Rhoswen
Zombie. I just didn't connect with it. At all.
I don't really think that any tarot deck is hyped. That suggests something that the publishers do and that there is some elaborate marketing machine behind it all and you just don't see that in tarot. What you do get is people - I mean, just us - talking a lot about a deck. I don't really call that hype to be honest. Let's call it selective enthusiasm. Plus there are some decks that have been much talked about that I love; Victorian Romantic, Deviant Moon, Wild Unknown, Bohemian Gothic...If there's a lot of hype about a particular deck, for me that's a warning sign not to get it. That has been my policy ever since I bought Legacy of the Divine, and it has not let me down yet.
I don't really think that any tarot deck is hyped. That suggests something that the publishers do and that there is some elaborate marketing machine behind it all and you just don't see that in tarot.
Do you think that happens regularly in tarot? With fans being fed decks to gush over here?You're kidding? Fan clubs are part of marketing. A publisher develops a friendship (or sucks up to) a few "opinion leaders," feeds them free goodies (a book or lunch, whatever), there's a joyful noisy brouhaha here and loving reviews on the blogs, skeptics are slammed to the ground....that's a marketing machine.
Do you think that happens regularly in tarot? With fans being fed decks to gush over here?
I might get tomatoes thrown- but I would have to say the Mary-El.
Not because of the art, it is stunning. But because of the horrible cardstock that Schiffer used that made it impossible for me to even keep.
So sad- as that was a deck I very much wanted to love and use.