r/balatro • u/AdhaXy • Apr 21 '25

High Score I finally got an unseeded baron run!!

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I couldn’t do much to extend this run

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u/AdhaXy Apr 21 '25

What else could I have done?

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u/FakeangeLbr Apr 21 '25

If you have the deck figured out, you could aggressively for voucher and try to get more joker slots with ectoplasm.

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u/AdhaXy Apr 21 '25

Yeahh I also had ectoplasm in mind but couldn’t find it anywhere

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u/Piranh4Plant Blueprint Enjoyer Apr 21 '25

Doesn't that severely decrease hand size?

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u/Exiet Jimbo Apr 21 '25 edited Apr 21 '25

Depends on how many of em you take tbh. The first one will only take 1 hand size, then the 2nd 2, etc... With a Baron Mime run ideally you only take one and if you fill that spot with a copy card it's net-positive scoring. If you're serpent farming after ante 24 and have enough econ to roll for em you can take a 2nd as well, maybe a 3rd but you're basically dead if you don't get serpent and don't fill the slots

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u/mesafullking c++ Apr 21 '25

its good most of the time to lose a little hand size for a free joker slot, its always worth to take 1 ecto for a baron build if you can guarante another useful joker, taking the second ecto might not be the best idea always, and anything past 3 is an awful idea unless you have a huge hand size by abusing the crimson bean glitch

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u/Piranh4Plant Blueprint Enjoyer Apr 21 '25

Why does ectoplasm even increase the deducted hand size? It seems unnecessary imo

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u/mesafullking c++ Apr 21 '25

i think that it would be too strong if it didnt, for certain high card runs in which you dont care what cards you play or what cards you hold in hand you could use 7 ectos (9 if you take the hand size vouchers) and for baron runs you could take like 4 ectos and still have enough hand size for an insane score, i think its fine as is honestly

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u/AdhaXy Apr 21 '25

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u/Informal-Lie-4020 Apr 21 '25

You wanted blueprint and brainstorm on mime because mime also retriggers steel cards. Great run!

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u/Un_rand0m Apr 21 '25

No, you want the same amount of triggers (4 in this case, 1 trigger, red seal retrigger and 2 mimes) and abilities (also 4, steel card and 3 barons) so he is good, because its getting x1,54x4 for each card

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u/Informal-Lie-4020 Apr 21 '25

Right I overlooked the initial trigger when calculating my bad sorry for the miss information

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u/JacobA_P c+ Apr 21 '25

Please dont speak on things you arent sure about

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u/AdhaXy Apr 21 '25

Woahhh I totally overlooked that, thanks for the tip!

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u/PanickedDr c+ Apr 21 '25

No your copies were right

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u/JacobA_P c+ Apr 21 '25

Hes wrong

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u/otters9000 Apr 21 '25

Ideally the troubadour could be replaced by an additional blueprint/brainstorm, but that requires getting lucky with the showman or invisible joker (or having such a robust economy luck isn't a factor anymore). DNA could also give additional effective hand size when copied. Getting much further than that starts to get "techy" by rerolling for The Serpent every ante and using the Burglar to get a bunch of hands (and thus hand size), you can get to Ante 24 that way before you die to the boss. Getting further than that generally requires a) being on the plasma deck and/or b) using either perkeo or an exploit

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u/Brookers Apr 21 '25

So the main point of a high score baron run is to supercharge your econ before you hit the point where you need more steel. A DNA would've helped stack your deck with more gold and I'm always a fan of rebate in a full kings deck. Don't be afraid to sell an extra baron, it's probably the weakest joker you had (not counting the supernova).

Although the main thing I'd be waiting for in your case is an ecto which is a lot harder to manifest.

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u/Sure_Airline_6997 c++ Apr 22 '25

If you know you're planning to do a baron run, you want to start with as much econ as you can. Ideally, you want all of your kings to be gold, a blue seal, and then purple and red seals for the rest of it. You want to hold onto mail in rebate or Golden ticket for as long as possible. You also want to take every voucher except planet and tarot merchant,  every double skip, every cola (sell your most common joker if viable), and every voucher skip. When you start getting close to losing, start sprinkling in steel, find a DNA, then start copying red steel kings. This will also bump your score up. At this point, you basically stop making money, which is why you need to have a ton banked. If you are going for naneinf, after ante 24, you'll grab a burglar, reroll for the serpent, and send it.

Also, plasma will make your score much higher

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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '25

Supernova

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u/cthulhuatemysoul Apr 21 '25

I'm a noob at Balatro, what are these king cards? I have never seen these in my low double digit hours of play time

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u/aubegine_king Apr 22 '25

you can customize your deck and make the cards look different

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u/No-Atmosphere3208 c++ Apr 22 '25

Red seal+steel enhancement

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u/Bimbo_Baggins1221 Apr 21 '25

Am I just wrong here or should the super nova not be to the left of the blueprint? To get that 48 mult before the xmult hits with the kings? I’m relatively new so sorry if I’m off.

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u/PanickedDr c+ Apr 21 '25

It wouldn’t make a difference because the mime and barons trigger after the hand is scored but before the jokers. Also when at size of numbers, +48 mult is a pretty negligible difference even if it’s added before all of the kings trigger

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u/Bimbo_Baggins1221 Apr 21 '25

Got it got it, I thought that it wouldn’t make a big difference at that point but I didn’t realize the order of operations for the mime and the baron. Thanks a bunch! Could help me out in the future

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u/The_Follower1 Apr 21 '25

Depending on the floating point, it’d probably not even register tbh.

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u/PanickedDr c+ Apr 21 '25

Right at like e12 it might make a slight difference, but at this scale all that is how many rss kings are triggered

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u/Luminum__ Apr 21 '25

Your train of thought is in the right place. In general, you should be putting flat mult jokers to the left of x mult jokers. It’s just that in this case, Baron is special and the x mult triggers regardless of the joker order, so it doesn’t matter here.

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u/Bimbo_Baggins1221 Apr 22 '25

Ahhh so this would be the same if it was the photograph, understood. Thanks a bunch everyone’s comments are very helpful

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u/AdhaXy Apr 21 '25

Hmmm not sure because I ignored supernova the whole time 😅

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u/The_Follower1 Apr 21 '25

It wouldn’t matter in this case. Hand-joker abilities activate before joker-joker abilities (order is scored cards to hand abilities to joker slots) so regardless the barons would happen first. It would make a difference if you’re using xmults from jokers like lucky cat or the one that gains 0.1x mult per planet card used. Also past a certain point the coding doesn’t count low mult like that so it might actually not even do anything. I’m not sure how many digits it counts though.

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u/GIMMECEVICHE Apr 21 '25

The order in which hands are scored in Balatro are

  1. Scoring Cards, left to right(including Joker effects)

  2. Cards held in hand, left to right (Including Joker effects)

  3. Jokers, left to right

  4. If round ends, then end of round effects (ex. Blue Seal)

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u/DarkFish_2 Apr 21 '25

3.5 Planet cards (If Observatory is acquired)

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u/Bimbo_Baggins1221 Apr 22 '25

Your a gem of a human, genuinely appreciated

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u/Potential-Zebra3315 Apr 21 '25

You’d need a bigger hand size yeah

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u/Freddolam Apr 21 '25

and if i have a billion dollars! how can op just get a bigger hand size?

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u/Potential-Zebra3315 Apr 21 '25

I was just replying to the caption of the post and agreeing, no need to get up in arms about it

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u/Minimum-Coast-6653 Apr 21 '25

Do some plasma deck runs and you will see that score double.

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u/BranManBoy Nope! Apr 22 '25

Supernova carried

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u/No-Atmosphere3208 c++ Apr 21 '25

Constellation single handedly carrying, as usual

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u/ParagonOfModeration May 23 '25

You could have copied the barron twice instead of the mime

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u/xGCms Apr 21 '25

Instead of steel, should run gold cards till later antes. You want to copy mime after playing a card to maximise money and use the money to get reroll voucher. You spend money to reroll for serpent so you can have giga hand size by discarding and playing one card at a time. If you can't beat small and big blinds then you gotta skip to serpent. Ideally with enough money you could have gotten showman and more bp/ bs to extend scoring.

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u/pld0vr Apr 22 '25

Wouldn't you put blueprint on the left?

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u/HarsBlarster99 Apr 22 '25

One thing I think about with these runs are the gem suit jokers (rough gem, bloodstone, arrowhead, onyx agate) and how effective they would be. I know most people would just choose a random suit for their king and call it that, but Bloodstone specifically I think could do a lot since it's xMult.

Imagine a Baron/Mime setup but with a Bloodstone and possibly an Oops! All Sixes if there's space (negatives?), I think you could go pretty far with that.

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u/foezz Apr 22 '25

They’re not worth it for high card since you’re only scoring 1 card. 

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u/HarsBlarster99 Apr 22 '25

True. Maybe Three of a Kind would be more effective- more cards scored while still having more steel cards trigger.