Greedy Joker is a Common Joker that provides conditional Additive Mult to played hands. One of the four 'sinful' Jokers made to support specific Card Suits, it gives +3 Mult each time a 
Diamonds card is scored. If the played card is retriggered, either by a Joker effect or by its own Red Seal, Greedy Joker's effect will activate again.
As Diamonds have the least meaningful support of all the suits, and Flush already has one of the slowest Planet scaling curves in the game, Greedy Joker is often not worth keeping past the first few Antes, unless better Additive Mult options are never encountered.
Synergies[]
Decks[]
Magic Deck: This Deck has the only innate advantage with this one, as one can turn the starting copies of The Fool into The Star to more rapidly convert their Deck into Diamonds. Death and The Lovers also help build towards this goal, albeit at a slower pace, but in the latter's case, Wild Cards synergize with many more Jokers.- Erratic Deck: Certain seeds can produce proportionally more Diamond cards. With 20 or more in the starting Deck, this Joker becomes a much more obvious include.
- Red Deck, Blue Deck, and Painted Deck: These Decks all have bonuses that make it marginally easier to find that key Diamonds Flush, making them slightly more practical overall, but not by a large margin.
- Checkered Deck: Has anti-synergy with this Joker, since it includes no Diamonds to start. This Joker is better off avoided if encountered while playing this Deck.
Poker Hands[]
The most obvious plan with this Joker is to play hands that contain only Diamonds. As a result, Flush-type hands are the most optimal, to guarantee at least +15 Mult to all played hands:
Other hands that score more cards, like Straight, are generally better to play with this Joker than, say, High Card or Pair, as they allow more Diamond cards to be scored.
Jokers[]
- Retrigger Jokers work best with this one. To maximize the Additive Mult boost to +30 Mult on a Flush-type hand, priority should be given to those that can very easily affect the entire hand of played cards, such as Hack (for cards with 5 or lower rank) or Sock and Buskin (for face cards).
- Tarot Card generation is also a must if Greedy Joker is to be at the core of the build. Cartomancer is an obvious choice, but building into Straight Flushes can also lend well to including Superposition.
- Crafty Joker and Droll Joker: Providing +80 Chips and +10 Mult, respectively, when scoring a Flush-type hand, these can be beneficial in tandem with this Joker, primarily in the early game. In Crafty Joker's case, since Chip sources are overall rarer than Additive Mult, keeping it later is more practical.
- Castle: A Chip Joker that scales by +3 Chips for every discarded card of a random suit determined by deck distribution. It can easily cover the other side of the equation once the deck has been manipulated enough to mostly include Diamonds, by just tossing away lower-ranked or otherwise less desirable cards of the suit.
- Rough Gem: Forming the most natural synergy with this Joker, it will make each Diamonds Flush you play also give $5, which can help compensate for the lack of raw damage Diamond Decks can output by increasing purchasing power, thereby granting indirect access to higher strength.
- Smeared Joker: By making Hearts also count as Diamonds, and vice versa, this not only makes deck-fixing and finding Flushes twice as easy, but opens up access to more cards, like more consistent hits of Ancient Joker, as well as Bloodstone.
- Ancient Joker and The Idol: These are more difficult to include thanks to their inherent randomness, but with enough Wild Cards (in the former's case) or duplication (for the latter), they could easily be activated every few hands later on in the run.
- The Tribe: A natural include in a Flush build to give an extra X2 Mult to the most practical of scored hands. However, if it is possible to deck fix into a Flush Five build, The Family should be prioritized.
Boss Blinds[]
Care should be taken when playing a Diamonds Flush build, as they are hard countered by two Boss Blinds, and soft countered by one of the Finisher Blinds. The Director's Cut Voucher is a smart choice as a result.
- The Window is a debilitating encounter, since it makes it so that all Diamond cards go unscored and thus activate no Joker or card effects. A Diamonds Flush deck is only a safe consideration early on if this Boss Blind has already came and went; in any other case, it is very likely to end the run.
- The Ox can also be crippling later on in the run, especially when playing predominantly regular Flushes, by killing the player's economy on the spot. While it is possible to mitigate the loss with other money generation, or even avoided entirely by veering into another hand like a Flush House, this is not always possible. In the event it is not, seriously consider whether the money is best spent right before to lessen the need for it for the rest of the run.
- The Cerulean Bell can prove to be a mild or major annoyance; if its effect forcibly selects a non-Diamond card and prevents scoring a Flush as a result, it must either be discarded, or played in a 'burner hand' as a makeshift discard, which can both lessen consistency and overall odds of winning.
Trivia[]
- Greed is one of the traditional seven deadly sins. The four Common Jokers that give Additive Mult for each suit are based on these. The other 'sinful Jokers' (as named by LocalThunk in the Balatro patch notes) are Lusty Joker, Wrathful Joker and Gluttonous Joker.
- Greedy Joker's Uncommon counterpart, Rough Gem, generates money, which plays into the theme of greed.
- Greedy Joker's Uncommon counterpart,
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In other languages[]
| Language | Name | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Chinese (Simplified) | 贪婪小丑 | |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 貪心小丑 | |
| Dutch | Hebberige Joker | |
| French | Joker avide | |
| German | Gieriger Joker | |
| Indonesian | Greedy Joker | |
| Italian | Jolly avido | |
| Japanese | グリーディージョーカー | |
| Korean | 탐욕스러운 조커 | |
| Polish | Chciwy Joker | |
| Portuguese (Brazilian) | Curinga Ganancioso | |
| Russian | Жадный джокер | |
| Spanish (Spain) | Comodín codicioso | |
| Spanish (Latin America) | Comodín codicioso |
