Red Card is a common Joker that gains +3 Mult each time a Booster Pack is skipped. This Joker begins with +0 Mult. Only packs that are opened and then skipped trigger this Joker. Mega Booster Packs can only trigger this Joker once per pack, meaning you can pick up the first card and skip the second to trigger Red Card.
Strategy[]
When playing the Red Card, it's better not to skip Booster Packs specifically just to scale the Red Card. Opening a Booster Pack is more like rolling for a chance to get a good item — Booster Packs are not guaranteed to provide value, and the player would skip many Booster Packs anyway due to not getting a card that sufficiently valuable. What Red Card does is that it provides +3 mult in all of the cases where the player would have skipped anyway, so its better to think of Red Card as an additional Booster Pack slot, and to only skip if none of the options are better than +3 mult.
For instance, with 9 Planet Cards unlocked from the beginning and three in a regular Celestial Pack, assuming no Telescope, there is only a 1 in 3 chance for a Celestial Pack contains the Planet Card that one actually wants. The other two thirds of the time, the player would just skip or take a Planet Card of an irrelevant hand, gaining little to no value out of it. But with the Red Card, the player would get a minimum of +3 mult — it might be more reasonable to think of it as a fourth Planet Card that gives +3 mult for every hand (assuming no XMult triggered on played or held cards).
Synergies[]
Decks[]
Anaglyph Deck can build up many tags, then copy any tag which gives a Mega Booster Pack.- Green Deck encourages the player to spend money as they earn it, which works well with Red Card.
Jokers[]
- Red Card synergizes well with most economy Jokers which provide money, like Business Card or Rocket.
- Astronomer can provide free celestial packs that can be used to scale.
- Hallucination can allow you to still get tarot cards even while skipping.
Vouchers[]
- Clearance Sale and Liquidation lower the price of booster packs, making it easier to purchase and skip more.
Tags[]
- Standard, Charm, Buffoon and Ethereal all give access to Booster Packs, which can then be skipped to scale Red Card. This is best when the player is on the Anaglyph Deck or has taken lots of Diet Colas.
Anti-Synergies[]
There are a lot of Jokers that when combined with Red Card leaves the player in a dilemma between whether to scale Red Card or whether to scale the other joker. However, it is worth emphasizing again that skipping a Booster Pack specifically to scale up Red Card (instead of skipping a Booster Pack that already had very little value) might not be a good idea.
- Jokers that care about Tarot cards, such as Fortune Teller, Driver's License and Vampire, can create a dilemma.
- Jokers such as Steel Joker and Lucky Cat which care about specific Tarot cards can create a dilemma.
- Jokers that care about Planet cards, such as Constellation and Satellite, can also create a dilemma.
- As for Standard Packs, one would face a choice between scaling Hologram and Red Card — choose the one that increases score more.
Other than dilemmas:
- Jokers which care about the base Mult of a played hand, such as Bloodstone, will lose out on the scaling provided by planets.
- Skipping blinds for Throwback means less packs to open. This is not as bad if the skip tag itself gives a Booster Pack.
Vouchers[]
- The Telescope voucher can make skipping Celestial Packs undesirable.
Trivia[]
- A red card in sports is usually used to signal a large penalty, often for some kind of rule infraction. In most forms of association football, for example, a red card signals that a player must leave the pitch after causing a foul or acting unsportsmanlike, causing their team to be one player short for the rest of the match.
- A red card may also refer to a bright red plastic card used in blackjack, where the player inserts the card in the middle of the deck after the dealer shuffles it to mark where the deck should be cut.
In other languages[]
| Language | Name | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Chinese (Simplified) | 红牌 | |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 紅牌 | |
| Dutch | Rode kaart | |
| French | Carton rouge | |
| German | Rote Karte | |
| Indonesian | Kartu Merah | |
| Italian | Carta rossa | |
| Japanese | レッドカード | |
| Korean | 레드카드 | |
| Polish | Czerwona karta | |
| Portuguese (Brazilian) | Carta Vermelha | |
| Russian | Красная карта | |
| Spanish (Spain) | Tarjeta roja | |
| Spanish (Latin America) | Carta roja |
