what are some of the strangest builds you ended up using?

[Chop]

just managed to et spare pants to +92 mult with steel joker on x4, another time I managed to get high card to level 30 with burnt joker.

[Atropos148]

I got almost to Ante 8 with the deck that starts without face cards. In early shop i got the Joker that makes it so all cards count as face cards. And the next shop after that i got the Joker that gives you 5 dollars for discarding 3 face cards. I had so much money after that.
Managed to find pants, joker for Mult on Two Pair and Chips for pair, and leveled up Full House a lot.

[ambidexter]

3 joker stencils, a blueprint and negative blackboard is the most fun I've had with a joker setup. Apparently, a joker stencil doesn't take other stencils into account when calculating empty slots, so each stencil + the blueprint gave an x5 mult.
I also fished for moon tarot cards till I got my red suits to < 5 cards combined, and mostly played flush and flush house.

Other fun build I had was with perkeo on an abandonded deck. First I slotted a world-tarot for the negative copies, and once I had >30 spades, I managed to pivot to a flush 5 build, and perkeo helped me get that hand level to +15 or so. If I manage to find early perkeo again, I know I'll have some fun with it.

[BiteSizeCenter]

Mime + Hanging Chad with lots of steel and a few glass cards. Even better with Baron. Just play a single glass high card and watch the mult pop off.

Oh and red seals too. The red seals proc on held cards so you can triple proc your steel.

[Demigod Dan]

I got to Ante 13 with Lvl 95 high card lol. This is actually the most anti-rng bs build I've played up to now. Copy joker and burn joker shenanigans basically. The minimum chip req is multiplied way too much from ante 12 to 13, but at least I can say I hit over 600m with a single high card hit. xD

[AltPlusF4]

The one time I actually got Runner to not only work but also carry me through Ante 8. It was also one of the first Jokers I picked up, so by the end, it was already at 300+ chips all on its own. That plus The Order early on were enough to breeze through the first few antes.

That would be strange enough, except that I also picked up Pareidolia and Smiley Face...using the Abandoned Deck. And somehow it worked.

It's maybe the least optimal build you could possibly make (building around straights with face card jokers in a deck with no face cards).

[pinkslime]

I duplicated a polychrome swashbuckler and then picked up a rental egg on ante 2, got all the way to the big blind on ante 8 before my discards for full houses failed me.

[Chop]

some of these sound so cool! Me and a friend had a run tonight that was entirely based around 9. Not any suits, just the number 9. Started with Holo. trading card, discarding and destroying anything that wasn't a 9. Used Death a bunch to make more 9's, all while having the joker that gives money for each 9. Ended up with a deck of 26 cards, 14 of which were lucky 9's, with another 6 steel 9's. Got to ante 12 and lost when the score needed was 300,000,000 (we scored 50,000,000}