The fucked up thing is that I didn’t originally start this run going for naneinf, but since I stumbled into it I’m like, “fuck it, we ball”. I was trying to finish out my joker collection, just needed Eris unlocked for the Astronomer joker, which I saw in the shop literally just before I hit “next round”. So not only did I fail the naneinf, I failed at completing my joker collection too.
Alright can someone explain how to get to this level. I’ve been playing for like a month and have gotten up to black stake on a few decks. How the hell do you get 44 spectral cards or even 44 consumable slots, not to mention almost 150 cards in your deck. Seems like I’m missing something cause this doesn’t even seem possible.
The answer for this setup is basically luck, but also some unlocks and strategy of course. The pillars holding this up are:
- Pekero, a Legendary Joker which can only be acquired at random after finding a 0.3% chance The Soul card while opening a Spectral or Tarot pack in the shop. There are several, but this one is required for the effect to make a negative copy of a consumable item you hold after exiting the shop.
- Ghost deck, required to obtain spectral cards in the shop. It is otherwise incredibly difficult to obtain spectrals as a consumable, and you need to have Pekero make negative copies of Cryptid specifically.
- Cryptid, a spectral card which creates two duplicates of a selected card in your hand. When in a blind, this means you are temporarily increasing the cards held in hand by two as well.
- Brainstorm, a rare joker only unlocked after discarding a Royal Flush. Brainstorm copies the ability of the leftmost joker slot, meaning if you have Pekero there before exiting the shop, you can create multiple negative copies of a consumable such as Cryptid. Blueprint is similar, but for the joker to the right of it instead.
- Baron, a rare joker which makes Kings give 1.5x xMult while held in hand. In this case, the ideal setup is a red seal steel king, so the xMult effect triggers several times, alongside Baron being duplicated by Brainstorm.
- Joker duplication, as you normally only get access to one at any given time. This can be achieved through the destructive spectral cards at an opportunistic time (like Ankh when you only have one joker), or getting lucky with Invisible joker, a rare joker unlocked by winning a run with only ever having four jokers at one time. After two completed blinds you can sell it for a random duplicate. You can also hold onto Showman, an uncommon joker which allows duplicates to show up in the shop. Ideally you’d duplicate both blueprint and Brainstorm, but I assume this run didn’t get the chance. You’d also normally have Mime, to further retrigger held in hand effects.
After all that, you’d just keep beating blinds, accumulating Cryptids, and whenever you’re ready, duplicate an unholy amount of red seal steel kings and have like 100 kings in a ridiculous hand. Play high card, and let the fun start!
I got Blueprint, you can see it in the screenshot, but yeah I didn’t get it until late in the run, so I never got to dupe it. And yeah, I never saw Mime.
Oops sorry, that was my bad! Thanks for the heads up, and too bad about the run. What a buzzkill that must’ve been.
Yeah, but life goes on, and I did find Astronomer in the next run, so I got one goal accomplished!
It’s just luck, I got Perkeo and Cryptid early, then two Invisible Jokers copied Brainstorm, which I had copying Perkeo during the shops and Baron during the actual rounds. I used the Cryptids to make a shitload of Red Seal Steel Kings, mostly because I was actually going for the Flush Five so I could get Eris, but I didn’t get the Baron until like Ante 10, so I’d been basically living on Flush Five trying to find Astronomer in the shop (that’s why I had so many cards in the deck, this is not optimal). The actual combo to get naneinf is Baron + Mime with this setup, but you usually don’t use all the Cryptids like I did, you save them up and use like 50 of them all at once, but I never saw Mime despite rerolling about 1,000 times, with both Overstock vouchers. I got the money to do this with Reserved Parking.
All this to say, it’s basically just luck, but look out for Baron and Mime, and work on making Steel Kings with the Red Seal, even without the Perkeo + Cryptid combo, you can get pretty far that way.
Unfortunately, the Plant kills this whole thing, because it debuffs all face cards, which are the only source of scoring by this point.
For real lol, run absolutely murdered
I see you’re a CRT filter enjoyer too 8-)
Heck yeah, gotta get some nostalgia with my vibe lol