Card Enhancements#

A Card Enhancement is an effect that can be attached to a single playing card — one Glass Card is a built-in ×2 Mult, one Steel Card is a permanent Mult generator sitting in your hand. Add enhancements to your deck through Tarot and Spectral cards, and every card you play becomes worth twice as much.

Modifier System Overview#

Every playing card can hold at the same time: 1 Enhancement + 1 Edition + 1 Seal. The three categories never conflict and all apply together.

All 8 Enhancements (Official Values and Tarot Mapping)#

Mapping mnemonic: The Hierophant gives chips, The Empress gives Mult, The Lovers changes suit, Justice makes Glass, The Chariot makes Steel, The Tower makes Stone, The Devil makes Gold, The Magician makes Lucky — each one matches the traditional meaning of the Tarot artwork, so stop mixing them up.

Enhancement Details in Practice#

Bonus Card and Mult Card: The Two Basic-Value Engines#

Bonus Card is +30 chips and Mult Card is +4 Mult — the cheapest sources of raw numbers early on. The Hierophant and The Empress can each convert up to 2 cards at once. Note that both only work “when played and scored”: leaving them in your hand gives you nothing.

Glass Card: The Highest Burst and a Real Risk#

It gives ×2 Mult when played and scored — stronger than any +Mult enhancement — but every scoring card has a 1/4 chance of being destroyed outright. Techniques: schedule Glass Cards for your final hand of the round (win and run, no loss if they break), hedge with Jokers that reroll probabilities, and pair them with retrigger effects so the ×2 applies several times.

Steel Card: A Passive Engine in Your Hand#

Steel Cards do not need to be played — they give ×1.5 Mult just for being held. That is the essential difference from Glass Cards: Steel is a permanent Mult that “is on the field every round”. Combined with Vouchers and Jokers that raise hand size (so you can stock up more Steel Cards) and with Red Seal retriggers, it is a standard part of Endless mode.

Stone Card: Exclusive to High Card Builds#

Stone Cards have no rank or suit and a fixed +50 chips — they do not count toward hand evaluation. Loading five cards with Stone Cards means fewer cards actually form the hand: High Card builds fit naturally (you only play 1 card anyway), while Flush builds are actively broken by them.

Gold Card: Economy in Hand#

Each Gold Card still in hand at end of round gives +$3 — you do not play it, you just hold it. Three Gold Cards means $9 per round, more than the base interest cap. The cost is hand space: it snowballs into an advantage in the early and mid game, and you have to be willing to let them go during the decisive rounds.

Lucky Card: Two Independent Rolls#

Every scoring card rolls twice independently: 1/5 chance of +20 Mult and 1/15 chance of +$20 — both can trigger off the same card. The Oops! All 6s Joker doubles the probabilities and sends the expected value through the roof. Lucky Cards scale with “number of scoring triggers” — the more retriggers, the more profit.

Seals: 4 Trigger-Based Enchantments#

Watch out for Purple Seal: its trigger is on discard — not “held in hand at end of round”. It serves the “discard to generate resources” loop, not holding value.

Seal Builds#

Editions: 4 Decorative Tiers#

Editions can only be added through the Wheel of Fortune Tarot (applied to Jokers you already have), the Aura Spectral card (applied to cards in your deck) and similar means — a card’s edition is permanent and cannot be overwritten. The fact that Negative takes no slot makes it the uncrowned king of the editions.

Frequently Asked Questions#

Summary#