Luxury Tax

Luxury Tax
Rules & Modifiers
Hold -1 cards in hand for every $5 you have

10 hand size
Initial Jokers & Consumables
None
Deck
Standard 52 card deck
Restrictions
None

Luxury Tax is a Challenge Deck. It penalizes owning too much money via reducing the player's hand size.

Starting Contents

The starting deck contains the standard 52 cards.

Synergies

  • Credit Card can provide up to +4 hand size if players stay $-20 in debt.
    • The Tooth can also make you go into debt.
  • Vagabond will provide a steady supply of Tarot cards for deck enhancing should players opt to stay below $5.
  • Juggler and Troubadour can help offset the hand size penalty given by Luxury Tax.
    • This also applies to Paint Brush and Palette.
  • Merry Andy and Stuntman can go either way, since even though their hand size penalties get offset by the extra hand size given, they limit the player to even less money.
    • Jokers that benefit from having a small hand size (such as Blue Joker), and Jokers that benefit from having a big hand size (such as Baron) can also go either way.
  • Golden Joker, Egg, Satellite and Cloud 9 can help as econ Jokers, as they activate after a blind, meaning that the money accumulated by them can be spent in the next shop, with no downside to your hand size.
    • The Devil and Midas Mask can create Gold Cards as well, which gives $3 after the round is completed. Having a larger hand size also means you can hold onto more Gold Cards.
  • Coupon Tag can be worth the skip, since the next shop will be free.

Anti-Synergies

  • Be careful when using Lucky Cards, as a single $20 produce will reduce hand size by 4, which makes future hands harder to assemble.
  • Bootstraps and Bull are practically useless, since you're going to want to hold on to very little money.
  • Similarly, To the Moon provides little benefit, as in order to take advantage of its high interest, you'd want high starting money, which this deck punishes.
    • This also includes Seed Money and Money Tree.
  • Be wary when using econ jokers that provide money in the middle of a blind such as Golden Ticket, Rough Gem, Business Card, etc. as they can reduce your hand size in the middle of said blind.
  • Although not impossible, it is considerably harder to make Jokers that require high monetary cost (such as Flash Card, Constellation and Campfire) function in this challenge.
  • Skipping for Tags that give money can be dangerous. If you have enough money to set your hand size to less than 1 after skipping, upon selecting blind you will be met with the game over screen.

In other languages

LanguageNameNotes
Chinese (Simplified)奢侈税
Chinese (Traditional)奢侈稅
DutchWelvaartsbelastingWhile not an official term, it is colloquially used for the same meaning. While perhaps outside the purview, one could also use 'dagobertducktaks', a tax on the rich named after Scrooge McDuck.
FrenchTaxe de luxe
GermanLuxussteuer
IndonesianPajak Barang Mewah
ItalianTassa sul lusso
Japaneseぜいたく税
Korean특별 소비세
PolishPodatek od wzbogacenia
Portuguese (Brazilian)Imposto de Luxo
RussianНалог на роскошь
Spanish (Spain)Impuesto de lujo
Spanish (Latin America)Impuesto al lujo
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