I Ranked All 150 Jokers in Balatro (Gold Stake) 

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

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.

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.

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.

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!

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

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.

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

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.

midas joker with vampire is certified nut

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

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

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.

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!

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

Saving up to run a series of commissions with two or three jokers as characters together, such as a Swashbuckler holding three eggs in one hand and a ceremonial dagger in the other

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!

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)

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.

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.

love the tierlists

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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)

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.

Anxiously awaiting the skip tag and tarot tier lists 🤞🏼

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

This is a very helpful and informative video. Thank you for taking the time to make it for us!

I've only had one run where I picked up burnt joker and it went well and that was with checkered deck got flush to level 20ish which is decent

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.

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.

At 30:00 Just wanted to add that getting +mult when cards are scored instead of when thr joker is can be extremly good with stuff like baron, steel cards, glass cards, etc.. so I wouldn't underestimate these. That being said fibonacci or smiley face is straight up better for this. Even just mult cards can do that for you aswell. In a similar fashion hanging man and photograph are a combo I really like. Pairing that with a +mult when scoring, glass card, red seal, or mult card can score really high. So just picking up Photograph into hanging man or temp dusk, seltzer, sock and buskin. Also Tribulet being an insane upgrade to Photograph could be S Tier for me, but you kinda need to find it early and it's Currently the only joker I haven't gotten ever... To be fair though I only started playing balatro a week ago so what do I know😅

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.

Your deck tier list helped me out a ton, this tier list should be no different. Thanks a ton for your excellent work and feedback!

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

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

Bootstraps paired with a strong econ joker like to the moon, early rocket, etc can be very strong as 2 joker slots take care of both your econ & your flat mult needs leaving 3 slots for chips, Xmult, utility, etc ... In fact, my last purple stake & gold stake wins had boostraps + econ joker and it was very strong. Throw the bull into the mix for a full econ build and your played hands don't even matter. Stack the money, bull for hella chips, boostraps for hella mult, then throw on some Xmult jokers in your last 2 slots and watch the points skyrocket I'd argue at least B tier for both boostraps & bull.

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.

"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.

With booster pack, taking packs that offer two picks is great cause you can take one and skip to also give booster pack a bonus.

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

I think you are underrating Dagger. Yes, it's slow, but it's uncapped, meaning with an Infinite Money Engine, it's actually amazing. You just need a lot of money to feed it, but the same goes for campfire, just that that gives XMult

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?!?

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.

I won my first gold stake easily with ancient+dusk. They gave enough score in ante 3 to beat ante 8 already. And as for consistency, I got the flush with the right suit every single blind and didn't skip once

You can hear the effort going into pronouncing the tarot card as Hanged Man

I actually agree with pretty much everything I saw here, so that's neat.

Yorik likes it when Hook discards for you.

great video waffle

Doesnt the reroll multiplication joker synergize nicely with what you have to do in gold, which is aggressively spend money to get what you need from the shop in terms of jokers? Like, you have to reroll, you probably have to reroll 5-10 times probably. Doesn't that make it as good as abstract joker? ~+15 mult

Greetings, first time viewer, i think you should make a tierlist with someting like, Early Game Joker, Mid Game Joker, Late Game Joker, Take it at any time joker, Only in a combo Joker and Not Even if negative Joker. Something like that would be could and very helpful.

I'd like to see a Voucher tier list.

Love that thumbnail roffle❤

When I saw you put Golden Joker in B and I was like, wait, it should be similar to Cloud 9 right? Then you fixed it immediately lol.

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

Big note about Mr. Bones: If it saves you from the final Boss Blind on Ante 8, then you automatically just win the run.

I'm 80+ hours in and haven't been able to beat black stake on any deck. Any tips on breaking that wall?

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

Riff-raff in C is crazy. Easily one of the best jokers in the game

I think splash should be a low b tier card. I’d give it the push to low b tier mainly because I feel like it is a good combo piece. By itself, it is, okay. However, allowing for every card to count can more easily allow other stronger jokers to capitalize on counting every card even in a high card hand

I find it notable that Mr. Bones will win runs on Ante 8. In my quest to get every deck on every difficulty, if I ever come across this in Ante 8 its something I make room for. At lowest, B tier.

If I get the egg early on I love getting the dagger joker!

i think its unfair to be putting sock and buskin so low compared to hack when its better to build around face cards than 2-5, and also with how many face card jokers there are. id consider it possibly the best retrigger joker there is.

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

i think there's a case for campfire at #2 or even #1 (if youre feeling a bit deranged.) Campfire + economy is literally just a win. obv it lacks the insane flexibility of the copy jokers, but i think there's a real argument for campfire higher

Vagabond can be pretty troll when you just want Death and Hanged Man, and you keep changing suits around and rolling failed Wheels instead. Definitely creates a fantasy of playing 5-of-kind every hand though.

While it wouldn't make for a good thumbnail or get as many views probably, applying something like Limited Resources's MtG set review scale to these would do a lot for usability.

Oops All 6s is definitely situational but when it's good it's REALLY good. Had a run with Space Joker and Blood Stone so when I got oops all 6s it carried me to the end

i tabed back into this right after beating red stake (my highest) with a 1 joker strat with madness, and then he goes and puts it in c teir. 😠(love the vid tho)

You should have had the description of the joker on the screen while you talked about it

Hard disagree on 4 Fingers and/or Shortcut. I feel that the lack of inclusion of its synergy with Baseball Card as they are both Uncommon Jokers is a bit of a disservice to them. So having say, an Abandoned Deck that you hit with a Suit Spectral card/multiple suit Tarots, or a Checkered deck, it is incredibly easy to hit Straight Flushes as you only need 4 total cards and they can have multiple gaps between them. Shortcut also allows you to use Strength Tarots to make all the cards in your deck odd/even, so you have even more chances to hit since Straight Flush as it can have a bunch of gaps. Pair that with Baseball Card giving both an extra 1.5x, and they become a utility card that while also being multiplying fiends.

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.

I know there’s a card which allows you to create a straight with a single gap. Despite how difficult straights are to form, this actually raises the number of possible straights from 10 possible card combinations (ignoring suit) up to 46 possible combinations (10 + 9*4) since there are four spaces the gap can occur, and the gap makes it wider meaning the total length is 6/14 cards (ace is on either end). The actual probability of getting either case is beyond me just typing this on my phone tho.

Agree with most of dollar store Will Forte's picks

Just won my first gold stakes and didn’t even upgrade any planets. I agree that the scaling falls off way too hard.

I will say Card Sharp is very strong but I've started to find it kinda unfun/unweildy so while I do tend to pick it up often I tend to throw it away for other mult scalers even when it would be better to just run both but it makes sense at A tier for sure

I like how the King related joker is a Baron.

Okay, but the Egg and Sell value mult joker combo goes pretty hard. Continual plus mult scaling for free

People go hella hard for Ancient Joker but I totally agree with you. Sure, it’s cool, but how is it going to help me when it rolls Clubs and I’ve built my run around Spades? The number of times I see chatters in various streams losing their minds when it’s skipped is bizarre to me.

If you're not getting enough value out of acrobat because you blow through everything in 1 or 2 hands that's the more reason to keep it, right? As you dont need more value out of anything else and it can gice you that huge push on a final hand if it comes to that (that should be enough if under normal circumstances you didnt even get to your final hand)

I feel like To Do List deserves C-tier, and Triboulet deserves S-tier. Most you get out of To Do List is like 6 or 9 dollars total before it picks something like straight, flush straight, four of a kind. You talked about the rarity of Triboulet but never marked down Perkeo for the same reason. Ig perkeo is good in every deck and triboulet isnt always the pick, but there aren't many situations where Triboulet isn't at least a 4x joker

Its funny that the planet card that works good with pant joker is uranus

As someone new to the game, is it fairly certain to say that negative jokers are always worth taking?

Spare trousers not in S???? Betrayal...

Fun fact, Stuntman can solo the first few antes with the plasma deck

Aye you forgot wee joker. I love that little fella

The loyalty card is definitely S tier, I can’t even describe how op it is. Just pick it every time you see it and you’ll know

dice + reserved parking sign + the card that counts all cards as face cards = makes you very rich

Checkout vampire, midas mask, all cards are face cards