Vagabond is a rare Joker that spawns a Tarot card when a hand is played, provided players have a free consumable slot and $4 or less when the hand is played.
Money generation like the 1/15 $20 payout from Lucky Cards, Gold Seals on scoring cards, and Gold Cards held in hand (or scoring through 
Golden Ticket) that take you over $4 upon playing will still generate the Tarot card along with their additional money effect.
Synergies[]
Decks[]
Green Deck isn't reliant on Interest to gain money, so spending everything you have to trigger Vagabond won't impact your ability to buy from the Shop as much. However, much of Green Deck's income is from leftover hands, which you won't have if you are using them all to trigger Vagabond.- Blue Deck allows more hands to be played, meaning more triggers of Vagabond.
- Magic Deck's extra consumable slot is very helpful for saving useful Tarots. (Inversely, Nebula Deck's fewer consumable slots make it significantly harder to use the Tarots from Vagabond.)
- Zodiac Deck's unique shop makes it easier to spend money to reach the $4 threshold and generally helps the Tarot-stacking builds Vagabond tends to form.
Poker Hands[]
- Weaker hands like High Card, Pair, Two Pair, etc. allow players to farm more Tarot Cards per round.
- Later in the game, Vagabond can enable hands built around one card, such as Four of a Kind and Five of a Kind.
Jokers[]
Credit Card allows you to go up to $20 in debt which greatly enables staying below $4 to generate Tarot cards.
Jokers that scale based on hands played, like 
Ride the Bus, 
Green Joker, and, occasionally, 
Obelisk, are helpful to pair with Vagabond, as they grow more powerful in the process of using Vagabond to its full potential. Furthering this idea, 
Burglar allows more hands to be played to both generate more Tarots and scale these Jokers.
Jokers that want large quantities of Tarot cards used very much appreciate Vagabond. These include Enhancement-based Jokers like 
Steel Joker, 
Glass Joker, and 
Lucky Cat; suit-based Jokers like 
Bloodstone and 
Arrowhead; and rank-based Jokers like 
Walkie Talkie and 
Shoot the Moon. Tarot cards are used for many things, so many Jokers can benefit from the Tarots Vagabond generates.
Fortune Teller is a useful scaling Joker Vagabond can pair with. It will end up scaling faster than Jokers like Green Joker, too, as the Tarots used in shops still scale it.
Acrobat is very helpful, as it provides a safety net for the final hand of the round. This final hand will, ideally, always be reached, as using every hand to maximize Tarot production is the main goal of Vagabond.
One does not usually need to discard with Vagabond, so Jokers that want to save discards, like 
Ramen and 
Delayed Gratification, can be useful additions to builds using Vagabond.
Vagabond can be copied by 
Blueprint and 
Brainstorm, allowing players to generate extra Tarots with every hand.
Money generation that triggers after the round, like from 
Golden Joker and 
Satellite, is very helpful, as it allows you to still utilize shops without needing bonus money from hands or interest.
Driver's License and 
Vampire are the one of the best jokers for converting all of the enhanced cards that Vagabond has made into a powerful endgame strategy.
The best joker that synergies best with Vagabond is Campfire,which is guaranteed to scales x0.25mult per hand played.
Other synergies[]
- Be careful when using Lucky Cards with Vagabond, as winning $20 from it will cause Vagabond to stop generating Tarot cards until the next blind.
- Because Vagabond usually generate 1 to 2 Tarot cards per hand played, Blue Seal becomes harder to utilize as players may not have enough consumable slots to hold both.
- The Tooth is a blind that synergies with the Vagabond, bringing the player's money down into the range that Vagabond can activate.
Trivia[]
- The card art for this Joker was made by Pixel Artist, Animator, and YouTuber Lumpy Touch. This was the only card in the game whose pixel art was not done by LocalThunk, until some of the Friends of Jimbo arrived.
- The Joker resembles a clown character named Weary Willie, created by the late circus performer Emmett Leo Kelly.
- Vagabonds are wandering people who have no set home or job, often associated with being poor. This fits the design of the Joker, being a poor-looking man with worn clothes depicted on a worn-out and damaged card, and the effect based on having low, no or negative money.
Update History[]
- Effect
- Applies when you have $3 or less -> applies when you have $4 or less
- Rarity
- Uncommon -> Rare
- Price
- $6 -> $8
Undocumented
- Effect
- Applies when you have $4 or less -> applies when you have $3 or less
In other languages[]
| Language | Name | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Chinese (Simplified) | 流浪者 | |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 流浪者 | |
| Dutch | Vagebond | |
| French | Vagabond | |
| German | Vagabund | |
| Indonesian | Vagabond | |
| Italian | Vagabondo | |
| Japanese | バガボンド | |
| Korean | 방랑자 | |
| Polish | Włóczęga | |
| Portuguese (Brazilian) | Vagabundo | |
| Russian | Бродяга | |
| Spanish (Spain) | Vagabundo | |
| Spanish (Latin America) | Vagabundo |
