Tips for green deck?

[skatche]

I'm not great at the game yet, haven't played above first difficulty level but I've won some runs. Having a hell of a time with the green deck, though. Every time I've won with other decks, it was because I was able to build up $25+ (or $50+ with the appropriate voucher) and ride the interest. With green deck that's obviously not an option, and my attempts to supplement my income in other ways haven't worked. Jokers with payouts take up slots that could be used to build chip/mult synergies, gold cards end up getting discarded in desperation to just get through the next blind, and gold seals are so rare I haven't had an opportunity to acquire one in seven or eight runs.

I understand RNG plays a role, and there might be some strong unlocks I haven't got to yet, but surely there must be some strategic approach I could take? Just looking for advice.

[Amplify]

Here's something you're probably not expecting to hear: Green deck is probably the easiest deck for your first gold stake win, it was mine and definitely the easiest.

Green deck basically operates like any other deck except you don't need to save up and keep your first $25, you can just keep spending that if you like. Generally skip small blinds, look for jokers that give reliable amounts of mult without needing specific cards, things like (but not limited to) torn joker, misprint, gros michal and so on. Your main hand of choice should be pairs or high card and just look out for some jokers to give you mult multipliers which aren't too limiting.

Really, the only downside of green deck is that your discards are no longer "free" and you're effectively losing money using them up, while the upside is you never have to worry about interest at all.
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[GuyYouMetOnline]

The trick to green is that you really need to get something immediately that lets you blaze through the first few antes on one hand without needing to discard. If you do, you can get plenty of cash early on. If you start to need discards or multiple hands, your income will decrease, but by then you'll probably have a build going and be able to be more selective about purchases. Save some cash later on in case something real good shows up, but early on you should buy anything that could be useful. There's no point in saving for interest, so don't. If you don't need jokers, go for other cards or booster packs. Being able to, say, get a bunch of planets early on and make multiple hands high level, or use tarot to enhance a bunch of cards, can be very useful.

[malogoss]

To me the main thing is something one said before:

Originally posted by GuyYouMetOnline:

The trick to green is that you really need to get something immediately that lets you blaze through the first few antes on one hand without needing to discard. If you do, you can get plenty of cash early on.

"Early on", in this context, is something like ante 1 to 3. The money made can be impressive.

That early, you could even grab say a Golden Joker on top of scoring jokers and make money for the future, even if it won't pay interest. As you said, such a joker can become a problem, using a slot and providing no help with score. Time to sell it then.

Gold cards, gold seals, anything making money that is not using a joker slot is always worth considering. Because you'll likely need some form of income aside from your remaining hand/discard at the end of rounds.

Good luck! If you managed to win with other decks, green should not be a problem ;)