Best damn 'Death' card I've ever seen! and I mean EVER! (for me, worth the price of the deck alone)
Aye... I, too, was so taken with this deck that I ordered immediately... two of them! *lol*... And that's with the added effort of having to print out an order form, writing a check, mailing it off, and the inevitable waiting, waiting, waiting for snail-mail to do its work... Alas, Cathy shipped right away, so, not too much waiting after all, *vbs*
Ya know how you see so many decks that are wonderful, wonderful, wonderful and you put them on your wishlist? and then one comes along and, bam!, no wishlist, no waiting, just an INSTANT, RIGHT NOW, GOTTA-HAVE-IT-SO-WILL-FINAGLE-THE-BUDGET PURCHASE?
Well, for me, this was one of those decks... And it's true what has been stated here, the pictures online don't do it justice... The cards are so oversized that every little detail is easily seen... I'm a collector, so don't read with anything other than my
'Universal Waite' but, for those who do want to read with this deck, it would serve one well to round the corners...
Immediately upon receipt, I submitted this deck to
'Solandia's Deck Details' and she has posted them in the
'Cards List' now... You can see it listed under
'Star Tarot':
DECK IMAGES
http://www.aeclectic.net/tarot/cards/star/
DECK DETAILS
http://www.aeclectic.net/tarot/cards/star/details.shtml
Also, as stated previously, the cards are thin... I don't think they would do well with any kind of actual shuffling, rounded corners or no... Better, methinks, to mix them up by hand, fan them out, and pick that way...
Like others, I would have preferred these cards to have the thicker card-stock we see on standard decks but, knowing how the cost of printing and self-publication goes, it is easily understandable why it was produced the way it was...
Perhaps one day either Cathy or a bonafide tarot publisher will give this deck the place of honour it deserves and produce it with the standards we have all come to expect from a useable tarot deck... One can only hope, eh? *lol*
In the meantime, I wasn't one who was gonna hold their breath for this event, *lol*, so bought them poste-haste, *vbs*