Legendary Joker Question

[Lod101]

Good Balatro be ballin Day to you good smaritans that are going to hopefully help me find an answer to my Question.

Is there a pre-requisite for finding the spectral Card( The Soul?) that gives you a Legendary Joker to appear?
I am asking since the 5 legendary Jokers and that spectral Card are the last ones i need for my Collection.

[JellyPuff]

Soul cards just randomly appear in either spectral or tarot packs. No pre-requisites. They're just pretty rare, like Black Holes.

[Lod101]

guess i am just unlucky then.
thank you.

[malogoss]

No. All you need is some luck.

IIRC, 3 in 1,000 cards found in arcana packs will be The Soul. It can also appear in spectral packs. I'd expect the odds to be a bit better in spectral packs than in arcana, but I'll be honest, I don't remember.

Bottom line, open as many arcana packs as you can and after seeing +/- 5k cards this way, you can hope that you'll have found all 5 legendary jokers.

I personally found my 5th joker with my 18th the Soul.

[Godhand]

Originally posted by malogoss:

No. All you need is some luck.

IIRC, 3 in 1,000 cards found in arcana packs will be The Soul. It can also appear in spectral packs. I'd expect the odds to be a bit better in spectral packs than in arcana, but I'll be honest, I don't remember.

Bottom line, open as many arcana packs as you can and after seeing +/- 5k cards this way, you can hope that you'll have found all 5 legendary jokers.

I personally found my 5th joker with my 18th the Soul.

I got my first legendary in my first or second run. I bought the game like 2 days ago and I found 3 legendaries already. On my other save on the Switch, I played for weeks and I have like 1 or 2 unlocked so far lol.

[Lod101]

... hey ya, so i just got my first legendary...
well back to the grind to get the rest.

[sweetandcool]

I got my first four really quickly. The last one eludes me. Instead, I keep getting Canio almost every time.

[Draco18s]

Originally posted by sweetandcool:

I got my first four really quickly. The last one eludes me. Instead, I keep getting Canio almost every time.

Yeah, that happens a lot.

[A bear]

Finally got my last legendary last run! Finally started doing white stake anaglyph runs to try and force piles of mega arcana packs to get it done.

[Zverd]

About 50 hours of Balatro, saw 2 legendaries. Please send luck

[phantom]

You can increase your chances of getting it by playing more. and you can play more by playing faster. Play 50% faster have about 50% more chance of getting it.

[Angsty Autist]

If you are trying to unlock them and nothing more, I had a method of restarting until I got a spectral pack or tarot pack skip on ante 1, after an hour I had all the legendary jokers, not saying it's the most viable method, but it sure works 🤷.

[ShadowWolfNova]

Originally posted by Ronnie McBuckshot:

If you are trying to unlock them and nothing more, I had a method of restarting until I got a spectral pack or tarot pack skip on ante 1, after an hour I had all the legendary jokers, not saying it's the most viable method, but it sure works 🤷.

Which deck did you use?

[Pod]

Always get the Crystal Ball Voucher, so hopefully you can get the upgraded Omen Globe voucher, makes spectrals appear more often in tarot packs and I'll usually find a legendary in there.

[Goblin]

Originally posted by Pod:

Always get the Crystal Ball Voucher, so hopefully you can get the upgraded Omen Globe voucher, makes spectrals appear more often in tarot packs and I'll usually find a legendary in there.

Pretty sure this does not help, based on the code. Each card in a pack has a flat chance of being a soul card, it's the same chance in spectral vs tarot packs, except tarot packs have more rolls because spectrals contain less cards.
If anything, it lowers your chances. Tarot packs can only contain soul, planet packs only black hole, and spectral packs can contain either. The function checks the 0.3% chance of it being a soul card first, sets a variable to say it'll be a soul card, then does the same random check with a different seed keyword for black hole which overrides the same variable if it hits. So 0.03% of successful soul card rolls in spectral packs get changed into black hole cards instead. Omen Globe just sets the _type of 1/5th of cards in tarot packs to "spectral" instead of "tarot" when calling the function, meaning it makes that overriding possible 20% of the time. This is overlap is of course extremely rare, but it's nonzero.

As an aside, the check if it's a soul card actually contains a third option for when to roll that 0.3% chance, if the roll _type is "tarot_planet" instead of just "tarot" or "spectral". However, that _type is only ever used when using The Fool, which has the soulable variable set to nil in its create_card function call (where the code checking if it's a soul or black hole is) so that combination of checks never is true at the same time. But this means that most likely at some point during development, the fool had a 0.3% chance of giving you The Soul instead of your last used card and you can make it do that again by changing a single nil into true in the code.

[Pod]

Oh damn, I just thought as the soul card is a spectral card, and the omen globe makes spectral cards appear in tarot packs, that made soul cards appear more often with that voucher?

I might have just got lucky then (or confused with which runs I was on when getting soul cards)