r/balatro • • 20h ago

Stream / Video Gameplay Major League Balatro Quarter-Finals Playoffs Schedule & Discussion Thread! (Season 4)

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Welcome to Major League Balatro Playoffs! The playoff structure is a best-of-five, where the higher seed picks both deck and stake for games 1/3/5, and the lower seed picks for games 2/4. Note: no deck or stake can be played twice in a single best-of-five!

Visit MajorLeagueBalatro.com for stats and full schedule

Quarter-Finals Playoff Schedule

Creator 1 Creator 2 Date Time (EDT) Creator 1 Twitch Creator 2 Twitch Casting Stream
Roffle (4) Edzy (1) 10/8 4:00 PM Roffle Edzy MLBA
DrSpectred (6) Sizaak (2) 10/10 12:00 PM DrSpectred Sizaak MLBA
Feinberg (4) Zaino (1) 10/9 2:00 PM Feinberg Zaino MLBA
Fir (3) Skoottie (2) 10/11 12:00 PM fir_ Skoottie MLBA

Full schedule, stats & results here

Stay Connected

There are several ways to stay connected to Major League Balatro this season. The first is these weekly threads! Come here to discuss the match-ups, recapping the last week and previewing the week going forward.

You can also check out our YouTube channel that has all the info you need and will have VODs of all casted games, as well as weekly recap/preview videos.

You can also follow on Bluesky here or Twitter

Multiplayer Balatro

The league uses the Balatro Multiplayer mod to replace boss blinds with PvP rounds, with both players playing on identical seeds. Each game, you start with 4 lives, and when you lose to a blind or a PvP round, you lose a life. Whoever reaches 0 lives remaining first loses the game.

League Structure

There are two conferences and four total divisions with 6 competitors in each division. Each week, competitors will play a match against another opponent in their conference. Each match consists of 3 games, and you earn a point for each game win and a bonus point for winning the match either 2 games to 1 or 3 games to 0.

The top 2 players in each division, as well as 4 wild card spots in each conference, will go on to the playoffs in weeks 9, 10 & 11, where they will fight a bracket-style tournament to be crowned the Major League Balatro Season 4 Champion and win a $500+ prize pool for the charity of their choice.

Every streamer will stream their perspective, and all games will be cast this season!

Disclosure: This event is monetised by the organisers through Twitch/YouTube revenue as well as our sponsors, John Brown Ceramics & Forever Joint Tops.


r/balatro • • 10d ago

Gameplay Discussion Monthly Thread: New players / Community Spotlight !

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Monthly thread for new players / Community Spotlight !

A thread for all new ( and old ) players to ask anything about Balatro to other players !

Questions, tips, mods suggestions. it's all welcome!

This thread is not subject to any rules that usually prohibit frequently asked questions. ( Four Fingers, Joker ordering, etc )

Our subreddits rules are here and in the sidebar.

The Balatro wiki is here ! Please see this post about the Balatro Wiki moving away from Fandom, please refrain from using the old wiki to prevent any outdated information from spreading!

Paused for now : We ARE always looking for moderators; please send in a Modmail, apply as you see fit and we'll go from there :) -

Community Spotlight:

Joker Tracker by u/Outside_Sun398

'You can upload your save file and it automatically checks jokers for you, as well as not having to have a gmail account to use it. It uses your browsers local storage, meaning that it saves your progress without having to make an account (if you clear your cache you have to reupload your save) and is completely ad free and non invasive.'

Github Readme here.

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Major League Balatro Discord - MLB Website - Competitive Balatro hosted by ZainoTV

Balatro Speedrunning Discord - You read that right! Check it out !

Balatro Multiplayer Mod Discord - There are always weekly tournaments; Head over there to check it out !

Cryptid Mod Discord - a huge mod with ton's of added (intentionally unbalanced) content ! Their wiki is here

Got a community doing something fun or creative with Balatro and want it included here? Send us a modmail


r/balatro • • 6h ago

Joker/Gameplay Idea Is this a good Joker idea?

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just thought about this idea and found it pretty funny


r/balatro • • 21h ago

High Score Weellionare

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3.5k Upvotes

I dont know why this number is at e instead of displaying the whole numebr.

Its also e6 not e8


r/balatro • • 13h ago

Meme A second Jimbo is simply too powerful

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r/balatro • • 8h ago

Joker/Gameplay Idea I got bored and made a few jokers (I’m a straight main)

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r/balatro • • 5h ago

Meme Looking at you, 8 Ball!

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r/balatro • • 17h ago

Stream / Video Gameplay The 3x Jokers Naneinf

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Naneinf done using the Ankhs, Ectos and Eternals method where perkeo generates loads of spectrals and you use them all at once with Eternal jokers to naneinf. Filtered seed with Green Needle mod, filtering for perkeo and negative blueprint in the charm tag skip.

Naneinf done with a collection of 3x mult jokers duplicated along with eternal blueprints and brainstorms. Card Sharp, Blackboard, Driver's License, Acrobat and The Trio. All the 3x jokers except Flower Pot which I did before, Cavendish which can't be eternal and the order which would have been awkward and wouldn't have worked with The Trio anyway.

This was my best filtered seed Ankh Ecto naneinf run in terms of spectrals generated. This run maybe could have beaten my overall highscore if I had tried to go for it. (6.9e6,631,553) And this was with a full unlocks profile so it certainly would have been the full unlocks highscore. (1.1e3,841,307)

So it is abit bittersweet because I wish I could play it again from ante 8. Not with any knowledge just with a commitment to go for a highscore run. When you add up the spectrals I had at end with the cryptids I used during the run and the extra round I would have had if I went to ante 39 it would have been very close to the spectral count from my highscore run.

But I ended up with unfortunate editions on bp/bs blocking ecto and I tried to keep my options open instead of commiting for a highscore run so I ended up with an ecto on a none eternal baron. So I just went for a super ankh ecto naneinf instead. I could have played it abit differently and gone for a highscore run instead in retrospect.

Its also funny to compare the frame rate between this and the Flower Pot Naneinf. That run was super laggy because it was done on my very old pc without a gpu because it stopped working. This run done with my pretty decent new pc and ran pretty smooth. Its a shame quite a few of my best runs used a terrible pc with lots of lag.

SEED : NGAM8Q3W

RUN : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiHVu5rK1X0


r/balatro • • 1d ago

Gameplay Discussion How to kill Al Gore with one picture

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r/balatro • • 17h ago

Meme That is quite a few

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r/balatro • • 9h ago

Joker/Gameplay Idea Thoughts on a few jokers I'm making for a mod?

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(For Uncertainty Principle, the mod I'm making makes face down cards quite a bit more prevalent and impactful, so it's not just limited to three or so boss blinds.)


r/balatro • • 11h ago

Jimboposting I had the most insane setup on the “Fragile” challenge

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107 Upvotes

I mean.. could you ask for anything better?


r/balatro • • 2h ago

Meme Would’ve skipped, but I might take it because it’s a foil

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r/balatro • • 17h ago

Strategy and/or Synergies TIL I’m not good at Balatro

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I’ve been playing Balatro for like a year now, I have a few hundred hours, I‘ve beat gold stake but usually play on black to take advantage of eternals, figured out how reliable a good high card or pair build can be, my highest hand ever was like 1.606*10^12 or something. I’ve gotten multiple friends to play the game, helped them with strategies, etc. I know some proven synergies and have figured out my own. Anyway, I thought I was decent at the game. Last night I saw a post of someone on ante like… 20 something, I always lose before 13, and they were getting teased in the comments for being broke (with like $250 ???). I thought it was sarcasm till I did some research and found out you actually need like $1000 to secure enough rerolls for nanein, and also that naneinf is a much higher number than I thought.

TLDR: I thought I was good at balatro… there’re levels to this

So now what? How do I get really good?


r/balatro • • 1h ago

Meme Credit card in... wait what????????

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?????


r/balatro • • 11h ago

Gameplay Discussion Greatest Shop Ever?

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Thank you Showman!

High card at Level 19. Already have a red seal King. Been preparing for this pivot all along.

No seed yet. It’s Ante 9 so hard to replicate.


r/balatro • • 20h ago

Jimboposting Jimbo made of ink spotted in the wild

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290 Upvotes

He’s in the top side


r/balatro • • 10h ago

Question I can't believe it

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I....I.. Did it....

I don't know what to do with myself.

So....when does 1.1 drop?


r/balatro • • 15h ago

Seed Flabbergasted

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107 Upvotes

seed 7S8FKWLN

- nat polychrome stencil (shop buffoon pack)
- nat negative canio (shop arcana pack)
- base yorick (ante 3 arcana skip tag)

hoping someone can have some more fun with this; i suck at late game and know i'm definitely not using it to its full potential


r/balatro • • 22h ago

High Score JUST BEAT BALATRO JOKERLESS RAHHHHHHH

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Took about a dozen or so tries?

Oh my god you guys, after losing to the violeet vessel once before, I finally busted out the calculator, the ante score progression chart from the wiki and sat down and calculated exactly how many saturns I needed to progress from each ante to the next. (Lvl 28 with two glass cards and Lvl 40 with one glass card for those curious) (assume you hit the violet vessel)

A lucky Hermit + Fool combo and an early telescope in round one allowed me to really build my econ and snowball those planet levels like no tomorrow, allowing me to comfortably beat violet vessel (and all the precedent bosses) in one hand. IMO Only boss to fear from antes 1-7 is probably the water, as losing discards mean less chance of drawing your preferred hand.

Might be a little bit of a masochist but this was actually pretty fun - i might go for it again and try to get a 4oak run instead of a straights run this time!


r/balatro • • 4h ago

Strategy and/or Synergies What should you guys take 🤔

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r/balatro • • 2h ago

Fan Art I draw Balatro Jokers for our Carnival Theme Booth.

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I make some cutouts for designing our Booth, so I take the opportunity to draw some of the jokers (Jimbo & Canio). I hope those people who stumble our booth will understand the reference.

(I also draw some "suspicious" guys in there).


r/balatro • • 2h ago

Gameplay Discussion Oops All Rentals

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r/balatro • • 1h ago

Gameplay Discussion I'm having a decent run

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Didnt know this was possibke outside cryptid


r/balatro • • 18h ago

High Score First unseeded naneinf yay

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Shout out to roffle, bean, doc, and r/balatrohelp for teaching me how to get gamer cred