I love that the new line for Tainted Jacob's Birthright is "It's not yours.", both referencing how Jacob tricked Esau out of his Birthright, and on a less Meta level, the fact that the Birthright doesn't affect Jacob at all. It affects Esau.
Fun fact, when it first came out, the effect description was "There is no escape." The updated description used now is much more clever and fitting for the effect.
T.Jacob is op. His brother can't be killed and doesn't trying to touch Jacob. Using Lost form you can buy devils deals and open door in mausoleum for free!
Tainted Jacob is actually quite fun mythological reference. Jacob managed to get his brother trade his birthright for some lentil soup (and later tricked his father to give him blessing instead of Esau). Esau got obviously pretty pissed afterwards and was planning to murder Jacob, who absconded. Now that you traded for two birthrights... you get two pissed-off Esaus.
It feels like having a second health bar in Minecraft... But it's cool as fuck and probably makes you feel strong as FUCK... until you manage to die with 18 full hearts and feel like you are somehow the STUPIDEST person in the planet.
Careful with Tainted Lilith's Birthright if you plan on fighting Mother! As of last update (1.7.5) the Antibirth's Knife gets linked to your Gello, and makes it impossible to open the door to Corpse. Really hope they patch this ASAP.
When repentance dropped, the three main things that stuck out to me that I thought were amazing was the tainted characters, the soul stones and birthright. I’m so glad that birthright is finally functional
Fun fact, as tainted Maggie with birthright, getting 18 full heart containers, 18 bone hearts, 1 eternal heart, and the wafer, you can take 45 damage before dying.
I just tried it out, went through 2 floors with no Holy shot proc. It didn't proc even after I added like 10 more until I just held the mass of them over enemies
Actually, I'm pretty sure cains birthright makes it guaranteed that a arcade spawns every floor, the only exception being when the floor layout makes it physically impossible to spawn an arcade (which is fairly uncommon). I say this cause arcades will even spawn in places like the womb and sheol when his birthright is active, places that normally can't have an arcade. So its very likely that the chance of getting an arcade in the game IS 100% in the games code, its just that sometimes the floor makes it impossible to spawn one.
Maybe this is already known, but one thing to add to Judas' Birthright effect is that the passive book of belial also stacks with book of virtues, so you get the wisps and damage up! Also some more Item like the urn of souls have unique synergies with it, might be cool, if you could test some more items and make a video about this too! Good Video, this was indeed very informative! :D
Flip also enjoys the ability to allow items to be picked up by BOTH characters - just swap! Superposition doesn't have to be obtained for this to occur.
For the people who think some characters need a buff, now they have all been buffed but only 0.1% of the time when you get this one item 😂 (This mechanic is really cool, very good addition)
@@calebplerry9664 meh It doesn't show Up a lot of the time because the shop pool is huge (and also you have the problem that you can only bomb the machine once so you may have no money to buy It)
well except for tainted forgotten who can get softlocked by having the body stuck in a pillar. The recall mechanic should be there from the start, but with a really long charge time.
@@forsakenediamawakened3019 it truly does, I just hopped on as Judas after reading this and used the debug to give myself the Urn and Birthright to test it... its glorious...
I did his completion marks pre-buff, too. He's definitely a more solid character now, so no reason not to pull him out once in awhile for the hell of it.
IMO anyone who says that Tainted Jacob's birthright makes things worse has either never picked up birthright as him or is too intimidated by the presence of a second Dark Esau to realise how beneficial it is to have him around. If you just give it enough time and use him optimally, you'll realise you basically have twice the damage output as before...not to mention that both Esaus always charge simultaneously, so you never have to worry about them getting de-synced and catching you off guard.
I don't know for a fact but when watching Keelvin's patch stream cut, someone said that Dark Judas's Birthright makes damage from Dark Arts drain slower
I love how Judas's part is the longest. Like, holy crap there is so much to go into. His birthright is the biggest because literally only one item behaves like his, and it's bethany's only.
Tainted Cain’s birthright is a one item game break because of the way repeatedly making new space bar items work. It will make far greater than 8 items on average and 8 of coins, bombs, or hearts is always a spacebar item.
Small pedantic thing: You mention that T-Maggie is the only character that benefits from multiple birthrights at 13:51, but Eve, T-Bethany, and T-Lost do as well
Judas: Gets an entire fleshed out mechanic that completely changes your approach with how you use active items and could very well be an entire character of its own with some more features. Keeper: He gets an extra coin heart :)
Isaac: Changing fate at will. Maggie: Becoming tougher than nails! Cain: One lucky S.O.B. Judas: *Burn hotter than Hell!* ???: That’s the spirit! Eve: What a horrible night *to have a curse eh?* Samson: *Let FURY guide you weapons!* Azazel: Have a *BLAST!* Lazarus: What doesn’t kill you… Eden: ??? The lost: God giving you a better hand. Lilith: *Stay in formation soldier!* Keeper: Oh a penny! Apollyon: “Hmm I might need this later…” The forgotten: Break the chains! Bethany: My faith is my shield! Jacob and Esau: Sharing is caring! T Isaac: Deeper pockets T Maggie: won’t die by just standing around. T Cain: A good eye for useful scraps. T Judas: always shrouded in darkness. T ???: Quite literally… *Full of shit.* HAHA! T Eve: Flesh back guaranteed! T Samson: *Let VENGEANCE be your SONG!* T Azazel: “uh ah *AH-CHOO!!* Ugh damn allergies…” T Lazarus: “Am I up here? Or down here?” T Eden: no two meetings are going to be the same. T Lost: Come back with a *BANG!* T Lilith: Literal Party in her tummy. T Keeper: Money magnetism! T Apollyon: Hungry hungry locusts. T forgotten: Mjolnir but *B O N E S.* T Bethany: Quality over quantity! T Jacob and Esau: “This is getting out of hand! Now there are two of them!!”
Just wanna give a heads up for People playing with tainted lilith. The knife is a follower that gets attached to gello and won't actually fire out nor open the womb door after mom.
maggie's birthright reminds of flash isaac, where there wasn't a health cap (it might have been specifically for soul hearts?) wonder if that's intentional.
I don't know if that's intentional, but yeah in flash Isaac soul hearts didn't have a cap. That was a bug though, and it may have been fixed in the Eternal update the game got(I don't remember)
@@peco595 it was intended because when you would get more than 12 it had different layouts for the hearts so you could see them all. (This only applies for the eternal edition btw, They didn't zoom out to show the hearts in the normal version) That wouldn't be the case if it wasn't planned though like why zoom out the hearts when you intended to only have 12. It zooms out twice I believe at most allowing you to see 50 hearts at a time. I used to play a lot of flash isaac and used to have busted runs quite a bit.
@@gamingbako5549 But in Wrath of the Lamb and backwards(I haven't played since Eternal), you could get more than 12 hearts if they were soul hearts. You couldn't get more than 12 red hearts, and if you had more than 12 hearts then it just wouldn't show them. You would know you had more of course since taking damage wouldn't visibly decrease your health. It was definitely a bug, intended or not.
@@peco595 It showed the other hearts after the wrath of the lamb dlc before the dlc it would only show 12 bit afterwards it could show more than that only if you went higher than 12 you can probably find images of it if you look it up in images
@@telmoth How is he balanced & fun for you? Genuinely want to know. Whenever I play that character (pre-buff & even post-buff) it just feels like I'm playing a nerfed character, receiving half the items. How is that fun for you?
@@PeeperPanda Are you unaware that now there is always a flipped version of items in pedestals other than bossrooms? Even Devil deals and angel deals spawn flipped versions after pickup.
Isaac’s birthright and glitch crown should have a synergy, that makes it have 5 options (like the crown) but move slowly like isaac’s birthright. Maybe a bit faster to balance it.
you wouldn't really have to balance 2 very rare items. if you managed to snag both while playing with the very only character able to get that birthright effect, you deserve the synergy
Not sure if it's intended or a bug, but when I got birthright on T Laz and get Isaac's Heart, the one who got the heart kept taking damage when the heart got hit even when he was in his ghost form, which led to me losing a pretty strong run
The ghost of Tainted Lazarus can pick up items with spirit sword and if is a consumable will be added to his inventory, or else got confused with all the chaos on screen
I feel like Laz’s birth right would be more interesting if the boost came back for each enemy killed and the amount added would be based off of the enemy he killed; code would be a bitch tho so I get why it’s more like red stew
Honestly, I thought Birthright on TJacob was a joke, But after hearing they ALWAYS charge together, Thats pretty busted powerful But also incredibly dangerous
12:49 Pretty sure it's not random but rather the 3 most recent items the other picked up, as that's what happened both in the video and in one of my Greedier runs
I wonder if there's a mod that makes it so if you have all completion marks as a character, it gives them the permanent effects of their Birthright. Except maybe Tainted Jacob, that one would be togglable.
As cool as Lilith attack formation is I wish hers would remove her blindfold and let her attack like the others and say something like “we are equal” eluding to her origins of refusing to be subservient to adam.
Tainted Jacob: May I have freedom? Dark Easu: No. Darker Easu: You get me instead. Tainted Jacob: If bread in French is pain, THEN I OWN A FUCKING BAKERY!
But doesn't the shadow esau still make you into lost Jacob? Which means double the death for the one of the hardest characters I'm the entire history of isaac
Thank you, the Rebirth wiki can be very unspecific at times, so I was genuinely unsure whether Tainted Lost's birthright effect is single-use or if it's once per room, like regular Lost's holy mantle. I'm a bit confused about tainted Esau, though. I've seen him get killed, but in this video he's said to be "invincible" and takes no damage from tears. Is he only killable under certain circumstances, like when Cleaver is used on him?
@@somenoobdying3101 I'm playing on PC, but I still haven't unlocked Tainted Jacob. I'm not really having that much fun when playing Jacob and Esau, so I'm aiming for getting full completion marks on all other characters before moving on to them.
There is a bug with this birthright effect, if keeper enters knife piece 2 room, the container will be permanently removed. Even after leaving the room. 10:18
Lil side note to blue baby. If you have birthright and soul converter you get 2 soul hearts for using one because of how blue baby works with not able to have red hearts.
