It could kinda be viable if ties for most common hand worked in your favor, but they don’t. The only way I can see getting any value out of it at all is if you go hard on a single hand build for the first half of the run, pick it up at the halfway point and abruptly pivot your whole strategy, I guess?
I looked this one up online to figure out what strategy would even work with this joker and there really isn’t one.
https://balatrogame.fandom.com/wiki/Obelisk_(Joker)
It could kinda be viable if ties for most common hand worked in your favor, but they don’t. The only way I can see getting any value out of it at all is if you go hard on a single hand build for the first half of the run, pick it up at the halfway point and abruptly pivot your whole strategy, I guess?
Yeah, the wiki calls that out, but that puts a lot of risk on changing your strategy mid/late game.
In a run without discards, where you basically use High Card hands to discard cards, it can be pretty good…
Yep. Worked well with the “gain 3 hands lose all discards” joker up to level 11 blinds
But ironically it helped me in my first Balatro wins but after that it never work for me.