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Balatro Planet Cards and the Three Special Planets Explained
Balatro offers multiple ways to increase your effectiveness over the course of a run. One of those ways is to improve the quality of your playable hands through the power of consumables called Planet Cards.
How to Get Planet Cards
Planet Cards are commonly found inside Celestial Packs. However you can also generate Planet Cards through Jokers (8 Ball) or Tarot Cards (The Fool or The High Priestess).
All Balatro Planet Cards
There are 12 different Planet Cards that can be obtained throughout the run. 9 of them are base planets and 3 of them are special planets that only appear after you've played its corresponding special hand throughout a run.
Here’s every base Planet Card you can discover in Balatro:
Planet Card | Planet | Hand Type Improved | Numerical Increase Per Level |
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Mercury | Pair | +1 Mult and +15 Chips | |
Venus | Three of a Kind | +2 Mult and +20 Chips | |
Earth | Full House | +2 Mult and +25 Chips | |
Mars | Four of a Kind | +3 Mult and +30 Chips | |
Jupiter | Flush | +2 Mult and +15 Chips | |
Saturn | Straight | +3 Mult and +30 Chips | |
Uranus | Two Pair | +1 Mult and +20 Chips | |
Neptune | Straight Flush | +4 Mult and +40 Chips | |
Pluto | High Card | +1 Mult and +15 Chips |
Special Planet Cards
As mentioned earlier, there are three special hands that can occur in Balatro and their corresponding Planet Card can only be offered to you once you’ve played them at least once in a run (and only for that run). These are:
- Five of a Kind (Planet X)
- A Five of a Kind is a hand that has five cards with the same rank as they are not a singular matching suit.
- Flush House (Ceres)
- A Flush House are three cards with the same rank, and two cards from the same rank, as long as all of them share a singular matching suit. An example hand would be three Queen of Hearts and two Jack of Hearts.
- Flush Five (Eris)
- A Flush Five is a hand that has five cards that share the exact same rank and exact same suit. An example hand would be five King of Spades.
Planet Card | Planet | Hand Type Improved | Numerical Increase Per Level |
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Planet X | Five of a Kind | +3 Mult and +35 Chips | |
Ceres | Flush House | +4 Mult and +40 Chips | |
Eris | Flush Five | +3 Mult and +50 Chips |