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The Bindening™: Tarot Cards & Suit Cards

By Two of Diamonds and 1 collaborators

A quick guide on the different effects that cards have in the Binding of Isaac.
Includes a picture, their effect and hints on how to use them effectively.

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Category: Gameplay Basics, Loot, Secrets, Walkthroughs, Weapons

Languages: English

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5 Apr, 2014 @ 3:42am

6 Apr, 2014 @ 2:39pm

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Guide Index

Overview

Introductory

Tarot Cards

Suit Cards

Credits

Comments

Introductory

Tarot Cards & Suit Cards can make or break a run when used effectively. They're a really great help in achieving certain goals, avoiding damage, or even skipping entire skippable segments of later floors.

Knowing what they do is vital to your success in this game, knowing how to use them even more.

Tarot Cards

Name

Effect

Tips

Teleports you to the starting room of the level

You can use this card to get out of a Curse Room without taking damage or to escape a Challenge Room

Grants you homing projectiles for that room

Useful if you need to focus more on dodging than hitting in any boss fight

Summons Mom's Foot to stomp on a random enemy. Acts as an explosion and will destroy rocks as such. Deals significant damage

Useful for boss fights. Will target you if there are no enemies to target

Increases damage by 2 and speed by 1, for one room

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Teleports you to the Boss Room

You could skip Sheol, Cathedral, the Chest with this card, teleporting straight to the boss

Spawns 2 Spirit hearts

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Spawns 2 (full) red heart pickups

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Grants you temporary invincibility. Causes you to damage enemies by touch, but disables your firing

Useful to use in order to avoid taking damage or to inflict damage. Can also be used to get free plays at a Blood Donation Machine / Devil Beggar

Spawns a Bomb, Key, Coin and Heart pickup

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Teleports you to the Shop

Will unlock the Shop automatically, so you can use this card to enter one without paying. If there's no Shop on the floor this card will randomly teleport you somewhere else

Spawns a Slot Machine. Slight chance to spawn a Fortune Teller

Increases damage by 1 and adds a heart container, for one room

The added heart container can be used to make a Deal with the Devil

Gives you the ability to fly for one room

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Damages all enemies in the room a fair bit

Not very useful against bosses, unless they have different hittable bodyparts, such a Larry Jr.

Spawns a Blood Donation Machine

Increases damage by 2, for one room

Works like a Book of Belial, does not stack with one

Spawns 6 troll bombs randomly around the room

Useful if you're out of bombs and want to blow up rocks or such. Helpful against bosses and enemies, although this card has a track record of damaging the user

Teleports you to the Treasure Room

Will unlock the Treasure Room automatically, so you can use this card to enter one without paying. If there's none on the floor this card will randomly teleport you somewhere else

Teleports you to the Secret Room

Also allows you to leave without using a bomb, but doesn't allow you to re-enter

Functions as a XXI The World and a XIII Death card. Fully heals, too

Best used as a last-ditch effort to fully heal yourself againt a boss, damaging them in the process

Spawns a Beggar, might spawn a Devil Beggar

Using this card in an Angel or Devil Room yields better results. Otherwise, a Curse or Secret Room yields better results than others

Reveals the entire map's layout and the location of special rooms (Secret / Treasure / Shop / Curse / Boss / Miniboss / Self Sacrifice)

Useless if your map is disabled via a Curse of Darkness or if you already have the map visible via the combination of the Treasure Map and Compass items

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Suit Cards

Suit cards are much easier to understand, there are only 5, and 4 of them are very similar.

Name

Effect

The Joker

Teleports you to the Deity Room*

Two of Clubs

Doubles your bomb amount. Gives two bombs if used without any

Two of Diamonds

Doubles your existing money. Gives two pennies if used without any

Two of Hearts

Doubles your filled heart containers. Refills two if used at half of a filled heart container

Two of Spades

Doubles your key amount. Gives two keys if used without any

* The Deity Room can be either the Devil or the Angel Room.
It's advisable to use this card after beating the Boss, when no Devil or Angel room has spawned. That way, you're sure to use it on a floor where you would not otherwise have had a Deity Room.

Credits

- Images: Taken by myself in-game with the help of Cheat Engine
- Information: My own experience with details from the Binding of Isaac Wiki[bindingofisaac.wikia.com]

This is a small segment taken from my giant and comprehensive Binding of Isaac Guide

Check it out, it's got everything.

Why was this guide made, if the information comes straight from your other guide?
My other guide is big. It's huge. And it's got everything from basic movement to the final boss.
I decided to upload this smaller segment for people that specifically want to know about the Cards, without having to scroll through my entire guide just to find it.

10 Comments

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god's chosen 23 Jan, 2023 @ 2:33am

Great guide!

STUNTNERD 17 May, 2020 @ 4:45pm

The guide is well made but nearly useless if i cannot CTRL+f to search...

Please consider replacing the image with the text of what the card is or adding underneath image :V