Strategies for plasma deck?

[FreshGyro]

Hi, i was wondering if anyone wanted to share some tips on how to play the plasma deck. I dont't have much trouble getting to ante 8 consistently with it, but i always fall short of a victory because i find it very difficult to scale this deck. What are the jokers that work well with this deck and what hands should i go for?

[penguin]

I don't have much, only a bit of advice I found recently myself
but aim for raising chips not multiplier
multiplier increase and chip increase ends up as the same bonuses
so even +10 chips will be better than +8 multiplier

[penguin]

I had a pretty good straight run with plasma deck with the Runner card

[Jakkson K]

Stone decks are really good with plasma.
Also, if you can stack either chips or mult, do so. Stacking both is pointless.

[Jakkson K]

Originally posted by penguin:

I don't have much, only a bit of advice I found recently myself
but aim for raising chips not multiplier
multiplier increase and chip increase ends up as the same bonuses
so even +10 chips will be better than +8 multiplier

You can go for multiplier in the sense of getting only multiplier and multiplying that multiplier. Like +20, x2 x4 x1.5 x16. But grabbing just a little mult isn't a good idea.

[Goblin]

There's a few other threads asking this question, and there's a bunch of advice on starting with +Chip and when to switch to xMult, what jokers are good, etc. but I generalize it a bit instead:
1550. Your two scores need to add up to 1550. E.g. 300 chips + 1250 mult = 775*775 = a little over 600000. That's enough to oneshot Violet Vessel on white stake, or any normal boss on even purple stake (IIRC). It doesn't matter how you get to that score, be it leveling Flush Five 35 times, getting the beefiest Bull in history, or multiplying a multiplier 10 times with Baron. Of course you want to focus your build in most cases, and in most cases xMult is easier, good luck getting to 1k +chips with some +100 if hand contains bonuses.

An additive score of 900 can oneshot normal bosses on white/red stake. 4 hands with an additive score of 250 each can win said boss if you're just barely making it. That sounds a lot more doable with chips suddenly, no?

Explaining it this way to a friend seemed to help it click better. Simplifying it down to a single number, which you get from adding two numbers you can calculate (relatively) easily, is easier on the brain than thinking of multiplying the average (adding, dividing by two, then square the result).

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Originally posted by Jakkson K:

Originally posted by penguin:

I don't have much, only a bit of advice I found recently myself
but aim for raising chips not multiplier
multiplier increase and chip increase ends up as the same bonuses
so even +10 chips will be better than +8 multiplier

You can go for multiplier in the sense of getting only multiplier and multiplying that multiplier. Like +20, x2 x4 x1.5 x16. But grabbing just a little mult isn't a good idea.

Yes, this can bring you further in the endless mode.

[Pingoso]

Hiker is extremely valuable, every +4 permanent chips is actually +2 chips and +2 mult in the end. Other chip jokers that get stronger over time are also very good, like Wee Joker. Bonus cards are preferable over mult cards, unless you have some mult-multipliers already.