All Balatro decks
Tier A Win-with-deck unlock

Ghost Deck

Spectral cards appear in the shop; start with a Hex card

Buy Spectral cards straight from the shop. Effects like Immolate and Ankh can carry a run.

How to Unlock the Ghost Deck

Requirement: Win a run with the Yellow Deck.

See every unlock path in the all 15 decks guide. You can also open everything at once via Reset Profile → Unlock All, but that disables achievements on the profile.

How Ghost Deck Works

Ghost makes Spectral cards buyable in the shop, where they normally only come from packs, and hands you a Hex to start. Spectrals are some of the strongest effects in the game: Ankh duplicates a joker, Immolate trades cards for a pile of money, The Soul spawns a Legendary. Reliable shop access to them is a real edge.

How to Play It

Early · A1-3

Hex adds Polychrome to one random joker and destroys the rest, so use it while you hold a single joker. Then watch the shop for Spectrals.

Mid · A4-6

Buy the high-impact Spectrals: Ankh to clone a core, Immolate for a money spike, Familiar or Grim to reshape the deck.

Late · A7-8

Shop access lets you build a run other decks can only luck into from packs.

Best Jokers for the Ghost Deck

Tips

  • Ankh on a strong joker is a run-winning clone. Prioritise it once you have a core.
  • Perkeo turns the Spectral flow into a Negative-consumable engine.

Related Decks

Plan a Ghost Deck run

Model the build in the calculator, or read every deck's unlock in the full guide.