De-Enabling Thread

[Debra]

Russian Tarot of St. Petersburg & Housewives

The images are simply too small. With the Medieval Cats, you can tell at a glance what you're looking at. With the St. Petersburg deck, it's a major production requiring the magnifying glass and strong light.

The Housewives is kitsch, and kitsch can be fun, but how much of it do you want?

 

[euripides]

Housewives

I have it and like it, but it's a bit like one of those one-note sixties sitcoms, with the running jokes about housework, husbands, and staying sane with a gin and tonic. I don't actually read with it very often at all.

It's also huge. Like the box is the size of three or four regular decks, so postage bites if you ever want to trade it.

 

[Pandora MoonRaven]

I had Fenestra and traded it the next day. It was so washy and boring. I am not a fan of peach and boy is there a LOT of peach in this deck. I found the men to seem more feminine then the girls. I don't know this deck just killed me with wishy washy, washed out color causing me sugar shock of perfect tulips on a spring day type of thing. Just too much..pretty without any punch.

The Wizards I wouldn't suggest unless you like your court cards to have weird green alien dreads in their hair and what not. Also expect to have sore fingers after spending a few hours trimming borders because I don't know how anyone can actually SEE what is happening on the cards with the light saber battle going on in the borders. They are swirly and bright and so very annoying, I had to trim mine just to SEE the darned pictures.. Every time you draw a card you will be thinking "The force is strong with this one".

Fantastical Creatures I don't have..thought I am a fan of the celtic dragon I have found each day to be bright sunny and perfectly wonderful without the addition of this deck.

 

[nisaba]

Fantastical Creatures

I have found each day to be bright sunny and perfectly wonderful without the addition of this deck.

<laughter> I'll bear that in mind if I ever suffer such a terrible lapse of taste!

 

[MysticalMoose]

Jeepers

I have to confess that the de-enabling above regarding light sabre battles in the borders sounded rather alluring to the point that I dashed over to "decks" to feast my eyes on this intriguing sounding deck.... this bit was the best de-enabling of all - in that the borders were imo the best part of the card. creepy photo faces & heads that look like they don't belong on the body of the subjects of the card. Yikes.

 

[hunter]

Tell me something bad about the wheel of the year aspect of the Wildwood Tarot. Is it poorly done or incomplete in some way?

 

[desertrat]

Forest Folklore

I truly regret purchasing this deck, and that rarely happens. The artist used real people she knows to model for this deck and as a result many of them resemble real people that I know. One of the elves looks like the lunch guy at our cafeteria. So every time I see this poor soul I can't help imagining him with pointy ears, pointy shoes and a little pointy elf hat. Likewise, when I look at that particular card I start to get hungry for a meal. Don't let this happen to you. Do you really want to be forced to imagine your check-out lady at your local grocery store naked, in the water kissing that guy from the bank? No you DON'T, believe me. It isn't pretty. Be forewarned.

 

[Bhavana]

ok all - Piatnik Wien. Since this deck seems so remarkable, I dare say I don't know how any of you could come up with something bad on it. I am also considering SakkiSakki, but they seem so similar..

 

[GryffinSong]

ok all - Piatnik Wien. Since this deck seems so remarkable, I dare say I don't know how any of you could come up with something bad on it. I am also considering SakkiSakki, but they seem so similar..

Ah, Sakki Sakki. Looks fabulous until you see the cards with the people's heads chopped off. I kid you not. Their necks just stop. No head. It's hideous. Every time I see this deck I want it. Until I remember the poor decapitated ones. Apparently the artist thought they looked ok without heads. I'm sorry. I'm an artist too. Blank faces - ok. No eyes - ok. No lips - ok. But no HEAD??? No f-ing way!!! Run away now, because if you buy the deck you'll run away screaming!!!

 

[Debra]

They're really not alike. The Piatnik Wien is on terrible cardstock, more like shirt-box cardboard.