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It has the highest ceiling but it definitely isn't the strongest overall. Perkeo can give you infinite economy by duplicating temperance/hermit if found early and transition into infinite cryptid/deaths/planets for a ridiculous endgame. Even still it is often too slow for high stakes and an early Perkeo can be a dead run if you don't find money to back it up quickly.
This joker is strictly for endgame antics and is insane there but is pretty bad if found when you need scoring/econ jokers that do something right now. You need to beat one ante just for it to not take up a slot and two antes before it provides any benefit.
Comment by cracker_cracker26 at 29/01/2025 at 04:33 UTC
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but doesnt this joker do similar by allowing extra space for econ jokers? And I feel like perkeos xmult scaling with observatory is a lot harder than just picking up whatever useful jokers comeby, especially if you have showman
Comment by shadowtroop121 at 28/01/2025 at 19:29 UTC*
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There's nothing Perkeo can do that this joker cannot, though it definitely takes more setup to do something like infinite xmult (you'd have to get lucky with DNA and hologram for example). On the other hand, there's a lot you can't do with perkeo, and this joker is much less likely to punish you for picking it up early. Making econ jokers not cost you a slot is insanely good and can lead to both faster and better econ than 1 hermit/round.
Edit: Just my opinion, not sure why that deserves downvoting. I don't see any sane person picking Perkeo over this at any state in any run. It's not fast enough to beat this joker.