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Starter Deck is a passive item.

Effects[]

  • Allows Isaac to carry two cards, runes, or soul stones at once. Cycle through cards by pressing the Control key (PC), R2 (PlayStation), RT (Xbox), or ZR (Switch, 3DS).
  • Replaces all pills with cards, runes, or soul stones. Pills already on the ground will be converted to a card, rune or soul stone upon picking up Starter Deck.
  • Spawns a random card.
    • Can spawn a rune or soul stone instead.

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[]

  • (in Afterbirth † and Repentance) Acid Baby: Spawns cards or runes instead of pills. Using cards or runes will not trigger the room-wide poisoning effect.
  • (except in Repentance) 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.
  • (except in Repentance) Little Baggy: Overrides the effect of Little Baggy (switch from receiving only pills to only cards).
    • (in Repentance) 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 (except in Repentance) 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.
  • (in Repentance) XIV - Temperance?XIV - Temperance?: Forces Isaac to eat pills even with Starter Deck.

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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).
  • (in Repentance) 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 RoomBoss Room items in this challenge.

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