Card Sharp and Crimson Heart bug?

[Psykechan]

If Card Sharp is currently disabled by Crimson Heart when a played hand type needing to be multiplied later is played, it won't multiply that future hand even when Crimson Heart re-enables it.

If not a bug, at least it's an improper wording of Card Sharp which doesn't say that it needs to *see* the hand being played in order to multiply it later.

Yes, this did happen to me when doing a gold run and it does make me hate Crimson Heart even more.

[Mel Gibson]

I didn't know about this interaction, but it just makes things more interesting for me. There are 150 jokers and many more bosses, buffs, debuffs, etc., it actually feels kinda disappointing that they DON'T interact that much.

These minor mechanic quirks don't bother me at all. Every game has them. The only reason people feel entitled about Balatro is that it is generous enough to give a brief tooltip for everything, and it just so happens that these tooltips are not always 100% accurate and exhaustive or whatever. There is always room for "but what if..." questions which could only be avoided by opening a literal wiki page every time you hover a joker. And even then people would complain.

"Card Sharp: x3 mult if played poker hand has already been played this round while this joker was not disabled." Really? You think THAT would be better? Even though there is only one rare situation in which the appended text is "needed"?

Come to think of it, it would be an interesting experience to learn this game from zero without tooltips at all. I'm not convinced people shouldn't do just that.

[revlayle]

I assume when Card Sharp is disabled it is not tracking the hand being played for a future hand. May almost make sense. Not sure if it is a bug though (i mean it might be, but could have been intended for that behavior by LocalThunk)

[Karaboo]

The card was disabled nothing that happens when a card is disabled counts