IIRC, all of Lisa Hunt's decks are "switched." I was given the Fantastical Creatures as a gift, and find it to be a very expressive, easy to read deck ... and I'm one of those swords are air people! Other than in the hands of an angel, when was the last time you burned a sword?
I feel kind of embarrassed that this is a problem for me -- this swords/wands, air/fire switch thing -- but it kind of is. I don't know for sure if it would be a total deal-breaker for me, but in this case, when combined with the shortage of out and out mythical monster images that I'd been hoping for, I can't seem to get past all of it.
And to be fair, Lisa is a very talented artist (the images from her new ghost-themed deck look pretty great). It's just that I happen to love mythical monsters (the truly monstrous types, not just regular Earth animals with wings, or centaurs, or fauns, unicorns, Pegasus, etc.), and a quick browse through a Reader's Copy at my local occult shop had me erroneously thinking that I was getting a deck full of them -- by chance, the first few cards I pulled were the ones I ended up liking the best, including the griffin, the hippocampus, the minotaur, and the amphisbaena. Now if I found a deck that had
those kinds of fantastical creatures as its focus, I'd be all over it!