Painted Deck

Painted Deck
Effect
+2 hand size,
-1 Joker slot
Unlock Requirement
Win a run with any deck on the Green Stake difficulty or harder

The Painted Deck is an unlockable deck which provides +2 default Hand Size, but -1 Joker slot. This deck is earned by winning a run on the Green Stake difficulty.

Starting Contents

It contains the 52 cards of a normal deck: four suits, each with 13 cards (2 to 10, Jack, Queen, King and Ace).

You have a larger hand size than usual, but one less Joker slot.

Synergies

This deck makes 5-card hands significantly easier to play. In particular:

Jokers which reduce hand size, such as Stuntman, can have their downsides negated by the deck's +2 hand size bonus. Any joker which cares about having specific cards in your hand gets better, including:

  • Mime
  • Shoot the Moon
  • Baron
  • Reserved Parking
  • Midas Mask
  • Certificate (Because of Blue Seals)
  • The larger hand size allows for more Gold Cards, Steel Cards, and Blue Seal to be utilized.
  • Antimatter can offset the -1 Joker slot.

Anti-Synergies

  • As there are only 4 Joker slots, Joker Stencil can only provide a maximum of X4 Mult.
    • Similarly, Abstract Joker and Swashbuckler will be weaker as fewer Jokers can be acquired.
  • Riff-Raff is more difficult to use with fewer slots free for new Jokers.
  • Gift Card is less powerful with 1 fewer Joker for it to increase the sell value of.
  • Baseball Card is less powerful with 1 fewer possible Uncommon Joker to gain X1.5 Mult.
  • Blackboard can be harder to trigger, as the increased hand size can make it harder to hold only  Clubs and  Spades in your hand.
  • Blue Joker will give fewer chips.
  • Raised Fist becomes harder to use without modifying the deck a lot.
  • Effect Jokers that provide no direct scoring, such as Splash, Shortcut or Luchador, become harder to keep due to the missing Joker Slot.
  • Temperance will give less money due to the player only having 4 Jokers slots.

Trivia

  • Using the Painted Deck is an easy method to unlock the Invisible Joker due to the reduced joker slot fitting its unlock requirement, so long as no fifth joker is acquired via being Negative edition or through the Antimatter voucher.
  • The Painted Deck is almost the same as the Blue Deck with an eternal Troubadour (except that the Troubadour doesn't actually exist).
  • Painted Deck, Paint Brush, and Palette share the theme of painting and increased hand size.

In other languages

LanguageNameNotes
Internalb_painted
Chinese (Simplified)彩绘牌组
Chinese (Traditional)彩繪牌組
DutchGeschilderd kaartspelDutch splits 'painting' between 'Verven' and 'Schilderen', with verven referring to large surfaces like walls, and schilderen referring to smaller surfaces and more precise work. Given the precision and artistic inspiration of this deck, 'Schilderen' is the verb used here.
FrenchJeu peint
GermanFarbiges Deck
IndonesianPainted Deck
ItalianMazzo dipinto
Japaneseペインテッドデッキ
Korean칠한 덱
PolishMalowana talia
Portuguese (Brazilian)Baralho Pintado
RussianРисованная колода
Spanish (Spain)Baraja pintada
Spanish (Latin America)Baraja pintada