The Wild Unknown Tarot

Sulis

Pixna said:
That's too bad. For me, it's still as fresh and wonderful as the day the deck first arrived. I'm endlessly finding more layers within the images, and the deck certainly has retained all the magic I initially saw in it. Marketing and hype have had no effect on my perspective of the actual deck. To me, those things are irrelevant.
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lark said:
Me too..I'm kind of out of the tarot loop the last few years...I stopped collecting deck so didn't notice it was so popular...just by myself using it for my daily draw and for clients...and still love using it.
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All the hype has passed me by too but then I don't do Instagram so maybe that's why.
I've been using this deck as my main deck since it first came out and for most of that time it's been my only deck and I still love it, still find new ways to read the symbolism..

The one thing I don't like that much about it is the thick, unwieldy, practically indestructible cardstock.. .I have 2 copies of the first edition and that's enough for me but I don't think thinner cardstock without lamination would be that bad.
 

MandMaud

Hi folks, I'm a WU newbie; after much deliberation (not being a collector) I got mine last week. Not feeling ready to read with it yet... loving it though in every way. ('Every' excluding the most abstract of the images. :laugh:)

It is "Printed in China" and to be honest, I thought all the gushing descriptions in the early part of this thread were about this exact cardstock. I find it great to shuffle. I love the quiet dignity that so many have commented on. I expect it to be the only black n white deck I ever get, and the only animals deck I ever get, as I'm not into either of those. (In fact I'm thinking that this and the Pearls of Wisdom will become the only decks I use, with the Nova for when I do an occasional large spread. Waiting for the new PoW to become available in a couple of months.)

I hadn't noticed any hype around this deck, though I can see how it would acquire a following. The only hype I've noticed is around the Legacy of the Divine, Gilded, and all of Ciro Marchetti's work. They seem to be hugely popular. I read mostly with the Gilded myself at the moment, but I was very young (young on the tarot path, I mean - two years ago, lol) when I got it, and feel I've outgrown it.
 

Le Fanu

Pixna said:
Marketing and hype have had no effect on my perspective of the actual deck. To me, those things are irrelevant.
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I don't think this deck is hyped at all. Did somebody say it was?
 

Le Fanu

Pixna said:
Yes. Read back several posts about it being promoted to hipsters and such.
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Hipster, the trend, and hype are two very different things. They are not related. This deck wasn't hyped, that was what was so charming about it - it caught on through word of mouth.
 

Calcifer

Well here's their reply, and what I wrote back:

"Hi Michael,
There has not been a change to our card stock. We have been using the exact same card stock for all our tarot decks since we began making them.
TWU"

" In that case, a batch may have slipped through without any
lamination or something. My original decks are more than 10 cards
thicker, are laminated, and are much heavier than these two I just
received. I'll see what I can do about getting you some pics and
weights of them so that you can see... and the new boxes say "Printed
in China" (on stickers on the box-ends) as well.
There is no doubt that something is wrong then. I'll get back to you ASAP.
Thanks for your reply !!"

I'll be breaking out my camera and digital scales later so I can send them something concrete. Maybe this whole thing was just a printing error.

Michael
 

Leo77

Is it possible their regular printer outsourced without telling them? Is that even legal (for a printer to do)?
 

Calcifer

Thanks EnchantedShadow :).
I've weighed the decks, and there's almost 1/2oz difference the old and new - and that's weighing 2 different old decks, and 2 different new decks. I've written them with this info and sent pics of the differences in the thickness of the stacks.

Oh, and in regard to general attitude of "Wild Unknown Overload", I couldn't care less what other people are doing, saying, or posing with the deck. The only place I EVER see it is when I pull it out or come here. I love the deck regardless of the actions of others :p.

Michael
 

Starshower

Me too, Calcifer. It's spare, deep, unpretentious, imaginative and beautiful. :)


ps Hope you get replacements.
 
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