False PHD

False PHD is a passive item added in The Binding of Isaac: Repentance.

Effects

 * Identifies all pills upon pickup.
 * Grants one Black Heart on pickup.
 * Converts all good pills into their bad counterparts, but gives them positive secondary effects.


 * Stat down pills will also grant +0.6 damage. If it is a horse pill, it will grant +1.2 damage.
 * Other bad pills will also drop a Black Heart upon use.

Synergies

 * /: Effectively converts all Speed Down pills into Damage Up as long as one of the ponies are being held, since they will always give a minimum of 1.5 speed.
 * Black Feather: Grants a damage boost.
 * //: Pills can now be both good and bad again. The other effects of False PHD still apply.
 * : All stat down pills are negated and only trigger the Damage Up effect, and are thus essentially converted into Damage Up pills. However, the reduced stats will be harder to increase in the future, since the stats are still decreased internally.
 * : Using a Bad Trip pill will only deal half a heart of damage and spawn a full Black Heart, resulting in a net gain of health.
 * The Wafer + : Allows for farming infinite health using Bad Trip pills.

Interactions

 * The balancing of stats mostly leads to a net decrease between Stat Downs and +0.6 damage up, while Luck Down provides the balanced +0.6 damage and luck -1.0.