5x Aces the best for endless scaling?

[Atomsk]

Seems like the highest endless run always comes down to eliminating everything but aces, and getting lucky with the mult per arcana used joker.

[☂dizzy]

Not even close. Most of the extremely high ante runs use stone cards.

[Goblin]

Nope, aces aren't particularly useful for xMult jokers. They have decent +Mult with fibbonaci but that pales compared to scaling jokers. And yes, at the point you manage to get your deck down to that state Fortune Teller would be pretty dang high, but that is true for any single rank deck. A deck of all kings of hearts would probably be better, given the right jokers.

[Atomsk]

Originally posted by ☂dizzy:

Not even close. Most of the extremely high ante runs use stone cards.

Really? I never used stone cards yet, what makes them so good?

[Descending Minor Key Line Cliche]

Originally posted by Atomsk:

Originally posted by ☂dizzy:

Not even close. Most of the extremely high ante runs use stone cards.

Really? I never used stone cards yet, what makes them so good?

I've only chosen to play past ante 8 once so far and got to ante 12 where the numbers were completely absurd. I could easily see a high card build + 4 stones be a good way to tackle that, or something similar. They just have such a huge amount of chips on them. And later on the xmult stuff nullifies the need for much in the way of +mult if you are upgrading your hands well. I got high card to ~lvl 30 once and it was a bit sad having the rest of my hand do nothing since I didn't have any stones or that joker that makes every card count.

[Goblin]

Originally posted by Atomsk:

Originally posted by ☂dizzy:

Not even close. Most of the extremely high ante runs use stone cards.

Really? I never used stone cards yet, what makes them so good?

Unless you're exclusively playing 5 card hands, stone cards are always great. They get counted as +50 chips unconditionally. That in turn means you can usually get rid of a +chips joker in favor of another xMult.

[Shot_Trip]

Originally posted by Atomsk:

Originally posted by ☂dizzy:

Not even close. Most of the extremely high ante runs use stone cards.

Really? I never used stone cards yet, what makes them so good?

Stone bros always get thrown in for score and always score 50 chip. They're excellent in any x of a kind deck, great for filling out a low hand, neuter the Psychic, etc.

Heart is a strong suit once you unlock its special rock joker, but I'm very fond of low-card fibonacchi hack runs.

[symphony]

I like 2s personally