Baron is a rare Joker which provides a x1.5 Mult for each King in the player's hand after playing a hand. Cards which are discarded or debuffed by certain Blinds do not trigger this effect.
Synergies[]
Decks[]
- This Joker should be avoided when playing the Abandoned Deck as it does not naturally contain any Kings.
- The Painted Deck has a larger hand size, making this joker easier to use.
Poker Hands[]
If the player builds their deck to be mostly Kings, it is best to level up smaller hands (such as High Card or Pair) to keep as many Kings in hand as possible.
Jokers[]
- Mime over doubles this card's multiplier per King (from 1.5x, to 2.25x per King).
- Reserved Parking has a 50% chance of giving $1 for each King (or other face card) held in hand.
- Midas Mask can add a buff to scored Kings, providing an additional benefit thereafter when Kings are held in hand.
- Shoot the Moon makes a great pair with Baron, as the 13 mult from the Queens will each be multiplied by 1.5. However, for the Queens to trigger before the Kings, you must physically move the Queens to the left of your Kings. Raised Fist effectively does the same thing.
- If the player's deck is mostly comprised of Kings, Juggler and/or Troubadour can increase the maximum number of cards held in hand and thus allow Baron to trigger more times.
Blinds[]
- The Plant: Can potentially be a run killer as debuffed Kings renders Baron totally useless.
- The Serpent: By far the most popular boss blind to go against a Baron build thanks to the ability to temporarily increase handsize.
Strategies[]
On first glance, Baron might seem like a small amount of Mult. However, what makes Baron so incredibly strong is that every King or Steel card in hand multiplies your score exponentially. For example, one King only multiplies your score by 1.5x. But two Kings multiplies it by 1.5x twice, which is a 2.25x increase. If an ideal card for Baron is held in hand (a steel King with a red seal), it will produce x1.5^4 = ~x5.1 Mult. With Mime, this increases to x1.5^6 = ~x11.4 Mult; with one Blueprint/Brainstorm copying Mime, it increases to x1.5^8 = ~x25.6 Mult, and with two cards copying each Mime and Baron it rises further to x1.5^12 = ~x130 Mult.
If a player manages to find these four Jokers and enough steel Kings with red seals to fill a hand, they will be able to play far into Endless mode. For example, with a Hand size of eight, the base Mult would be multiplied by ~x619 trillion; with a Hand size of nine this increases to ~80 quadrillion; and with a Hand size of ten it further increases to ~10 quintillion (1.0x10^19). With some base chips and mult, this is enough to finish the first 16 Antes.
The formula of total x1.5s per card is (x1.5s each trigger) x (total trigger times). Since multiple retriggers stack additively, for each red seal steel King in your hand, the formula becomes (1 steel + number of Baron equivalents) x (1 base + 1 red seal + number of Mime equivalents). If the player can arrange Blueprints/Brainstorms to copy these Jokers, they can reach the best possible score by having 1 more Baron equivalents than Mime equivalents.
For lower antes, Shoot the Moon or Raised Fist are some of the best ways to get mult that scores before your jokers score. However, because cards in hand trigger from left to right, you must physically move your Queens/lowest rank card to the left of your Kings, in order for their mult to be multiplied.
Trivia[]
- Baron and Baroness are titles of nobility, usually lower than a King or Count, but higher than a Knight or Lord.
In other languages[]
Language | Name | Notes |
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Chinese (Simplified) | 男爵 | |
Chinese (Traditional) | 男爵 | |
Dutch | Baron | |
French | Baron | |
German | Baron | |
Indonesian | Baron | |
Italian | Barone | |
Japanese | バロン | |
Korean | 남작 | |
Polish | Baron | |
Portuguese (Brazilian) | Barão | |
Russian | Барон | |
Spanish (Spain) | Barón | |
Spanish (Latin America) | Barón |