How to get last Legendary joker?

[Peter Parker]

I almost unlocked full collection except 1 legendary joker. I played in Balatro for the last 2 days quite a lot and didnt find any Soul card at all even though I opened a lot of spectral and Arcane packs for the last 2 days. I know getting the Legendary joker is VERY rng (0.3%) thing but still maybe there are a way to get Soul cards more often?

[Goblin]

Nope, no way to get them more often (beyond modding the game to increase that 0.3% chance, but that's cheating) by actually playing the game.
Though if you don't mind a boring grind, you can hold R until you see a Charm tag on the first or second blind, skip to get it, and if it doesn't have a Soul go back to holding R. I'd personally say actually playing is a lot more fun and helps you make progress towards Completionist+/++, but if all you want is to get Completionist and call it quits after that it's a valid strat.

[Peter Parker]

Originally posted by Goblin:

Nope, no way to get them more often (beyond modding the game to increase that 0.3% chance, but that's cheating) by actually playing the game.
Though if you don't mind a boring grind, you can hold R until you see a Charm tag on the first or second blind, skip to get it, and if it doesn't have a Soul go back to holding R. I'd personally say actually playing is a lot more fun and helps you make progress towards Completionist+/++, but if all you want is to get Completionist and call it quits after that it's a valid strat.

I'm gonna keep playing until I get all achievements :D

Just really suprised that I played a lot during last 2 days and didn't get any Soul card at all

[malogoss]

If you really want all achievements, that means you want gold stickers on all jokers. So whether you find that 5th joker next game or 80 games from now does not matter.

Know that on gold stake, there is a hidden mechanic to help you find all legendary jokers. Once you have a gold sticker on a legendary joker, future Soul cards won't give you that joker. Until you have 4 legendary with gold stickers, then you'll find the last legendary joker you need every time you find a Soul card. And once you have all 5, Legendary jokers return to random mode.

So really, no need to focus on that missing legendary if you want to 100% the game.

[Peter Parker]

Originally posted by malogoss:

If you really want all achievements, that means you want gold stickers on all jokers. So whether you find that 5th joker next game or 80 games from now does not matter.

Know that on gold stake, there is a hidden mechanic to help you find all legendary jokers. Once you have a gold sticker on a legendary joker, future Soul cards won't give you that joker. Until you have 4 legendary with gold stickers, then you'll find the last legendary joker you need every time you find a Soul card. And once you have all 5, Legendary jokers return to random mode.

So really, no need to focus on that missing legendary if you want to 100% the game.

True thing. But funny fact is that in all my 120+ hours in Balatro I got Soul card (without grinding it) like 7-8 times in total

[malogoss]

Originally posted by Peter Parker:

True thing. But funny fact is that in all my 120+ hours in Balatro I got Soul card (without grinding it) like 7-8 times in total :clown_ooo:

Hours played only measures how long you stared at a screen, or slept on it :P
At least you're aware that buying many arcana packs is the key.

It took me 18-19 soul cards to finally find my 5th legendary. Finding more Soul cards isn't everything.

[AlphaGodith]

i've been playing the ghost deck in hopes that the increased frequency of spectral cards will get me the last soul stone i need, but it's so rare, it's very annoying.

[Goblin]

Originally posted by AlphaGodith:

i've been playing the ghost deck in hopes that the increased frequency of spectral cards will get me the last soul stone i need, but it's so rare, it's very annoying.

Been a while since I checked the related code, but IIRC spectral cards in the store can't be The Soul. Only packs call the function with the argument soulable set to true, which is what makes the function roll to see if it should be The Soul or a Black Hole card.

[Peter Parker]

Originally posted by malogoss:

Originally posted by Peter Parker:

True thing. But funny fact is that in all my 120+ hours in Balatro I got Soul card (without grinding it) like 7-8 times in total

Hours played only measures how long you stared at a screen, or slept on it :P
At least you're aware that buying many arcana packs is the key.

It took me 18-19 soul cards to finally find my 5th legendary. Finding more Soul cards isn't everything.

Of all these 120 hours I was afk like 3-5 hours in total. Already finished 3 decks on gold stakes and every other deck at least was beaten on white stake. Wasted a lot of time on finishing my first golden stake which was green deck.