Perkeo is one of the five legendary Jokers. Perkeo spawns a negative copy of one consumable in the player's possession when the player leaves the Shop by pressing "Next round". This copy can then be used like normal, or sold for a higher price than usual due to its negative modifier. Legendary Jokers can only be obtained from the Soul Spectral Card, which has a small chance to spawn in Spectral and Arcana Booster Packs.
Synergies[]
Decks[]
Given the nature of Perkeo you want to have access to as many consumable cards as possible. The Ghost Deck is one of the decks that works best with Perkeo as the ability to buy spectral cards directly from the shop can be very powerful, allowing you to create copies of consumables like Cryptid to duplicate powerful cards, or consumables like Deja Vu or Aura to enhance existing cards in your deck. Perkeo can be used in any deck, but works well with the Zodiac Deck due to increased consumable rate in the shop. The Painted Deck is harder to utilize due to its -1 Joker slot penalty.
Poker Hands[]
Any Poker hand can benefit from Perkeo. Players should acquire the hand's Planet Card in their consumable slots, and by keeping one there, they can use the duplicate created by Perkeo to increase the hand level at the end of every shop.
Perkeo also has a natural synergy with the Observatory voucher which also wants you to focus on one particular hand. The voucher does this by giving increasing mult to the hand you play if you have its respective Planet Card in your consumable slot.
Jokers[]
- Synergies:
- Perkeo benefits greatly when paired with Blueprint and/or Brainstorm, allowing players to generate 2-3 negative consumables every blind. Note that each trigger of the ability may select a different consumable to copy.
- Superposition, Cartomancer, Hallucination, Vagabond, and 8 Ball can all be used to generate Tarot Cards that you can save in your consumable slots to use with Perkeo.
- Sixth Sense and SĆ©ance can both be used to generate powerful spectral cards that you can save to duplicate as well.
- Jokers like Constellation (multiplicative mult) and Fortune Teller (additive mult) can be useful to gain much higher scores as you will likely be using lots of duplicated planet and tarot cards throughout any run with Perkeo.
- Campfire works extremely well with Perkeo as you can continuously sell the duplicated consumable cards to keep the multiplier on it high.
- Gift Card works well with Perkeo if you save your consumable cards since you can sell them at a later date for much more money than they were initially worth.
- Anti-Synergies:
- Due to the nature of Perkeo there aren't any particular jokers that ruin their gimmick. Just be cautious when taking jokers that generate consumable cards to be sure they don't gum up your strategy with too many cards that you don't want duplicated.
Consumables[]
- Tarot cards:
- The Fool is extremely strong with Perkeo as it will allow you to duplicate cards you previously used from packs to put into your consumable slot. This makes it much easier to find the consumable cards you're looking for.
- The Hanged Man is one of the strongest interactions with Perkeo, as you can use it to keep removing cards from your deck.
- Death can allow you to turn your entire deck into particular cards you want, especially if they're enhanced.
- The High Priestess and The Emperor can allow you to dig for more useful planet and tarot cards respectively.
- Judgement and The Wheel of Fortune can let you create more jokers if you need them or enhance existing jokers.
- Spectral cards:
- Cryptid and Immolate are arguably the best cards to use with Perkeo. Immolate allows you to get an insane amount of money while thinning your deck out significantly and Cryptid being the most useful by letting you duplicate existing buffed up cards in your deck.
- Aura and Ectoplasm are useful to have so you can enhance your deck or enhance your jokers. Though you should only really try to use ectoplasm a few times at most since the compounding '- hand size' will eventually make it extremely hard to build a decent hand.
- Deja Vu, Talisman, Trance, and Medium can allow you to cover your entire deck in seals if you need it. However, the best strategy is to use them a few times and then just duplicate the cards you put them on. Red seals are the most useful for going into the late game especially for endless mode.
- Planet cards:
- No particular planet cards synergize with Perkeo. If your deck focuses on a particular hand, you can use Perkeo to endlessly duplicate the relevant Planet card to enhance the hand each round, or to power the hand up with the Observatory voucher.
Vouchers[]
- The Observatory voucher is arguably the strongest synergy one can get with Perkeo. It makes planet cards in your consumable slot give x1.5 mult for their respective hands when that hand is played, so naturally you want to build your deck to play a particular hand. The most consistent for Endless mode are likely either High Card, Five of a Kind or Flush Fives, though it can be built to work with any hand. If you can get just one of the planet cards that relates to the hand you want to play most it can cause some insane scaling. This is doubly true for for any effects like Blueprint or Brainstorm where having those can get 1, 2, or even 3 cards from Perkeo for every shop you get.
- Tarot/Planet Merchant, and Tycoon can give you better access to Planet and Tarot Cards to duplicate. The Zodiac deck works well with Perkeo as it starts with both the Tarot Merchant and Planet Merchant vouchers.
Trivia[]
- Perkeo of Heidelberg (born Clemens Pankert, according to other sources Giovanni Clementi; 1702ā1735) was a notable jester of Elector Palatine Charles III Philip in Heidelberg. As guardian of the Great Heidelberg Tun, he has since become an unofficial mascot of the city and region. His name, story, and image have been connected with a variety of festivals, traditional songs, cultural and scientific institutions, hotels, restaurants, and private companies (in and out of the region) ever since.
- Perkeo's ability to hold infinite consumable cards is a reference to the real jester's penchant for allegedly consuming between five and eight US gallons of wine a day (possibly due to a case of Diabetes Insipidus).
- This joker is animated, with Perkeo hovering just above the green card face.
- The other legendary Jokers are Canio, Chicot, Triboulet, and Yorick.
In other languages[]
Language | Name | Notes |
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Chinese (Simplified) | åøå„꬧ | |
Chinese (Traditional) | 佩ē¾åŗ | |
Dutch | Perkeo | |
French | Perkeo | |
German | Perkeo | |
Indonesian | Perkeo | |
Italian | Perkeo | |
Japanese | ćć«ć±ćŖ | |
Korean | ķė„“ģ¼ģ¤ | |
Polish | Perkeo | |
Portuguese (Brazilian) | Perkeo | |
Russian | ŠŠµŃŠŗŠµŠ¾ | |
Spanish (Spain) | Perkeo | |
Spanish (Latin America) | Perkeo |