7KEF18NZ

7KEF18NZ
White Stake, Ghost Deck
Ante 39 Win Without Perkeo

Buy ALL vouchers except Planet merchant, but don't take the voucher skip in ante 4

Ante 1
-Sell hex for interest
-one shot small blind (10-a straight)
-Take Hieroglyph after small blind

Ante 0
-one shot big blind (spade flush), don't buy anything, one shot the psychic (10-3 full house)

After the psychic (Ante 1 again)
-Buy arcana pack first, soul for negative chicot, open spectral pack for ankh
-One shot small blind (K-Q full house), don't buy anything
-Two shot big blind(Q-J full house, 10-A straight),
-buy Paintbrush
-open spectral pack, put purple seal on 4 of diamonds
-Buy cryptid
-ante 1 boss, discard lowest cards and keep kings.
-purple seal will come up, temperance. use it right away
-use cryptid on king of hearts, one shot boss with a 5oak

After ante 1 boss (Ante 2)
-Buy foil showman
-Open spectral pack. Cryptid on king of hearts
-Skip small blind for the soul. Oops! All chicot!
-can just barely kill big blind with only foil showman. scoring is tight.
-(play 9-K straight, discard 2,3,6,7, play K-J full house, play 8-9 full house)
-after big blind open spectral pack first, ecto on chicot. 3 negative chicots
-buy palette
-then buy blue joker + popcorn to survive
-continue fishing for your purple seal to generate tarots.

Ante 3
-reroll once after small blind for Swashbuckler.
-if cash is tight you can reroll after the big blind instead,
-but you have to reroll at least once this ante or youll miss the only deja vu for like 25 antes
-as soon as you pick up swashbuckler, switch to high card (telescope soon)
-buy and use pluto when it appears
-pick up deja vu after big blind. use on king of hearts
-copy the king as much as possible with deaths and cryptids from now on.
-(deaths are pretty scarce till ante 9 or so. make as many tarots as possible)

At some point, ante 3 or 4, you'll get a big emperor/fool chain that ends with temperance and chariot
After this happens, you can sell showman if you need a joker slot

Open all tarot packs as cash allows, looking for cash or some hung men

Ante 4
-buy petroglyph whenever (after big blind if cash is tight)
-don't need to do anything in ante 3 if you already have red seal king
-so just use the rounds to generate interest
-can skip big blind when back in ante 3 for hearts sigil if you want
-don't take the voucher tag or you won't get retcon till like ante 28
-boss: eat your vegetables (+2 hand size)

When back in ante 4
-can take the second swash if you want, but youll sell it later
-open at least the jumbo and mega buffoon packs this ante
-buy telescope as soon as cash allows (won't get retcon if you miss telescope)
-mega pack will give trading card.
-use it to destroy any card that isn't a purple seal or a king
-try to thin out deck as much as possible from now on
-the regular buffooon pack after trading card will give mail in rebate, and another swash if you still have showman
-taking one of those is optional
-as soon as high card is your most played hand, start opening planet packs for pluto

Ante 5
-buy voucher whenever
-baron this ante.
-don't need to reroll to see it but if scoring is tight reroll to get it earlier
-keep making kings, discard for kings, use trading card if possible but be careful since you only have 2 discards
-buy some money with temperance and the fool in packs

Ante 6
-buy voucher whenever
-mega arcana pack has the hermit
-scoring is tight in this ante but i believe in you
-one planet pack

Ante 7
-buy voucher whenever (director's cut finally)
-blueprint is only a couple rerolls away
-should prob reroll for it since you might not make scoring if you don't
-sell swash if you have 2, blue joker if not
-blueprint on baron. engine is finally online
-can get rid of blue joker if you need more slots. if you're scoring high enough, your last swash can go too.
-two planet packs

Ante 8
-buy voucher whenever
-can grab another purple seal from spectral pack
-you may need to reroll a couple times for ectoplasm thanks to tarot merchant
-but you need ectoplasm here since it's scarce in this seed
-(i think its 1 or 2 rerolls per shop?)
-ecto hit blueprint right away for me. if it doesn't hit blueprint or baron for you,
-you need to savescum and sell your other jokers.
-ante 8 boss fucks up your joker order even with chicot. very rude.

Thin out deck, death red seal steel kings, upgrade high card,
make as much money as possible. you want a TON of money for retcon,
once your deck is thin, mail-in-rebate with blueprint is a great option.
from now on you need to re roll shop a bunch for any of the stuff listed,
so you need money for that too.

Rerolling shop a handful of times per round is profitable with tarot merchant and reroll glut.

You want high card to be about level 60 or so by the end. So just buy planet packs
and plutos in shop when you see em

Mail in rebate comes ante 14 without rerolling, but you may have to sell it for mime
or invis joker and buy another one later. copy the mail in rebate and discard kings
for tons of cash. (~$300/round) careful you dont run out of cards to hold in hand.

Joker space is hard to come by, mail in rebate is a common so it's ok if you need to
sell it after generating a good bit of money and buy it back another time.

Ante 11
-brainstorm, dna. i picked up negative rough gem and it made my next invis hit chicot (which is good),
-but your results may vary
-dna a red seal steel king every round.
-blueprint/brainstorm on dna, then move them both back to baron for second hand.
-continue killing cards that arent kings, then cards that arent red seal steel kings.

You need at least 88 red seal steel kings in your deck from dna. i'd get over 100
for mail in rebate if possible.

Ante 13
-retcon, finally
-2 invisible jokers (i only could buy one so i had to roll a LOT in ante 28)
-for me it hit a chicot
-you want 3 blueprints, 2 brainstorms and 5 chicots by the end.
-if invis hits a chicot that's +3 hand size per ante
-can save scum if it doesn't, but if it hits blueprint that's okay too

From now on, re roll every single boss to the manacle. (except antes 16,24,32)

Ante 14
-Negative tag skip on big blind here gives negative Troubadour.

Ante 15
-mime finally
-blueprint on baron, brainstorm on mime (after dna)

Ante 20
-buy antimatter
-reroll till mail in rebate returns. use the new joker slot for it
-This is the last showman you get until ante 27. take it now
-you have to reroll a few times for it. do this after big blind so you can get more dna procs.
-another blueprint is in the pack in shop after big blind so do not open it until showman
-more dnas in antes 22 and 25 if you reroll a LOT (15+ times), if you still need more deck fixing.

Ante 22
-Invisible joker. for me, this copied brainstorm. chicot is good too.
-you've probably got enough money from mail in rebate at this point to sell rebate for it
-to be safe, you can wait to start rerolling until after the big blind to give you 2 more rounds with rebate.

Ante 24
-Do not reroll shop after ante 23 boss. Skip the ante 24 small blind for ectoplasm.
-Then after big blind, reroll shop for invisible joker.
-this needs to copy blueprint, brainstorm or chicot. you want 3 blueprints, 2 brainstorms and 5 chicots soon.
-for me, this copied blueprint.

Ante 25
-Another ectoplasm after a few rerolls.

Ante 26
-A bunch of rerolls for mail in rebate, this will be sold again once another invisible joker comes.

Ante 28
-If you missed an invis, you need to reroll this ante nearly 90 times for the final invisible joker of the run. Hope you've saved up.
-For me, this finally gave me my 5th chicot.

Smooth sailing from here. Congrats, you beat Balatro!