Eye of Greed
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Eye of Greed is an unlockable passive item added in The Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth †.
Effects
- Adds a golden tear every 20 tears fired, which causes enemies to turn gold and petrifies them for a few seconds (similar to
Midas' Touch) at the cost of one 
Penny. Golden tears can still be fired if Isaac has no money.
- Unlike other tear effects, golden tears are fired alongside regular tears rather than replacing a regular tear.
- With multi-shot abilities, whichever tear is the 20th since previous will produce the additional golden tear.
The golden tear does 2x normal damage.
If Isaac has no money, the golden tear does normal tear damage. If Isaac does have money, the golden tear deals 1.5x normal damage +10.- Enemies killed while golden will drop 1-4 coins.
- Enemies killed while golden will drop 1-3 coins.
- If Isaac has money, golden tears that hit enemies will drop a Penny, effectively returning the cost.
Notes
- Tears fired from items that cause multiple tears to be fired at once, e.g.
20/20, 
Monstro's Lung, etc., are counted separately.
- The gold tear is not duplicated by said items.
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The Forgotten has separate tear counters for The Forgotten and Soul. - Using this item is an easy way of unlocking
Golden Razor after obtaining 99 coins, since it drains them by just shooting and with enough patience it will reduce their count to 0. - Hitting Armored
Tuff Twins or 
The Shell will turn them into gold, and all armored segments will drop 1-3 coins.
Synergies
Chocolate Milk: How much the 20th tear was charged determines the size and damage of the golden tear.
Compound Fracture / 
Cricket's Body / 
The Parasite: Golden tears will still look like coins and will still split into other golden coins when hitting obstacles.
Equality!: The coin lost when firing the tear can be quite useful for equalizing the pickup counter.
Humbleing Bundle: Affects coins dropped from hitting enemies, allowing Isaac to potentially farm money.
Lachryphagy: Golden tears can also be fed and will burst into split tears. Burst tears are not golden.- Piercing tears: The golden tear will petrify all enemies it hits, and will drop a penny for each one.
Trisagion: Golden tears become blast that constantly drop Pennies on hit.
Urn of Souls: Golden tears still shoot as normal while using the urn.
Interactions
- Ace Cards: Petrified enemies that are turned into pickups don’t also drop coins from the petrification effect.
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Brimstone: Overrides Eye of Greed.
- Occasionally fires a coin tear with the beam.
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Dr. Fetus: Overrides Eye of Greed.
- A coin shot is fired every 20 shots, but it's very likely to hit the bomb. This makes Eye of Greed drain money over time for no benefit, unless piercing is gained.
E. Coli/
Flush!: Petrified enemies that are turned to poop don't drop coins.-
Epic Fetus: Overrides Eye of Greed.
- Occasionally fires a coin tear in the direction of the cross similarly to
Marked.
Fate's Reward: Does not shoot coin tears.-
Flat Stone: No effect. - Freeze Effects: Petrified enemies that are frozen don’t drop coins.
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Incubus: Does not shoot coin tears.
- Incubus will fire coin tears in tandem with Isaac. His shot counter is independent of Isaac's. Coin tears still subtract from Isaac's pennies.
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Lost Contact: No effect. -
The Ludovico Technique: Overrides Eye of Greed.
- Isaac occasionally fires a coin tear towards the controlled tear.
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Mom's Knife: Overrides Eye of Greed.
- Occasionally fires a coin tear in addition to the knife.
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Technology/
Tech X: Overrides Eye of Greed. 
Twisted Pair: The two familiars will also fire coin tears which spend Isaac's coins. Their shot counter are independent from Isaac's.
