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How does a high card build work? Isn't just one scoring card a huge drawback?
Not for every build. Baron is the main one I think you play high card for. Your mult gets multiplied by 1.5x for every king held in hand. So, it's ideal to fill your hand with as many kings as possible and play only one card.
It's super reliable. You can always play a high card. Sometimes you can't play a pair.
It's really good with Blackboard because you can just select all the red cards and get it.
You can get really low hand size, things like stuntman.
If most of your score is coming jokers, then the hand type you play doesn't matter so much.
Instructions unclear: played out my entire deck.
Yes, But you focus on the hand power. A run that prioritizes common cards is: Always get the Shoot the Moon JK. duplicate Queens, (try to get or build a queen that is steel with a blue seal but queens will do). For chips easiest to get is the square jk. (remember you just need to play 4 cards you don’t need to score 4 cards). By the time you hit ante 8 you have played a ton of high cards so the Supernova JK is viable. Mime JK is super beneficial because each steel queen is now +13 red with x2.25.
Adapt the strategy based on encountered jokers, vouchers. the build is super adaptable because you can build economy, remove cards to gain points, play suites, stone card everything, skip everything etc. Bosses with cards drawn down are easy and under leveled hands are still playable