Le Fanu
Last week I took out the Old English Tarot and dusted it down and thought Id use it as I´ve hardley used it since I bought it.
Nice, very sweet deck. But then I remembered why I hadn´t really used it since I bought it. Those same-y Court cards. It made me think how decks like Druid Craft and Victorian Romantic and B.gothic have really shifted the goalposts when it comes to Court cards. Now we demand that our Court cards are full of life, with easily perceptible types, strong personalities, distinct traits. And the Old English Tarot Courts just won´t do.
Then I remembered other decks which I habitually get out, intending to use, only to remember exactly why I can never really use them effectively.
Like The Prediction Tarot. Lovely wispy 80s Majors but the Court cards just look like the same person portrayed from four different sides of the throne. Unforgivable...
What do you think are the most same-y Court cards out there, where the Knights are almost indistinguishable from the Queens...
Nice, very sweet deck. But then I remembered why I hadn´t really used it since I bought it. Those same-y Court cards. It made me think how decks like Druid Craft and Victorian Romantic and B.gothic have really shifted the goalposts when it comes to Court cards. Now we demand that our Court cards are full of life, with easily perceptible types, strong personalities, distinct traits. And the Old English Tarot Courts just won´t do.
Then I remembered other decks which I habitually get out, intending to use, only to remember exactly why I can never really use them effectively.
Like The Prediction Tarot. Lovely wispy 80s Majors but the Court cards just look like the same person portrayed from four different sides of the throne. Unforgivable...
What do you think are the most same-y Court cards out there, where the Knights are almost indistinguishable from the Queens...