Seeing Double

Seeing Double

Effect
X2 Mult if played hand has a scoring  Club card and a scoring card of any other suit
Rarity
Uncommon
Unlock Requirement
Play a hand that contains four 7 of Clubs
Stats
Buy Price
6
Sell Price
3
Type
Multiplicative Mult
Activation
Independent
Compatibility
Copyable
Yes
Perishable
Yes
Eternal
Yes

Seeing Double is an Uncommon Multiplicative Mult Joker that gives X2 Mult when a hand is scored with one  Club card and any other suit card. Seeing Double will not activate if all  Club cards or all non  Club cards are debuffed.

Usage Notes

Unlocking Seeing Double may prove to be challenging at first due to its condition being oddly specific towards a specific rank and suit. In particular, there are no Jokers that directly have synergies with 7s, the sole exception being Odd Todd. Nevertheless, there are two Decks that are ideal to use when attempting the unlock:

  • Magic Deck starts with two copies of The Fool, allowing the player to copy Tarots to make more 7 of Clubs, such as Death, The Moon, or Strength.
  • Erratic Deck may start the player with a Deck that contains multiple copies of a 7 of Clubs, making it easier to create more copies or, in some cases, require no further modifications.

Synergies

  • Erratic Deck may start with more Clubs than a standard deck, which could activate Seeing Double's condition more easily.
  • Straight and Full House both generate X2 Mult a large majority of the time, making Seeing Double great for those strategies.
  • Smeared Joker means  Clubs can also count as  Spades and vice-versa. This means that playing any hand (even High Card) containing a Club or Spade will trigger Seeing Double.
    • This interaction might be a bug. This interaction also no longer applies when the card is Wild.
  • Splash allows triggering the bonus by adding an extra card that would otherwise be ineligible for scoring; e.g. ♣️A ♣️A ♣️A ♣️A ♥️4.
  • Almost any hand that triggers Flower Pot will also trigger Seeing Double, providing a total of X6 Mult.
    • If some cards are Debuffed, Flower Pot may trigger without Seeing Double, as Seeing Double requires at least 1 non debuffed  Club and at least 1 non debuffed non  Club, while Flower Pot still counts debuffed cards.
  • Wild Cards can count as either the Club or the non-Club, but not both. Generally this means adding any second scoring card (including a second Wild Card) will trigger the bonus, though Stone Cards will not qualify, having no suit at all.

Anti-Synergies

Decks

  • Checkered Deck makes it significantly harder to activate Seeing Double, as it contains no Club cards naturally.

Poker Hands

  • Flush is hard to use, requiring a Wild Card or an off-suit card via Four Fingers.
  • The Club renders Seeing Double useless, as all Club Cards are debuffed and debuffed Club cards will not trigger Seeing Double.
  • The Pillar can make Seeing Double difficult to trigger if players already played some Club cards in the previous round, making them debuffed upon facing this boss blind. This can be remedied by carrying Tarot cards that provide enhancements into the boss blind to "revive" debuffed Club Cards.

Trivia

  • LocalThunk has said the name of this Joker is based on the album Seeing Double from 2002 by the British pop group S Club 7.[1]
    • Its effect in demo version used to be, and its current unlock condition is still related to 7 of Clubs.

Update History

This information has been manually compiled. Some updates may not be included yet.
1.0.0h
  • Effect
    • X1.5 Mult for each 7 of Clubs scored -> X2 Mult if played hand has a scoring  Club card and a scoring card of any other suit

Undocumented

  • Effect
    • X2 Mult for each 7 of Clubs scored -> X1.5 Mult for each 7 of Clubs scored

In other languages

LanguageName
Internalj_seeing_double
Chinese (Simplified)重影
Chinese (Traditional)幻視
DutchDubbel zien
FrenchVision double
GermanDoppelt sehen
IndonesianSeeing Double
ItalianVisione doppia
Japaneseシーイングダブル
Korean둘로 보기
PolishPodwójne widzenie
Portuguese (Brazilian)Visão Duplicada
RussianДвоение в глазах
Spanish (Spain)Visión doble
Spanish (Latin America)Visión doble

References

  1. "'Seeing double' is a reference to S Club 7's album of the same name" - LocalThunk in the Balatro Discord