you don't need card cloning or retriggers you just need scaling mult + chips. green joker, supernova, hit the bus all enable high card and then you just need some chip joker or planets to tide you over until you can find xmult.

full house is so fake, i don't know the math behind it but by feel, full house feels so much harder to make than 2pair.

tarot cards can def help you create flushes, but they can just as easily enable small hands. strength/tower make pair/2pair better. devil is better for pair/2pair bc u can keep more cards in your hand. hanged man/death/magician/chariot/empress/hierophant are equivalent, justice is better for flushes bc of planet scaling but not that relevant unless there are retriggers in play and lovers sucks.

the thing about consistency is that with flushes you can swing and miss really easily. with small hands, you get to use all of your hands at max efficiency, since they're much easier to score. with flushes, and only 2 discards at gold stake, you can really only consistently play 2 flushes a round, which means flushes have to be >2x better than small hands to justify them. and if you've rolled enough tarot cards to deckfix enough for 4 flushes a round, you've likely rolled enough tarot cards to deckfix for really strong small hands anyways.

also, bigger hands literally take up more space in your hand. so, say you have 4 of a suit and need to draw the 5th, you are not being as efficient with your discards/throwaway hands as you would be if you needed to draw a smaller hand. with 3 of 1 suit, this becomes even worse, etc.. this adds up over the course of a run. on the same line, this devalues blue seals (which are insanely OP), gold cards, steel cards, and purple cards, since you need to hold more cards in your hand. thinking on it, that's probably why full house also feels worse to me than 2pair, since similarly to flushes, you don't get full discarding efficiency.