What Is Magnificence?

Magnificence is a hidden mechanic that prevents any single run from accumulating too many A quality or S quality tier items. Every time you pick up a high-quality item, the chance that future high-quality rewards get downgraded rises steeply.

How Magnificence is calculated

Total Magnificence at any moment is the sum of two separate counters:

Item Magnificence

• Resets to 0 at the start of each run.
• Increases by 1 the first time you pick up any A quality or S quality item or gun.
• Dropping and re-picking-up the same item does not increase it again.
• Selling or destroying the item does not reduce it — the increase is permanent.
• Carries over to the next floor.

Chest Magnificence

• Set to the number of red and black chests generated on a floor at the start of that floor.
• Opening or destroying one of those floor-generated red or black chests decreases it by 1.
• Other red or black chests that spawn mid-floor (e.g. room clears) do not affect it.
• Resets each floor — unopened chests do not carry their value forward.

Downgrade formula

Whenever the game would give you an A quality or S quality reward — from a chest, room clear, boss drop, or shop — it checks total Magnificence and calculates a downgrade chance using this formula:

1. Take your current Item Magnificence count.
2. Take your current Chest Magnificence count.
3. Add the two together and feed the total into the formula below to get this reward’s downgrade chance.

(1 − (0.006260342 + 0.9935921 × e^(−1.626339 × Magnificence))) × 100%

Unopened red and black chests suppress shop and room-clear rewards for exactly this reason: until the chest is opened, its point stays on the total.

In other words the watershed is the first A quality/S quality you pick up: before it nothing is suppressed, and after it almost everything is.

If a reward is downgraded, the quality is rerolled using the same floor distribution but excluding A quality and S quality, resulting in a D quality, C quality, or B quality item instead.

Notes and exceptions

• An unopened red or black chest on the floor raises chest Magnificence and thus penalises the boss reward, room clear chests, and shop (which generates its stock on floor entry). Opening the chest removes this penalty — but picking up the item adds to item Magnificence anyway.
• Basic heart container items such as Heart Holster and Heart Purse do not increase Magnificence even when found in a red chest.
• Heart of Ice does not increase Magnificence even when found in a red chest.
• Lament Configurum increases Magnificence despite being a B quality tier item.
• The Seven-Leaf Clover overrides Magnificence's effect on chest-room chests.
• Saving and exiting between floors resets chest Magnificence for the next floor without resetting item Magnificence, which can be exploited if you have already acquired high-quality items early.
• Items and guns you start with as the Paradox do not grant Magnificence unless you drop and re-pick them up.
• The Gunslinger does not start with Magnificence even though Lich's Eye Bullets is S quality tier — but quick-restarting gives 1 Magnificence.