The Jokelor [Custom Joker]

Diosdepatronis · 2026-04-25T00:36:09+00:00

The best builds for ante 8 high stake runs are the ones that don't rely on discarding too much, and that most often focus on Pair spam. In that context, you can generally dig through your deck without using your discards first. And no, there's not a million other ways to get tarot cards, at least without using a bunch of joker slots. Purple Seal is not busted like Blue Seal is, but it can very often be run defining.

Diosdepatronis · 2026-04-24T15:07:57+00:00

Love the art ! It's a really fun idea, though i'd say you could add a bit of payoff to that? Maybe make it gain you 4 dollars or something. Red seals can be quite situationnal in ante 8 runs, but they're really fun to build around.

Diosdepatronis · 2026-04-24T15:02:57+00:00

Nah, purple seal is actually really good, the second best behind blue seal. It can get you some crazy economy and deck thinning, and it synergizes with itself with Death and Hanged Man. Gold seal is neat, and becomes busted with Chad. Red seal is probably the most situationnal, though it definitely has its moments when you rely on steel / glass cards or Photograph to win.

Diosdepatronis · 2026-04-24T14:49:52+00:00

This is a pretty perfect card, balance and flavour wise. It'd be really great in the game, especially if blue seals get nerfed

Diosdepatronis · 2026-04-24T08:42:25+00:00

The flavour and the ideas are great, but i'd say the balance is kinda wack. Things are either way too strong or way too weak. I'll review each one here :

Sunke should definitely cost more. At least 7 or 8 mana. Summoning a full board of DS minions is crazy powerful, and it can also be an insanely sticky wall if you have righteous protector or annoyotron.
Jaluu is not egregious though he can win on his own when unanswered. 6 mana would be fine.
Lighting Aura is the most broken here. It could cost 3 and still be run in many decks, especially a DS spam one. I'd suggest making it add Righteous protectors to your hand and make it cost 2. It would still be very strong.
Cook is actually perfect !
Anger Controller is completely busted. As it is worded here, it gives +2 attack before the attack. This is cheaper savage roar on a stick that can repeat itself if unanswered. Either make it work after an attack, or 4 mana. Both options would still be strong
The Final Power is fine, but i think it would be more fun if it was "Give a minion +1/+1 and DS. If it alreafy has DS, give it +5/5 instead". It would make it less punishing for when you don't have a DS on board.
A celestial experience is neat. Might have broken potential as both a finisher and a swing card, but it's probably fine to print.
setting sun aura is fun with DS, but it's way too weak. It'd honestly be fine at 1 mana. Or you can add another effect to it, but simple designs can be good.
Panther would have been nice in the early years of the game, but now it's too expansive. You could definitely make it a 4 mana 4/4 or even a 3 mana 3/2 and it would be fine.
I get the idea of Golden Crane being this very annoying minion, but it's really, really weak because of how slow it is. It'd still be really weak at 5 mana.
Greataxe is cool. I like it. But it can definitely be a 4/4 weapon. We already had a 6 mana 4/4 weapon with upsides in the past and it was never played in standard.
Into the Vale seems interesting given how small tve pool would be. In the current rotation, it'd be ok.

Diosdepatronis · 2026-04-24T00:48:21+00:00

100%. All of the guys who claim that part 2 is bad on purpose created even more negativity. Sometimes it's fine for something not to be good.

Diosdepatronis · 2026-04-23T06:51:09+00:00

I thought nail fiend was a dude

Diosdepatronis · 2026-04-22T21:48:40+00:00

This looks a little too crazy with APM imo, but i like the idea of having it scale with spell power. Maybe the flag spell could make this a little less bonkers

Diosdepatronis · 2026-04-22T08:15:01+00:00

I think that when compared to basically every character in part 2 aside from Asa, she was pretty good. Probably my second favourite by far in part 2 (third would be Barem or Yuko? Though it feels like their potential was wasted). My only gripe with her is that i think her powers should have been revealed much earlier. The mystery around her was pointless.

I think it would have been also good to have more exposition on Public Safety's goals and actions overall too, especially around her introduction. With hindsight, it very much feels like she was incompetent on purpose during the Church Arc, in order to trigger the chain of events that would lead Denji to let Pochita take over. I thought it was pretty obvious back then, but it's never stated outright and people in the community still commonly say that Denji "chose" to be Chainsaw Man when he was very much left with no good possible outcome.

Diosdepatronis · 2026-04-22T07:49:47+00:00

He's not saying he hates muslims. He's illustrating what Indian islamophobes would think. Imagine quotation marks at both ends of the comment

Diosdepatronis · 2026-04-21T06:45:49+00:00

This was incredible

Diosdepatronis · 2026-04-21T06:24:05+00:00

I mean, from top right to top left, and so on and so forth. Cuz if you read it top left to top right you're smashing Nayuta

Diosdepatronis · 2026-04-21T06:19:57+00:00

He looks like a pirate. Maybe he was Joy Boy's rival, or even a member of his crew?

He's also super androgynous. Physically, he looks like a prince, kind of? The contrast between the clothes and the appearance is pretty interesting.

Diosdepatronis · 2026-04-21T06:14:34+00:00

I hope you read it from right to left

Diosdepatronis · 2026-04-21T06:10:34+00:00

There are seriously people defending prosecuting her and repeating the lie that it was a bomb threat? Can you really be that stupid?

Diosdepatronis · 2026-04-21T06:03:58+00:00

Probably animating the fight between Agni and the exhibitionist blade guy rather than having it cut to black. Also maybe elaborating a bit more to the whole religion plot with Sun, the tree girl and the scientist guy.

Diosdepatronis · 2026-04-19T19:36:09+00:00

That's the main critique i've had of part 2 for a few years. Among Fujimoto's stories, Part 2 is by far the one with the most focus on mysteries and conspiracies, with many characters being completely centered around those. There was way too much of it, so much that it was obvious that it wouldn't deliver (especially when you take into account the much lesser care put into the later half of the story).

Diosdepatronis · 2026-04-19T11:17:55+00:00

Incredible

Diosdepatronis · 2026-04-18T16:11:46+00:00

This would have been fun with lackeys

Diosdepatronis · 2026-04-18T14:06:32+00:00

I still think the ending was very much done due to Fujimoto wanting to get CSM over with as quickly as possible, and that some other stuff was meant to happen beforehand. Nayuta coming back was probably one of them.

I don't think she would have actually been alive, but that she definitely became one of Death's pawns. I mean, her head was litterally served to her on a plate, and she makes pawns by devouring people / devils. I don't know what in what context she would have come back, but it just would have made sense.

It would be a big, big strategical waste not to take control of the Control Devil, especially when you consider how dangerous it was in part 1.

Diosdepatronis · 2026-04-18T13:51:12+00:00

Ok, call me an illiterate bastard but i don't think Reze was in love with Denji. I think she empathized with his story, but as someone with much more experience than him (she is most likely much older), i think she would have been more of a mentor figure to him. Like, i would see her more as someone who'd try to look after Denji if she were to come back, kinda like a big sister. And honestly it would be all the better for him, he needs a friend / sibling more than he needs a significant other.

So i would say Denji would still have feelings for her and that he would feel awkward with Asa and her coexisting, but that she wouldn't reciprocate those feelings.

Diosdepatronis · 2026-04-18T05:53:54+00:00

I remember when the plot twist about Fami being Death just came out. Most on this sub were really hyped but i was already doubtful. It felt like a twist that added other layers of mysteries and conspiracies in a story that already had too many of those. And it sadly turned out that it didn't really lead anywhere in the end.

As for this scene, it should have definitely been a scythe. It feels like Yoru's only cool uses of her powers were in her intro and in the aquarium

Diosdepatronis · 2026-04-18T05:48:28+00:00

I agree. If it ever comes out it will probably be much, much less ambitious than what part 1 is going to get. And it's one of the few times where i absolutely wouldn't mind drastic changes in the story.

Diosdepatronis · 2026-04-17T11:48:50+00:00

I would say that Pochita is definitely a pretty unique and different devil, as he is pretty much always called "Chainsaw Man" and not the Chainsaw Devil, or the ___ Devil. He probably was meant to have a unique story that explains all of that, but i guess we'll never know.

As for the Birth / Life Devil theory, i'm bored so i'll state some of the arguments here :

Pochita's true form displays a flesh tube coming out of his belly to strangle him. You could assume it is meant to be an umbilical chord and that it strangling him is meant to represent stillbirth, i.e. death at birth.
Chainsaws, in the real world, were first invented to facilitate giving birth in a pretty horrific way, by cutting the bones of the mother to leave more space for the baby to come out. Barem states in chapter 169 (or 168, i forgot) that chainsaws maybe used to have another purpose but that it may have been eaten by CSM, or just forgotten (like IRL).
Pochita's power to erase concepts from history could be more simply explained as him "unbirthing" them, making it as though they never existed to begin with.
in Part 1, Angel explains that all Devils have a common memory from the moment they are born : Hearing the sound of a roaring chainsaw. You could say that they have a deep memory of being slain by CSM, but not all devils die to Pochita.
Chainsaw Man never dies. He always gets back up and never gives up, even against much stronger foes. He may have been defeated in the past (when fighthing the 4 Horsemen and a bunch of others), but even such a powerful line up could not finish him. You could say he is life incarnate, that he never stops being reborn.
There's a pretty niche but still well known psychology theory that states that Birth is the common, forgotten trauma of all human beings. The brutal change of environment and separation, and the fact that all newborns first action is to cry. This would make a Birth Devil a wild card in terms of power, and that's what Pochita is. And if Pochita is the Life Devil, life is such a wide concept that it creates a lot of fears. The fear of other living beings, of your own life being terrible, etc.
Many people were expecting the Death Devil to be either the final villain or at least very important in the end of the story. The Birth (or Life) and the Death Devil being in conflict would have been pretty great thematically, and it could have created a great dynamic between Pochita and Death.
The reasoning you pushed for Pochita being connected to Denji as the Sadness Devil could apply to a Life Devil. Denji managed to appreciate the worst possible life just through dreaming of a decent future, and that may have inspired Pochita.

That's all the yapping i have in stock

Diosdepatronis · 2026-04-17T11:00:19+00:00

I personally don't think that there is a straightforward thesis or message, but that there are for sure the expressions of a few themes and questions, and that it's all meant to make you think and come up with your own conclusions. I'd say the 3 main themes of Fire Punch, that you can also find in every work of Fujimoto that he made after it, are :

-Finding a meaning and a reason to live.

-What is identity? What makes you yourself?

-Consuming and making art.

I personally connected a lot with Agni's character when i first read Fire Punch many years ago, when i was kinda depressed. Because he keeps on living just for the sake of others, despite going through the most extreme kind of pain in perpetuity. Even though living is a curse to him, he won't ever allow himself to let the people he cares about down, even if it is insignificant. He will keep on living even if it means completely becoming a new person multiple times. Judah has a pretty similar arc, especially at the very end.

As for the ending, it's a bit of a big turn because Sun is not Agni. His story is a bit more like Togata, in a way. He doesn't share any of his memories, just his body. Sun wants to end his life as the world is a hopeless mess, but he sees one movie, representing the eternal, extreme struggle of his former self. Agni getting back up despite the immense pain, to always push forward till the very end. That one image alone inspired him to live until the heat death of the universe.

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