A Pound of Flesh

Item Icon
Pickup Quote	"Blood money"
Entity ID	5.100.672
Character Appearance
Item Pool	Devil Beggar Devil Room
Quality	1
Item Tags
Collection Grid	(page 6, column 20, row 3)
Unlock Method	Defeat The Beast as Cain

A Pound of Flesh is a passive item added in The Binding of Isaac: Repentance.

Effects

• Devil Deals can now be paid with coins.
• Items in shops now cost health.
• Consumables in shops have no cost, but are surrounded with spikes and can't be pushed out with an explosion.
• Taking a health consumable at half a heart will still result in Isaac's death.
• Immunity to spikes does not prevent damage when taking consumables in shops.

Interactions

• The Lost: Only one item can be picked up from each shop. Consumables can be taken for free.
• The Keeper: No effect. All items will still cost coins.
• Flat File: No effect. Spikes generated surrounding consumables will not be removed.

Trivia

• The name of this item is a reference to Shakespeare’s play The Merchant of Venice.

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