Raised Fist is an additive Mult Joker that adds an amount of Mult equal to twice the smallest card currently held in your hand. Face cards count as 10 (+20 Mult) and Aces count as 11 (+22 Mult).
As Raised Fist is at most +22 Mult, it is usually only useful during the early game, and will generally be replaced with better jokers as play progresses. However, Raised Fist can achieve surprisingly high scores into the later game if the rest of your hand is filled with Steel cards.
Strategies[]
Raised Fist triggers on the lowest value card, not on its position in the Jokers. In other words, Raised Fist can be considered an "in hand" effect, like 
Baron, 
Shoot the Moon, or Steel cards. As such, if you have any x Mult cards in your hand when using Raised Fist, make sure to move the lowest ranked card to the left to benefit from the multipliers.
Raised Fist gives +0 Mult on debuffed cards, and on Stone cards.
Raised Fist always acts on the rightmost card of the lowest rank. If you have two or more cards of the lowest rank, and one is debuffed or one has a red seal, make sure to put the better card on right.
If your smallest ranked card is a Steel card, the 1.5x Mult will always trigger before the Raised Fist (which, unfortunately, is a bad thing for the player).
Synergies[]
Decks[]
Painted Deck is usually bad on the Painted Deck, as more hand size makes it harder to remove all the low-ranked cards from hand. It can benefit from Raised Fist if its low-rank cards are removed, as this deck specializes in In Hand effects. This would likely not be something to build around, though, as Painted Deck's fewer Joker slots makes spending one unnecessarily on Raised Fist questionable.
Ghost Deck's access to hand-reducing Spectral cards, a bit counter-intuitively, makes Raised Fist better, as it can more reliably trigger on higher rank cards. If there's only one card in hand, it will always use it, after all.
Poker Hands[]
Poker hands that contain less than 5 cards, such as pair and high card, work best because you can play cards for chips, and also play low cards that won't be held in hand when played.
Jokers[]
Raised Fist is best on In Hand strategies, mainly in regards to Baron, though it helps Shoot the Moon if one is using Steel Queens. By having a non-King in hand and positioning every King after it, the X1.5 Mult from Baron can work on a larger base. If one has many retrigger abilities or a high Hand Mult, to the point where another In Hand King provides greater value, it should be replaced, but that is uncommon except on certain seeds or in endless mode. It can be invaluable for helping more fragile Baron builds get off the ground.
Stuntman: The reduced hand size makes it easier to play all the smaller ranked cards from your hand. an early Stuntman + Raised Fist can score over 5,000 for each high card played, making it arguably the most efficient money-to-score ratio that two jokers have together.
Hack can provide limited synergy, since it benefits from the play of low value cards. However, by using Hack, the chances low-rank cards will be left in hand is also higher, as one will usually want to centralize around them.
Trivia[]
- The raised fist is an image that is commonly associated with socialist or communist ideals. It is also used in expressions of solidarity, and has been a symbol of workers' rights movements and trade unionists. The card's effect evokes this, with the scored hand (the individual) being made more effective by the remaining cards held in hand (the wider community).
In other languages[]
| Language | Name | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Chinese (Simplified) | 致胜之拳 | |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 致勝之拳 | |
| Dutch | Geheven vuist | |
| French | Poing levé | |
| German | Erhobene Faust | |
| Indonesian | Raised Fist | |
| Italian | Pugno alzato | |
| Japanese | レイズドフィスト | |
| Korean | 들어 올린 주먹 | |
| Polish | Uniesiona Pięść | |
| Portuguese (Brazilian) | Punho Erguido | |
| Russian | Поднятый кулак | |
| Spanish (Spain) | Puño en alto | |
| Spanish (Latin America) | Puño elevado |
