Le Fanu
Manda said:Okay I have a rough one. Please talk me out of the Soprafino. I was inadvertently enabled an another thread. I went to sleep last night dreaming about this deck, and woke up this morning still thinking about it.
The ways I have -sort of- de-enabled myself are thus :
1. I learned on RWS, so non-scenic pips have not really been my thing. I will be making a leap to learn to read with TdM.
2. I've read it has little lamination and with three kids and a veritable herd of guinea pigs running around, I can be a little hard on my decks.
3. I am practically the queen of CGI decks, and while I realize they might have no class, I am okay with possibly being a no class kind of girl. The Soprafino seems eminently classy to me, and I am not sure that is who I am.
4. Because of having said children and guinea pigs, it might be a little pricey for me.
5. In an effort to de-enable myself, I bought an Ancient Italian Tarot, which I believe has the same artwork in larger form for aging eyes and less price
CGI ? Should I know what that means ??
ahem..... *trying to overcome the possibilty that the Soprafino might be "dated"*
Best way to de-enable on the Soprafino here is to speak the whole truth... You´ll buy it , love it and never ever use it. We´ve all learnt this the hard way. Meneghello decks have a reputation for being exquisite, but "too delicate to use", and nobody dares shuffle them. I bought an Ancient Italian when it first came out (2001?) and loved it and used it and - I can tell you - it ages very well. I just keep going back to it. Even though I had a "back-up" (which I traded), then bought the LoS Classical Tarot (2 copies), Soprafino, Dotti and all the other decks which I thought the Ancient Italian had made me like.
But I just keep going back to my old Ancient Italian. Big looming images, good lamination, quality cardstock, uncluttered borders (not that the Soprafino doesn´t have these things and not that Im trying to enable on THAT!). You will find that the Soprafino is a bit redundent...
You won´t use it, I promise...