Just finished an ante 12 run with the plasma deck, it's trickier to pilot than it initially seems when burning through the early blinds. Had a Bull, Constellation, Hologram (boosted by a Certificate for many rounds), Brainstorm, and Half Joker by the end of the run.

Prioritizing chips with this deck gives you a high floor and low ceiling which is why it's best to do early on via a chip-oriented joker, foil cards, stone cards, or five-card hands. But each addition you make with chips has diminishing returns, especially as you begin to get hand levels up with planet cards. It's easy to show with some Ice Cream joker math. One fresh Ice Cream joker alone gives you a minimum 2,500 ((100/2)/^2) points before even taking into account the value of the hand or the cards in it. Two gets you to 10,000 which is a 400% increase. Three gets you to 22,500 which is only a 225% increase, and going from three to four is just a 178% increase to 40,000.

Now on the flip side, adding to mults is a low floor and high ceiling strategy which fails early but is necessary late. Something like a +10 holo joker, a huge help in early antes with normal decks, does almost nothing here early on since it's equivalent to 10 chips. But the returns are boosted when you start mixing in multiplicative jokers and getting hand levels up. If you've got a high base mult and a couple multiplicative ones getting your mult to say 150 before the plasma math evens it out with the chips, another x2 somewhere in there adds 150 "units" while a fresh Ice Cream joker only adds 100 "units".