Figured out the usefulness of Stone Cards

[sab0t]

just wanted to post a tip for anyone else that was like me and didn't understand how to use stone cards effectively.

If you play a stone card alongside a hand, the stone card also gets scored, even though it's not really part of the hand. So, for example if you want to play a 3 of a kind, and you also have a stone card in your hand, you can play it with the 3 of a kind and it will get scored.

I still haven't used them much, but I think they can be pretty useful when your deck focuses on hands that use 4 cards or less, as you will then have 'room' to also play stone cards.

I thought they were basically used only when playing high card, and maybe for some weird combo stuff, but they are quite a bit better than I thought. Just wanted to post this for anyone else that didn't quite get it at first.

[muted]

There's also a joker that works with the number of stone cards contained in your deck.

[sab0t]

Originally posted by muted:

There's also a joker that works with the number of stone cards contained in your deck.

i wonder if you could do a whole build based around stone cards, that would be pretty great.

[g59MrPickles]

What happens if you just play stone cards? Do they work as pairs?

[sab0t]

Originally posted by g59MrPickles:

What happens if you just play stone cards? Do they work as pairs?

it will be considered a high card hand. they are really strong for builds focused on high card, you can play a hand of 5 stone cards and it will be considered high card but all 5 will get scored.

[Draco18s]

Originally posted by g59MrPickles:

What happens if you just play stone cards? Do they work as pairs?

High card with Rank 0. So it would score 55 points base (5 for High Card, 50 chips for itself, x1 multi--assuming no Jokers and no planet upgrades).

[Goblin]

Originally posted by Draco18s:

Originally posted by g59MrPickles:

What happens if you just play stone cards? Do they work as pairs?

High card with Rank 0. So it would score 55 points base (5 for High Card, 50 chips for itself, x1 multi--assuming no Jokers and no planet upgrades).

Or up to 255, since MrPickles asked about stone cards plural.

[Draco18s]

Well yeah. Just meant that it doesn't have a rank value of its own. It isn't even, odd, or numbered.

[Alfagun74]

thanks for the tip!!