Mystery Gift
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Mystery Gift is an unlockable activated item added in The Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth † (Booster Pack #1).
Effects
- Upon use, spawns a random item from the current room's item pool, with a base ~17% chance to spawn A Lump of Coal or The Poop instead.
Notes
- The chance to get A Lump of Coal or The Poop is determined by Luck using this formula:
- A table showing an example is below. There's no cap, with diminishing returns. At 88 Luck the chance drops to 2%.
Luck | Item Pool | Poop/Coal |
---|---|---|
-10 | 0% | 100% |
0 | 83.3% | 16.6% |
8 | 90% | 10% |
- A Lump of Coal and The Poop are fixed drops, and cannot be changed by having Chaos, holding NO!, and other similar effects.
- Spawning The Poop will create a poison cloud, as if having used The Bean, down to matching the former item's effects.
Synergies
- Book of Virtues: Spawns a random wisp. For the rest of the run, a random wisp spawns after clearing a room if the one given by the item was destroyed, including the replacement wisps given by this effect.
- Damocles: When Damocles is activated, a second item will be spawned with adherence to the item pool for the current room. Even if Mystery Gift "fails" and spawns either The Poop or A Lump of Coal, a second item from the current room's item pool will always be rewarded.
Interactions
- Car Battery: No effect, Mystery Gift will only spawn a single item.
- Void: Like all single-use active items, this item cannot be absorbed by Void. Instead, it will consume and use the Mystery Gift.
- Mystery Gift will be absorbed and will spawn the item upon Void's next use.
In-game Footage
Trivia
- Mystery Gift is based on this Steam Workshop item by Striped.
- The appearance and pickup quote of the item is a reference to the game Spelunky, where there is an item called "Mystery Box", with the description "Thanks! I wrapped it up nice for you!"
- The item's name is also a reference to the Pokémon franchise's feature for distributing event Pokémon.
- The item having a chance to give A Lump of Coal references Santa's tendency to gift coal to naughty children.
- The item having a chance to give The Poop references one of Isaac's floor transition's dreams, in which he is gifted poop.
Gallery
Mystery Gift's appearance prior to Booster Pack #2.
The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth |
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