All Jokers Tier List (Commons) 

It sent me when he put fortune teller right next to red card lol

@@andrewhouchin5812fortune teller is super overrated. Scales so slow without support

@@masonjauquet8429 it rewards you for doing what you want to do on 95% or more of runs anyway. I almost always end up with at least some way to generate tarot cards in my runs, whether that’s jokers or purple seals.

The thing that kind of sold me on Red Card is think of how many times you're skipping a Standard, Buffoon, or Spectral pack just because you get terrible pulls. Then on top of that add all the times a Celestial pack doesn't have the planet card you want. Red Card takes all your booster pulls from being speculative value to guaranteed value. And if you find something in there that's worth more than a +3 mult bonus, you don't have to skip. In addition to all that, Mega packs let you take one and then skip, so they become all the value of a Jumbo pack plus extra scaling for Red Card. It's not a particularly fun Joker to play, but at least on paper it's one of the better +mult scalers out there.

Red card is almost immediately better than basic Joker 😑 and he put it in mid tier

hes in a group project though

Lmao

He gets inspired when it isn't a solo project. He has to live up to their expectations, that's my headcanon.

i think he was evaluating them across all stakes

I'd personally say that, asides from the blatant truth, it is that useful. Early game it's excellent, and if you get Ankh or Invisible Joker? Ez win.

@@PreviouslyEldritchwith a high base mult card yes

@@enderguardian7443 And sometimes that isn't even needed. Just get a good amount of planets and you can be set for life. Think Jokerless, but with x25 mult if you get two stencils.

@@PreviouslyEldritch oh... i just realized that it's 25x.. wow also imagine that on black deck, 36x

This guy gets it.

People beg for tier lists like students asking "how many questions will be on the test?" To which I always ask "what would you do if I said 4? What about if I said 8? How would the answer actually affect your studying? There are approximately 50 minutes worth of problems to solve."

I agree in that aspect but still finding an average value of a joker and compare it to others is interesting

I love balatro tier list sorely becaust it really shows what kind of player they are.

here, have some salt! 🧂🧂🧂🧂

That made me realize that there isn’t any joker that synergizes with sevens. Crazyyyyy

@@thepurestvessel9249 there's the freaky synergy

Huh, it would be really cool if there was a joker to make sevens freaky...

We stay winning 👏👏

they should add sex to balatro

Gold stake is probably a big reason for the disparity, since you might be a little more desperate for scoring given the difficulty. All three you mentioned require spending hands to level them up faster, with Green penalizing you for discarding, Supernova forcing you to play the same hand repeatedly, and Bus preventing you from taking advantage of face card synergies like Smiley or Photograph. Compare to Abstract which is +15 for doing the thing you were going to do anyway, which is fill your joker slots. By the time you've got the scaling +mult jokers to far enough past that to matter, there's a good chance you've either won already, or you've run into, idk, Blueprint or something and replaced them. Also every +mult joker in the game is worse if you have xmult that goes before them. Glass and polychrome cards, Bloodstone, Photograph, etc.

Red is F tier. Since his requirement to dispute a tier was a charity donation, he was trolling to fish for donos

@@kieran9499 ah, thanks for the context I missed. That does make everything make a little more sense

It's the opportunity cost that's too high because discard is so powerful. You're losing out on purple seal and digging power for stronger hand. It goes against a lot of synergies where you need to discard to find whatever you're looking for, and like doc said, there's better source for +mult scaling.

​@@baconx6476 There's also the fact that it is hard countered by Needle, as well as soft countered by Mouth and Tooth. You're giving up your discards (thus the abilities to use purple deals and to fish for enhanced cards and stronger hands), most of your hands (and thus that little bit of econ), and making yourself vulnerable to three bosses, for a Joker that takes an ante to become as good as Droll or Crazy.

⁠@@baconx6476If your green joker is established enough (20 or so mult) you can add purple seals and start strategically discarding occasionally and it’ll still be gaining mult over time. It’s not an all or nothing; you can still discard sometimes if it’s better in the long run

You don't NEED a stronger hand. You just play pairs and it'll always grow. I think too many balatro players are elitist white stake "e" chasers. As far as surviving gold goes, both before and after the sticker patch, green joker had gotten me probably over half my gold stake wins I agree that you lose out on things like purple seals, but purple seals are not that big of a deal for me. Blue seals are what I go for every time now

@grzegorzbrzeczyszczykiewic563 hard countered? You can still discard and you only get 2 discards anyways, so its neutral if i play 2 hands and use all my discards, not to mention there is a boss where you don't have any discards to begin with... I still take purple seals and it's just trading 1 mult for a tarot card if I even want to. It's a common joker that easily gets 20+ mult for just playing hands

When playing 3 Sevens, Roll chip and mult for a random number from 1-1000 for each and then apply jokers or something would be cool to see.

If playing 3 7s and only 3 sevens, 3/7 chance for a random spectral card

I think it should be "If played hand contains 3 sevens, add gold seal to all cards in hand (or turn all cards in hand gold)", replicating a big payout from a slot machine

The best budget combo to win high stakes!

They were caught cheating on their final :(

plasma deck gold stake can be tough - maybe the second hardest after black stake imo just because the scoring can be very awkward. you got this :)

Yeah, I love it as a source of both chips and mult simulataneously. Scaling it is tricky

Scholar is nice only in pair with strength card (same with 8-ball and other 4oak cards (ignore cloud 9 - it is strong without deck manip)

My main problem with scholar is that there’s just no retrigger effect for aces. They’re pretty solid, but landing right in between sock and buskin and hack makes me rarely want to be focusing on them if you’re strengthening kings (which are obviously insanely strong) or can make them 2s (which are still fib cards but now have hack + wee options)

@byrne1807 sure but as an early game common this lack of synergy isnt damning. The whole thing i like about it is that its pretty good entirely by itself

@@byrne1807 that isn't the problem. Common +chips/mult jokers (maybe aside fortune teller, shoot the moon with suspicious numbers of queens in deck and eggbuckler which have potential to be big enough to matter in A8 high stakes) are supposed to carry you for few first antes before you upgrade enough your hand of choice with planets.

Hes was trolling for donos. Same thing for red joker and pooperposition.

Supernova is good for High Card (and Pair) builds, yeah, but playing only High Card is not typically something you should be doing long-term. Assuming you have the support, the advantage of playing High Card is you don't care what cards are in your deck, and you don't care what cards are in your hand. You /can/ be successful even if your deck-building and discard strategies are poor. However, Pluto and Mercury cards are very low yield, on top of an already incredibly low base. High Card doesn't benefit from Tarot Enhancements on your cards. If you're playing only High Card, you need greater than 90% of your scoring to come from Jokers alone. High Card is the thing you get to do when you get a lucky setup. High Card should not be something you're always, or even often, trying to do. If you get Supernova early, you can't actually lean into High Card until you also find a viable +Chips Joker, which is rare among Jokers. Easy enough to do on White Stake, but not as free on Orange and Gold Stake. The scoring requirements on White Stake are low enough that you can win 100% of the time and can win with High Card specifically 100% of the time also. However, on higher stakes, you have a good chance of not finding enough material to survive, scoring wise. Even before you actually lose, you are losing money each round by playing more hands each round. This drain on resources makes it even harder to find more scoring material, as you won't have as much money to reroll for things like xMult Uncommons. And you won't be able to open as many Booster Packs. All scaling +Mult Jokers suffer the same problem. If you don't invest, they don't payout. If you do invest, they just become obsolete later in the run (most commonly by Glass and Steel cards which activate before your +Mult Jokers).

@@drspectred I said I wanted to learn sure enough you taught well! Thank your prof! Totally makes sense, yeah as i am going for stakes beyond gold I am finding I need to adapt more (which is fun)! Thanks again!

You can discard 1 card 5 times for free 5 mult

This would make it significantly worse; if you don’t one shot every blind then it’s not going to gain any mult over time I like green joker as it is; you’re sacrificing your economy a bit to consistency scale (and it’s good with jokers like reserved parking)

Temperance is incredibly common, appearing in 1 out of 3 regular Arcana Packs (closer to 1 in 4 for Jumbo and Mega) and appearing rarely in the normal shop queue and from Purple seals. Temperance pays you backward for all the rounds you've been holding the Egg. With one Temperance, the Egg has produced $6 every round, not just the base $3. Factoring in the probability of getting a Temperance (and factoring in interest from money gained by Golden), Egg overtakes Golden in value after after the 5th round, on average, with a full run being 24 rounds total.

just memorize them all smh

Where do u put the descriptions, there's hardly any space on the screen as is

he describes the jokers in the video. did u even watch?

@@meetgamit4431 I watched him do the first 3 jokers, and then skipped through the video to see if it was all the same. Listening to someone read the description once, without being familiar with it already does not help much. Even when watching someone play the game, I have to pause the video and read and re-read the descriptions several times to get an idea of what they do. I am sure this would be a great video for someone who has played the game enough to be familiar with how they work already, but for someone who has never even seen 75% of them, it is not really all that helpful. Even if I could remember what they did for a few minutes, by the end of the video, I have already forgotten what 90% of them do, so I have no frame of reference when looking at the completed board.

@@Breadward_MacGluten I thought this channel was going to be noob friendly, but it seems that you are expected to already be an expert to understand what is going on.