Spectral Cards are a form of consumable you can obtain during a run. Spectral Cards are similar to Tarot Cards in the sense that they generally modify the playing cards in the deck as well, though to a much greater extent than Tarot Cards.

Mar 24, 2024 · ectoplasm should reduce your size hand by 1 each time, but the second extoplasme reduce your hand by 2 not 1 and the third is 3. i had no idea it increased like this. it sounds like it's done to make it a non-linear stronger penalty, which makes it definitely seem intentional. Originally posted by Dreugui:

Jun 18, 2024 · You are playing on a ghost deck, don't rush, you will find another ectoplasm when you will play with boss rerolls to serpent. It doesn't make sense now.

Mar 22, 2024 · ectoplasm (and other "edition" giving effects) only works on jokers that already don't have an edition. Your single joker has polychrome so it won't do anything so the dev made it so it can't be played. A card can have only one edition. That's my guess.

Mar 30, 2024 · We used to eat Gros Michel bananas but they were not resillient and most of them died out due to a fungal outbreak in the 50s. We then switched to the much more resillient Cavendish. The Cavendish joker unlocks after destroying Gros Michel, and it only has a 1/1000 chance to be destroyed instead of 1/4.

Throughout any given run you will need to find inventive ways to gain stronger for every escalating Blind you will encounter. One way to do that are through powerful consumable items called...

Mar 26, 2024 · Someone linked a youtube channel called "Balatro University", in the video he stated that things like Wheel of Fortune, Ectoplasm, etc. (things that buff a random joker), apparently it is a 50/50 chance of being applied to either your newest, or oldest joker. Can anyone confirm if this is true?

(I pulled my double tag mass on a spectral booster pack because I was ante 11 and still didn't see negative Jokers. wanted to see what would happen)

view the full list of Balatro cards Adds Negative to a random Joker, but reduces total hand size by 1

Feb 25, 2024 · That's exactly what Ectoplasm does: it assigns the Negative property to one of the Joker cards that the player already owns. For the rest of the game, that card won't count …