Summary
Indie hitBalatrohas certainly attracted its fair share of players. Withaccolades even coming from industry awards, a lot of players who might not have otherwise tried the roguelike poker game have decided to give it a go. When players first come toBalatro, their best bet is to just play the game, learn the uses of jokers, tarots, and consumables, and get used to how scoring works.
Once players have gotten to grips with the game, using seeds can introduce fun new challenges or guaranteed ways to rack up massive scores. For beginners, using a favorable seed can help to create easy win conditions while learning how the best hands work, which will help with beating all eight antes and building better scores in the long run.
The decks in this topic focus on seeds that give the player favorable RNG like early powerful jokers, or are ideal for learning specific plays like using tarots. Some of them can be used to build pretty good scores for experienced players, but these seeds are all approachable and don’t necessitate specificdecks with unlock conditions.
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Free Shops
This seed can be approached with a standard blue deck and gives players some pretty big advantages early on if they know the seed. Skipping the first two blinds in this seed will result in two free shops, with a DNA Joker available in the first one.
Duplicators like the DNA Jokerare a good card to get used to early, as multiple duplications will be a strategy players want to rely on later. A Blueprint Joker will also appear in the next shop of the run, one of the most generally useful Jokers that works with any deck and strategy.
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Guaranteed Soul Arcana
Arcana packs are something that new players will want to understand, as the tarot cards and spectral cards within can have some pretty useful effects. This particular seed guarantees a specific spectral card, The Soul, from the Arcana pack in the shop when players skip the first big and small blinds.
The Soul is a powerful spectral card, as it lets players create any legendary Joker that they want. That means that players canuse this seedas a basis for testing any early joker strategy.
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Multipliers For Tarot Plays
This seed is a little more complicated to play with, but it’s ideal for players who want to get used to using arcana and tarot cards as a part of their multiplier-building strategy. To get the most out of this seed, players will want to skip the first two blinds. They’ll then be able to pick up aPerkeo Jokerin the first shop.
This card duplicates consumables like tarot cards. With a Polychrome Fortune Teller Joker also available, this can be used to play multiple tarot cards and build up more multiplier each time thanks to the Fortune Teller.
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First Pack Canio Joker
The Canio Joker is one of the best Joker cards for building multipliers. The process of boosting his multipliers is simple and will get beginners used to synergies with consumables like tarots. Canio gains multiplier whenever a face card is destroyed. There are multiple ways to destroy face cards, like the tarot card The Hanged Man, which means this multiplier can be built quickly and easily.
The multiplier applies to all played hands, so players just need to make sure they don’t harm their scoring opportunities bydestroying too many face cards. This seed contains a guaranteed Canio in the first pack.
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Jokers In The Shops
This seed isa good choice for beginnersas it doesn’t favor any particular deck or strategy. Instead, the benefit of this seed is an uncommonly high rate of foil and polychrome jokers in its shops, giving players a lot of choice for powerful card combos.
These shiny jokers have minor additional perks in addition to their standard effects; polychromes are particularly valuable as they gain 1.5x multiplier.
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Double Perkeo
The legendary Joker Perkeo’s powers of consumable duplication can be powerful when players learn to use them. This seed gives access to not one but two Perkeos at the first big blind shop and the second small blind shop.
Since Perkeo generates negative copies of cards, players don’t need to worry about running out of consumable slots. This strategy gets more effective once players have access to later decks like the ghost deck, but new players can still get used to the benefits of Perkeo with this seed.
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High Score Starter Pack
This seed is great for getting players used to a powerful synergy between two ofBalatro’s best joker cards. Triboulet gives x2 mulitplier whenever a hand is played with a scoring king or queen.
That’s a decent perk on its own. Alongside a DNA Joker, which can duplicate a card played as the first hand, this becomes more powerful since players can create copies of their kings. This seed gives access to both jokers early, which is a great set up. If players can get other duplication synergies working here, it becomes a great seed for high-scoring runs.
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Double Duplication
This seed is fun, but it involves making sacrifices early to build momentum later. This can be a good lesson for new players to learn. The benefit of this seed is that it gives access to both a negative Blueprint Joker and a Brainstorm Joker straight away. These jokers mimic the ability of the joker to their right and left, respectively.
So, players will need to invest heavily for what initially amounts to no effect. However, this synergizes with any other joker players want to play for the rest of the run. This can build powerful multipliers like nothing else as a run wears on if players want to learn how to play for long-term gain.
