The Common Cold

5.100.103

Treasure Room Treasure Room

(page 1, column 20, row 5)(page 1, column 10, row 10)

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.
• Unlike Scorpio, The Common Cold will only inflict poison status when a poison tear is triggered and is therefore strictly inferior.

Synergies

• Brimstone: The laser turns green and the poison effect sometimes applies to enemies.
• 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.
• 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: Tear occasionally becomes green and can poison enemies.
• Mom's Knife: The poison effect applies sometimes.
• Monstro's Lung: Some of the tears in the tears cluster will be poisonous.
• Technology: The laser is green and the poison effect sometimes applies to enemies.

Interactions

• Ipecac/ Scorpio: Overrides The Common Cold.
• Serpent's Kiss: Overrides The Common Cold.

Seeds

PC

 PC  ANX3 VC3V (Adjacent Treasure Room)

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

Switch

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