The Common Cold

   

"Poison Damage"

Item ID
5.100.103

Character Appearance

Tear Appearance

Item Pool

			Treasure Room
			Treasure Room

Collection Grid

(page 1, column 10, row 10)

(page 1, column 20, row 5)

The Common Cold is a passive item.

Effects

• Adds a chance to shoot poison tears, dealing damage over time when inflicted.
• The poison randomly hits either 2 or 3 times, dealing a total of 4 or 6 damage.
  • The poison hits twice, dealing a total of double Isaac's damage.

Notes

• The chance for a tear to be poisoned depends on the luck stat and goes up to 100% at 12 Luck.

Synergies

• Compound Fracture/ Cricket's Body/ Haemolacria/ The Parasite: Chance for tears and split tears to be poisonous. If the main tear is poisonous, the split tears are too.
• Dr. Fetus/ Epic Fetus: Chance for bombs/explosions to become poisonous like Bob's Curse.
• Finger!: Finger can also apply the poison effect.
• Lachryphagy: If a poison tear is fed, all burst tears are poisonous. If a normal tear is fed, the burst tears are not poisonous.
• The Ludovico Technique: The tear flickers green, capable of poisoning enemies when it does.

Interactions

• Ipecac/ Scorpio: Overrides The Common Cold.
• Serpent's Kiss: Both poison effects work, but poison caused by Common Cold will not cause black heart drops. There is no way to tell which poison is applied.

Trivia

• In the original Binding of Isaac, this item also belonged to the Devil Room pool.

Seeds

PC ANX3 VC3V (Treasure Room adjacent to spawn)

PC MPLX AJVP (Treasure Room adjacent to spawn; Curse of the Labyrinth)

Switch KWFP J9MK (First Floor Treasure Room; East from Start)