Balatro Seed: 2C6JHF

**Ante 1** I pick up Brainstorm, a very useful copying joker. I use Hex to help with earlier rounds. • Brainstorm (Joker): "Copies the ability of leftmost Joker" • Hex (Spectral Card): "Adds 'Polychrome' to a random Joker, and destroys the rest." • Polychrome (Modifier): "X1.5 Mult" Then I use Soul to get my Perkeo joker. • Soul (Spectral Card): "Creates a Legendary Joker" • Perkeo (Joker): "Creates a Negative copy of 1 random consumable card in your possession at the end of the shop" • Negative (Modifier): Negative cards don't take up a slot, so you can have an infinite amount of them I then pick up a Cryptid card, to start copying, which is the main strategy. • Cryptid (Spectral Card): "Creates 2 exact copies of a selected card in your hand." **Ante 2** For scoring purposes I pick up Earth. • Earth (Planet Card): Makes Full Houses give a higher score. For early scoring I pick up the Flash Card (Jj) joker. • Flash Card (Jj): "This Joker gains +2 Mult per reroll in the shop " I use Deja Vu to create a Red Seal on my King, part of the scoring strategy. • Deja Vu (Spectral Card): "Adds a Red Seal to 1 selected card." • Red Seal (Modifier): "Retrigger this card 1 time" **Ante 3** I use Ectoplasm to make room for more jokers. • Ectoplasm (Spectral Card): "Add Negative to a random Joker, but -1 hand size." I use a Chariot to make a Steel Ace. I actually want the Steel to land on the Red Seal King, but that's later. • Chariot (Tarot Card): "Enhances 1 selected card into a Steel Card" • Steel Card (Modifier): "X1.5 Mult while this card stays in hand" I need money to reroll, luckily I have valuable jokers, so I use Temperance. • Temperance (Tarot Card): "Gives the total sell value of all current Jokers" Conveniently, a Showman appears right before the next Brainstorm, the copying joker I already have. I can pick up the Showman and reroll and sell it again. • Showman (Joker): Usually jokers can't appear in the shop if you already have them, but holding Showman allows them to reappear. With Mail-In Rebate landing on Kings, I can duplicate my Red Seals, making it more likely to draw later on a Chariot, and also discard them for a lot of reroll money. • Mail-In Rebate (Joker): "Earn $5 for each discarded [rank], rank changes every round" Three of a Kinds are faster for scoring than Full Houses, so I switch to those with a Venus card. • Venus (Planet Card): Makes Three of a Kinds give a higher score. With the reroll money, I can reroll to the Blueprint, which is yet another copying joker. • Blueprint (Joker): "Copies ability of Joker to the right" **Ante 4** I replace my Flash Card (Jj) with The Trio and pick up another Venus. This together is now enough to beat the Ante 6 and 7 bosses, which get in the way of my scoring strategy. • The Trio (Joker): "X3 Mult if played hand contains a Three of a Kind" I can finally use Chariot to Steel one of my Red Seal Kings, which completes the deck setup for the final hand. Now all I need is find the necessary jokers and amass enough Cryptids. **Ante 5** I can skip a blind, because I'm getting close to having enough Cryptids. In fact, I even use a Cryptid to copy my Red Seal Steel King, which allows it to show up faster in the final Ante. **Ante 6** I simply reroll for the Baron. • Baron (Joker): "Each King held in hand gives X1.5 Mult" **Ante 7** I immediately skip to the boss blind, because I don't need any more Cryptids. I only need the Mime of Ante 8. **Ante 8** I reroll until the Mime, completing the scoring setup. • Mime (Joker): "Retrigger all card held in hand abilities"