Very addictive but plagued with ridiculous amounts of RNG.
You barely have any control over what's happening. There is no way to force any joker/effect that is even adjacent to what you're trying to build, you're just forced to go with the "flow". And it doesn’t get easier with more runs.. it gets harder because the pool of available jokers just keeps growing.

The core idea? Interesting. But it feels like the devs just kept adding jokers and "booster cards" only for the sake of having lots of ♥♥♥♥ in the game, even though many of them literally bring nothing to the table.
It's as if they literally couldn't bear to cut any ideas that they came up with during a brainstorming session.
Wasted effort?! Never.

To me, the only "truly reliable" way to consistently win seems to be something like this:

• Play around pairs
  
• Restart until you get a good reward for skipping first blind
  
• Get a good joker that will carry you through the early game
  
• Get your economy going
  
• Use the $$ to juice up your pairs with something like
  x2 + chip
  x1-x2 + mult
  x1-x2 x mult
  jokers

Missing the multiplicative mult on a high difficulty run? Well, you're SOL.

(Also as you could guess, playing like this is not very interesting, it is too formulaic)

Anything else is going to be problematic because you're starting off with a 52 card deck (without a quick way to reduce your deck size) and can't force cards that you want, even with all the available discards.
Ooor.. i guess..you kind of can... until.. that one time it doesn't work... when you need it to work.... and you x.x

Compare this to Slay The Spire and you'll understand the problem right away.

And even if you build a great deck, your run can easily be cut short by a "boss level" effect which you have no knowledge off until 2 rounds beforehand, when it's usually too late to play around it.

Gambling the game (duh).
The appeal is obvious and understandable, but skip it if you like having some semblance of control over your playthrough.
God gamers, spare me the lessons.

Very addictive but plagued with ridiculous amounts of RNG. You barely have any control over what's happening. There is no way to force any joker/effect that is even adjacent to what you're trying to build, you're just forced to go with the "flow". And it doesn’t get easier with more runs.. it gets harder because the pool of available jokers just keeps growing. The core idea? Interesting. But it feels like the devs just kept adding jokers and "booster cards" only for the sake of having lots of shit in the game, even though many of them literally bring nothing to the table. It's as if they literally couldn't bear to cut any ideas that they came up with during a brainstorming session. Wasted effort?! Never. To me, the only "truly reliable" way to consistently win seems to be something like this: [list] [*]Play around pairs [*]Restart until you get a good reward for skipping first blind [*]Get a good joker that will carry you through the early game [*]Get your economy going [*] Use the $$ to juice up your pairs with something like x2 + chip x1-x2 + mult x1-x2 x mult jokers [/list] Missing the multiplicative mult on a high difficulty run? Well, you're SOL. (Also as you could guess, playing like this is not very interesting, it is too formulaic) Anything else is going to be problematic because you're starting off with a 52 card deck (without a quick way to reduce your deck size) and can't force cards that you want, even with all the available discards. Ooor.. i guess..you kind of can... until.. that one time it doesn't work... when you need it to work.... and you x.x Compare this to Slay The Spire and you'll understand the problem right away. And even if you build a great deck, your run can easily be cut short by a "boss level" effect which you have no knowledge off until 2 rounds beforehand, when it's usually too late to play around it. Gambling the game (duh). The appeal is obvious and understandable, but skip it if you like having some semblance of control over your playthrough. God gamers, spare me the lessons.