# Wait, no Balatro?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-no-balatro/1009916>\
**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [November 8, 2024, 9:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-no-balatro/1009916 "2024-11-08T09:39:50Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2026, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-no-balatro/1009916/61 "2026-06-08T19:14:58Z")

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I got my first naneinf today - I can check that final box off my list. It was a Plasma/Perkeo build, so once I had an economy built, it was pretty straight forward.

I had an early Seance, which I grinded for red seals. I got Perkeo around Ante 6, which really isn’t a big gift - it takes up a useful slot. Luckily, I already had Blueprint/Brainstorm, and had Gift Carded my jokers to $50. I found a Temperance, got a bunch of copies, found a Bull, and cashed out. Plasma deck isn’t too hard with +2000 chips to start out. Seance was much better than Sixth Sense, because it will retrigger.

I went full overkill, because all the guides assume you’ve Ectoplasmed and Blank vouchers your way to a 7 joker hand. I just had 5. I wasted time with a DNA, thinking I’d go the Serpent route (man, this post is gibberish if you don’t know the game!), and then I got a Cryptid spectral, and I was off to the races.

You need 55 red seal steel kings if all you have is Baron, Mime and 3 retrigger cards. That’s 25 cryptids with a 7 card hand.

If I try again, I want to do the Burglar/Serpent route. That seems like more skill than lucking into a Perkeo and not have it kill you.

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**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2026, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-no-balatro/1009916/62 "2026-08-25T23:18:21Z")

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So I’ve gotten a couple more naninfs under my belt, including some Burglar/Serpent ones. They’re only slightly less luck-reliant. I’ve had perfect set ups ruined by not getting a skip voucher tag late enough, by not getting a single Burglar to proc even after 870 rerolls, and so many deaths to The Plant because I couldn’t get a Director’s Cut voucher. I just now died on Ante 32 because I just couldn’t find a Burglar (no skip tags or Overstock to help out killed me, even with $4000+ in the bank).

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