Ranking Isaac CARDS by their FUNCTIONALITY

The Binding of Isaac Cards being ranked honestly pretty objectively. Little to no opinions here. Let me know what you think, what are your S+ cards?
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Chapters:
0:00:00 Intro
0:00:15 Arcana Cards
0:16:29 Playing Cards & Most Others
0:33:07 Reverse Cards
0:53:03 The Remaining Cards
0:56:14 Final List!
#bindingofisaac #isaac #tierlist

[@legacyirene832]

The thing with The Hanged Man is that it has a hidden stat that makes it so you never encounter scenarios where it's useful while you're holding it, and it never appears in floors where you need it

[@devilspoo3682]

So fucking true

[@randomgem8087]

i'm willing to believe this is true.

[@ianlanday1120]

Ok I know I’m splitting hairs here but by your own logic, Justice has application in combat scenarios because it drops hearts as sustain and potentially a troll bomb.

[@AnotherMattPlayingIsaac]

yeaaa you're not wrong , it gets an honorary 0.5 ranking lol

[@dmichand5191]

@@AnotherMattPlayingIsaac By the same logic Chaos card should get some non-combat points because you can use it to bomb into secret rooms

[@AnotherMattPlayingIsaac]

@@dmichand5191 but it has a 1 in non combat already💀if you want to put it higher you're c r a z y lmao

[@AnotherMattPlayingIsaac]

oh wait non-combat, i cant read or type lmao maybe i am the crazy one lmao

[@littlemrdoom5997]

​@@AnotherMattPlayingIsaac one time I used a chaos card on a tinted rock

[@vasilije1030]

Lovers card can actually be used to get soul hearts or black hearts, because it gives you hearts to the corresponding room type(using it in an angel room will give you soul hearts for example), making it very good in some situations :) Great tier list anyways!

[@calicosiside]

wait lovers can give you non red hearts? wild

[@Marxz.x]

i didn’t even know the lovers card could do that. i thought it was only red hearts.

[@Keitoded]

Queen of hearts can do this too! You can EASILY get max hearts with one Angel Super Secret Room and a decent amount of hearts from Queen of Hearts, because they ALL become eternal hearts.

[@murlocaggrob2192]

It's not determined by the room type. This is actually a hidden feature of certain Super Secret Rooms. All hearts will spawn as a specific heart type in those rooms. The Library-themed one makes Black Hearts, the Angel-themed one makes Soul Hearts, and the Womb-themed one makes Red Hearts.

[@cynicalnightmare1108]

​@@murlocaggrob2192you missed a type: Cathedral-style room will spawn Eternal (white) hearts

[@L4Vo5]

honestly chaos chard should have an eraser effect if you use it against normal enemies

[@AnotherMattPlayingIsaac]

i actually love this idea lmao

[@greenshell1251]

something important to note about lovers, hierophant, reverse hierophant and queen of hearts is they can be converted to a special type of heart in specific super secret rooms, i.e. the super secret room with an eternal heart will make queen of heart spawn only eternal hearts, same with the one that spawns a black heart. that bumps its potential up by a lot imo

[@scramble76]

i loved it when matt said its ranking time and then ranked the cards all over the place

[@AnotherMattPlayingIsaac]

i loved that part too ngl

[@localfridgestealer757]

I loved it when Matt said it's wanking time and then wanked all over the place.

[@brysonwelshbalmer56]

Most perfect part of the vid

[@thepainpanda7681]

This is the comment of all time

[@kpcool2877]

The rules card helped me find a crawlspace leading to a black market once, 5/5

[@Willigant]

Rules card propaganda

[@NJM0324]

It's very niche, but I feel like The Fool (same with The Hermit, The Stars, and the Moon) can rarely have uses in combat scenarios. If you are low health and enter a difficult room, you could use it to escape to look for resources in other rooms. Can also be nice if you get put in a boss room early with curse of the maze.

[@ChylanBof]

you can also use the tower? as a defensive card with the lost, is really strong against final bosses

[@AnotherMattPlayingIsaac]

i didn't even think about that lmao that sounds sick

[@IdiotAstro]

Temperance S Tier because it makes me giggle with glee and click my heels whenever I see it

[@AnotherMattPlayingIsaac]

i dont think its S but i do think it good :)

[@EithanPereira-bb9cw]

@@AnotherMattPlayingIsaac me with spindown + virgo + polaroid and perfection:

[@samicusbacorzyke7354]

I enjoyed watching the flying grape talk about flammable small pictures

[@puls4r681]

Loving the tier list videos! The only thing that bugs me is using the color grey for 3/5 rating or the middle tier. I feel like yellow makes more sense as 3. Maybe use yellow for 3, green for 4, and blue for 5? Would make the colors feel more "correct"

[@tobibilbao]

i once went for delirium and had the r key. found the ? card in the void. it was such a great surprise to find out that the card does trigger the r key without actually using it. that was a fun triple run

[@victorkao1472]

Hey Matt, what are you ranking next? Runes? Pick ups? Pills? Items? (For items, you can do separate tier lists based on the item pool, so you can do a vid on ranking secret room items, then another on ultra secret, etc)

[@stephano353]

a thing to note is that the ? card does allow you t ouse single use items multiple times, so in those cases it could be more useful.

[@stormRed]

Fun fact: The extra heart from Strength becomes permanent as long as it's used in the very last room you enter.

[@samba1one531]

16:45 Ah yes, my favorite card, the two of pennies! Oh, and great selection of background music!

[@BigSmoke-dp4yh]

ik i seem crazy but i genuinely believe that "The High Priestess?" is 10 times better than the regular Priestess, because it does exactly what the regular card but multiple times, which is good if u missed the secret room or want to find the 2nd secret room.

[@gordonramseylookingforlamb8785]

you mister are insane

[@BigSmoke-dp4yh]

@@gordonramseylookingforlamb8785 idk man imo multiple stompy feet are better than one stompy foot

[@pykor9386]

​@@gordonramseylookingforlamb8785 It's not as bad as shovel piece 1

[@quzyr8988]

Plus tbh it has some insane use in greed mode cuz it can literallly clear 3/4 of the waves for you.

[@pykor9386]

You can actually use chaos card as a bomb so it's a bit useful in non-combat

[@groerhahn225]

There really should have been a "Final boss" category as well, because as useful as, for example, the High Priestress is against the earlier bosses, as useless is it against enemies like Mega Satan, Hush, Delirium or the Beast. I'd rather have something like The Magician or Strength in those situations.

[@dragonix8527]

Chaos card absolutely has non combat effects. It breaks EVERYTHING in its path. This includes rocks, fires, and bombable doors. It can also be used to get into secret rooms. Throwing it is basically just using a bomb on everything in a straight line.

[@DeadKaat]

Another Matt tier list? LETS A FUCKING GOOOOOO YAHOO!

[@AnotherMattPlayingIsaac]

WE LOVE LISTS YAHOO

[@DeadKaat]

​@@AnotherMattPlayingIsaac I DO LOVE LISTS, THATS ME I DO! WOOP!

[@benro6564]

Card Against Humanity on chapter 1 or 2 is so many guaranteed consumables on top of almost guaranteed petrified poop.

[@doorify]

On tp cards (especially the fool) they are useful in normal and noss combat ie when playing as the lost and losing holy mantle, or if you only have read hearts and also bhave hearts lying around on the floor u can tp out if u take dmg and fill up your hearts before trying again. All tp cards aside from the fool can tp to a room w/ a fight in it (or may not be connected to other cleared rooms), so theyre less safe but they all definitly have defensive uses in normal rooms and especially bosses. Oh also tping out of delirium to fight it later has sum uses but idk if youd call that boss room isefullnes

[@Augecheeks]

I'm pretty sure lovers are dependent on the room because I'm pretty sure if you use it on the cathedral secret room it drops 2 soul hearts

[@ashelotl]

Honestly I think you HEAVILY underrated the hermit? mainly cause it has so much more use than just finding a bad item and selling it, primarily selling pickups like red hearts can be very good like in that one ultra secret room with like 2 billion red hearts and it can also be useful if you say use it in an arcade where you pay out a beggar and it gives you a stinky item then you pay out a blood donation machine and get IV bag or something, honestly I am always happy to get a reverse hermit because it truly can give a TON of money and especially if you find it early that is VERY useful

[@gingun95]

I agree with you) Also you can just collect all pickups in the floor and sell them. Also it has gamble potential. In my last run i collect all pickups in first room in chest, sell them with reverse hermit and use d20 that i find on the floor. And uf you have blank card, d20 and reverse hermit. Oh boy you can just break the run.

[@josemendonca2318]

41:32 You could re-roll the coins to start a rig

[@willbot6289]

Just wanted to mention that the lovers might be better than you think. Since the lovers drops hearts based on the room type ur in, finding super secret rooms can net you a full heart container or 2 black hearts if you get the right kind. I don't think its placement should change, but the fact that it CAN do some crazy stuff is worth noting. This trick works in any angel or devil room btw

[@Benboostedguy]

10:30 u also can use blood donation machine to force i-frames to enter in a curse room for only half a soul heart and half a red heart instead of using whole soul heart. You can also use it to gulp trinkets with marbles.and technically u can even (and this might be a stretch) use it in combat to get i frames then hit enemies with any “contact” damage items. (The virus and farm black hearts, orbital damage items, midas touch and farm gold. So i feel like this could have gotten a few more points based on your logic of ranking, would love to hear your take on my view. Great video nonetheless

[@imnotnuub8993]

Personally i would put the tower card at number 4 for boss clears as most of the bosses spawn in the middle of the room and therefore die near instantly as almost if not all the bombs just spawn on top of them and go BOOM BAU BIDIBOING and its gg ez next floor woowoo. Also it takes ur bomb items effects if im not mistaken which should mostly be good instead of bad.

[@gjgaming2133]

Amazing video idea and editing! 😎👍 love it king!

[@AnotherMattPlayingIsaac]

THANKS KING

[@DarkEye-]

The holy card is actually good, It's not just a extra soul heart. The holy mantle works differently went getting hit compared to a regular no mantle hit. It can prevent damage to hearts being taken (Obviously) but also makes it easier to get/keep perfection and prevents Damocles getting activated when getting hit since those two things get a negative downside when actually getting hit (Losing Perfection and activating damocles which could kill you at any minute). TL;DR: The Holy cards works like the Holy mantle, which can prevent losing Hearts, Perfection, and Damocles Activating.

[@classicmadman9541]

great video although i feel 2 of diamonds is more useful more often than any other '2 of' card

[@Exalosia]

i know this is an extreme edge case scenario, but a few days ago i found the reverse hermit and it was amazing, because i had d20 and was able to turn 3-4 pickups on the ground into a bunch of coins to reroll and potentially start a loop

[@SentenceToDESU]

Im pretty sure you can use Chaos card to destroy rocks and even open secret rooms. So it also has use outside the combat (but you are still crazy if you want to use it on anything expect boss)

[@hkta3k07]

Wow, it's rare to see a tier-list where I completely agree on all points. Well done and thank you!

[@tromopot-ts4ff]

A card against humanity is great for bosses. On time I used it against Hush and all the poops gave me so much hearts I didn't even have to bother dogging.

[@nicolasturetta7959]

There's no way 2 of hearts is placed lower than 2 of clubs and spades, doubling your health is way more valuable than douvling bombs/keys

[@greenagoo]

chaos card is 1/5 for non-combat because you can break tinted rocks or secret room entrances with it. Sometimes it just be like that.

[@gaminggeckos4388]

I also thought The Fool? was useless without reroll/duplication stuff, but it DOES HAVE quite a good usage: Getting into boss challenge rooms!

[@gregg8721]

Imo the rankings for bosses and non-bosses for the cards that teleport you (fool stars etc.) should be a 1 because you can use them to escape rooms where you would have died. It’s far from the most common use of them but I have used them in that way in a few occasions

[@moralsupport3802]

I lost a daily run 2 days ago because its been a while and i thought the regerse wheel was the restock box. Popped it in a secret room and immediately rerolled my homing brim •_•

[@javios4479]

I know it's like triple the effort, but since you also rank the cards based on different kinds of utilities, you should make 3 tier lists to clasify everything better instead of just shoving everything in a single one. Either way, I like your content! Keep it up!

[@reycarlos55]

All the TP cards can be used to reset the holy mantle as the lost, usually I carry one when I fight against a boss and have no other card.

[@ignitiongaming136]

Id like to bring up a point to add to CAH use, if you get it as Blue Baby its a giant fly swarm for free

[@lolal-t2027]

Does reverse high priestess helps if you have pyromaniac and you barely have health? Its free 1 minute of regeneration. Its niche but you cant deny that there is ONE use

[@AnotherMattPlayingIsaac]

The foot stomp isn't an explosion anymore in repentance:(

[@Ramhams1337]

reverse justice can go crazy if you have tarot cloth. now it spawns 4 to 16 chests. do that in a secret room. on the chest.

[@Bluejay756]

I feel as though the chariot is not as good of a out of room utility as hierophant, but it probably should get an edge in dealing with normal rooms, because it can tear through a big horde of enemies. It can't do the same with bosses though, because of their health, and I think invincibility with ramming damage tends to hit weirdly with bosses. overall, out of room utility is a 3, normal rooms are a 3, boss rooms are a 2.

[@chainsawplayin]

The Death card's 40 damage doesn't even kill the "Blister" enemies in Caves, however its effect is doubled when you have Missing Page 2.

[@marcoslarreteguy2458]

another super fun tier list from isaac with another matt 😁

[@someescapedalien5699]

honestly the reverse hermit can be goated for getting a lot of cash in libraries, especially if you already have a good active item.

[@CatherinetheMewsthebestMTB]

Thinking about it more after watching the video- the ? card is essentially a battery lol, but slightly different. A 24 hour pill as you may call it (instead of a 48 hour pill). (It's obviously not exactly, the same, but whatever) --- Also reverse hierophant has a very niche potential to be better than regular hierophant because it's essentially giving red heart containers instead of soul heart ones, aka- For the devil room, if you only have red hearts that aren't filled to 2 you can pay less hearts than you potentially could with the regular hierophant (since you need filled red hearts to get the multi heart deals if you have soul hearts as well). Obvs giga giga niche, but i've made it happen before. Also it's nice for other niche bone heart stuff like brittle bones or getting extra hits with sacrifice rooms, etc. Also reverse hierophant has a very niche potential to be better than regular hierophant because it's essentially giving red heart containers instead of soul heart ones, aka- For the devil room, if you only have red hearts

[@sirfedrick]

Fun fact: chaos card can be used to break rocks and open secret rooms. Technically non combat usefulness. You definitely belong in a mental asylem if you do this, but it is an option.

[@dulunis]

Does anyone know what the "**the Forgotten" is for at 35:09???

[@AnotherMattPlayingIsaac]

oops i edited bad lul I remember i said some other character when I meant the forgotten and I may have cut that out or moved it around without changing where that text box showed up lol. OOPS

[@TheGnomic32]

I was able to use the card against humanity against a boss, it was gurdy and 4 gurdlings on the ultra hard challenge so they were all champions and it was scary so I used the card and it trapped the gurdlings in poop so I could kill all the bosses one at a time

[@Bloxtorm]

Chaos card can be used as bombs as well, breaking rocks and opening secret rooms.

[@panpangaming3418]

maybe my luck is crazy but every time I've used the reverse Wheel of Fortune I have only gotten the Forget me now effect, idk why

[@Keitoded]

Bro goated choice for music, Yoshi's Wooly World is underrated. Also I've never actually seen the cards close up, the sprite art is pretty cute actually.

[@LeyDud]

22:20 Chaos Card is amazing and deserves to be up there. However people need to remember that Delirium and The Beast are the 2 major bosses that are immune to this.

[@staceyb1873]

Is delirium immune to it? I thought I remembered using it against him more than once.... have I gone mad?

[@MarshallKujo]

No, you can't use a Chaos Card on Delirium. That was never a thing.@@staceyb1873

[@devilspoo3682]

​@@staceyb1873you might be thinking of an older patch

[@blokvader8283]

24:00 Whats even better if this card is unlocked from beating the "Glass Cannon" challenge, which itself is unlocked from beating "Family Man" WHICH is unlocked from getting both key pieces in a run. At this point youve already killed Blue Baby and/or The Lamb. Edit: WAIT, SOME OF THE HINTS TELL YOU HOW TO GET THE KEY PIECES?! WHICH AT THIS POINT YOUVE ALREADY DONE IN THE GAME. What the fuck was the thought process behind this card?!?!

[@_rev1on733]

I would argue that chaos card’s non-combat usefulness is a 1. If you don’t know, chaos cards can open secret rooms. In dire situations, it could absolutely help someone.

[@XDSome1XD]

Ranking The Hierophant 4/5 feels like blasphemy

[@marooniballooni03759]

doesn't death also get buffed by the missing pages, just like the necronomicon and full black heart loss?

[@victorkao1472]

I just had a fantastic tainted Eden build with parasite, holy mantle, sacred heart, trisag, soy milk, and crown of light, and beat mega stan Excited to finally be able to hopefully try out some wild card combos, especially with diplo

[@spppplat]

so for holy card, i feel you should give it extra points since it can help with t jacob lost mode

[@MarshallKujo]

Hierophant and Justice slander, but I always appreciate your tier lists. Great video as always.

[@AnotherMattPlayingIsaac]

LOL i still think they are gooooood

[@kattack8200]

Reverse Emporer grants a free boss item, is top tier, get out of jail free card grants a free boss item through boss challenge room + can do many other things, is only mid tier.

[@lukazgarza4075]

Well one is an adittional item that you wouldn't get any other way, you can technically still get boss challenge room through its normal means

[@ZeroTTTempest]

kirby's epic yarn jumpscare

[@LordBeau]

Reverse hanged man goes insane in greed/ier mode btw

[@Keitoded]

One time I got an Eden run STARTING with R Key. And then I found ? Card. I was gonna beat Hush, Delirium, then Mother, then Satan, Lamb, Mega Satan... and then I choked and accidentally pressed the ZL button (I play on Switch) in the middle of the void. I still got Hush and Mother but that was it :(

[@orions2908]

There's an argument for the hermit being worse than the fool imo If you're using them, chances are you are trying to exit the curse room or the boss challenge. But while the fool is perfectly safe and predictable, the hermit may end up just sending you to another boss fight lol

[@Maraflor]

Lovers is underrated and better than heirophant in a lot of cases imo. There have been a lot of times where its let me get payouts from sac rooms/devil beggars/blood donos. If you have spindown dice then you can roll bloodbag into brimstone, making Lovers even more desirable. Love the tier list videos though man, they got me into watching your other vids :)

[@zincshepherd2967]

I like this kind of content, but the overuse of the term "in my opinion" made it painful to listen to

[@LeyDud]

23:24 You really would get late game benefits if you have Stairway and you see something like Sacred Heart or Godhead.

[@cyb3r_samurai]

Wait second part with Tarot Cloth!

[@littlemrdoom5997]

I feel like you should have lumped runes into this tbh

[@AnotherMattPlayingIsaac]

next week next week dw lol

[@ItsMelatonic]

You have awesome editing Matt 🗣️🗣️🗣️

[@nfmatham9]

Now to throw a wrench by including tarot cloth effects. Not that it would actually change rankings much for cards where its only (Effect x2), but some of the additional/boosted effects are wild enough. This is partially a joke since obviously this is dependant on getting tarot cloth in the first place

[@nfmatham9]

Pormpted by remembering Hermit/Stars card becoming more than just a teleport.

[@nathans9972]

I'm a little bit confused on the placement of reverse hanged man. How would it have any usefulness in non-combat? The only benefit are both based on tears, which are effectively useless outside of combat. Personally I think it's just a worse Ace of Diamonds, since you still need to actually kill the enemies to get the effect. The other effects are IMO negligible.

[@djmaple5940]

24:50 Another Matt quote of the day: The rest of the poops you MURDER

[@vakk985]

next up rank every possible golden pill combination

[@paperknigth2263]

I really believe that The World should at least reveal Super and Ultra Secret Rooms. It just feel so random that some Tarots cards are just worst versions of others.

[@narwhaldude27_93]

Happy Birthday Matt!

[@AnotherMattPlayingIsaac]

wow i didn't know it was your birthday, hapy birthday narwhal :)

[@Dragula59]

i thought the strength card added onto your health as well for that room??? i swear i remember using it just to cheese demon beggars

[@Dragula59]

oh i misunderstood nvm

[@andreisireteanu8659]

you can always use chaos to kill a mini Gideon

[@deathorless]

You also need to rank the tarot card effects too 🙏

[@securityyt9791]

fun fact: if you summon a card using the debug console that is over the normal card amount, it will crash your game

[@Bird-md5xz]

Ancient recall is a five in my opinion because it's 3 cards instead of one so it's always good

[@turkeythesquirrel]

Banger video as always

[@AnotherMattPlayingIsaac]

ay appreciate it :)

[@musicsheep9816]

I love getting reverse temperance as Cain. 5/5 card for Cain

[@roberthartley6699]

Holy Card is very good if you have Damocles. The Holy Mantle hit doesn't count towards it, so with a Blank Card it will let you repeatedly save yourself from getting Damoclesed

[@JustCallMePaper]

Are you still going to stream today or have you decided not to?

[@AnotherMattPlayingIsaac]

yes LUL

[@relkris9086]

I love chaos card, just boomed hush with it💀

[@ChungitoPrah]

22:11 you forgor that it can open secret rooms

[@MilkmanWasHere]

I couldnt see the video early since my membership ran out :sadge:

[@AnotherMattPlayingIsaac]

its ok milkman its here now :)

[@mattygam3r400]

I thought that this would’ve been a four souls video 😭😭😭

[@thepainpanda7681]

Me watching this video having never played TBOI before: “what is this guy rambling about?”

[@Gotsuit]

Personally I would put holy card higher just for the reason that you can see that it is holy card when it is on the floor or in the shop.

[@seraphii72]

i'm sorry but is that KIRBY'S EPIC YARN MUSIC???

[@AnotherMattPlayingIsaac]

YER

[@WigwamMan]

PIKMIN MUSIC DETECTED WEEEEEEEE WOOOOOOOOOO