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Luck Stat Icon Luck affects a variety of chance-based effects and is represented by a 3-leaf clover.

Effects of Luck

Luck influences many different elements:

  • Room drops: For calculating room drops, luck is capped between 0 and 10, with higher luck not only resulting in higher amounts of drops but also higher quality drops such as chests.
    • Room drop rates are otherwise identical in Normal and Hard game modes, but Hard mode removes 65% of heart-type drops, replacing them with nothing.
  • Tear effect chance: The chance of shooting tears with status effects becomes more likely as Luck goes up. This scales up to 100% chance per tear in most cases with enough Luck.
    • Most of the status inflicting effects require high Luck to activate on every tear.
      • Since these effects persist on the enemies for a set amount of time regardless of the Tears stat, a fast rate of fire is often enough to affect an enemy indefinitely.
    • Other items affected by Luck include:
      • (in Afterbirth † and Repentance)Collectible Broken Modem iconBroken Modem: Higher luck increases the rate of freezing enemies and their shots.
      • Collectible Celtic Cross iconCeltic Cross: The Celtic Cross grants its invulnerability more often with higher Luck, topping out at 100% at 27 Luck.
      • Collectible Gimpy iconGimpy: The Soul Heart/Black Heart drop chance upon taking damage increases with higher Luck, topping out at 50% at 22 Luck.
      • Collectible Midas' Touch iconMidas' Touch: Poops generated by Isaac's actions have a chance to turn into Golden Poop, starting at 10% with 0 Luck up to 100% at 18 Luck.
      • (in Afterbirth † and Repentance)Collectible Mystery Gift iconMystery Gift: Higher luck results in a lower chance of getting Collectible The Poop iconThe Poop or Collectible A Lump of Coal iconA Lump of Coal.
      • Collectible Old Bandage iconOld Bandage: The Red Heart drop chance when you take a hit increases with higher Luck, topping out at 50% at 29 Luck.
      • Collectible Virgo iconVirgo: The shield activation chance increases with Luck, topping out at 100% at 10 Luck.

However, Luck doesn't affect:

Items that affect luck

Activated Items

Name ID Icon Quote Description (in Repentance) Quality
(except in Rebirth) Mom's Box 5.100.439
Mom's Box
4 rooms
What's inside? Increases luck by 1 and doubles the effects of trinkets while held. When used, drops a random trinket on the ground. 2
(in Afterbirth † and Repentance) Dataminer 5.100.481
Dataminer
4 rooms
109 Displaces enemy sprites for the current room, randomly increases one stat and decreases another. 0

Passive Items

Name ID Icon Quote Description (in Repentance) Quality
Latch Key 5.100.343 Latch Key Luck up Grants 1 Soul HeartSoul Heart and +1 luck. Spawns 2 KeyKeys. 1
Lucky Foot 5.100.46 Lucky Foot Luck up +1 luck. Improves Isaac's chances at various random events (independent from the luck stat). (in Repentance) Converts all bad pills into good pills, without identifying them. 2
Magic Scab 5.100.253 Magic Scab HP + luck up Grants one full Red Heart container, +1 luck. (in Repentance) Heals 1 additional Red HeartRed Heart. 2
Missing No. 5.100.258 Missing No. Syntax error Randomizes all passive items and stats upon pickup and at the start of each succeeding floor. 0
(except in Rebirth) Mom's Pearls 5.100.355 Mom's Pearls Range + luck up (except in Repentance) +1.25 range, +0.5 tear falling speed, +1 luck.
(in Repentance) +2.5 range, +1 luck. Grants one Soul HeartSoul Heart.
2
(in Afterbirth † and Repentance) YO LISTEN! 5.100.492 YO LISTEN! Yo listen! +1 luck. Spawns a fairy familiar that points out Secret RoomSecret Rooms, Crawl SpaceCrawl Space entrances, and tinted rocks. 2

Trinkets

Name ID Icon Quote Description
Lucky Toe 5.350.42 Lucky Toe Luck up! +1 Luck. Adds a chance to drop an extra pickup when opening a ChestChest, destroying a machine, or blowing up a tinted rock.
(in Repentance) Perfection 5.350.145 Perfection Luck way up. Don't lose it! +10 Luck. If Isaac takes damage, the trinket is destroyed and its effect is removed.

Other

  • "Luck Up" pills increase luck by 1, and "Luck Down" pills decrease luck by 1.
  • (except in Rebirth) Lucky pennies increase luck by 1.
  • (except in Rebirth) In co-op, Green Baby will occasionally briefly increase luck by 2. Dark Baby will occasionally briefly increase all stats, including luck.


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