Almost. You get -1 ante once, and have -1 hand on every round.

Is that the case? I thought it's only going to -1 hand once cmiiw

[Goblin]

Originally posted by Zero:

Originally posted by Goblin:

Almost. You get -1 ante once, and have -1 hand on every round.

Is that the case? I thought it's only going to -1 hand once cmiiw

Read previous replies on what what I said means.

[Forblaze]

Originally posted by Zero:

Is that the case? I thought it's only going to -1 hand once cmiiw

The -1 hand is a permanent debuff to the amount of hands you're able to play per round. So it applies once but remains in effect every round.

[gwelty]

Yes, the "applies once" language is key. The -1 to the hand count is a once-for-all reduction in the amount of hands you have available each round. It is not a -1 reduction *that keeps being added every single round*. It's not cumulative over time, but constant over time. Round after round, the hand count looks like this: 4, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, not 4, 3, 2, 1, 0, ?? :-)

[wakasm]

You get a -1 Ante Once:
So if you are on Ante 6, you will now be on 5, and all the blinds will go down since the blind counts are based on what Ante you are in. This gives you more time to buy cards, make money, scale any cards in your deck or scale hand rewards.

You also get a -1 hand size penalty once:
Like all the -1 hand size penalties you get... they apply to your total hand count and persist for the rest of the game. So if you are currently having 5 hands per round, you will now have 4 hands per round.

This can be really strong if you have a deck that has a lot of scaling. That extra 3 blinds can really increase your power. It's can be not worth it if your deck doesn't have a lot of scaling and you are ahead on the damage curve. It's usually worth it. The major downside is you will see one more boss blind type, so hopefully, you don't see one that counters your deck.

[Goblin]

The confusion comes from people not understanding what a deck has.
A standard deck has a stat of four in "hand per round". Not "has four hands".
When you select a blind, you start at 0 hands, and gain your hand per round stat. Unless it's the Needle, which temporarily sets that stat to 1. The vouchers, and some deck modifiers, give +/- to the hand per round stat. Burglar gives +3 hands when blind is selected, which is completely separate, and that difference in behaviour is why hands per round is called what it is.
Discards work the same, and used to have even more reason for the specific wording since there used to be a way to not reset them to 0 when selecting a blind.