Bull

Bull is an economy-scaling Joker that adds flat Chips in proportion to your current money. At $50 held you gain +100 Chips, at $80 you gain +160 Chips, which pushes your mid-game baseline damage up by a wide margin. Because it stacks on the Chip side rather than the Mult side, Bull starts paying off from around Ante 2–3 and lets naturally low-Chip hands like Flush or Straight still put up competitive scores.

The downside is obvious: your money has to stay parked for the Chips to grow. You have to keep shop purchases lean and strike a balance between big buys and preserving your bank. Think of Bull less as a score ceiling in a single hand and more as a long-term stability floor — a dependable baseline you build the rest of your run around.

• Yellow Deck: Starts with +$10. The best deck for getting the economy engine rolling early.
• Green Deck: Earns $2 per unused hand/discard (no interest). Pairs well with Bull's "hoard your cash" playstyle.
• Plasma Deck: Balances Chips and Mult. Bull's massive Chip totals get averaged into Mult, creating explosive damage.
• Black Deck: +1 Joker slot. Gives you room to stack multiple economy pieces.

Economy Chip Stacking Build (Yellow Deck)

• Core Jokers: Bull / Bootstraps / Credit Card
• Support Jokers: Business Card / Golden Ticket / Egg
• Target Vouchers: Seed Money → Money Tree
• Target Bank: $80+ (Bull +160 Chips, Bootstraps +32 Mult)

Start by preserving the opening $10 and grabbing Bootstraps or Bull solo. Once you feel the rhythm of $5 / $25 interest ticks, prioritise vouchers that extend the money ceiling. If Credit Card shows up, your effective range widens to roughly -$20 to $100+, and your late-Ante Chips and Mult both leap forward.

Plasma Deck Averaging Build

• Core Jokers: Bull / Stuntman / Bootstraps
• Support Jokers: Ice Cream / Smeared Joker / Baron (King-scaling)
• Target Vouchers: Observatory or Hieroglyph
• Plan: Convert Bull's huge Chip total into a double boost via Plasma's averaging.

Plasma Deck averages Chips and Mult at the final tally, so lopsided scores become more efficient. With Bull pushing $80 → +160 Chips and Bootstraps adding +32 Mult on top, both sides of the equation land at (160 + base + 32 + base) / 2 and multiply out together. Stuntman gives +250 Chips at the cost of -1 hand size, which stacks additively with Bull's economy without competing for the same resource.

Budget Economy Bank-Play Build (Green Deck)

• Core Jokers: Bull / Cloud 9 / Egg
• Support Jokers: To Do List / Gift Card / Bootstraps
• Target Vouchers: Clearance Sale → Hieroglyph
• Plan: Offset the lack of interest by earning money through unused hands instead.

Green Deck loses interest income but pays $2 per unused hand/discard, which dovetails naturally with Bull's "don't spend, don't swing" approach. You do have to play carefully to leave hands on the table, but you reliably reach Bull's $80 sweet spot regardless. Picking up Hieroglyph makes the hand penalty essentially a non-issue.

• Aim to park around $80 in the bank. Skip impulse shop buys and keep the interest cap in mind.
• Joker slots are scarce. Run Negative Tag / Ectoplasm / Antimatter in parallel to expand your slots.
• Try to line up Bull plus two economy Jokers by around Ante 4–5 for a stable curve.
• From Ante 7 on, Blind requirements spike hard; Chips alone won't carry you, so always pair Bull with a Mult source like Bootstraps.
• Credit Card interest is still calculated on your held total, not on debt. You can run negative and still sit on the $25 breakpoint for interest.