r/balatro • • 2d ago

Stream / Video Gameplay Major League Balatro Semifinals 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

Semifinals & Grand Finals Playoff Schedule

Creator 1 Creator 2 Date Time (EDT) Creator 1 Twitch Creator 2 Twitch Casting Stream
Sizaak (2) Edzy (1) 10/14 4:00 PM Sizaak Edzy MLBA
Feinberg (4) Skoottie (2) 10/15 4:00 PM Feinberg Skoottie MLBA
Winner SF1 Winner SF2 10/18 12:00 PM TBD TBD 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 • • 18d 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 • • 4h ago

Joker/Gameplay Idea Do You Think My Joker Is Perfectly Balanced for a Common?

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It's a very low chance, so most of the time useless, but it's very useful on that one off-chance. This is mainly a joker supposed to be taken advantage of through Oops! All 6s jokers to maximize these odds. Not an uncommon or higher, because even if you do have Oops, it's still a pretty lower proba.

(Also, art by me, Krita :D)


r/balatro • • 3h ago

Jimboposting Blue stake wasn’t too bad but ouhh orange stake I can’t stand the orange stake

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r/balatro • • 6h ago

Modded I'm releasing my mod, High Stakes! Which adds 5 new Stakes and 4 new Stickers

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A few days ago I posted about these new Joker Stickers I had implemented and fallen in love with for a mod I'm working on, some people showed a lot of interest, so I decided to focus for a day or two on polishing and releasing just this as it's own mod.

You can get it from Github: https://github.com/UnknownDevices/BalatroHighStakes/tree/main

Feedback is super appreciated!


r/balatro • • 1d ago

Meme Literally no pros or cons

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r/balatro • • 7h ago

Gameplay Discussion I just want to share that I won my first game 🥺💕After MANY runs lmao

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r/balatro • • 20h ago

Fan Art My contribution for Inktober Day 12: “Flimsy”

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I drew this on Procreate on my iPad! :) Hope y’all like it!


r/balatro • • 16h ago

High Score This might be the single greatest game of balatro I have ever played. This is my Magnum Opus 🫪

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Seed: 4ACN1RAR

10(+)ectoplasms used (I cant remember if thats right), 4 negative tag skips taken with an ungodly amount of double tags, and a single nat negative brainstorm in ante 37.

Plus a negative invisible joker I held for the whole run to get 1 extra copy joker at the end, bringing me to a total of 24 blueprints and brainstorms. On top of that, I also at one point held $600,000, had 100 jokers, and had a 900+ fortune teller, among other things.

With enough money, its possible to go into the ante 24 and 32 boss blinds with Retcon, 5 turtle beans, and multiple blueprints and brainstorms that are already negative, and the Crimson Heart selects the beans generously.

Along with the natural negatives that show up (Mime, Brainstorm, Idol, Sock and Buskin, Oops All Sixes, Photograph, Hanging Chad, Golden Ticket, Lucky Cat, and more) and everything else, this seed really is something else.


r/balatro • • 8h ago

Gameplay Discussion Completionist++

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Needed a gold sticker on one joker. Can you guess which one? It’s not any of the jokers in this video I just had to win a run for the trophy to pop. But I finally did it after months of trying and failing.


r/balatro • • 12h ago

Meme Doomed Yaoi

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took the chad but dawg

photo never appeared again btw


r/balatro • • 1d ago

Meme I love farming for Pluto!!!

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r/balatro • • 6h ago

Gameplay Discussion Would this be OP?

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I have few other custom jokers If you are interested


r/balatro • • 1h ago

Gameplay Discussion I am ready to fuck this up

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r/balatro • • 55m ago

Gameplay Discussion It's ante 1, shop before the boss, should one buy clearance sale voucher?

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Please help me decide; it's the first ante, you're about to fight the boss, (and thus get a new voucher after.) You have exactly 10 dollars. Is it worth it to buy the clearance sale voucher, or would your money best be saved for interest?


r/balatro • • 1h ago

Gameplay Discussion My Balatro journey to C++

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I bought Balatro on Android on the 22nd of May of this year. It was certainly... a decision. I have put 422 hours into it and just reached C++. I can't stop playing this crap even though I still suck at it!

It took me 2 or 3 days to understand the game and reach the first victory. I was hooked from the start.

I decided I didn't want to watch any "tips and tricks" videos and streams until I actually understand what was what.

Another decision was to beat each dificulty on all decks at a time. So all avaliable white stakes and then red and so on.

Having never played a game like this, I then learned 'chips+mult*mult' was the way to go and victories started coming. I would average about 2 wins a day by then. It was a grind and I really sucked at it. Two Pairs was my go to and my trousers followed me every run. They were confy and my most reliable tool.

Red stake came at week 2. Blue by week 3 and my first 100 million hand was also by then. Week by week the stakes were falling and Black stake was beaten by week 5. The game was getting harder but I was also getting better and by then I had discovered almost every joker.

By the 9th week I discovered the last joker. By then I had reached my first 'e' score and was watching some Balatro stuff.

I beat the first gold stake at the 14th of August. The last gold stake at the 7th of September. Plasma took me the longest, I think. I don't like that deck. Black deck is not that hard, I think it's actually one of the easiest ones. Call me crazy, I guess. That same day I reached my first seeded naneif on white stake. Seeded gold stake naneif was the very next day.

I thought I was done with achievments and started playing some random runs for fun and about 2 weeks ago I looked at my gold stickers. Was missing about 50% and I thought by then that this wasn't an impossible achievement. Didn't even look like a grind. I am still having a blast with this game. Then there were 40. Then 30.

When 20 were left I wrote them down. Some notable ones were Trading Card, Showman, Triboulet and Perkeo.

Honestly this was the most fun I had with the game. I was beating runs all the time with my favorite decks but now I couldn't find the needed jokers all the time. Still, I was enjoying it.

Last 5 was only 4 days ago. Golden Ticket, Showman, Flower Pot, Triboulet and Perkeo.

And then I had a run with Golden Ticket, Showman and Perkeo in a single hit. Perkeo showed up at last shop arcana pack! It then took me 2 days of multiple victories without Flower Pot or Trib.

Flower Pot went down on the 13th of October. The 14th of October was then spent searching for Ante 1 mega arcana skips, looking for soul card. I rerrolled over 300 times.

Yesterday, the 14th, I lost and I kid you not, 6 runs with Triboulet. Six runs with a legendary joker from ante 1. It was like I didn't know what I was doing anymore. By loss 3 I even made a post here.

I then got it easily and naturally this morning while waiting for the Wardogs update. It was so easy that I can't understand what I was doing the day before.

So here are my stats at C++. Am still having fun and will keep play this incredible game.

Hologram and Constellation are the GOATs and my OG Spare Trousers are forever loved although they fell off by gold stake.

TL:DR: long story short here are my stats after C++. Sorry for the long post, I know y'all don', t care, I just don't know anyone else who plays this.


r/balatro • • 1d ago

Stream / Video Gameplay The worst naneinf strategy invented...so far

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There is a much smarter way to naneinf with disco rocks. Credit to ludic-sean who did this with loads of dusks on plasma deck a while ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/balatro/comments/1uvfbyq/shiny_rocks_naneinf_polychrome_stone_cards_with/

I opted to make it infinitely worse by cloning 430 sock & buskin and relying entirely on finding a Pareidolia in exactly 1 judgment card, or the socks are useless and the fancy disco rocks are dead.

Totally not a single problem along the way. Just an incredibly stupid idea manifested into reality because why not?

Seed: 5I2A9TS8

If you want to watch the entire process, it's in this video: https://youtu.be/-aqQWbbRnC4


r/balatro • • 38m ago

Seeking Run Advice One joker away from C++, and it goes extinct right on the Ante 8 boss blind. I want to cry

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No prizes for grossing which joker it is.

I even had a great run going, with 2 jokers left for my C++, the other being Gift Card (which thankfully got gold stickered so it wasn't a total loss). Those temperances came in super handy for the rerolls. Found my dear banana on Ante 6 and skipped small and big blinds all the way until Ante 8 boss blind, which I won... and then arghhhhh

All jokes aside, any tips for finding Gros Michel with a little more reliability?


r/balatro • • 6h ago

Question Going for high score run, feel like riff raff and brainstorm would both be good what do you think?

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r/balatro • • 9h ago

High Score Finally won with taking all the skips

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8 Rounds, Ante 8 - Random seed

2 Throwbacks with Ankh, Baseball card was the Clutch joker, and Arrowhead with Smeared because why not

Right after I won, the Rare and Negative tag made a Negative Invis, and the next shop Arcana had a Perkeo, and another invis lmao

I really wanted 4 throwbacks, but Hook said no :c

Interesting turn of events lol


r/balatro • • 17h ago

Seed Nat negative Brainstorm, photograph, hanging chad, and ice cream in the first 3 shops

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Will post seed when I get to ante 8


r/balatro • • 1d ago

Joker/Gameplay Idea A few Joker concepts

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Here are a few more ideas for Jokers I had following my Cold Shoulder post. Thank you all for your criticisms, refinements and approvals of the idea. Have fun with these ones!

Win conditions:
Hot Potato - Win a game in less than 20 minutes
Spoilt Egg - Sell a card with at least $25 value
Wedding Funds - Play a hand comprised entirely out of Kings or Queens


r/balatro • • 40m ago

Seeking Run Advice what do i even do now?

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i don't even know what to do, should i wait for retcon? or should i save cryptids to use them on a serpent (if it appears) or what?


r/balatro • • 3h ago

Seeking Run Advice Do I drop a brainstorm and try for a cryptid this late?

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53 red seal kings, 2 6s


r/balatro • • 7h ago

Gameplay Discussion Complained abt sucking at this game 2 days ago, yesterday got 6 wins in one day Thanks guys :3

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