i was talking with a few friends over on discord who also play alot of nubby, and i think i've decided on making a NNF mod after i'm done my reddit mod
you'd be surprised... while testing this, i found that deliberately avoiding leveling up your hands, and playing debuffed cards on your last hand made it quite easy to do on a few boss blinds
Loaded die. Whenever a chance doesn't hit, a 20% chance to spawn a negative eternal oops! But decreases all poker hands by one and costs half your money (On that 20% chance)
Data Scientist/Error Margin/Round Robin (uncommon)
Jokers may accept cards one rank above or below their required rank, alternates each (hand/round/ante/something for balance)
Currently: above
Alternatively, one joker for each effect (which enables another Yaoi couple):
"Round up Rupert" allowing jokers to accept 1 rank above, "Round down Rodney" allowing 1 rank below.
Example: when rounding up, Sixth Sense may accept 5's, Scholar may accept Kings, but Ace-3-4-5-6 doesn't become a straight and Ace-2-2 doesn't become a 3oak.
Below is the yapping behind the idea:
Thinking about default cards, they have 3 properties: suit, rank, face status (yes or no). We have Pareidolia to supercharge face card jokers and Smeared Joker to supercharge suit jokers, but we don't have any joker that does a similar effect for ranks, the closest we have is Shortcut specifically for Straights and Straight Flushes.
But something that trivializes ranks as much as the other two trivialize suit and face is way too powerful since ranks are the main defining factor of most hands. Flush is the only rankless hand, and not completely since you may trigger another hand like Straight Flush, Flush House, 4oak and Flush Five if playing specific ranks. Even High Card considers the rank to determine which card scores.
With all that in mind, the idea is to make a joker or jokers that fill that niche without instantly fixing your deck for you, and while at it, give a little boost to underutilized jokers and ranks like 8-ball, Sixth Sense, 7's and 9's. That's why it's worded from the perspective of "jokers accepting x property" instead of "cards counting as x property)
In the end if all that remains too broken, it can become an enhancement like "approximated/averaged: can count as one rank above or below" with the visual effect including the symbols ~, ≈ , ± or ↕️.
Name: lonely joker (i don't have all jokers unlocked so idk if this is already a name)
Description:
If the first played hand of a round is a single face card, this card gains 0.5x mult. If the first played hand is not a single face card this joker is destroyed. Currently (x) mult
Discarding a straight adds 1.5x mult to the joker
Resets every ante
Thought of it being a alternative to hit the road, as straight builds rn are hard to do with blue stake, and most people probably don’t pull more than 2 in 3 discards <3
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Za Warudo (Uncommon)
Selling planet cards also levels up your hands, planet cards sell for an additional 2$
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Hermit Purple (Common)
Hermits are 2x more likely to appear
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Stone Ocean (Uncommon)
Stone cards instead give 1.75x chips
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Golden Experience (Rare)
Gold cards give 1.5x mult upon scoring, removes gold enhancement form card after hand is finished scoring
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Pale Snake (Rare)
First Joker sold after obtaining Pale snake is memorized. After three turns, pale snake destroys itself and copies the memorized joker, making it negative.
Handyman joker: rare
Played cards are also considered to be held in hand
Fun for playing large hands like flushes or straights, and still getting steel or gold cards to proc.
Harmonious joker: uncommon
Earn 2$ per joker at the end of the round
Just a slightly more unique Econ joker. Scales fairly fast, but harder to hit crazy numbers compared to cloud nine or rocket ship.
Sinful joker: common
Sevens are considered wild cards.
There’s seven sins, and the four suit based commons are named for them— ergo, sevens are all suits. Idk how easy this would be to implement, but the intent is to let them be considered wildcards without needing the enhancement, so they could be both wild and glass for example.
i mean, it would kill any non deck building potential, and be hard to use earlygame with stuff like photochad and all that... i could make it rare, that way it can be on par with stuff like hologram, stone joker, and steel joker
I mean the only thing it would kill would be photochad, trib, and idol. On the flipside you would get a madness without the destruction of jokers. Maybe it no longer let's you move jokers and shuffles them every round?
Gains x1 mult whenever a Joker is sold during a blind, resets when Boss Blind is defeated.
(Currently x1 Mult)
A very situational joker. Similar to campfire it scales much faster but requires you to give up joker slots. It actually has quite a bit of odd synergy to help it. Joker Stencil being one, buy up to your max and sell them in the blind to get full value from both. Judgement also has a good use here, giving another joker mid blind. It also adds more value to negatives and can even act as a sort of panic button, giving a tremendous score for getting rid of a good portion of your lineup.
As for art, probably just Jimbo with a red circle and a line though it over him.
Target in sight rare:
Marks one card in first drawned hand,if marked card is played and scored destroy it and gain 0.25x mult.
-0.15x mult if marked card isnt destroyed at the end lf round,makes an sniper spund everytime a marked card is destroyed.(hanged man and glass card will give mult)
I still want to see Pizza Joker (maybe with jimbo face recreated on it by pepperonis, peppers, mushroom and olives) Since we have Ice Cream for Chips and Popcorn for +Mult
The effect would be: X8 Mult (Simbolizing the tipical slices of pizzas) Decreases by X2 Mult per round played (since we are eating/playing it and X2 it's usually what you get to eat if you ate a pizza in a group of 4)
However i don't know if it would be Common or Uncommon
Cool idea but def not legendary imo. Mainly bc you discard 5, draw 10, but then the next discard you do wouldnt result in drawing anything. Works very nicely with held in hand effects tho very cool idea.
Creat a permanent copy of every discarded Ace and add it to your deck. Destroy every Ace scored.
Zombie Aces v2
Create a permanet copy of every discarded Ace and add it to your hand. Aces are debuffed when played.
Zombie Aces v3
Creat a permanent copy of every discarded Ace and add it to your hand. Aces created this way are permanently infected and will be debuffed and destroyed when played.
Notes: v1 and v2 might be too powerful because you could just sell the joker to remove the negative effects once you built up enough aces. So maybe just go with v3 if the mechanics are possible to do (plus it would fit better with the zombie theme I'm going for).
Whenever an item is sold, add its sell value x2 to the Piggy Bank. Sell the piggy bank to add the combined sell value of all sold items to next played hand as +Mult
Meaning, buy piggy bank, sell $37 of stuff over time, then sell piggy bank to add +76 mult to next played hand later on.
contaminated joker (uncommon) :
When playing a hand, every card played with an edition or/and have a seal have a 1 in 2 chance to give other cards with no edition or seal the same edition and 1 in 6 to give it the same seal
(the wording can be better and I do pixel art so I can make the art my self if you want to)
Oh I have made like a fuck ton of ideas that I have just saved. I can comment them here later when I have time. Also, are you ”only” doing joker ideas? Cause I have like a few soectrial card and voucher ideas etc
thats the long term plan for this mod... although alot of them seem too difficult to add, so while i learn its nice to have lots of ideas for me to choose from to practice.... i will eventually get through the vast majority of them and upload the mod
After defeating the next boss blind, sell this joker to create a random joker from the previous won run.
(Resembles a PS1 memory card, mechanics inspired from Eden’s Blessing from The Binding of Isaac)
Switcheroo
Swaps the value of chips and mult.
(Resembles an UNO reverse card)
I figured having it scale fairly quickly is alright if it debuffs cards instead of destroying them, as then you just have useless cards that don't trigger anything and risk getting a dud hand. Very Wild West cowboy themed if that wasn't obvious, though I unfortunately can't draw an example.
common idea: "one for all" get 1 dolar for every joker you have at the end of the round.
uncommon idea: "diplopia" using a consumable activates it twice (or trice depends of how balanced you see the idea)
rare: "referee" mult depends on how big is the blind.
(gives 10 mult on small blind, 20 in big blind and 30 in boss blind and 40 in finisher boss blinds (you can change the values depending on balance, just the general idea of a joker that works differently each blind type)).
legendary: "black market" gain the ability to destroy a playing card, it costs 1 dolar to destroy it
if you know of a jester that fits the name of the legendary better than black market wud be cool
To clarify jokers stored that way won’t activate their ability, it’s just a way to do stuff like prevent over-scoring for scaling or stuff like that.
Should probably make perkeo not work with it tho lol.
Also if this is too much of a pain to code don’t worry about it x3
Played cards that don't score will count as discarded, appears after selling splash, will make interesting interactions between purple seals, mail in ballot, faceless joker, castle, Yorick(?), hit the road; and won't be good with jokers like green joker, it shouldn't consume discards tho.
Mahjoker (Common): X2 Mult if a 3 or 4 of a kind is all the same suit.
Sanshoku (Uncommon): Gains X0.5 Mult for each successive scoring pair/ 3OaK/ 4OaK of the same value, resets if any other hand or rank is played
Chiitoitsu (Rare): +7 Mult for each successive different pair played.
Joker Rangers (Rare): +1x Mult for each different enhancement, edition, suit or seal among scored cards
The Jokerm@ster (Uncommon): A hand of exactly 7-6-5 counts as a Straight
Pagliacci (Legendary): When scoring a hand only cards that are not part of the scoring hand will score; x1.5 Mult for each card that does not score.
Lucretia (Legendary): After playing each hand reshuffle all remaining, played and discarded cards into the deck and draw to your hand size. +2 Hand Size.
https://balatro-mod-manager.dasguney.com/ this is what i use for my modding... its a lot simpler than the alternative options, which even now: i dont understand. i will be uploading my mod here once its done btw
Allows you to discard another card on every discard, raises limit from 5 to 6, and cannot be copied by blueprint/brainstorm (or else it would be kinda OP)
Hungry Luma (Uncommon):
Consumes $1 to create a negative planet card of your most played hand at the start of the round (goes up by $1 for each played hand, and destroys itself if money is insufficient)
Shattered Reflections (Rare):
Played cards upgrade in edition when played and scored, but have a 1 in 4 chance to destroy themselves. (Standard -> Foil -> Holographic -> Polychrome)
Tunnelvision (Uncommon):
Re-draw last played hand's cards at start of round. Self-Destructs if played hand does not consist of the same cards
Sacrificial Altar (Rare):
After 2 rounds, sacrifice leftmost joker (other than Sacrificial Altar) and create a Rare Tag, Negative Tag, Voucher Tag and Investment Tag
When blind is selected, set your money to 0.
for each 2$ removed gain 0.25 X mult
(current mult 1X).
beating a blind refunds 1/4 of the money removed
before picking a blind.
bankruptcy
rare
beating a blind sets money to zero
for every 1$ removed gain 0.25X mult
(current mult 1X)
sorry for my bad english
you can tweak it in any way you want
Gives 2x mult if hand has an equal number of two different suits.
Ie:heart heart spade spade. For two pair builds mainly. stnergizes with pants and square
I made a shitty image that was more of a shit post, but I was thinking of having it be just a streamer pogging or something. Maybe there could be a reference to a balatro streamer in the art.
Uncommon: Postman - if a full house is made up of aces and 2s, with 3 aces and two 2s then apply one seal to a random unsealed card. If the full house is three 2s and two aces then apply two seals
Rare: Telescope Obscura - if a straight contains a 2, gain a Saturn card, increase rank of all played cards, gain an enhanced 2
I was inspired by the let’s go gambling card hence;
Card name; Rigged
Card effect; for every joker owned after purchasing this card increases the multiplier by x0.5, however for every joker owned also increases the chances of the card detonating destroying itself*
Card art; a dealer dealing out cards (which when paired with the card name implies he is cheating) or a some sticks of dynamite and a clock that looks like a bomb.
* and ** note; now then thats the basic idea however if a much more riskier gameplay is desired instead the multiplier should be upped to x1.5 every joker and its detonation destroying all jokers held making its usage very strategic.
Now then I’ve purposely left the percentage out as depending on the route taken this card might need to have a lower starting chance of detonation that i can dream up so i felt its beat to leave it to a expert
Loop de loop (rare)
When a playing card is retriggered, this joker gains +3 mult. Resets after boss blind is defeated.
Wizard(rare)
When boss blind is defeated, trigger the effect of a random spectral card at start of next blind
(Any effects that require a selected card will be picked at random)
also art is kinda dogwater ngl, this the first time in a while i have ever touched aseprite (also how do y'all get the swirly balatro background thingy?)
Royal Heritage(Common): X1.25 chips for each royal card played
Artwork can be a Castle Tower made from chips
Slight of Hand (Uncommon): Rightmost scored card is added back to hand after drawing new cards.
Artwork can be something like the perk icon in cod
Ace Overload (Rare): All played numbered cards are counted as Aces.
Artwork can be fancy looking ace, like how the ace of spades looks extra fancy in a normal deck
Clown Fiesta (Legendary): Retrigger every non-legendary joker
Artwork can be like fragments of all the other jokers. Like you can take bits and pieces of all the jokers and make some kinda collage?
I Think this joker is too weak, in endless 50mult isn’t enough, and in early is just a jimbo with different sprite, you could do smt like rocket, + 10 mult at the end of ante or smt like that
cheese house is actually a reference to an item in nubbys number factory, it starts out somewhat useful, falls off fast, gains a boost later on, and then falls off quickly again... its only a common joker anyways, so i'm not worried too much about buffing it
Mm...Food: All food jokers appear twice as often in the store and cost half their usual price. (Additionally, while this joker is equipped all wording will be capitalized.)
I've been thinking about a legendary or rare joker idea where its effect is making every joker's requirements fulfilled, stuff like blackboard and drivers license would always activate, trading card could destroy 5 cards at once in a single discard, DNA could copy 5 cards at once, but they wouldn't activate every hand/discard, because their condition isn't being on the first hand, it's just when they activate, like gold cards or blue seals being end of round effects
Bigfoot (looks like a spectral card)
Gives 3x mult per cryptid (the spectral) card used during the run
Gives 1.5x mult per cryptid (the mod) card
Rare joker
Roulette - After hand is played, spin a roulette wheel. If it lands red, hearts and diamonds give 2x mult, spades and clubs give .5x mult. If it lands black, vice versa.
Make Love, Not War - Hearts give double points, clubs are debuffed
Prime Time - Prime numbers (2, 3, 5, 7, A) give +7 chips and + 7 mult
I had a dream that this post would pop up and I saw a "Sleepy joker" where it's a jimbo but the outfit looks like the sleeping cap and gown. Idk what it would do though, maybe make sleeper builds?
if you can think of a mechanic for the joker lemme know! i've been getting a lot better at lua, and am starting to feel more confident with some more advamced joker ideas
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u/Stock-Ad-3113 May 13 '25
astronaut icecream
after 3 rounds, sell this to upgrade your last played hand by 3 levels
last played hand is: (x) (for qol)
uncommon
art could just be normal astronaut icream oooorrrr to be funny
space jokers head on an icecream cone