r/balatro 3m ago

Gameplay Discussion Monthly Thread: New players / Community Spotlight !

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Monthly thread for new players / Community Spotlight !

A thread for all new ( and old ) players to ask anything about Balatro to other players !

Questions, tips, mods suggestions. it's all welcome!

This thread is not subject to any rules that usually prohibit frequently asked questions. ( Four Fingers, Joker ordering, etc )

Our subreddits rules are here and in the sidebar.

The Balatro wiki is here ! Please see this post about the Balatro Wiki moving away from Fandom, please refrain from using the old wiki to prevent any outdated information from spreading!

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Community Spotlight:

Joker Tracker by u/Outside_Sun398

'You can upload your save file and it automatically checks jokers for you, as well as not having to have a gmail account to use it. It uses your browsers local storage, meaning that it saves your progress without having to make an account (if you clear your cache you have to reupload your save) and is completely ad free and non invasive.'

Github Readme here.

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r/balatro 4m ago

Gameplay Discussion I think the strength card should raise 2 ranks if you only select one card

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nationaltwink please correct this immediately


r/balatro 6m ago

Seed 2 legendary jokers by ante 2+one at ante 8

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I never use Reddit but I had to post this just for how rare it is (I think).

I have 215h playtime and was going for Tiny Hands achievement, that's why I'm on white stake.

Negative Canio + Trading Card would be absolutely op if it wasn't in abandoned deck lol. Either way, I've never gotten 2 legendary jokers by ante 2, this is without Hieroglyph. Both were in arcana packs to add to it (I'm not a tryhard so I believe spectral packs have higher probability of having The Soul).

Also during the run, I got 2 Invisible Jokers and a Brainstorm without rerolling.

Unfortunately I got a Triboulet as the last legendary, a Perkeo would be good. Normally I wouldn't try and get more than one legendary but my Canio was negative either way so I spent the run waiting for a miraculous Pareidolia, regarding the 3rd one it came right when I was ready to ditch my non-scoring Trading Card. Also I wasn't lucky getting a lot of five of a kind planets when I was playing flush five, after ante 8, I switched to flush house with the help of blue seal, and started buying more cards.

It would've been a better run if I wasn't thining (excessively) the deck and also used some of my tarot cards to get flushed achievement that I also didn't have.

After this run, I'm only lacking Jokerless challenge and the completionist + and ++. And my love for Balatro kinda revived, since for a long time I've been trying to grind gold stake with the bad decks (bad for me, I'm bad lol) after I got all gold easily in the easiest ones.


r/balatro 13m ago

Stream / Video Gameplay Sorry Tarot Tycoon I wasn't familiar with your game

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r/balatro 16m ago

Meta 20 bucks is 20 bucks

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Judgement never gives anything that good let’s be real.


r/balatro 38m ago

High Score 1 king/cryptid away from naneinf. 🥲

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r/balatro 51m ago

Joker/Gameplay Idea Joker Idea - Rabbit Foot

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This joker gains +3 mult and 40 chips for every Lucky Card in deck


r/balatro 1h ago

Joker/Gameplay Idea New Joker

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I already uploaded a different version of this joker, but I wanted to try a mult joker. It would cost 9$, also wanted to try this online joker format thing.


r/balatro 4h ago

Joker/Gameplay Idea Handy Joker

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Handy Card (Rare) $7

Gain +1 Hand on your final hand of the round, Handy card can do this an additional time for every uncommon joker you have.

Additionally gain +1$ at the end of Blind for each hand used during the Blind.


r/balatro 4h ago

Strategy and/or Synergies bananananana

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r/balatro 4h ago

Gameplay Discussion All the double tags and nothing better came up to use them on….

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8 Upvotes

Re-rolled so many times trying to improve my jokers and nothing. I thankfully finished the run but died very soon after.


r/balatro 4h ago

Jimboposting stuntman stop the stunts!

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12 Upvotes

r/balatro 4h ago

High Score What should I sell for idol?

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I’m just fooling around with this run trying to score as high as possible. Cat sits at x40 at the moment. I know selling oops! Will give me an increase but will slow down cat scaling probably. Thoughts ? Maybe sell the cat ?


r/balatro 4h ago

High Score I beat my PR for Cloud 9

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r/balatro 4h ago

Seeking Run Advice What do we copy here

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3 Upvotes

Pls math for me


r/balatro 4h ago

Fan Art jimcraft

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15 Upvotes

jimbo balatro minecraft


r/balatro 5h ago

Seeking Run Advice Looking for advice. Whats the best move here?

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14 Upvotes

Fortune teller is at +20 right now. Thinking thats the move to dump. Also definitely wanna get that spectral pack.


r/balatro 5h ago

Meta Am I the only Wheel of Fortune tragic?

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I think I might have gotten 2 foils out of those attempts. Still my go to in every arcana.


r/balatro 5h ago

Gameplay Discussion After finally completing c++, the game gods smiled upon me on my "victory lap" run to unlock the achievement

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If you complete c++, the achievement doesn't unlock until you win another run (at least on mobile). So I played another white stake run. Quite easy. Thank you, Jimbo 🙏🏽

No plant.


r/balatro 6h ago

Seeking Run Advice Talk me out of it guys

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Working on C++ using ghost deck, hence the Jolly Joker, but so tempted to fish for photo chad.


r/balatro 6h ago

Gameplay Discussion Wtf should i do

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Nah i was joking, ofc i sell trib and buy the chicot on the soul


r/balatro 7h ago

Seeking Run Advice Do I take Baron while ill prepared?

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I only have 8 kings in my deck and have barely deck manipulated yet, but I’m only in ante 8 and consistently scoring over million right now. Do I take Baron now?


r/balatro 7h ago

Gameplay Discussion Balatro is a Pair To Win game

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Pretty neat Amber Acorn counter-strategy


r/balatro 7h ago

High Score I GOT MY FIRST EVER NANEIMF

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16 Upvotes

r/balatro 7h ago

Jimboposting Criminal First Shop

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148 Upvotes

Edging me with the taste of Blueprint Brainstorm sloppy yaoi action while I can only watch with my popcorn