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Castle is an uncommon Joker which provides an additional +3 Chips each time a card of the specified suit is discarded. The suit is chosen proportionally to the suit composition of the current deck, and changes each round.

This Joker cannot receive the Perishable sticker.

Synergies[]

Decks[]

  • The Checkered Deck Checkered Deck works well with Castle due to the lower suit diversity.
  • The Red Deck Red Deck can use it's +1 discard for more scaling.
  • The Plasma Deck Plasma Deck gets more value from the chips than any other deck.

Poker Hands[]

Because Castle scales based on discarding, weaker, easier hands like High Card and Pair allow for the effect to be used more consistently.

Jokers[]

  • Drunkard Drunkard and Merry Andy Merry Andy both provides additional discards, allowing Castle to scale more per round.
  • Yorick Yorick will also scale alongside Castle.
  • Smeared Joker Smeared Joker makes Castle twice as easy to scale.
  • Conversely, Burglar Burglar prevents this Joker entirely from scaling.
  • Banner Banner, Delayed Gratification Delayed Gratification, and Ramen Ramen conflict with this Jokers, as their effects rely on not using discards.
  • Similarly, Trading Card Trading Card and Burnt Joker Burnt Joker place restrictions on discards which interfere with triggering Castle's effect optimally.

Trivia[]

  • The suit is chosen in proportion to the suit composition of the current deck. For example, in a deck of 20 Clubs and 10 Spades, Castle would select Clubs two thirds of the time, and Spades for the remaining third.
  • If the deck has no card with any suit (i.e full Stone Cards), Castle will default to +3 chips per discarded Spade.

In other languages[]

Language Name Notes
Chinese (Simplified) 城堡
Chinese (Traditional) 城堡
Dutch Kasteel
French Château
German Schloss
Indonesian Castle
Italian Castello
Japanese キャッスル
Korean
Polish Zamek
Portuguese (Brazilian) Castelo
Russian Замок
Spanish (Spain) Castillo
Spanish (Latin America) Castillo


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