Balatro - Blinds
The Boss Blinds that close each Ante in Balatro, plus the five finisher Blinds that appear instead of a normal Boss Blind every fourth Ante from Ante 8 onward. A Boss Blind doubles the normal payout but applies a rule restriction for the round, from debuffing an entire suit or all face cards to cutt...
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| Name | Type | Description | Stats | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Hook | Boss Blind | Discards two random cards from hand every time a hand is played, which steadily erodes a hand built on held cards. | Ante: Cycles from Ante 1 Reward: 2x normal payout Effect: Discards 2 random cards per hand played | Boss Blind rotation |
| The Ox | Boss Blind | Sets money to zero if the player plays their most played poker hand, which punishes the repetition that most builds rely on. | Ante: Cycles from Ante 1 Reward: 2x normal payout Effect: Playing your most played poker hand sets money to $0 | Boss Blind rotation |
| The House | Boss Blind | Draws the first hand of the round face down, forcing the opening play to be made blind. | Ante: Cycles from Ante 1 Reward: 2x normal payout Effect: First hand is drawn face down | Boss Blind rotation |
| The Wall | Boss Blind | Increases the score requirement far beyond a normal Boss Blind of the same Ante. | Ante: Cycles from Ante 2 Reward: 2x normal payout Effect: Extra large score requirement | Boss Blind rotation |
| The Wheel | Boss Blind | Draws one in seven cards face down, so a hand of five has a real chance of holding a hidden card. | Ante: Cycles from Ante 2 Reward: 2x normal payout Effect: 1 in 7 cards drawn are face down | Boss Blind rotation |
| The Arm | Boss Blind | Lowers the level of the poker hand played for the round, undoing Planet investment. | Ante: Cycles from Ante 2 Reward: 2x normal payout Effect: Decreases the level of the played poker hand | Boss Blind rotation |
| The Club | Boss Blind | Debuffs every Club, so Club cards score nothing for the round. | Ante: Cycles from Ante 2 Reward: 2x normal payout Effect: All Club cards are debuffed | Boss Blind rotation |
| The Goad | Boss Blind | Debuffs every Spade for the round, the suit twin of The Club. | Ante: Cycles from Ante 2 Reward: 2x normal payout Effect: All Spade cards are debuffed | Boss Blind rotation |
| The Head | Boss Blind | Debuffs every Heart, which is the check on Heart-based Flush builds. | Ante: Cycles from Ante 2 Reward: 2x normal payout Effect: All Heart cards are debuffed | Boss Blind rotation |
| The Window | Boss Blind | Debuffs every Diamond, completing the four suit-restriction Boss Blinds. | Ante: Cycles from Ante 2 Reward: 2x normal payout Effect: All Diamond cards are debuffed | Boss Blind rotation |
| The Manacle | Boss Blind | Reduces hand size by one for the round, which hurts any build that relies on holding cards such as Baron or Steel Joker. | Ante: Cycles from Ante 3 Reward: 2x normal payout Effect: -1 hand size | Boss Blind rotation |
| The Fish | Boss Blind | Draws every card face down for the round, so the player plays blind from the first hand. | Ante: Cycles from Ante 3 Reward: 2x normal payout Effect: Cards drawn are face down | Boss Blind rotation |
| The Psychic | Boss Blind | Requires exactly five cards to be played, which kills High Card and four-card builds for the round. | Ante: Cycles from Ante 3 Reward: 2x normal payout Effect: Must play exactly 5 cards | Boss Blind rotation |
| The Water | Boss Blind | Starts the round with no discards, removing the safety valve of a second look at the hand. | Ante: Cycles from Ante 3 Reward: 2x normal payout Effect: Start with 0 discards | Boss Blind rotation |
| The Eye | Boss Blind | Forbids playing any poker hand type twice in the same round, which forces a build to diversify. | Ante: Cycles from Ante 4 Reward: 2x normal payout Effect: No poker hand type may be played twice this round | Boss Blind rotation |
| The Mouth | Boss Blind | Allows only one poker hand type to be played for the whole round, the inverse of The Eye. | Ante: Cycles from Ante 4 Reward: 2x normal payout Effect: Only one poker hand type can be played this round | Boss Blind rotation |
| The Plant | Boss Blind | Debuffs every face card for the round, which is the direct counter to face-card builds built on Sock and Buskin, Photograph and Triboulet. | Ante: Cycles from Ante 4 Reward: 2x normal payout Effect: All face cards are debuffed | Boss Blind rotation |
| The Pillar | Boss Blind | Debuffs every card that was already played earlier in the same Ante, so a build that spams the same cards loses them for the Boss Blind. | Ante: Cycles from Ante 4 Reward: 2x normal payout Effect: Cards played earlier this Ante are debuffed | Boss Blind rotation |
| The Needle | Boss Blind | Allows a single hand for the entire round, so one play has to clear the whole requirement. | Ante: Cycles from Ante 5 Reward: 2x normal payout Effect: Play only 1 hand | Boss Blind rotation |
| The Tooth | Boss Blind | Charges money for every card played, directly attacking the cash economy. | Ante: Cycles from Ante 5 Reward: 2x normal payout Effect: Lose $1 per card played | Boss Blind rotation |
| The Mark | Boss Blind | Draws all face cards face down for the round, so a face-card build cannot see the cards it is built on. | Ante: Cycles from Ante 5 Reward: 2x normal payout Effect: All face cards are drawn face down | Boss Blind rotation |
| The Verdant Leaf | Finisher Blind | Debuffs all cards until a Joker is sold, and every fourth Ante from Ante 8 ends on a finisher instead of a normal Boss Blind. | Ante: Finisher, every 4 Antes from Ante 8 Reward: 2x normal payout Effect: All cards debuffed until 1 Joker is sold | Finisher Blind pool |
| The Crimson Heart | Finisher Blind | Disables one random Joker at the start of every hand, so a build leaning on a single engine Joker loses it intermittently. | Ante: Finisher, every 4 Antes from Ante 8 Reward: 2x normal payout Effect: One random Joker is disabled each hand | Finisher Blind pool |
| The Cerulean Bell | Finisher Blind | Forces one random card to always be selected in the hand, which interferes with exact hand sizes and with deliberately playing four cards. | Ante: Finisher, every 4 Antes from Ante 8 Reward: 2x normal payout Effect: 1 card is always forced to be selected | Finisher Blind pool |
| The Violet Vessel | Finisher Blind | Raises the required score enormously, far beyond any normal Boss Blind of the same Ante. | Ante: Finisher, every 4 Antes from Ante 8 Reward: 2x normal payout Effect: Very large score requirement | Finisher Blind pool |
| The Amber Acorn | Finisher Blind | Flips and shuffles every Joker on the line, so positional effects such as Blueprint and Brainstorm point at different Jokers for the round. | Ante: Finisher, every 4 Antes from Ante 8 Reward: 2x normal payout Effect: Flips and shuffles all Jokers | Finisher Blind pool |
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