Glass Joker

Effect: This Joker gains X0.75 Mult for every Glass Card that is destroyed (Currently X1 Mult)

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Glass Joker in Balatro: This Joker gains X0.75 Mult for every Glass Card that is destroyed (Currently X1 Mult). Rarity, cost, unlock, synergies, and how to play it.

Cost: $6

Rarity: Uncommon

Category: Multiplicative Mult Jokers

Unlock requirement: Have 5 or more Glass cards in your deck. (Can only appear in the shop when there is a Glass Card in the deck.)

Verdict

The steepest uncapped scaling in the game at X0.75 per trigger, and the trigger is a card doing exactly what you already wanted it to do.

Why it works

  • X0.75 per Glass card destroyed is three times Hologram's rate and seven and a half times Vampire's. Eight breaks is X7, sixteen is X13.
  • Glass cards pay X2 Mult when scored and then roll 1-in-4 to shatter. The cost of feeding this joker is a card that was already multiplying your hand.
  • Every break also thins the deck, which makes your good cards more likely to appear. The scaling and the consistency gain point the same direction.
  • Justice converts any card to Glass on demand, so the fuel supply is controllable rather than luck-based.

Joker placement

Right of every additive joker.

How to play

  1. Use Justice β€” not The Empress β€” to make Glass cards. The Empress makes Mult cards and will not feed this at all.
  2. Glass your JUNK cards, not your Kings. You want the breaks; you do not want to lose the cards your build depends on.
  3. The joker only appears in the shop once you already hold a Glass card, so make Glass first and then look for it.
  4. Buy Oops! All 6s if you see it. It halves the time this takes to come online.

Combos

Oops! All 6s

The 1-in-4 shatter chance becomes 1-in-2, roughly doubling the rate Glass Joker scales at.

Oops! All 6s doubles every listed probability in the run, and the Glass destruction roll is a listed probability.

Justice + Showman

A controllable supply of Glass cards rather than waiting on shop luck.

Justice makes Glass on demand and Showman lets consumables repeat in the shop, so you can keep buying the Tarot that feeds the engine.

Traps

  • Glass Joker cannot appear in your shop until a Glass card is already in your deck. Planning around it without making Glass first means it will simply never show up.
  • Glassing cards your build needs. A shattered Steel King is a X2.25 you no longer have, and X0.75 does not pay for that.
  • The scaling is genuinely random. Across a handful of hands a 1-in-4 can badly underperform, and unlike Hologram there is no floor.

Benchmarks

Ante 8

Ten breaks by Ante 8 is X8.5, which is a full build's worth of multiplier from one Uncommon.

Endless

Among the better uncapped scalers for the deep antes, especially with Oops! All 6s doubling its rate.

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