I Ranked All 150 Jokers in Balatro (Gold Stake)

[@murilosotti3401]

A cool thing about credit card is small interaction with the spectral card that summons a rare joker but sets your money to 0, so if you're on negative it's actually gaining you money

[@alltheorynopractice5467]

I felt like such a genius when I noticed that little loophole

[@ConnahGriffin]

Another interesting interaction is the tarow that gives you double gold sets your gold to zero if used while you have negative gold

[@BEEFlNbandit]

Also with the boss that sets money to 0$ when you play a specific hand. If you have negative money when you fight him, he actually gives you money when you play the hand

[@RugbyRyan]

@@BEEFlNbanditwait that boss switches the hand? It’s always been flush for me

[@AlmondFisk]

​@@RugbyRyanthat boss blind targets your most played hand

[@nathanielleon4163]

Blueprint should be in its own tier because it's better than just copying your best joker... It copies the best joker contextually. I was absolutely using it to double up on stone cards added to my deck at the start of round, then sliding it over to my best multiplier, or, given the hand, sliding it over to the best multiplier for that hand. It is INSANELY good.

[@openjaguar]

Yoo I did the exact same thing with marble joker

[@Banus-]

I love when you get to slide the blueprint over to a card that fits the situation you need to get the most chips at all times and then when you don’t have a card to enhance the situations you just slide it back over to the multiplier card to do its magic. Absolutely incredible.

[@mashhoudsheikh]

That's how I play all my utility jokers. I add blueprint in front of a tarot creating joker, right before I select my blind, then shift it behind DNA to create two copies of whatever card I'm copying, increasing my current hand size as well, then shift it to a flat high multiplier like the planet buy joker. Last run I did this on I ran my highest run ever.

[@SeisoYabai]

I dont think it makes sense to deduct score from a joker because you want to sell it eventually. It's supposed to be judged on how helpful it is to beat the run, and I would say selling it is just part of using it effectively. There are jokers that give benefits when they're sold, I dont think rating the egg lower because you don't want it in your final deck means it didn't help you get there.

[@rainbowskin3379]

I used blueprint to duplicate burglar for 3 extra hands at the start of round, and then moved it to a scoring joker after. Yes it should be it's own tier.

[@LifeWKai]

7:47 A couple small things i think should be noted about Burglar: If you move your "Blueprint" or "Brainstorm" jokers to be on "Burglar" when you start the round, it adds 3 more hands without any downsides PLUS you can then move them back onto other cards so that they can be used for score or whatnot, and you'll still keep the extra hands. Also! "Burglar" will give you +3 hands even on the "The Needle" Boss Blind, which is a GAME CHANGER.

[@KyMiyu]

Thats literally what saved my burglar run when i first started. I figured i could go for larger hand sizes and hands instead of going for discards. Had a laugh when i had 4 hands on needle, but still beat the i think 30k blind in 1 hand... i almost always will pick up burglar and play around it because i like it. Though i did run a discard theme and was making a lot of money and leveling up hands for free with the rare that levels up the first hand discarded. I had blueprint so every blind i was getting 2 levels to either high card, 2 pair or flush and had thwm all at like lvl15 before i finished the 100k blind... was so much fun!😂

[@davidjoseph641]

just got Balatro literally today, and I've already had 80% ofy runs end to 'The Needle' this tip helps so much, obviously not going to SEEK him out. but I really useful interaction

[@masterxehanort3]

Fun fact about the idol: it can only pick a card that is in your deck. That means that it is useful if your deck is thin and/or has mostly copies of the same few cards.

[@surgetec1254]

the same goes for that castle card with discard suit for chips! so it works well on the checkered deck

[@Romanticoutlaw]

imagine it on that bugged seed where every card is 10 of spades

[@Jigsawtwig]

good for those lower stakes god runs but on high stakes you can't reliably buy enough cards to thin or copy your deck that much.

[@kman6004]

I mean that's great on paper, but even if your deck is 50% comprised of Ace of Spades, you can't rely on it to apply to that card consistently enough to not just randomly die.

[@darka4651]

@@kman6004 main usage for idol seems to be late game runs where the whole deck is a single card, like kings of hearts, where sock and buskin (and red seals) can retrigger the 2x effect for lots of score

[@Dgnarus]

I'm so glad I found a content creator who doesn't neglect the value of chips jokers, I was going crazy over people dismissing them entirely for mult multipliers. Great video, I'm still trying to complete my first gold run, got stuck there on both Abandoned and Checkered deck

[@powerlifting1012]

I imagine it's because people get stuck thinking about endless.

[@Gandarf_]

I had pretty easy games with yellow deck, try it out

[@velvetdraws3452]

ikr, wee joker my beloved

[@CowKirbo]

Tbh I got stuck on purple stake a helluva lot longer than gold on checkered but it just takes some good luck

[@RaceBandit]

I imagine it's a matter of how well the +chip bonuses scale in comparison to hand levels.

[@benjaminschmitt1562]

Seeing him rank Hanging Chad so low really reminds me how this was before the balance patch. Damn thing is so great now.

[@imtheparty12]

I was so confused when he ranked it so low lol

[@eggs8021]

I'm new to the game, what was the change?

[@benjaminschmitt1562]

Went from retriggering the first played card once to twice

[@CowKirbo]

Was it bad before? I didn't remember it ever having balancing issues

[@mr_0n10n5]

That makes sense Cause hanging chad is now a whole giga chad 😂

[@paIapin]

One fun gimmick about Mr Bones is the very rare scenario where you manage to bring it to ante 8's boss, it reduces the final blind to 1/4th of what it's supposed to be and will make you close out the run very easily. But it's very inconsistent because you need to find it in the shop immediately after ante 7 if you don't want to run a dead joker all the way through. So I still agree with the D tier ranking but I used that strategy to get an unlikely victory and wanted to bring it up.

[@Neorigg]

that's exactly how i won my 'less than 12 rounds' win

[@SackheadEd]

Won after having it from ante 1. Had it on a free slot

[@ljthedrummer673]

Honestly, I think its at least B just for that reason. Not always going to pick up but can save the run if you see it at the right time.

[@rojasA77]

I mean, finding Mr. Bones where ever closely to Ante 8 literally just wins the run.

[@isaaclopezruiz9597]

​@@ljthedrummer673something so inconsistent shouldn't be higher than D. Otherwise we could rank things like Luchador higher because "when it works..."

[@1AlasBabylon]

I'm an admitted Madness truther; yeah, it sucks if it's not your first Joker, and you really need a reliable set of Eternals to make it work, but I can't not love how dumb the card can get when the stars align.

[@rishianand5250]

Madness is my favorite Joker in the game for black stake and above

[@rajkanishu]

some days ago on stream he got an insanely cursed madness run where he basically kept barely winning every single round with 4 random eternals picked for necessity, every single draw and trigger based on rng activated at the right time to keep the run alive and it was ridiculous and the ending was some of the funniest shit I've ever seen, I really really really hope he makes it into a video because that run was insane

[@tiddly5]

i was a madness hater until it got me my first gold stake win and now im with you on this, as long as you manage to get some +mult and +chip eternal it can basically carry the run

[@MonoxideTF2]

I had eternal stuntman, eternal supernova, eternal madness and yeah it can be disgusting 😂

[@pangolinh]

i won my first purple stake run using Madness + Blueprint

[@07jerminator]

I've found burnt joker early can basically completely replace a chip joker. Scaling high card or pair 10-15 chips per round and the 1 mult per round is not as good as other flat mult scaling but is still a bonus. Around ante 6-7 you can also dump it without losing any of the scaling. Its one of my favorites to find!

[@TheMirksta]

Adding flat mult directly on the base multiplier is also significantly better than a lot of other flat mult sources with certain 'when played / scored' interactions like bloodstone, steel and glass cards which bumps it up a bit. Being able to sling in a Glass card particularly for x2 on top of your flat scaling instead of before it is pretty nutty. Like you say, your flat chips / mult source (or one of a couple) being sellable for lategame fights is incredibly powerful - similarly very powerful with the two copy jokers because you can double dip on your burnt joker, then rearrange to copy something useful after the first discard.

[@williamw8590]

its also amazing with copies- you can copy the effect with brainstorm and then move in a relevant scoring joker to copy instead, I got pair up to level 60 by doing this once

[@anassali8115]

00:00:56 Eightball - D tier 00:01:19 Abstract Joker - A tier 00:01:31 Acrobat - A tier 00:01:55 Ancient Joker - B tier 00:02:27 Arrowhead - A tier 00:02:58 Astronomer - C tier 00:03:23 Banner - C tier 00:03:48 Baron - A tier 00:04:17 Baseball Card - A tier 00:04:50 Blackboard - A tier 00:05:17 Bloodstone - C tier 00:05:47 Blue Joker - B tier 00:06:13 Blueprint - S tier 00:06:42 Bootstraps - C tier 00:07:09 Brainstorm - S tier 00:07:36 Bowl - C tier 00:08:02 Burglar - B tier 00:08:33 Burnt Joker - B tier 00:09:01 Business Card - B tier 00:09:28 Kenyo - A tier 00:10:26 Campfire - S tier 00:10:58 Card Sharp - A tier 00:11:26 Cardomancer - B tier 00:12:20 Castle - B tier 00:12:50 Cavendish - S tier 00:13:20 Ceremonial Dagger - Skip 00:13:52 Certificate - B tier 00:14:22 Chaos the Clown - B tier 00:14:50 Chakote - C tier 00:15:20 Clever Joker - C tier 00:15:46 Cloud9 - A tier 00:16:15 Constellation - C tier 00:16:44 Crafty Joker - C tier 00:17:17 Crazy Joker - D tier 00:18:15 Credit Card - A tier 00:19:09 Delayed Gratification - C tier 00:19:37 Devious Joker - D tier 00:20:06 Diet Cola - C tier 00:20:36 DNA - A tier 00:21:04 Driver's License - B tier 00:22:03 Dro Joker - D tier 00:22:31 Drunkard - C tier 00:23:01 Dusk - B tier 00:23:31 Egg - B tier 00:23:57 Erosion - B tier 00:24:24 Even Steven - C tier 00:24:55 Faceless Joker - D tier 00:25:23 Fibonacci - A tier 00:26:22 Four Fingers - C tier 00:26:53 Flash Card - C tier 00:27:21 Flower Pot - C tier 00:27:50 Fortune Teller - B tier 00:28:21 Gift Card - C tier 00:28:48 Glass Joker - D tier 00:29:14 Gluttonous Joker (grouped with other suited Jokers) - C tier 00:30:14 Golden Joker - A tier 00:30:45 Golden Ticket - D tier 00:31:16 Green Joker - B tier 00:31:43 Gross Michael - B tier 00:32:11 Hack - B tier 00:32:40 Half Joker - B tier 00:33:34 Hallucination - D tier 00:34:02 Hanging Chad - C tier 00:34:07 Hiker - B tier 00:35:08 Hit the Road - D tier 00:35:42 Hologram - B tier 00:36:11 Ice Cream - B tier 00:36:42 Invisible Joker - B tier 00:37:10 Joker Baseline - D tier 00:37:38 Joker Stencil - B tier 00:38:05 Jolly Joker - C tier 00:38:36 Juggler - C tier 00:39:09 Loyalty Card - D tier 00:39:38 Luchador - D tier 00:40:09 Lucky Cat - D tier 00:40:40 Mad Joker - D tier 00:41:14 Madness - C tier 00:41:45 Mail-in Rebate - B tier 00:42:17 Marble Joker - D tier 00:42:51 Matador - D tier 00:43:21 Marionette - C tier 00:44:18 Midas - C tier 00:44:51 Mime - C tier 00:45:23 Misprint - C tier 00:45:51 Mr. Bones - D tier 00:46:20 Mystic Summit - A tier 00:46:52 Obis - B tier 00:47:19 Odd Todd - B tier 00:47:48 Onyx Agot - B tier 00:48:13 Oops All Sixes - D tier 00:48:47 Pareidolia - D tier 00:49:22 Pero - S tier 00:49:52 Photograph - C tier 00:50:51 Popcorn - B tier 00:51:19 Raised Fist - B tier 00:51:51 Ramen - A tier 00:52:21 Red Card - C tier 00:52:49 Reserved Parking - B tier 00:53:18 Ride the Bus - A tier 00:53:47 Riff-Raff - C tier 00:54:15 Rocket - C tier 00:54:41 Showman - D tier 00:55:10 Rough Gem - C tier 00:55:38 Runner - D tier 00:56:08 Seance - D tier 00:56:39 Satellite - D tier 00:57:05 Scary Face - B tier 00:57:34 Scholar - A tier 00:58:06 Seeing Double - C tier 00:58:35 Seltzer - B tier 00:59:05 Shoot the Moon - C tier 00:59:31 Shortcut - C tier 01:00:02 Sixth Sense - D tier 01:00:29 Sly Joker - C tier 01:00:56 Smeared Joker - C tier 01:01:26 Smiley Face - C tier 01:01:54 Sock and Buskin - C tier 01:02:23 Space Joker - C tier 01:02:54 Spare Trousers - A tier 01:03:21 Splash - C tier 01:03:50 Steel Joker - A tier 01:04:20 Square Joker - A tier 01:04:47 Stone Joker - D tier 01:05:17 Stuntman - A tier 01:05:44 Supernova - A tier 01:06:16 Superposition - D tier 01:06:45 Swashbuckler - C tier 01:07:16 The Duo - A tier 01:07:41 The Family - A tier 01:08:13 The Idol - D tier 01:08:41 The Order - B tier 01:09:15 The Tribe - A tier 01:09:43 The Trio - A tier 01:10:13 Throwback - B tier 01:10:47 To-Do List - B tier 01:11:13 To the Moon - D tier 01:11:44 Trading Card - B tier 01:12:17 Tribula - A tier 01:13:21 True Door - C tier 01:13:49 Turtle Bean - B tier 01:14:19 Vagabond - A tier 01:14:48 Vampire - S tier 01:15:21 Walkie Talkie - B tier 01:15:56 Wii Joker - A tier 01:17:02 Wy Joker - D tier 01:17:32 Yoro - B tier 01:18:35 Zany Joker - D tier

[@iwanabemw2]

Awesome!

[@nanashi-74a]

you put brainstorm in b tier by accident :o campfire, too

[@SkyFluff224]

THANK YOU!!!!!

[@damian-vp9lg]

Madman

[@jorgeortega6806]

You spelt all the legendary jokers names wrong

[@bennelson6207]

Just cleared my first gold stakes run last night, so excited to see what jokers I should look for when doing it with the other decks.

[@RoffleLite]

Congrats!

[@RickMattison314]

@@RoffleLite, where would you put Yorick after the rework?

[@nasta1118]

About sacrificial dagger. You don't actually need to sacrifice a joker every turn to keep it. If you don't want it to proc you can put it to the right most spot when selecting the blind and put it back further left before playing your first hand. It won't scale up when you do this but at least it means you can consistantly keep it without permanently hurting your eco

[@laurentgayno5550]

Its bad one cause it force you to invest to much to be good. It really trap you cause if you have it early it force you to invest to much eco on it. You can't take it before having + interest, and it dont scale fast enouth to be playable from the mid game.

[@gosunov]

Ceremonial dagger would be much better if it destroyed a card on the left. You generally want to have +mult on the left. And combination riff-raff + dagger would be more interesting. Just a random thought I had after reading your comment

[@nasta1118]

@@laurentgayno5550 not saying it's good, I'm just saying that you don't HAVE to feed it a joker every turn like he said on the video. You can just feed it a joker once in a while when you have nothing better to do with your money ( which admittedly doesn't happen a lot in gold stakes). If you treat it this way, it's more like a better version of the red card (but still d tier I agree) I just wanted to correct the mistake he made in the video

[@nasta1118]

@@gosunov It would be the same, you can just put your dagger next to the card you want to destroy when selecting the blind and then move it wherever you want while playing your hand. I agree with the riffraff combination though it would be cool that way

[@nasta1118]

Also if you sacrifice an egg that you've kept for just 2 rounds you already have +14 mult (on par with abstract joker) without needing to invest anything more. A bit situationnal but it IS a use case that DOES occur without you having to specifically set it up

[@lommelykt5]

midas joker with vampire is certified nut

[@almscurium]

I was playing the mad world challenge where you get an eternal copy of pareidolia and I ended up getting Midas and vampire, so every hand just ended up buffing vampire by x1 mult. Ended up getting x50 mult on the vampire haha

[@sams_salad_service3653]

I managed to dupe my vampire card after reaching around 20x mult with it. Absolutely insane, 40x multiplyer lmao.

[@masterofdoots5965]

​@@sams_salad_service3653 That would be ×400 mult

[@LifeWKai]

​@@sams_salad_service3653 Wouldn't that be ×400? Cuz it's Mult×20×20.

[@absoultethings4213]

I know that Pareidolia isn’t very good but damn it I love the sheer amount of shenanigans it enables

[@helloofthebeach]

When the stars align, it's total chaos.

[@Narree-61]

once got a Pareidolia + Sock and Buskin + Photograph + Hanging Chad + Smiley Face + Creepy Face.

[@lamerra6603]

Fun fact about misprint: Some of you already know this, but he didn't mention it in his ranking. If you click on the card in a round, it wil briefly show you the first upcoming card in red letters, so if it says "9s" the 9 of spades will appear, if it says "13d" the king of diamonds will appear. Because of this, i'd put it in B tier personally, because it is amazing in begin games, but late game, you probably dont really need it anymore.

[@atcho5029]

An even more fun fact is that this trick also works in the collection menu, so you don't even need to have the misprint joker to utilize it, you can just pause and check it in your collection

[@Seekabro]

it’s really interesting watching this now and noticing all the changes to some of these jokers

[@SpacedogD]

I really like Riff Raff. Its both economy and early scaling both in one package. After getting your engine up you can just sell it and it practically pays for itself.

[@lancesmith8298]

It’s also pretty much the only Joker in the game that lets you consistently dig for more Jokers. A lot of commons are crap, but some of them like Green Joker are pretty much going to solve your early game scaling. Also it feeds Sac Dagger, but that one’s a meme card

[@LunaHowBoutPoona]

@@lancesmith8298I’ve seen people shit on Sacrificial Dagger, but it was my main mult joker combined with Wee Joker and the aforementioned Riff Raff in my first orange stake win

[@blackjacktrial]

​@@LunaHowBoutPoonasac dagger isn't bad, but my god can you fail a run if you sleep on its ability.

[@ThatguycalledJoe]

I think "Best Negative Utility Jokers" would be an interesting list. See where they end up when the downside of taking up space is thrown out.

[@bluestripetiger]

First of all, I have to say your dedication in order to rate all 150 jokers is incredible. Secondly, I have to respect your disclaimer that you are rating the joker cards based mostly on how useful they are to you on the gold chip run. I have yet to beat ante 8 and play so far mostly with the red or blue deck, so I am taking what you say on faith. The insights you provide are invaluable. As far as my own observations:It has been my experience that the face card related jokers all sync with each other. On their own they're not super powerful, but if you can manage to get two or three of them together they make powerful combos. Gold joker is incredible to build up money quickly and afford the stuff in the shop early when you're usually hurting for money. Jokers that give you a x bonus rather than a + bonus are hard to find and are indispensable.

[@mononaut]

I don't see myself ever picking bloodstone again after I played a heart flush and it failed to proc 5 times in a row, instantly losing the run.

[@qd5683]

It’s 1 in 2 in the new patch 👍

[@idlegameplayer3756]

@@qd5683bloodstone buff is crazy

[@PanicGiraffe]

Combo with loaded dice and it's a great joker

[@thelastpresident1097]

i once went 1 proc in 15 cards with 1 in 2 bloodstone... the numbers are truly a lie

[@juliuszkocinski7478]

I had it with all sixes ...damn

[@itslexactually]

12:57 “Gross Michael” 😭 basically in English it’s pronounced Grow Michelle. Although it does basically mean Big Mike which I find funny.

[@shybandit521]

I physically cringed hearing Gross Michael but it was also funny tbh

[@jamesmartin2445]

@@shybandit521 It's an Arrested Development reference for a lot of people.

[@bengo7728]

I call it gross Michael cuz it’s way funnier that way

[@matthewk.4289]

he is joking lol

[@ThePyroCreek]

BIG MIKE here

[@christosp.200]

Just finished your 10/10 deck video and I'm now ready to hear your totally not biased take on jokers 🃏

[@FearTheCaboose1337]

Because of the way your speech pattern works, i keep anticipating "for that reason, we have to ask you to leave the forge" lol

[@MrKorostysh]

My favorite interagtion is between any bluprint and the burglar (and other in between blind jokers). So if you don't forget to move your jokers before selecting blind you get +6 hands.

[@cyanthrope]

haven't made it to gold stake yet but even as low as black stakes, my runs reflect what you're saying here. Though I would personally drop ancient joker a tier just because its suit doesn't reflect your deck's suits; other random suit jokers like castle will only ask for a suit your deck already has in it. Why yes, I do take it as a personal affront every time it shows up in my checkered deck runs instead of literally any other rare joker, particularly when I've taken the rare joker skip tag

[@CowKirbo]

Yeah tiki and stuff take only whats in your deck unlike ancient, so imo, it's garbage

[@HolyDeviant1]

I wouldn't unerestimate Dagger so much! Since it does its thing at a very specific time (when blind is selected) and always to the joker to the right of it, you can use it to kill jokers you want out *anyway*, then move it when selecting the blind so it doesn't kill anything. It's especially strong with specific jokers like Gift or Egg, which turn it into an ad-hoc time-scaler.

[@Droid6689]

Burnt Joker in B is insane. Easy A or even S. Base mult/chips is underrated

[@BudgetNugs]

Mainly good for checkered

[@joeg6419]

in gold?

[@Droid6689]

@joeg6419 Of course. Especially since small hands are better for gold. Honestly orange steak is the real difficulty spike.

[@modernwarhero8447]

B is a good rating for it since b still means good. Gold stakes having less discards and etc makes it riskier to go for burnt joker. Definitely A or S in normal runs though

[@kuagmir3]

@@BudgetNugsNo if you go for a high card or pair deck then it is VERY useful for any stake

[@balt.]

how dare you put jimbo in d tier i mean you're right but cmon man

[@juice6521]

You also forgot to mention the fact that you can move blueprint joker around to copy different cards, which is huge.

[@dark_rit]

One point in favor of madness is that unlike ritual dagger it scales even if it destroys nothing, I found that out the other day and thought wow that's nuts. Needless to say it can just carry a run if you get it early because of this and if you find some decent eternal cards to pair with it since you'll just be picking to play blinds with madness over almost every tag and will give more multiplicative scoring than almost every multiplicative joker in the game unless you have one of those sick runs where you get steel joker or something and are able to add tons of steel to your deck though steel is soft capped by cards in deck.

[@CowKirbo]

Yeah madness is amazing in high stakes because eternals exist and can pair with them. one of the only jokers that are actively better with high stake over low stake

[@ABomm]

I love the video, definitely have to try out some jokers that I dismissed. One thing I wished you mentioned is the distinction between in-hand flat mult triggers and post-hand flat mult. The in-hand triggers work very well with steel/glass and sometimes the post-hand flat mult is ineffective when you have steel/glass working for you.

[@OmegaSquad25]

I feel like it's mostly ignored because of how difficult tarrot card stacking can be in orange/gold due to pack cost post ante 3

[@Beeeazybones]

Excellent video, man. Giving scenarios for pretty much every joker was super helpful. Long video but explains how some of the jokers I usually pass by might be useful. Thank you!

[@Gandarf_]

shortcut + four fingers is a sick combo actually, you can pretty consistently get straight flashes with it (since set of 4 cards that makes flash does not needs to be the same as the set of 4 cards that makes straight) and straight flash buffs extremely well with planet card (I also had voucher for getting planet for the most played hand, so I had 15 lvl of straight flash hitting every round)

[@bdwhite91]

Thank you for taking the time to make this! So much work!

[@ciphergacha9100]

One notable thing about the burglar is the affect applies after you select the blind, this is to prevent you from bypassing the discard penalty with certain jokers but it also means that the needle is fully countered by this joker, you get four hands instead of one

[@RaceBandit]

It also checks the Water by putting you in a situation where there are no discards for it to invalidate.

[@LimeGreenTeknii]

1:09:05 One interesting thing about the idol is that it picks a random card out of your current deck, not just a standard 52 card deck. Still probably D-tier in most realistic runs, but it's nice to know that you have a way to make it more consistent if you pare down your deck and have multiples of the same card.

[@SpecterVonBaren]

I feel like Four Fingers should be in B tier. It just enables SO much. It's such a good enabler.

[@omniclast]

Yeah I only learned today how good this card is for a straight flush build. If you do a 5 card straight with 4 suited cards, it will count as an SF even if the unsuited card is in the middle. Also when scoring straights, if your 5th card is a pair it will get scored too.

[@blackjacktrial]

I prefer shortcut, but that's also on post patch balatro, where straights got a huge buff.

[@Magnivore519]

As someone who is very new to the game, thank you for not only saying what each joker does as you ranked it and explaining it well, but also not using jargon that only someone who plays Balatro a lot would understand.

[@CowKirbo]

tbh the game doesn't have much special lingo aside from super basic stuff like ante, mult, chips etc

[@akidlly]

The Obelisk rating was surprising. I’d love to see a run where Roffle makes this pay off.

[@RoffleLite]

Coming very soon!

[@CUSTOMCHARACTER]

I've only beaten Gold Stake twice (still grinding out other decks), but To The Moon in D is *insane* to me since it was so important to those runs. Having $300 to roll for the joker to replace it means you can dig deep for options.

[@JudeofAwesometon]

I know it is objectively probably right to put Vagabond in A tier, but poor boi is an S tier in my heart for the fun he provides.

[@Haanski]

Vagabond is by far my favorite joker to get in the game especially early on. Put a credit card in that boys pocket and you got yourself something special happening. (Even though in real life a true Vagabond would never stoop to getting a credit card, he would live off the land 😂).

[@CowKirbo]

I hate vagabond tbh, not having interest to use a rare joker is just painful

[@MrGhosta5]

I usually go for 2 pair because there's a lot of jokers that buff it. Also because you're only playing 4 cards you can use the 5th card to ditch a card, play a stone card for extra chips, or use it as a free discard against the boss that makes you use a card.

[@tylerjones69]

Honestly imo going full house feels stronger because every card(that I can think of at least) that buffs 2 pair will also buff FH, 2 pair feels more of a backup imo

[@blackjacktrial]

In gold stake - way harder to hit a house, if it's not a deck that is so clean flush houses became an option (eg. DNA/trading card decks, with two really nice DNA targets). Why you'd run that over high card or flush five options, I'm not sure though - pants once online is okay to ignore buffing, and most of the others aren't great. Blue seal can make a two pair run sing because the chip amounts are decent vs full houses.

[@MrGhosta5]

@@blackjacktrial A lot of the 2 pair jokers work with full house, flush house, 5 of a kind, and flush five so you can pivot into those hands later. High card is also really good. You can either use splash or stone cards to get more points from playing your cards or you can load up on things like steel cards, baron, and mime. High card is also super

[@nineplusten]

Mr. Bones is absolutely not a D-tier choice for Gold Stake. If you manage to grab it from a late shop and survive to Ante 8, then you can skip the small blind and big blind, die to the Ante 8 boss after getting 25% of the score, and you win the run. Basically, it's a free Ante 8 skip. It's situational but I'd put it in C.

[@Vok250]

Baseball is absolutely S tier. Simply because there are so many A tier uncommons and they ALL synergize with it. 5 stacks of 1.5x is insane. Sometimes more if you get some negatives. I've never lost a run I got Baseball on. Even gold stake it's a easy win if it comes up.

[@HubuDubuTV]

Yorick is OP now. He starts with 1X and gains 1X after 23 discards. Can get crazy

[@michaelbecker7288]

Not sure what you mean by ceremonial forcing you to play down a joker each hand - you can stop it with eternals or by putting it to the right which allows you to pick and choose when to sac with it, which makes it better than madness imo. Also it scales well with joker generation methods or with jokers that increase sell value.

[@MasckedUp]

Got egg and dagger early, kept them till ante 5, sacrifice the egg, breezed through last antes

[@maruke305]

yea but then you’re not scaling it, so it’s either good scaling at -1 joker or no scaling at full jokers. I think he still underrated it, but it’s undeniably niche

[@michaelbecker7288]

@@maruke305the scaling buff is permanent, and when it comes to +mult jokers, you only really need to upgrade them in the early game. Once you pivot towards Xmult in the late game it’s good to have a solid +mult but you don’t really need to buff it constantly.

[@maruke305]

@@michaelbecker7288 yea but on golden stake where the blind scaling is absurd I find it’s better to have a joker like a Gros Michel, Abstract Joker, Ride the Bus, or a Fortune Teller which can either scale quickly while having 5 jokers or give a solid amount without needing extra work to scale. Overall it’s not a D tier joker, but it’s definitely lower than a BUNCH of other +mult jokers. Edit: Like if we consider +15 mult as a baseline, and if you’re only sacrificing $2 sell value jokers, you’re still spending 4 blinds at -1 joker and constantly losing money just to be on par. that’s not the best rate.

[@ThMrksman]

I've played this game a decent amount (~40 hours) but haven't managed to beat gold stake with any deck so it was super interesting to see some of these hot takes. Like Campfire is good? Vampire is good? WHAT?!?

[@LunaHowBoutPoona]

Campfire is 100% good. You don’t need to sell a joker for it to work, you can simply purchase and sell tarot and planet cards to boost it, and it is incredible for Xmult

[@CowKirbo]

ngl I think vampire is kinda ass without relying on another joker

[@pacmonster066]

​​@@LunaHowBoutPoonaPersonally I think Roffle's logic was a little all over the place on that. To be able to make campfire popoff reliably you *need* a lot of money. Which in gold stake runs you're usually not in abundance of. I mean that was his logic for putting bull and bootstraps in C tier. So it makes zero sense campfire, which resets every boss blind, making it even less reliable than bull and bootstraps which don't, is rated so much higher just because you can potentially make it a much higher xmult. It's hyper situational when you can do that, at unless you have great econ, something you're very unlikely to be able to do each round. Meaning it's not helping you unless you actively feed it. What I found wild is his ratings for Lucky cat, hologram, constellation, and the glass one. These all passively grow xmult over the course of the game just by playing normally. Picking any of these up early usually results in at least x3 if not higher by the later antes. And while the speed at which they grow is situational (getting the right booster packs or tarot cards) you can still count on them growing to some degree. That potential slow growth is why I'd say no lower than B

[@LunaHowBoutPoona]

@@pacmonster066 with campfire, unlike bootstraps and bull, you can benefit off of anything that makes cards, be it skipping blinds, seals, riff raff, anything. So I would say it’s better than the ones that REQUIRE money, but I see your point. As for the other xMulters, lucky cat is mediocre for the same reason lucky cards are mediocre. Not enough payout for how often it happens. I find constellation nice, but you need to get it early and also have decent econ. Hologram is nice, but may be dependant on the run you are playing if you can’t add cards too much. I have not touched glass joker lol. Honestly the problem with constellation applies to nearly every scaling joker, you need it early to make great use

[@pacmonster066]

@LunaHowBoutPoona Getting things you can sell without spending money in the shop is not common throughout a run and even if you get a tarot through cartomancer or other jokers you're at most getting like x1.5-2 from it. I'd rather just have the x2 joker for hands containing a pair in that case. And having *any* joker that retriggers cards or oops all 6s makes lucky cards far more reliable. But even without them, you *will* have lucky cards pay out eventually so the mult will go up without you having to do anything special. Yes, it's preferable to get scaling jokers early, but the glass and Lucky cat can also scale fast late if you've manipulated your deck enough to capitalize on them. Most of my endless runs end with the majority of my cards being lucky cards because I usually have sock and buskin, dusk, hack, or hanging chad to retrigger cards and it only takes a couple antes to get lucky cat over x3 mult which is more than any flat xmult joker. Then in the very late game when you're going for the highest e you convert all the cards to glass and the glass joker will scale super fast because glass will be breaking nearly every hand. Short of getting idol with a perfectly thinned deck, baron, or the legendary jokers, lucky cat and the glass joker are the 2 fastest to scale most scoring jokers in the game because they can scale per hand played, where constellation or hologram can only scale between each round from getting the right shop stuff.

[@timwardo5877]

Flower pot and that one card that counts spades as clibs and hearts as diamons and vice versa is a pretty good synergy, allowing you to hit the 3x more easily (at the risk of having galf your sweets disabled from a boss blind)

[@Kenzamaka]

45:28 Would you change your rating on Misprint at all since the discovery regarding it? For reference: it will occasionally flash an alphanumerical code that tell you what the top of your deck currently is. For instance, if it says #@11D it means your next drawn card is a Jack of Diamonds. You can view this information in the codex, you do not need to carry the Misprint in your joker slots.

[@Semtx552]

"a replacement to solitaire" it is exactly how i play it. it replaced sudoku for me. thanks for making the game! and thanks for the interview Dan.

[@DaisyPeach]

i get the reasoning with the lucky cat joker but when it works it’s a fun gimmick build. i got it one time and played with a ton of red seal lucky cards and the dice joker and it got up to like x10 or something it was a fun one

[@Sidnv]

Think I agree with almost everything you said. I also find that I cannot consistently build hands that require using 5 cards at gold stake, and so I value the more flexible hands and jokers that scale off those hands or fix their weaknesses a lot higher. These hands are rarely super high scoring hands (unless you hit the nuts with multipliers), but they get out of the early game way more consistently, which is the hardest part of the game imo, and can generally be less vulnerable to boss blinds. Btw small note: you use the word undervalued when you mean underpowered I think. Undervalued is usually opposite to underpowered. It threw me off a little when you'd say that after talking about a joker you clearly don't value highly.

[@martymcfly88mph35]

33:40 hung gigachad begin 33:59 hung gigachad end

[@Wakssbm]

I definitely learned a lot from that video, thanks a lot! I also found funny that you're serious as a mortgage broker talking about cards in a niche videogame 😂

[@LTDextel]

Keep the tier list coming. Loved your takes and thoughts on all the Jokers.

[@paquete4100]

Thanks for the video roffle! I've tried to follow your strategy to go for high cards and pairs, and I've finally managed to win a gold stake run!

[@RoffleLite]

Congratulations!

[@DevieMelody]

Smear joker also synergize well with suit conditional cards, like +4 mult for spade

[@IncineratingGlaive]

Anxiously awaiting the skip tag and tarot tier lists 🤞🏼

[@danielbakergill]

This list is sick. Hey I have crippling ADHD and need video like this to get me through workouts. Can you rank all the tags from the blind skips? Thanks, my gain also thank you

[@noisepollution4473]

Oh a tags tier list would actually be extremely useful, I think you could also rate them separately based on if its a first blind skip or an average skip, too

[@realseal_6252]

Hey I have pretty bad ADHD and can relate keep going to the gym it helps so much

[@samliveshere88]

1:04:28 1st game I ever played was a lucky trousers square joker run. been hooked since

[@Ragnarok540]

Wouldn't it be easier to rank the jokers by function? Like do one tier list for money jokers, another for chips, a third one for additive mult, a fourth about multiplicative mult, and a final one for miscellaneous jokers?

[@l_ArAxus_l]

This will not be so relevant tier list since ALL jokers compete with each other and you have only 5 slots

[@davidcowan1889]

Thats just a different idea, and also more confusing

[@gamingtime9716]

​If you understand when each joker type is best utilized (additive mult early, money early-mid, chips and mult mult mid-late) then you can synthesize those disparate tier lists into a general gameplan

[@hctaz]

I mean, you can make multiple tier list videos for various functions but this one is specifically for how good the jokers are for allowing you to clear Gold Stake ante 8. There’d have to be different videos for low stake endless jokers and so on.

[@brysonhumphreys6043]

Anyone with the wiki could do what you suggest but as Roffle has a lot of experience completing the game on the hardest difficulty he is sharing his insights on what gets you there.

[@nguyenvietanh27]

Explained so well. Thank you

[@Nekudza]

Ceremonial Dagger works great with Riff-Raff (which is relatively easy to obtain). The only downside - you really need 4 joker spaces for this combination to work well and one joker slot is always free in your hand

[@Narree-61]

I think I've heard of somebody who got Eternal Riff-Raff and Madness. Needless to say, that run was bonkers

[@JamestheKilljoy]

13:30 i disagree here. You do NOT have to destroy a joker every round. Put the dagger in the rightmost position and it deleted nothing. I think the dagger is a solid B tier card. It has tremendous scaling potential, but is pretty money hungry to do so, and you can't always afford to invest into it

[@takeachance5881]

thank goodness I've been waiting for something like this for like a whole week.

[@JoeyFknD]

I think you underrate red card, I think it allows you to open especially tarot packs in the $8-$9 range looking for hermit, temperence, and fool that you wouldn't normally have the freedom to do. Makes it so skipping for the mult becomes the floor if those options aren't there (or whatever other options your particular build favors). You don't play it looking to skip every (expensive) pack, you look at it sort of like abstract joker where it will be good enough through the midgame and you won't be too upset keeping +21 mult or so in the late if you must.

[@tyrgannusgaming6657]

I won't pretend I'm a master at the game and I'm still seeking my first gold stake win. Beat Orange stake a couple days back and am grinding away. Videos like this are very helpful. Thank you.

[@imbubl]

I honestly would really like to see a new tier list after balance changes, considering some of these jokers are MUCH better after them

[@dragonlord4898]

34:08 it’s +5 chips now

[@DP-wf8ws]

You can have ceremonial dagger always on the right before entering a blind and then move it in a different direction if you don't want to scale it anymore. It's definetly NOT a D tier if you use it correctly.

[@TimTim3000]

I like that you explain your reasoning for each one, really helpful for a mid-stakes player like me aspiring to get to Gold.

[@ejthedhampir507]

A luchador saved my ass on my first successful gold stake run and I will forever appreciate luchador for just existing because of that.

[@Jack-hd4nq]

Great video! Your deck tier video got me to gold stake, hopefully this will get me through it. Would love to see other lists or general strategy guides for later stakes. Every video of yours I’ve watched you mention flush scales bad, but I’m not sure what scales well with what deck.

[@Befroc]

Updated tier list when

[@HackionSTx]

I haven't even got all decks so I'm very new to Balatro. But my first legendary was Perkeo and I got my first blueprint on the same run. I don't need to tell you it was ridiculous. Easy win.

[@goodisanoun]

Chaos the Clown also has some very good synergies with the Jokers that xMult with cards that are either used or sold. Especially if you have the vouchers that add cards to the store.

[@okazakifriedtofu7393]

Can you make an updated Version?

[@Harrs2]

I learned that Gros Michel can be destroyed by other means (spectral cards namely) and still add Cavendish to the pool.

[@chinyauyung]

thanks for the info, it helps a lot it changes my concept to deal with high stake (esp dealing with black deck)

[@heitmat.panorama]

Amazing effort to make this long dedicated video, but it is suitable for players who"s already spents at least 40 hours with this game to familiar with most of Jokers. I know it is much more work to edit video and add description of each Jokers but it helps beginner/intermediate players a lot. Thanks

[@pipefx64]

does this predate some of the balance updates that were made to some jokers? do you think any of those significantly change the tier list or nah?

[@sharkonstage]

Yes and yes

[@GreyWithCreamium]

Yeah, I'd think he'd put hanging chad way higher now since it retriggers twice. Photograph + Chad is an amazing common joker combo now. I also think Vampire would be placed lower cince it's only 0.1x mult now and only sucks scoring cards. Doesn't scale nearly as fast now and got nerfed.

[@MrSomeDonkus]

The game mustve changed alot since this came out. Like 90% of my gold stake runs have been straights or flushes. Runner best joker. SSSS tier. I love him.

[@ttt3142]

Apparently Saturn used to be only +2 mult instead of +3 (as it is now), that makes a huge difference

[@HamudHabibi23]

Yup, they changed the -1 hand size from gold stake to a rental sticker

[@ihaveyourcrayola]

would like to see an updated list with the gold stake change

[@Btobebone]

my best run ever involved the blackboard and brainstorm jokers doubling the constellation joker. i also had the free planet card and pack joker. granted being able to tripple up any strong joker goes nuts

[@kurtw6922]

Agree +/- half a tier on all but 3. I rate Riff Raff a lot more highly, as well as Sixth Sense and Trading Card. The ability of these jokers to do 2 things sumultaneously is awesome! Dont think it should affect the rating, but copies of Stencil 'see' each other for the effect - so if you can clone stencil its a great outcome.

[@TheMirksta]

Yeah riff raff is actually nuts, probably my favorite joker to see early as long as you aren't crazily unlucky

[@_azurejake]

I play Balatro casually but this is a seriously good tier list video I learnt a lot.

[@wowritenow]

Thank you so much for the explanation. 🙌

[@Sunny_Haven]

I'm curious to see what your tier list is now that a patch has changed certain jokers and changed how gold stake works, as well as you playing more Balatro in general.

[@dragonlord4898]

1:07:30 this is not true, or at least not anymore. Swashbuckler gets mult from ALL jokers, no matter its position

[@TheRanscat]

Yeah, I just noticed this, too.

[@nephel6158]

Bootstraps + Seed Money or the interest joker (or both) is able to completely solve the flat mult part of the equation on its own. And while the joker isn't too common, Seed Money honestly is, and with Seed Money maximised, you can genuinely just rely on Bootstraps for flat mult. Bootstraps should imo at least B tier because imo it's the best flat mult scaler if you have Seed Money. For the same reason, Bull is also able to resolve your chips problem on its own as well if you have Seed Money or the interest joker. Burglar should be higher because while it should probably be in B tier normally, if you manage to Ankh it, it goes crazy. But sure, Ankhing it is a pure luxary, so it isn't a real use case. Guess what, Blueprint and Brainstorm can COPY it, if you put Burglar into position at the start of the round, essentially giving you 3 more hands for free. Honestly with Burglar + Blueprint/Brainstorm and some weak high card build, you can probably close your eyes and still win. It's crazy.

[@nijjanxiang9269]

love the tierlists

[@LiCuKi]

I'd like to see a Voucher tier list.

[@hazenstribling2646]

My greatest run ever (ante 13 on gold stake) had a shop 1 madness with eternal fibonacci and eternal blueprint.

[@SirTacoVr]

0:50 they completely reworked 8 ball and it still sucks

[@alexgramolini6108]

New drinking game: you take a shot everytime he says "easily obtainable hand"

[@emmanuelgallegos5867]

Mr. Bones saved me once! Final blind was The Wall, and there was no way I was going to make it, and this guy appeared in the shop right before. Just barely squeaked by with enough chips for the 25% and won the run

[@memevondank1197]

28:49 its also worth noting Swashbuckler can get really nutty with this in hand if you got it early

[@Samwell-L]

Hanging chad + photograph + glass face card with a red seal = gold stake beat. Chad is so underrated and has epic synergy with the right combos

[@kiefcoin]

I feel like for all the "when scored" cards like Odd Todd it could be mentioned that these can go crazy with some red stamps/hack/ballot/etc. Makes sense though since this is from perspective of gold stake. That being said, it wouldn't be the worst thing if those types of decks were a little more accessible to build in the higher stakes. It really do be feeling like you just gotta grind for high card or pair builds at the higher stakes which doesn't seem in the spirit of the game overall

[@AramesiaToken]

Will there be a new tierlist after the last updates?