Need advice for 2 unlocks

[X-hog]

I'm going through and unlocking jokers and vouchers. Having trouble reaching Ante 12. Any advice for breaking 10 mil?

Also need advice on getting to $400.

[malogoss]

#1, play the Plasma deck. It simply gives bigger scores. A lot bigger.

#2, play Anaglyph deck, skip tags that double your money, or others that can potentially be even better at some point late game.

[X-hog]

Thanks. I don't have either unlocked yet so I'll have to work my way up to those on the stake levels.

[Exploding Carrot]

What's the unlock for reaching Ante 12?

[Nazemec]

Originally posted by Exploding Carrot:

What's the unlock for reaching Ante 12?

A voucher.

[TheShadeBrigade]

A fairly deadly combination I've used and seen is Baron + Mime alongside any copying Jokers like Brainstorm, Blueprint, or Invisible Joker. Load the deck up with lots of Steel Kings and you're in business

[TheShadeBrigade]

As far as getting $400, I found Perkeo and Blueprint and had them make multiple copies of Temperance or Hermit Tarot Cards for lots of cash

[HereIsPlenty]

I got a bit lucky with the Yellow deck, the one that you start with $10. Reached 396 at ante 8 then sold a couple of jokers to get it since I couldnt beat the boss. Just a lot of hermits and the double your money up to $40 tags, etc.

[TimTim3000]

Originally posted by TheShadeBrigade:

A fairly deadly combination I've used and seen is Baron + Mime alongside any copying Jokers like Brainstorm, Blueprint, or Invisible Joker. Load the deck up with lots of Steel Kings and you're in business

This type of build has worked for me as well.

It's counterintuitive perhaps but the most effective way to get insanely high scores is to trigger small 1.5x and 2x mults over and over. You can go with a hand full of Steels or Glass or whatever works with the jokers you've acquired. Mold and shape your deck with Tarots and if you are lucky you'll get the DNA joker which is the bomb diggity for this type of strategy.

[Shogal]

400$: The joker which adds value to other jokers (looks like a giftbox) and Temperance tarot cards

[Gurg]

Originally posted by TheShadeBrigade:

A fairly deadly combination I've used and seen is Baron + Mime alongside any copying Jokers like Brainstorm, Blueprint, or Invisible Joker. Load the deck up with lots of Steel Kings and you're in business

This is the way.

A deck full of steel kings with red seals will take you very very far with this. Have a few with purple and blue seals to farm tarots (to copy the steel kings) and plutos.

[MMJ]

The hyeroglyph/Petroglyph vouchers can be a nice help to reach Ante 12 too. That's how i managed to get there, anyway.

[X-hog]

Originally posted by malogoss:

#1, play the Plasma deck. It simply gives bigger scores. A lot bigger.

#2, play Anaglyph deck, skip tags that double your money, or others that can potentially be even better at some point late game.

Having unlocked Anaglyph deck, you were indeed correct about it being a good base. Plasma deck on the other hand is incorrect. That deck is only good for early game. It struggles late game.

[HereIsPlenty]

Originally posted by X-hog:

Originally posted by malogoss:

#1, play the Plasma deck. It simply gives bigger scores. A lot bigger.

#2, play Anaglyph deck, skip tags that double your money, or others that can potentially be even better at some point late game.

Having unlocked Anaglyph deck, you were indeed correct about it being a good base. Plasma deck on the other hand is incorrect. That deck is only good for early game. It struggles late game.

Depends what you mean by early game, its the first I got a million plus hand on. If you have the card that gives chips based on cash and blue print with it then its quite decent.

[Goblin]

Plasma is easy early game, easy late game, but there's a transition point in the middle that's "hard".
Just getting +chips is easy mode. It can even get you to an ante 8 win if your chips jokers are decent. But at some point you want to transition to (possibly a mult joker and lots of) xmult, just like usual, and the moment you start switching can spell your doom. But mult has way higher score potential, at which point getting into e-notation scores is easier on this deck than any other. And because of that, it is very much the easiest deck to get the ante 12 and 100m score achievements.

So no, Malogoss was not incorrect telling you to use Plasma Deck.

[Penguinator]

I agree with Malogoss and Goblin, the Plasma Deck is the strongest because it let's you focus purely on either chips (easy to get in early game) or multipliers (which grow into astronomic numbers as long as you know how to use all kinds of synergies). Other decks have to focus on both (which means spending Joker slots or getting lucky with Planets on getting chips) which means you have less room for building big synergies with Jokers and even if you can accomplish that it still loses to Plasma simply because the game doesn't have any mechanics for multiplying chips in X[NUMBER] fashion like it has for multipliers: this means that even if you get lots of chips (10K is an achievement) on top of strong multipliers, it's nothing compared to the final balancing act of Plasma (ie. other decks' total score of 10,000 x 100M is hundred times smaller compared to Plasma's 1 x 2M which turns into 1M x 1M; guess which is harder to accomplish, building both 10K chips + 100M mult OR simply building 2M mult).

That being said, creating an effective Plasma Deck build and adapting it into early to mid to late game requires proper knowledge of usable synergies (notably glass/steel cards + retrigger Jokers + scaling Jokers) and having your fundamental gameplay skills (when to pick Blinds, how to spend your money, and how to actually discard effectively in Poker) up to par. And even if you think you know your stuff, it can still fail if the game doesn't give the stuff that you actually want until it's too late (just like any other deck).

When it comes to $400, it's actually more about luck since the strongest stuff like Tags (+25 after boss is extremely strong in early game), Vouchers (sales and interest), Tarots (Hermit, Temperance, Death, Magician), and Spectrals (Gold Seals, Destroying cards for +20, Enhanced Cards) are more random than Jokers since they can't be rerolled, so I wouldn't worry about it too much and just focus on doing strong scoring builds as fast as you can and only then start aiming for big money.
Also, it might not seem obvious, but Gold Cards themselves are actually hard to use for gaining money since you can't neither play nor discard them, so they heavily weaken your score potential and make it hard to survive longer (which is the key to achieving $400). Gold Seals are the opposite of that, put them on your key cards and money keeps racking up naturally (especially if your build utilizes retrigger Jokers).
For the deck pick, Plasma works well since it's easier to play longer (even past Ante 12) while Ghost gives you more Spectrals and Zodiac gives you more Tarots (not as useful since you can buy the Voucher with other decks as well).