Immaculate Conception

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(except in Rebirth)

Immaculate Conception is an unlockable passive item added in The Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth.

Effects

Notes

  • After all five familiars have been spawned, a Soul Heart.pngSoul Heart will still drop every 15 hearts collected.
  • All types of hearts except Gold Heart.pngGold Hearts and (except in Rebirth and Afterbirth) Blended Heart.pngBlended Hearts count.
  • Items that directly add health such as Collectible Yum Heart icon.pngYum Heart, Collectible Book of Revelations icon.pngBook of Revelations, Collectible Satanic Bible icon.pngSatanic Bible, and Collectible The Nail icon.pngThe Nail do not count towards spawning a familiar.
  • Character The Lost icon.pngThe Lost can pick up Soul Hearts and Black Hearts despite having no health and thus can activate Immaculate Conception.
  • Character Keeper icon.pngKeeper cannot encounter hearts, thus the item is useless for him.
  • As the short-lived Half Red Heart.pngHalf Red Hearts dropped by Character Tainted Magdalene icon.pngTainted Magdalene also count, it is an excellent choice for her since she will constantly be picking up hearts and gain all five familiars quickly.
  • Familiars spawned by the item do not affect item pools, so multiple copies of one familiar can be obtained. For example, a second Seraphim can be purchased after Immaculate Conception spawns one.
  • As with Collectible Cambion Conception icon.pngCambion Conception, if this item is removed in anyway (such as with a (in Repentance and Repentance+)XVII - The Stars?XVII - The Stars?), the familiars from Cambion Conception will be removed upon updating familiars, including picking up items that don't add familiars but update its cache, such as Collectible Brimstone icon.pngBrimstone.
    • If the item is re-obtained after being removed (e.g. by dropping the item as (in Repentance and Repentance+) Character Tainted Isaac icon.pngTainted Isaac), any familiars that were removed will return once familiars are updated.

Interactions

  • (in Repentance and Repentance+)Collectible Hypercoagulation icon.pngHypercoagulation: By intentionally taking damage with something like a fire and grabbing the half-red hearts, Isaac can easily generate powerful familiars for free.
  • Collectible The Jar icon.pngThe Jar: Hearts collected in the jar do not count towards activation.

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Trivia