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Such a lucky run so far (Red Deck Gold difficulty)… Not quite sure yet what to do, probably sell the tarot joker for the blueprint
I would drop Crazy Joker, doubling The Order will give you way more than +13 mult. That way you can also copy Cartomancer between rounds to get more money/hanged man for Canio.
Agreed, Crazy has served it purpose and should be sent to the farm
It's the same conclusion I came to after some thinking, Crazy just won't scale at all though it is very strong at that point as I haven't leveled any hands, so it's +12 is effectively x13 right now. But it isn't really needed with such strong X multipliers and it will taper off while the tarot will help the deck scale much better, especially with blueprint
This game sounds extremely deep and complicated to me (a stupid person), but I’ve heard such good things about it. Is the learning curve pretty steep? I’ve played Poker enough to know the rules and I’ve played a couple deck builder games (not sure if it’s relevant but cards).
The game has surprisingly little to do with Poker, in fact it's just the hands that it takes from it (plus adding some of its own ones). It is basically a Solitaire deck builder. Apart from various introductions I'm sure you can find online, I can tell you the little stuff I know about the game in about an hour, though I only have about ~80 hrs in the game so far so there are most likely some better sources available.
The game can become very complex, but it's not overly difficult to get into, and it's very fun and well done. Not everything works on the higher difficulties though so there is some learning about how to approach the game.
Appreciate your insight!
Picked up the game just last week here, and also introduced it to my wife, who barely plays any video games at all, but likes card games in general. We were both immediately pretty addicted.
It doesn't start off with nearly the level of complexity you'll see discussed here, and you can enjoy yourself with it basically immediately. The complexity will come in as you play more and unlock more cards/push to do challenges and harder stuff once you've won the game many times.
Thanks for the input everyone, I think my initial thinking was too conservative.
I'll try to stream the rest of the game at 19:00 CET or about 2 hours from now on from my twitch (I actually do run an owncast instance but the delay is just too bad) so in case anyone wants to see how it turns out and chat a bit I'd be glad if you tune in. I only reached gold stake today or yesterday so am a bit excited to have such a strong joker selection so early
twitch.tv/incrediblelaser