Obelisk is a rare Joker which provides an additional x0.2 Mult each time a hand that is not one of the player's most-played hands is played. This Joker starts at and resets to x1.0 Mult if the most-played hand is played. The Obelisk resets before the hand is scored.
If the most-played hand is a tie between multiple hands, playing any tied hand will reset Obelisk.
This Joker cannot receive the Perishable sticker.
Synergies[]
Obelisk can become a very powerful Scaling X Mult Joker, but it cannot be used in every build. It works best on builds that don't rely on playing specific hands to score, as if too many of any one hand are played, you can no longer play it without resetting the Obelisk.
The most popular strategy with Obelisk is to play a bunch of High Card hands, inflating the number to the tens, then pivoting to playing as many other hands as possible. This approach requires a strong build that can win while these throwaway hands are being played, though, and playing too many will leave not enough time to scale Obelisk.
Decks[]
Red Deck's extra discards and 
Painted Deck's higher hand size allow you to find more unique hands, allowing you to keep building Obelisk without risking playing a most-played hand. Painted Deck also appreciates having such a high-value X Mult Joker.
Blue Deck's extra hands allows Obelisk to scale faster per round.
Poker Hands[]
No particular hand is better with Obelisk. The High Card strategy mentioned above could be considered a synergy, but the bulk of the game will be spent playing as many different hands as possible to keep options open in the future.
Jokers[]
Jokers that produce Mult without hand-based conditions are what you always want to use with Obelisk. These can be flat +Mult Jokers, like 
Fibonacci and 
Half Joker, but the most success comes from scaling ones, like 
Bootstraps, 
Erosion, 
Ride the Bus, or 
Fortune Teller. (Having one of these scaling Jokers will usually allow you to play all your hands per round, since you can place Obelisk before them for all but the last hand, and the last hand will have a large amount of extra Mult)
Vagabond and other Jokers that benefit from many hands being played per round work well with Obelisk, as you already want to play many hands per round to scale Obelisk. All of these kinds of Jokers in turn benefit from 
Acrobat, as it provides a safety net for the last hand of the round.
Many of the scaling +Mult Jokers rely on money, like Bootstraps, 
Flash Card, and 
Red Card, so if one of these are being used, economy Jokers become more valuable. Particularly helpful is 
Cloud 9, as by centralizing around Nines, you gain access to the Five of a Kind and Flush Five hands, which gives more unique hands to play, while increasing money generation.
Most X Mult Jokers are very strong with Obelisk. The best are scaling ones that don't need hands to be played, like 
Hologram or 
Hit the Road, as to not add another scaling requirement on top of Obelisk's, and risk complicating it (though certain Jokers, like 
Vampire, can still scale without complications).
Blueprint and 
Brainstorm work particularly well with Obelisk, as it can reach massive amounts of X Mult.
Trivia[]
- Since each poker hand can only be played a limited number of times until it becomes tied as the most-played hand, Obelisk can’t be scaled forever and will always eventually reset, unless one utilizes the poker hand debuffs from The Psychic, The Eye, or The Mouth.
- Playing your most-played poker hand while debuffed by The Psychic, The Eye, or The Mouth doesn’t reset Obelisk, but it still increases the number of times the hand has been played. This actually allows Obelisk to be scaled indefinitely.
- During the second demo, Obelisk scaled at x0.5 Mult per played hand, making it as strong as
Madness. It was later nerfed twice resulting in only x0.2 Mult per played hand, the second weakest among scaling Multiplicative Joker per scaling trigger (Only after Constellation, at x0.1 Mult per Planet card used).
Update History[]
- Effect
- Obelisk's scaling Mult x0.25 per played hand -> x0.2 per played hand
- Rarity
- Uncommon -> Rare
0.9.2m-DEMO (undocumented)
- Effect
- Obelisk's scaling Mult x0.5 per played hand -> x0.25 per played hand
In other languages[]
| Language | Name | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Chinese (Simplified) | 方尖石塔 | |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 方尖碑 | |
| Dutch | Obelisk | |
| French | Obélisque | |
| German | Obelisk | |
| Indonesian | Obelisk | |
| Italian | Obelisco | |
| Japanese | オベリスク | |
| Korean | 오벨리스크 | |
| Polish | Obelisk | |
| Portuguese (Brazilian) | Obelisco | |
| Russian | Обелиск | |
| Spanish (Spain) | Obelisco | |
| Spanish (Latin America) | Obelisco |
