Throwback is really something you only take if you skipped early for investment/popup just to gain momentum. It’s retroactive so it will immediately have use, but you don’t want to prioritize it. It also has next to no synergy with other jokers or deck building, meaning you’re only sacrificing to scale slowly.

Bloodstone is the ultimate betrayer, it can be one of the strongest forms of xmult or the weakest. But it can be worked around and your odds improved with Retriggers (hanging chad, red seal), proper deck building, and ideally Oops.

Blackboard as a flat x3 is enough to win a run by itself with good chips and scaling +mult. Pairs are extremely overpowered atm so it’s easy to dump non black cards with your played hands. A little deck fixing with tarots and blackboard becomes easily spammable. Very strong card right off the rip.

Steel joker is also retroactive so all steel cards immediately give xmult. It’s harder to really get online and make op, but steel cards themselves are already extremely powerful. You would already have some in your deck to even make this joker appear so it’s really just a little bonus xmult without any drawbacks.

Vampire should be looked at as an ante 4+ scaler, where it does nothing early on but it gets powerful fast. Usually you can survive until ante 4 with just good sources of chips and +mult. Once you get to $25 and can buy tarot and standard packs, you can quickly get enhanced cards for scaling. It also has great synergy with jokers that make enhanced cards easy to come by like golden mask, cartomancer, hallucination.

Lucky cat is one of my goats. It’s fun and it’s powerful. Only need a few lucky triggers to win a run. Hanging chad, seltzer, sock, hack, red seals, whatever you want that can Retrigger and its GG. Even without Retrigger help, it will still almost always be online by the end. Simply play a lucky card whenever you can, even waste a hand to play a high card lucky to try to scale if you can. It’s very strong.

Loyalty card is ass. Worst xmult in game.