Starter Deck

Item Icon
Pickup Quote	"Extra card room"
Entity ID	5.100.251
Character Appearance
Item Pool	Crane Game Shop Shop
Quality	2
Item Tags
Collection Grid	(page 3, column 7, row 5) (page 3, column 7, row 1)

Starter Deck is a passive item.

Effects

• Allows Isaac to carry two cards or runes at once. Cycle through cards by pressing the Control key (PC), R2 (PlayStation), RT (Xbox), or ZR (Switch, 3DS).
• Replaces all pills with cards. Pills already on the ground will be converted to cards or runes upon picking up Starter Deck.
• Spawns a random card.
  • Runes, soul stones, and other card-like consumables are also possible.

Notes

• When picking up Starter Deck in a shop that has a pill for purchase, the pill can still be purchased and used. If the pill is dropped, it will be turned into a card.
• Picking up 2 Starter Decks won't allow you to carry 3 cards at once.

Interactions

• Acid Baby: Spawns cards or runes instead of pills. Using cards or runes will not trigger the room-wide poisoning effect.
• Caffeine Pill: A pill drops normally, but if it is picked up and dropped, or left on the ground while visiting other rooms, it becomes a card.
• Little Baggy: Overrides the effect of Little Baggy (switch from receiving only pills to only cards).
  • Having both items allow both cards and pills to appear again.
  • Picking up Little Baggy while already holding Starter Deck will turn any held cards or runes into pills for one time.
• Mom's Bottle of Pills: Gives a card instead of a pill, essentially becoming equivalent to a Deck of Cards.
• XIV - Temperance?: Forces Isaac to eat pills even with Starter Deck.

Trivia

• The Starter Deck will paint a five-color pentagram on Isaac's head, which is a reference to the Magic: The Gathering logo.
• This item is used in It's in the Cards (challenge #14).
• Starter Deck also appears in Cantripped! (challenge #43) with a unique function of increasing the number of item cards that Tainted Cain can carry at once. It replaces all Boss Room items in this challenge.

Gallery

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  Concept drawn for Starter Deck.

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