I legitimately was afraid of getting this guy my first few runs because loosing all discards sounds scary. But +3 hands is actually awesome if you dont have any active synergies with discards going on.
Unused hands contribute money at the end of round. You can burn trash cards on a 'junk hand' which effectively acts like a discard that still gives you points. Having no discards with a positive effect preemptively invalidates the effects of a nasty boss blind.
If you run out of discards but have hands you can still maybe win. If you have all discards but no hands you lost. taps forehead
The only cons I'm thinking is the discard synergyzing cards like... The one that gives you money for each unused discard?? Thats all I can think of. What do you think?
I will say that no discards means you can never use purple seals. If you suddenly get access to them, or already have a few of them in your deck, you will lose out in a handful of tarot cards you could've got by discarding them throughout your run. ~~It will also suck for The Needle if you aren't prepared (i.e. explicitly going for a high card / pair run where it doesn't matter much what cards you play) for the single hand you have.~~ But yeah, if you're focusing lower tier hands and have a less useful joker to replace with this one, it could absolutely pull some weight with extra economy and score for a while.
The Needle gets neutralised by Burglar. You get 4 hands.
Wait seriously? That's crazy, I assume that's a bug? Either way thanks for that info, I would've never tried that on purpose.
No, it's just the order of operation. The boss effect applies before the joker.