How to have $400 / reduce hand size to 5

[暮商]

I'm collecting jokers and vouchers but having trouble to meet these 2 conditions. Can anyone show me some tips?

[sab0t]

the easiest way to reduce your hand size to 5 is to use multiple "Ectoplasm" spectral cards. the first one is -1 hand size, the second one is -2. i think Ouija also reduces hand size? either way, just use the ghost deck and open any spectral packs, as well as re-rolling the shop lots to dig for spectrals.

there are some other threads on here from others asking about the $400, it seems there are several strategies to do it. I just used the magic deck, had an economy joker and i think egg as well, and used lots of temperance / hermit tarots.

[Jack Ketch]

Another $400 thread suggested this:

Anaglyph deck on White Stakes (easiest) - just hoard the double tags until you get a pile of them and spend them all on a "double your money" tag.

I had seven or eight of them and used them on a Handy Tag, which gives $1 for each played hand - I think it was $37 each. Suffice to say that rocketed me past $400 pretty quick.

[Aexia]

I got it with Stuntman which gives -2 hand size & 300 chips while facing the Manacle which reduces hand size by 1.

[Ratch]

Seed Vouchers are crucial for $400 held but that's probably obvious. Anaglyph deck stacking like Jack suggested is likely the most consistent method. 10, 20, 40, 80, 160, 320

You could slow burn it with Bootstrap Joker and/or Bull Joker plus some Tarot/Cash focused Jokers. Bootstrap adds +4 mult per $5 held and Bull adds +2 chips per $1 you have. They're perfect. To The Moon Joker is huge as it's +$1 interest per $5 held per round.

Cartomancer, Fortune Teller, Hallucination synergize with searching for Hermit/Temperance. Cartomancer creates a tarot each blind played, Fortune Teller is +1 mult per tarot used, Hallucination is 1in2 chance of creating a tarot card when a pack is opened.

Golden Ticket, Midas Mask, Pareidolia will turn the entire deck golden while also allowing scored gold cards to still earn $3. Mime and/or Buskin on top would go nuts. Vamp goes insane but would probably ruin the cash flow of the deck. Gains 1X mult per 5 cards played and is constantly fed thanks to Midas Pareidolia.

[Goblin]

Originally posted by Ratch:

Anaglyph deck, stacked double tags used on double your money goes crazy. 5, 10, 20, 40, 80, 160, 320

Except for the part where it caps at $40, so it actually goes 5, 10, 20, 40, 80, 120, 160. It's still great, one of the easiest ways to get most of the way to $400, but not as good as you imply.

[Ratch]

Originally posted by Goblin:

Originally posted by Ratch:

Anaglyph deck, stacked double tags used on double your money goes crazy. 5, 10, 20, 40, 80, 160, 320

Except for the part where it caps at $40, so it actually goes 5, 10, 20, 40, 80, 120, 160. It's still great, one of the easiest ways to get most of the way to $400, but not as good as you imply.

Curse Localthunk for being one step ahead of us. The man's a genius.

[暮商]

Thanks for your responses, now I know the ways to get $400 and I will give a try soon.
But how about 5 hand size? I also tried using spectral cards or the Stuntman, but eventually lose the game before I success. Reducing hand size make the game so difficult, especially before I finish my high card build.

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Maybe the luck is all I need. I just finish them in 2 runs in 30 minutes.
In the first run I got to the moon along with 2 voucher that increases the interest, and in the second run I continuous find Ectoplasm in the shop :D

[Ronald Brain]

Originally posted by Goblin:

Originally posted by Ratch:

Anaglyph deck, stacked double tags used on double your money goes crazy. 5, 10, 20, 40, 80, 160, 320

Except for the part where it caps at $40, so it actually goes 5, 10, 20, 40, 80, 120, 160. It's still great, one of the easiest ways to get most of the way to $400, but not as good as you imply.

Generally if you're trying to hoard money for this unlock, chances are you should be close to $200 going into endless. Having five more Double Money tag would bring your total to the required $400.

[Draco18s]

Originally posted by Jack Ketch:

I had seven or eight of them and used them on a Handy Tag, which gives $1 for each played hand - I think it was $37 each. Suffice to say that rocketed me past $400 pretty quick.

Handy (or the unused discards one) is better than double money, as double money is limited to $40, whereas Handy has no upper limit. I went from ~100 to ~550 with seven double-tags.

[Wheelchair Murdura]

The hand size isn't too bad, you'll happen to get -1 from a spectral and stumble upon stuntman and you can just buy-sell it, or the other joker with -1 hand size and then stumble upon a second spectral pack with ecto or oujia. Sometimes you want to get in the unlock mindset and when you see the chance focus going for unlocking instead of winning that run.

[DeuceBane]

midas mask, business card, interest voucher, just keep playing on low stakes, get lucky with some early jokers that will carry you and let your money grow. Its smart to get reduces reroll vouchers too, so you can fish for temperance and the doublr your money tarrot cards. Skip tags also net a lot of money, i got the $400 dollar and like 3-4 other jokers unlocked in the same run, so if youre going for it alone it shouldnt be too bad, unless i got super lucky!