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The Ghost Deck is an unlockable deck where you start with a Hex spectral card in your consumables and Spectral Cards may appear in The Shop. This deck is unlocked by winning a run with the Yellow Deck Yellow Deck on any stake.

Starting Contents[]

It contains the usual 52 cards that a normal deck of cards includes: four suits, each with 13 cards (2 to 10, Jack, Queen, King and Ace).

You also start with a Hex spectral card in your consumables.

The Shop[]

Spectral Cards can appear in the Shop when using this deck with a weight of 2, or about 7% for each slot in the Shop.

There is no way to increase this weight, and buying Vouchers like Tarot/Planet Merchant increases the total weight, lowering the chance of Spectral Cards. To increase the chance of seeing Spectral Cards, get more slots in the Shop using Overstock/Overstock Plus vouchers, or make rerolls cheaper using Chaos the Clown Chaos the Clown or Reroll Surplus/Reroll Glut vouchers for example.

All spectral Cards have the same chance of appearing in the shop, except for The Soul and Black Hole, as they can only be found in Booster Packs.

Synergies[]

Starting a run with the Ghost Deck gives you the Hex card, which adds Polychrome (X1.5 Mult) to one random joker, at the cost of destroying all others. To avoid accidentally destroying a valuable joker (especially in the early game, when money is always a major constraint), it's best to use the Hex card as soon as a good joker is found. This joker should preferably be a joker which you are likely to keep into late into the game, such as a scaling joker like Spare Trousers Spare Trousers or a powerful joker such as Stuntman Stuntman As such, the first joker obtained is of high importance, and it is worth considering restarting a run if no good candidates appear in the first couple of shops.

Alternatively, the Hex card may be sold for $2, providing a small cash infuse. Although significantly lower than the Yellow Deck's $10 bonus, this may allow the player to purchase an early spectral card. If this option is taken, deck-modifying spectral cards should be prioritized. Ouija and Grim in particular can be seen as more valuable than the starting Hex, as Polychrome's x1.5 Mult loses some of its significance after the mid-game, while these cards can set the player up for consistent Four/Five of a Kind hands in the late game.

This deck is unique in that it can purchase the Deja Vu card from the shop, which grants a Red Seal to a chosen card. Unlike seeing it in Spectral packs, having the Deja Vu in the consumable slot means that it can be saved to go onto any card in your deck. This can make certain strategies far more reliable. Most notably, getting a Red Seal King with the Baron Baron joker is many times easier on the Ghost deck than with any other deck. You can then use the Aura card to make this Red Seal card even stronger, then get a Purple Seal and put it on a card of the same rank, and then use the Cryptid card can then make 2 copies of the Red/Purple Seal card, allowing the entire deck to be built around this one card.

It can also purchase the Cryptid card directly from the shop, which can be duplicated with Perkeo Perkeo. Combined with Baron Baron and Mime Mime, this creates an Endless build that can reach naneinf. On any other deck, one would need to use Sixth Sense Sixth Sense or SĆ©ance SĆ©ance to obtain a Cryptid in the consumable slot. This strategy makes the Ghost deck one of the most reliable decks for getting far in Endless mode, though this build does require more Cryptids than the Plasma Deck Plasma Deck.

Poker Hands[]

Spectral cards typically provide "high risk, high reward" effects that can drastically change the player's circumstances mid-run. Therefore, to take full advantage of the Ghost Deck's ability, it is best to avoid extreme specialization early in the run. However, later into the run, using the Deja Vu, Cryptid and Aura cards can allow entire strategies be build around a single, powerful card.

Jokers[]

Chaos the Clown Chaos the Clown gives 1 free reroll, increasing the likelihood of encountering spectral cards.

Perkeo Perkeo allows for the creation of essentially infinite copies of a spectral card, potentially completely breaking the game.


Trivia[]

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In other languages[]

Language Name Notes
Chinese (Simplified) å¹½ēµē‰Œē»„
Chinese (Traditional) 幽靈ē‰Œēµ„
Dutch Spokenkaartspel
French Jeu fantƓme
German Geisterdeck
Indonesian Ghost Deck
Italian Mazzo fantasma
Japanese ć‚“ćƒ¼ć‚¹ćƒˆćƒ‡ćƒƒć‚­
Korean ź³ ģŠ¤ķŠø ė±
Polish Talia Ducha
Portuguese (Brazilian) Baralho Fantasma
Russian ŠŸŃ€ŠøŠ·Ń€Š°Ń‡Š½Š°Ń ŠŗŠ¾Š»Š¾Š“Š°
Spanish (Spain) Baraja fantasma
Spanish (Latin America) Baraja fantasma
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