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mic mike Apr 27, 2024 @ 1:30am
Worst Joker?
I asked about the worst decks a while back, but i feel like theres more to choose here.

Worst to play, least fun, difficult to use, anything.
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dmeister Apr 28, 2024 @ 6:49am 
Originally posted by Super Arthritis ⁧⁧ ⁧⁧Man:
Originally posted by kaibarnard:

Madness is a win condition, gotten early it will carry you, late ignore it
Getting it round one and feeding it until a 10x multiplier is still crap, without other multipliers to boost it's near worthless, and given that it eats your other jokers, multipliers are restricted to fixed multipliers on jokers, planets and multi's on cards. It's too limited.

Madness by itself is bad but it's amazing IF you can get good Eternal Jokers to go with it that it can't destroy.
brickey.8 Apr 28, 2024 @ 8:51am 
Madness is incredibly luck based. I've had the run peter out because I couldn't find good eternal jokers more often than I've had it work. But if it works, it works.
Ratch Apr 28, 2024 @ 1:58pm 
Madness, Obelisk, Runner, Deli Card.
Obelisk is genuinely awful.
Madness is really only worth taking if you're on Black stake or higher so you can get Eternals.
Runner just isn't good and Straights don't scale well at all. Royal Flush is barely higher scoring than 4 of a Kind.
Deli Card is stupid. Every 6th hand get 4x mult. Wowee.

I'm on Beta build and even with the buffs some of these cards got (or maybe only runner idk) they're just "meh"
loganjamesalex Apr 28, 2024 @ 4:21pm 
worst joker is probably "joker"
josh421789 Apr 28, 2024 @ 4:49pm 
Economy/Support - Satellite
Mult - Red Card
Chip - Devious Joker
XMult - Seeing Double
brickey.8 Apr 28, 2024 @ 5:25pm 
Originally posted by josh421789:
Economy/Support - Satellite
Mult - Red Card
Chip - Devious Joker
XMult - Seeing Double

Seeing double is the one that just requires a club and a non-club right? You're nuts, that one is extremely easy to get working on most hands if you're doing any hand that requires 3+ cards and isn't a flush. The ceiling is admittedly lower than most other xmults, but an easy x2 is not nothing.

And satellite asks a bit more of you than most economy jokers but it can easily give twice as much money as the $4 baseline set by golden joker and cloud 9. It's better if you get it around the middle of the run though.
Last edited by brickey.8; Apr 28, 2024 @ 5:28pm
Moth Master Apr 28, 2024 @ 5:44pm 
I think I dislike Obelisk and Seance the most. At least you can get a decent meta going with the hand type required for Seance (but then do you even really need it at that point?), or get some benefit from Obelisk for a while. I feel better than I used to about 8-Ball, but am I really going to try to have some sort of meta cranking that revolves around 8s? I'm not saying you can't--what, with fibonacci, of-a-kind builds, and whatever I can't remember--but I don't feel compelled to.

But lets be honest: none of them are as bad as Leto.
Woolgirl Apr 29, 2024 @ 3:24am 
What about stone joker? It kinda rare and kinda really bad if you don't have marble joker.
Waffles the Genie Apr 29, 2024 @ 5:50am 
Originally posted by SirLagsalot:
Joker Stencil or Credit Card maybe

Eternal Joker Stencil plus Madness would be amazing.
Originally posted by Waffles the Genie:
Originally posted by SirLagsalot:
Joker Stencil or Credit Card maybe

Eternal Joker Stencil plus Madness would be amazing.
It still lacks multiplier and chip growth. A x15 multiplier on a thousand is exactly ♥♥♥♥ all. Need something in there for get that initial number up so the multiplier has something so actually multiply.
c0hKaine Apr 29, 2024 @ 2:34pm 
Originally posted by Ratch:
Madness, Obelisk, Runner, Deli Card.
Obelisk is genuinely awful.
Madness is really only worth taking if you're on Black stake or higher so you can get Eternals.
Runner just isn't good and Straights don't scale well at all. Royal Flush is barely higher scoring than 4 of a Kind.
Deli Card is stupid. Every 6th hand get 4x mult. Wowee.

I'm on Beta build and even with the buffs some of these cards got (or maybe only runner idk) they're just "meh"
I think obelisk is great if you are using a specific combo and it comes in the shop late. then if you can pivot off to another combo you're set for awhile...too specific yeea
Zsrai Apr 29, 2024 @ 4:10pm 
Originally posted by Super Arthritis ⁧⁧ ⁧⁧Man:
Originally posted by Waffles the Genie:

Eternal Joker Stencil plus Madness would be amazing.
It still lacks multiplier and chip growth. A x15 multiplier on a thousand is exactly ♥♥♥♥ all. Need something in there for get that initial number up so the multiplier has something so actually multiply.

Celestial packs and Planet cards. It's not like you're spending your money on Jokers in the above situation.
Draco18s Apr 29, 2024 @ 5:14pm 
Idol.
Preacher JLU Apr 29, 2024 @ 5:50pm 
Credit Card is 100% worthless and should be removed from the game.

God bless
Waffles the Genie Apr 29, 2024 @ 6:03pm 
Originally posted by Super Arthritis ⁧⁧ ⁧⁧Man:
Originally posted by Waffles the Genie:

Eternal Joker Stencil plus Madness would be amazing.
It still lacks multiplier and chip growth. A x15 multiplier on a thousand is exactly ♥♥♥♥ all. Need something in there for get that initial number up so the multiplier has something so actually multiply.

I'm thinking plasma, but yes that could be an issue.
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Date Posted: Apr 27, 2024 @ 1:30am
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