Blackboard provides a large Mult boost when all drawn cards remaining (after playing a hand) are Spades or Clubs. The boost also activates when there are no cards left in hand.
Any card with the Wild card modifier will also count as a spade/club. Stone cards have no suit and will prevent the effect from activating if left in hand. When playing against debuffing Boss Blinds, debuffed Wild cards revert to their original suit, debuffed Stone cards prevent Blackboard from activating, and debuffed base cards behave as normal.
Synergies[]
Decks[]
Checkered Deck: Since half of this deck is Spades, it's easier to play a Heart Flush and leave only Spade cards in hand.
Poker Hands[]
- Blackboard can work well in Flush builds, if you can convert the entire deck into Spades and Clubs. However, having one Heart/Diamond card in hand will make Blackboard useless.
- Blackboard is secretly one of the best payoffs in the game for High Card and Pair builds. For example, if half of your hand is Hearts and Diamonds, playing all 4 of them will often result in a High Card hand. This means that High Card builds get to trigger Blackboard most of the time.
Jokers[]
- Shortcut and Four Fingers make it easier to play a straight, making it possible to use up all of the Diamond and Heart cards in hand.
- Stuntman greatly reduces hand size, significantly increasing the player's chances of their hand containing no Diamond and Heart cards.
Trivia[]
- This Joker doesn't have a "Red" counterpart (x3 Mult when remaining cards are Heart and Diamond), likely because there is not good alternate image to Blackboard to work with (too bad there is no such thing as a Whiteboard).
- If there's no card in hand after playing a Poker Hand, Blackboard will still trigger.
- The art is reminiscent of blackboards (sometimes called chalkboards) found in schools and other learning environments, including the piece of chalk used to draw and write on it. Despite the name, they are not always made of black material, and can often be found in grey, green or dark blue. In many situations, they have been replaced with whiteboards (also called dry-erase boards).
In other languages[]
| Language | Name | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Chinese (Simplified) | é»ęæ | |
| Chinese (Traditional) | é»ęæå°äø | |
| Dutch | Krijtbord | |
| French | Tableau noir | |
| German | Tafel | |
| Indonesian | Blackboard | |
| Italian | Lavagna | |
| Japanese | é»ęæ | |
| Korean | ģ¹ ķ | |
| Polish | Tablica | |
| Portuguese (Brazilian) | Quadro Negro | |
| Russian | ŠØŠŗŠ¾Š»ŃŠ½Š°Ń Š“Š¾ŃŠŗŠ° | |
| Spanish (Spain) | PizarrĆ³n | |
| Spanish (Latin America) | PizarrĆ³n |
