Top 10 Uncommon Balatro Jokers

When Jokers are not common or rare, they are considered uncommon. These feature abilities that may seem broken but still ensure fair play during your run.

Here's the best in show when it comes to uncommon Jokers in Balatro.

The Top Ten

  1. Mime

    This has to be one of the strongest uncommon jokers ever. Mime retriggers the held-in-hand abilities of cards, and it allows for insane results, like inflating your Reserved Parking payout or a deluge of steel cards adding to your score.

    Pair this up with Baron and you have serious naneinf potential.

  2. Sock and Buskin

    Retriggers scored face cards. I prefer this over Hack because face cards have more base chips, and with Pareidolia, all of your cards can be retriggered.

    Unlocking this joker is done by playing 300 face cards across every run you've played so far. It seems like a lot, but you probably won't even notice by the time you unlock it.

  3. Certificate

    When selecting a blind, this joker adds a card with a random seal to your deck. It may seem broken, but there's something I love about getting a gold rush from gold seals, planet cards from blue seals, a helpful tarot card from purple seals, and a retrigger frenzy from red seals.

    You unlock this joker by having a gold card with a gold seal, which can easily be done by using a Talisman in a spectral pack while having The Devil in your consumable slot.

  4. Hiker

    This joker permanently adds +5 chips to any scored card. If you have a good selection of retrigger jokers, you can add at least +20 chips to your cards, making a rank 2 card have as much as +50 chips.

  5. Astronomer

    There's no such thing as a free lunch, but there is such a thing as a joker that makes all planet cards and celestial packs in the shop free. Congratulations, you just learned Astronomer's ability, and discovering every planet card in the game must have really paid off.

    Free planet cards are useful all around, from your best poker hands to planet card dependent jokers like Satellite and Constellation.

  6. Constellation

    I had to pick between Hologram, Steel Joker, Lucky Cat, or Constellation as my favorite scaling joker. But adding X0.1 mult to this joker with accessible planet cards and higher scaling possibilities made it a pretty easy choice.

    The scaling may be too slow for some players, but once you get to a high amount of X mult, that's when you can take back everything you said about it.

  7. Rocket

    A joker that gives you $1 at the end of a round sounds pretty boring. Unless it increases by $2 at the end of each boss blind.

    This might as well be an infinite money glitch, because not only does it give you free money, but it also grows without doing anything else to your build.

  8. Oops! All 6s

    This joker, with a picture of dice, doubles all listed probabilities. Doesn't seem like much at face value, but an example of probabilities doubling would be 1 in 4 becoming 2 in 4.

    This allows probability-based tarot cards like Wheel of Fortune to have a higher chance of giving foil, holographic, and polychrome to jokers, and for lucky cards to trigger their abilities more frequently. Jokers with 1 in 2 probabilities like Business Card, Reserved Parking, and Bloodstone are guaranteed to trigger their abilities.

    In the rare event you have two of this joker from Showman or Invisible Joker, the probabilities for Wheel of Fortune and lucky cards are guaranteed. But exercise caution when using Glass cards or playing against The Wheel, because the probabilities of breaking Glass cards and drawing cards face down can now work against you.

    So there's a bit of a risk and reward system in this joker. It also allows for Glass Joker to be scaled pretty easily. To see this joker's full potential, you unlock it by earning 10,000 chips in one hand, which is a pretty easy unlock condition all things considered.

  9. Pareidolia

    Now what's so special about this joker treating all cards as face cards? Well, according to Pareidolia, ranked and ace cards have faces on them, which will be treated by other jokers as face cards. There are so many amazing synergies with this joker I need to make a sub-list within an entry:

    - Sock and Buskin: All cards can be retriggered.

    - Canio: All cards can be destroyed to scale this joker's X mult. Useful for consumables that destroy large quantities of cards like Immolate.

    - Photochad: Any card can be used for this synergy.

    - Business Card and Reserved Parking: A five-card hand and solid hand size means you'll get money either way.

    - Faceless Joker: Discarding three of any ranked card will give you $5.

    But player beware, because no cool features are without risk. If you have this joker in hand while going up against The Plant, your run is over. If you go up against The Mark, all of your cards are drawn face down, which is a little less annoying than The Plant with the workarounds you can use. This is a risk and reward system in its purest form.

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