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Tainted Lost is a character added in The Binding of Isaac: Repentance. It is the alternate version of The Lost. Tainted Lost is unlocked by reaching Home and using the Red Key, Cracked Key, or Soul of Cain to access a special room in one of the walls while playing as the Lost. Tainted Lost is similar to The Lost, but instead of Holy Mantle, it starts with a Holy Card; it also does not start with the Eternal D6. Like the Lost, Tainted Lost has flight and spectral tears, but no health. It also starts with a 1.3x damage multiplier, giving it higher starting damage and making most damage ups more powerful.

• The Fool - Defeat Ultra Greedier as Tainted Lost.
• Soul of the Lost - Defeat Hush and Boss Rush as Tainted Lost.
• Haunted Chest - Defeat Mega Satan as Tainted Lost.
• Ghost Bombs - Defeat Delirium as Tainted Lost.
• Crystal Key - Defeat Mother as Tainted Lost.
• Sacred Orb - Defeat The Beast as Tainted Lost.

• While items like A Dollar, Knife Piece 1, and Knife Piece 2 are not considered items that the Tainted Lost can find, they will still appear for him if the conditions for finding them are met.
• While Harbingers will still drop Ball of Bandages or Cube of Meat, C.H.A.D. will not drop Little C.H.A.D..
• If invincibility is used to play Blood Donation Machines, they can still produce a Blood Bag as a reward.
• The achievement for unlocking Tainted Lost is "The Baleful", a possible title for the character.
• "Baleful" means "ominous" or "harmful or malignant in intent or effect", possibly referring to how The Lost is seen in a dream cutscene influencing Isaac's mother to sacrifice him.
• A more archaic meaning of "Baleful" is "Something/Someone wretched or miserable", and considering how Tainted Lost is incapable of using defensive heavy builds, being constantly at the mercy of enemies and dying usually at two hits, fit with this use of the word.
• "The Baleful" is Tainted Lost's character name in Four Souls.
• Before the 1.7.5 update, it was possible for Tainted Lost to find Yuck Heart and Best Bud, despite these items being useless for the character.
• Additionally, Heartbreak could be found and utilized to essentially gain 4 extra lives and extra damage, but was removed from the tag list.
• Tainted Lost's unlock drawing could be a reference to a transition nightmare Isaac can have, depicting The Lost talking to Mom from the attic.
• Tainted Lost unlocks 0 - The Fool?; the character can be linked to both the numeration and meaning of the Fool.
• The Fool's numeration can be either 0 the lowest trump or 22 the highest trump, linked to his attributes — better items, no mantle, no health — as Tainted Lost will die in a single hit at any point, but can also build the strongest runs of any character because of those same attributes.
• Reverse fool means apathy and nullity; this approach is often recommended to face Tainted Lost's runs because of how demanding the character is and how easy it is to lose these runs despite how powerful the character can become.
• In a literal reversal of "the beginning of the journey" which The Fool represents, Tainted Lost represents the complete end of Isaac's existence, after his own mortal remains has vanished and even his own soul erodes into dust and cobwebs along with the house and material objects that hold his last remnant memories.
• Tainted Lost's starting health is listed as "?" on the character selection screen. The Lost Unlocks Tainted Lost Unlocks Characters Rebirth Afterbirth Afterbirth † Repentance Tainted The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth
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