Best card combos?

[Fat Damon]

What card combinations make for the best chip scores? A fella is trying to get the achievements for 10M+ chips in one hand.

[kone]

Oftentimes, especially for scores past ante 8, the poker hand doesn't matter much for reaching those crazy scores. It's all about your jokers.
Something like a Square Joker or Flash Card scaled across the run can match or surpass a strong hand like a Four of a Kind with chips and mult. Won't need to build that hand.
Then finding some scaling Xmult like Hologram or Constellation can push your game even beyond.

[srn347]

For insane scores in endless, you basically need a ton of xmult retriggers. Baron and triboulet are the main ways to do it, but idol and bloodstone (rip bloodstone) have some potential as well. Get one of those bases, and a bunch of ways to exponentiate that mult like mime/sock and buskin, blueprint, brainstorm, red seals, etc.

[Zaga]

perkeo + observatory early enough in a run should get you there, if you get that combo get blueprint or brainstorm or any form of joker duplication and you are done.

[Teie]

Wee joker/Castle/Bull (for chips) + Boots/Fortune Teller/Green Joker (for +Mult) + Canio and Certificate/Hologram/Card Sharp (for xMult), ideally Satelite/Gold Joker at the start to get things started painlessly and quickly

[Anything_F_744]

I once got lucky getting Triboulet and managed to combine them with both the Blueprint and Brainstorm, maybe get Sock&Buskin in there as well

[dmeister]

One of my high scores used

- Mime (retrigger all in-hand abilities)
- Steel Joker (xMult per Steel card in your deck)
- Shoot the Moon (+13 Mult per Queen in hand)
- And making a Queen into a Steel Card with a Red Seal on it and then duplicating it over and over with the Death Tarot and DNA.

I don't remember exactly what other Jokers I had were, but basically by the end I had a ridiculous number of Queens that were all Steel cards, many of them with the Red Seal, so I could play a single high card hand and have 5 or more of those Queens triggering and retriggering over and over. (I've done this type of build a few times, it's almost always using Steel cards and a Joker that can retrigger them.)

Another build that got fairly high without actually using Mime had two copies of Poly Throwback (xMult that improves when you skip blinds, with the Poly x1.5 bonus as well) from a Spectral card, plus the Blueprint and Brainstorm to make two more copies. So basically every time I skipped a Blind all four of those Jokers gained another x0.5 multiplier making it grow exponentially quickly. I threw in some Steel cards as above, minus the Mime, for extra measure, but even without the Steel cards I broke 100 million pretty easily in that build.