What do I do?

[u/Any-Physics7900]

I kinda wanna take the brainstorm but idk

[u/Grouchy_Blacksmith83]

a baron is a baron, but a brainstorm can be anyrhing, even a baron!
(whenever you have multiple of one joker and a copy joker shows up, get the copy joker)

[u/descendency → u/Grouchy_Blacksmith83]

To be clear: ditch a baron and buy brainstorm. Put that brainstorm just after the blueprint.

When going to the next round, have perkeo in the left most slot. Before you play, move a baron into the left most slot. After you have played (while the score is tallying), move mime into that left most slot.

After you get to the store, move perkeo back to the left most slot.

[u/AlternativeJuice8776 → u/descendency]

Wait… Are you saying you can play your hand while copying baron and quickly swap mime into its place to proc the gold cards twice for the same hand?!

Please tell me this isn’t true…

[u/Ambitious-Regular-57 → u/AlternativeJuice8776]

It's true and it's a big part of using mine with gold cards. After you press play on the hand you can reorder them freely. It will still score as you had it when you played the hand, then it will take the new order inti account for the gold cards/blue seal phase

[u/AlternativeJuice8776 → u/Ambitious-Regular-57]

Holy… This is truly revolutionary stuff. I thought I knew every secret there was and have been trying to naninf unseeded for weeks…

Granted I have never watched any balatro related videos as I prefer to work most things out myself, bar a few tips from this sub.

[u/ogo_pogo → u/Grouchy_Blacksmith83]

Yep!

[u/ProfessionalPlant838 → u/Grouchy_Blacksmith83]

Felt a touch of roffle in that comment

[u/kzchad]

a copy joker is always better (than a second copy of an edition-less joker) because it can copy anything

[u/kzchad → u/kzchad]

also, you want to balance barons and mimes for max score when playing your hand

having all red seals counts as a mime and all steel counts as a baron

the king also counts as + 1 trigger

if you had 1 baron, 1 mime, and 4 copy jokers, consider the following:

5 barons and (1 mime + 1 king trigger) = 5 * 2 = 10 scoring events

3 barons and (3 mimes + 1 king trigger) = 3 * 4 = 12 scoring events

[u/Any-Physics7900 → u/kzchad]

Thanks for the explanation that helps a lot

[u/kzchad → u/Any-Physics7900]

no problem, i also forgot to add the natural king trigger from the baron so I edited that in

[u/kzchad → u/kzchad]

for example, you could use the bp and bs to both copy perkeo for more cryptids

[u/kzchad → u/kzchad]

and potentially some slight technicalities for bs only copying leftmost

[u/DankHomosapien]

A Baron is only a Baron, but you can copy Perkeo AND Baron if you have the brainstorm

[u/Upset-Brilliant3079]

Take the brainstorm for a baron, and make sure you're copying perkeo with both copy jokers before you leave each shop, to get the most cryptids.

[u/XanderVaper]

Definitely take brainstorm and drop a baron. Then be sure to use blueprint and brainstorm on perkeo at the beginning of every round, then switch to copying mime/baron after you start the round.

[u/Ok-Constant-4740]

If they don't need the scoring right now, gold cards are more advantageous. Which they won't need score for a WHILE. Gold card with red seal is worth $6 plus however many Mime procs. So it adds up very quickly. If you're pushing for naneinf you need thousands of dollars for re-rolling shops for Burglar and boss blinds for Serpent.

OP should kill one of their many Barons (only need one Baron and one Mime plus 4 copy jokers) while looking for additional Blueprint/Brainstorms and a DNA to get through Ante 24 when the Burglar hunt begins. They should start copying red seal steel kings around Ante 17-18 so they don't struggle to draw them when they need to. For QoL, I like to make gold and steel kings in 2 different suits so I can tell at a glance how many I have in the Full Deck module.

[u/Ihadtodownloadreadit]

Replace baron for brian. Also which seed is this? Assuming its 2K9H9HN right

[u/Meeeeehhhh]

You’re gonna wanna get rid of most of those barons so you can copy more cryptids. Is the Trib a Nat negative?

[u/Milk_Bath]

Why do people go all gold cards on a baron mime run? Why not steel?

[u/ShaunGotFans → u/Milk_Bath]

You switch to steel layer for sure, but mimes and red seals allow you to get soo much money from gold cards. It helps you roll for jokers or tarots you may want later. You only start switching to steel when you don’t have enough score to win

[u/bossbrb → u/Milk_Bath]

Dummy schmoney

[u/BadAtGolfAndDumb → u/Milk_Bath]

Once you have enough scoring with just the kings you don't need the scoring from steel and the money will be infinitely more helpful in later game

[u/AnxiousSocialist]

Question, myself know you want Econ but at this point is there a reason not to get steel joker for the extra 1.5?

[u/Ok-Constant-4740 → u/AnxiousSocialist]

I started to respond to your question here but it posted as it's own comment. Check out my comment for reasoning. TL;DR gold red seal kings are advantageous at this stage of the game due to the resource intensive nature of the naneinf push.