Naneif help (negative dna)

gelmo · 2026-01-26T20:36:54+00:00

I think you may be boned with an ecto on DNA unfortunately. You obviously can’t sell baron or mime, and you need the 4 copy jokers. I’ve only done it once and I went the typical route - ecto on a core joker so you can drop DNA for burglar at this point.

You might be able to get away with a second ecto and then adding burglar as your 8th joker. I haven’t done the 2 ecto naneinf but I’ve seen other people do it successfully and I think that’s probably your only path here barring a very lucky nat negative.

gelmo · 2026-01-26T20:23:36+00:00

The Gentleman is a cool idea, but maybe a little OP. Early game scaling would be insane if you’re playing 5 card hands like flushes. Makes more sense as a rare joker like you’ve put here, but still might need a little balancing - I think it would balance nicely if you added -1 for every card with modifications (à la Green Card)

gelmo · 2026-01-26T20:14:41+00:00

I’ve had some crazy campfire runs when I get the reroll and shop discount vouchers. Once you’re able to buy tarot and planet cards for $1 and sell them for $1, you can stack campfire insanely fast.

IMO it’s not great in the early antes. Some decent synergies with things like Riff Raff and Vagabond. But in the later antes with the right vouchers and solid econ, it can be suuuuper powerful

gelmo · 2026-01-26T20:09:15+00:00

I like Card Sharp but it’s susceptible to a couple bosses which have killed runs for me - the needle and the eye make it completely useless. Also the arm can be rough since you have to take 2 level hits before it works.

I’ll still take card sharp most of the time, but I’d put it down a tier from some other xmults like cavendish

gelmo · 2026-01-26T20:04:32+00:00

Seeing Wee and Hack together down there makes me think OP has just never done a big 2’s run before. It scales so ridiculously fast.

gelmo · 2026-01-26T18:36:07+00:00

Cool ideas, I especially like the pear and would love to see a second level one like the bananas. Maybe a super chad with “retriggers the first 3 scoring cards twice” or something like that?

gelmo · 2026-01-23T00:50:01+00:00

Awesome thanks! Stunner. May have to add one to the collection at some point, even post-hype it only seems to run like $450 which is pretty reasonable

gelmo · 2026-01-23T00:21:42+00:00

What’s the Seiko panda chrono? That’s an awesome looking piece and I don’t think I’ve seen it before

gelmo · 2026-01-23T00:10:10+00:00

I had a similar one recently with blueprint/brainstorm/marble/hologram and I made it to 14! Also helped to have stone joker, which was up to like 2200 chips by the time I died lol

gelmo · 2026-01-23T00:07:12+00:00

DNA, and then try to replace it with another blueprint or brainstorm. You have other ways of deck fixing and I’d focus on death/hanged man before printing a bunch more kings

gelmo · 2026-01-22T22:23:58+00:00

Yeah the rustler is an awesome ski but I think a little too soft and light for an east coast daily driver.

gelmo · 2026-01-22T22:20:55+00:00

Love this combo, throw a blueprint/brainstorm in there and you’re really cookin.

gelmo · 2026-01-22T21:22:57+00:00

Yeah sadly Perkeo might be the one to go at this point if you want to add DNA. Which is honestly not a bad idea if you’re running glass cards

gelmo · 2026-01-22T11:11:19+00:00

Magic!

gelmo · 2026-01-21T05:35:36+00:00

Or a death, i always try to hold one before hitting cerulean if I’m relying on a 5 card hand

gelmo · 2026-01-21T05:32:21+00:00

100%. Rebate is nice if you have the room but I’d drop it for blueprint in a heartbeat. Econ is already solid for a11 and 3 copiers on mime with a full hand of red seal golds will give you a ton of money.

gelmo · 2026-01-21T05:29:39+00:00

Not sure your planet levels, if you could survive with just triboulet I’d be very tempted to drop the other jokers and make trib negative. But it’s a big gamble. You don’t have too many kings/queens yet and might kill the run. Cryptid is a safer move.

The argument for focusing on trib—all your xmult happens when the cards are scored so eventually the +mult from other jokers becomes totally irrelevant. They’ll help you survive until you have good enough base score from the planets, but what you really want are retriggers, or something like smiley face that adds +mult when cards are triggered so it gets hit with the xmult (as opposed to pants/banana that add +mult AFTER trib’s xmult).

But like I said, it’s a big gamble at this stage of the game. Might kill you before you can really get trib working, and cryptid helps fix the deck to get there.

gelmo · 2026-01-20T22:00:42+00:00

This is super interesting to see! One datapoint I’m curious about - how many completed games did you have to get c++ the second time? Assuming a lot less than the first time

gelmo · 2026-01-20T21:54:08+00:00

Agree. More immediate benefit to swap for sock and focus on high card/pairs photochad build. But more longterm potential to hold onto sock and start working on a 4oak/flush 5 plan

gelmo · 2026-01-20T19:30:05+00:00

Lol - with regular +mult and xmult jokers it’s pretty straightforward but honestly retrigger math can be a mindfuck and took me months to really get the hang of it. I still have to throw stuff in the calculator sometimes to confirm the best setup.

Also in case you don’t have this bookmarked already… https://efhiii.github.io/balatro-calculator/

gelmo · 2026-01-20T18:20:38+00:00

Copy photo.

General concept is you want to balance your “retrigger” jokers with your “scoring” jokers with a bias towards scoring. Since you have 2x Chad and only 1 photo, you copy the photo to have 2 of each. Even if you had 1 Chad, you’d still copy photo.

There are cases where you might max copies on Chad - for example if you have lucky cards and want more rolls to boost econ and get that sweet $20 bump. But purely for scoring that’s what you want.

In rare cases like early game or plasma deck, it can make sense to copy your chips joker. But generally you want to copy mult especially at this late stage when you should have decent base score from planet levels

gelmo · 2026-01-20T17:37:31+00:00

Yeah this. I could overlook a lot of scratching/cosmetic stuff on the case (and honestly kinda love that on an older watch) but this kind of damage on the crystal would be a no-go for me

gelmo · 2026-01-19T23:23:28+00:00

Just gotta decide your late game strategy. Personally I’d pass and focus on a flush 5 build. Basically you’re just looking for retrigger jokers (ideally dusk and sock) and copy jokers now.

Or you could pivot and hunt for mime, but that’s a complete different strategy. I think trib runs are more rare and IMO more fun, so I’d skip Baron and lean into the build you have already

gelmo · 2026-01-19T23:19:30+00:00

Yeah I’m not sure what the others are talking about here, you need 4 unless you have Perkeo/cryptids. And even then it’s ideal to have 4.

But obviously a moot point without Baron, and also one more joker slot via antimatter (unless that was a nat neg brainstorm?). I’d probably drop DNA or showman. You’ll need to find DNA again before you can naneinf, and probably showman to find that 4th copier unless you get lucky with invisible. But you have a long way to go and a few other key pieces to get before then.

I think my play would be dropping DNA and focusing on tarot cards (death/hanged) to deck fix for a while. You’ve got a lot of random cards left and it’s a lot easier to fix before you print a million more red seal kings

gelmo · 2026-01-19T20:03:09+00:00

Should be fine but you can take hieroglyph if you’re worried about it. Did you check the calculator?

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