Daemon's Tail

**Daemon's Tail** is an unlockable trinket.

## Effects

* 80% of heart drops are replaced with Keys.
* All heart drops turn into Black Hearts, if possible. (Sometimes heart types are tied to the room, such as in certain Super Secret Rooms.)

## Notes

* Objects and items such as tinted rocks, Red Chests, Fortune Telling Machines, tarot cards, , , or Blue Fire Places can't drop Black Hearts. Thus, they will still drop Soul Hearts/ Red Hearts with Daemon's Tail.
* can still force drops to be red hearts if the proper conditions are met.
* All heart drops from  will be Black Hearts.
* No effect on , , and  tarot cards.
* Sources of heart drops that are reduced include cleared rooms, bosses, Slot Machines, Fortune Telling Machines, Beggars, Fire Places, Chests, Red Chests, Poops, tinted rocks, items (, , ), trinkets (), and familiars (, , etc).
	+ Hearts that are present upon entering a room for the first time are unaffected by the reduction (for example, the ones found in Curse Rooms/Devil Rooms/Angel Rooms), but will be converted to Black Hearts.
		- The exceptions to this are particular Super Secret Rooms, which have the effect of forcing all heart drops to be the kind found within them.
	+ The  and  tarot cards have a chance to drop one heart instead of two.
* Things that can drop pickups other than hearts will keep the same chance to drop a consumable, but with an increased chance for drops other than hearts and a decreased chance for heart drops. In particular, this increases the chances of acquiring:
	+ Tarot cards & trinkets from Fortune Telling Machines
	+ Bombs and Keys from tinted rocks
	+ Pills and items from Red Chests
	+ Coins from Poops and Fire Places
	+ Any pickup from Slot Machines, cleared rooms, Beggars, Chests, and the Fanny Pack

## Synergies

* : Black Feather grants a damage boost for Daemon's Tail, provided Isaac has an extra trinket slot ( or has gulped/smelted either of the trinkets).

## Interactions

* : The chance to drop cards or runes will change to 90%/10% in favor of cards.

## Tips

* Due to its specific mechanic, Daemon's Tail has no synergy with items increasing chances for Soul/Eternal/Black Hearts to drop instead of a Red Heart, like , , or .
* Since the frequency of heart drops is lowered, holding this trinket can be dangerous to Isaac if he has numerous Red Heart containers, as he can easily find himself short on health.
	+ This trinket is more effective for  ???,  Tainted ???,  Tainted Judas, and  Tainted Forgotten because they cannot gain red heart containers or fill their Bone Hearts with red hearts.
* or  are trinkets which only need to be held to be useful, whereas Daemon's Tail is more effective if it is held and dropped at the right times, to get an increased chance for consumables from certain mechanics (to counter a lack of Bombs/ Keys/coins, or to get Black Heart protection), and to still get enough heart drops to stay alive at other times (from bosses or familiars).
	+ This trinket nearly requires this kind of strategy to pay off, making it tough to use as the player will have to sort and remember the moments where they must pick up or drop the trinket, as it interacts with nearly every consumable dropping mechanic.