Which cards can make or break a deck for you?

Marua

JONIKA said:
Minor Arcana cards. They have to follow the Raider-Waite depictions...I don't like decks that only portray the number of wands, swords, cups, and pentacles. Those decks seem too "cheap" to me. :)
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I agree. If they're pip cards I can't read them. It's also almost as if the artist didn't bother making 78 pieces of art at all. For example the Victoria Frances Tarot. Is that what it's called? :eek:D

Edit: No, it's the Favole Tarot LOL! Also Anne Stokes Gothic Tarot has pips.
 

JONIKA

Marua said:
I agree. If they're pip cards I can't read them. It's also almost as if the artist didn't bother making 78 pieces of art at all. For example the Victoria Frances Tarot. Is that what it's called? :eek:D

Edit: No, it's the Favole Tarot LOL! Also Anne Stokes Gothic Tarot has pips.
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Exactly! :D I could whip up a deck like that in 5 minutes. :D :D I have noticed there seem to be more and more decks like this on the market...
 

Marua

JONIKA said:
Exactly! :D I could whip up a deck like that in 5 minutes. :D :D I have noticed there seem to be more and more decks like this on the market...
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Oh, well, it's their own fault. Might get more sales if the Minor weren't pips though :)
 

MacMorrighan

The Devil!

Well, with me, one of the cards that's a deal-breaker for me is The Devil card! I like to see a properly horned Devil--preferably lustful, if possible! (grin)--not for any untoward reasoning, but because the card is traditionally associated with Capricorn. It's more of an aesthetic issue with me. Any other interpretation of this card--and I have seen many--simply doesn't "do it" for me. Heck, I would give a deck a "pass" if there was phallic and goat-like symbolism, as in the Thoth deck! ;)
 

JadePixie

I can't deal with churchy Hierophants, it's my "birth card" so I'm like um nooo :p
 

Citrin

None. ;) I have a couple of favorites: The High Priestess, The Moon, The Lovers, Nine of Swords, the aces, Four of Cups... But if the rest of the deck is amazing I don't really care if one or two favorites aren't meeting my expectations or hopes. I try to see the bigger picture really.

There are some cards I generally "don't care for" but some decks have given me a more positive outlook on those cards, a new perspective, so sometimes it might be worth checking out your least liked cards in a deck and go with that . ;)
 

MacMorrighan

Marua said:
How do you figure out your birth card?
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Several of the cards within the Maj. Arcana are associated with a sign of the zodiac. E.G. my birth card would be the Moon since I am a Pisces. JadePixie is probably a Taurus since that is the sign that rules the Hierophant.
 
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