The crowned one
For me as long as they follow the suites, courts, and majors they are tarot. If they do not then they are something else.
Remove the Bishop's and half the pawns from a chessboard and you either have a incomplete chess game or a game based off of chess but not chess. Change the looks of the pieces but keep the rules and layout and it is still chess.
Same with the cards. I divide tarot onto art decks and reading decks but they must have all the characteristics of tarot to be tarot for me. The art does not make or break what is tarot, it is the characteristics of the deck.
Remove the Bishop's and half the pawns from a chessboard and you either have a incomplete chess game or a game based off of chess but not chess. Change the looks of the pieces but keep the rules and layout and it is still chess.
Same with the cards. I divide tarot onto art decks and reading decks but they must have all the characteristics of tarot to be tarot for me. The art does not make or break what is tarot, it is the characteristics of the deck.
