Bicycle Alchemy Deck - anyone seen this before?

akirafist

http://www.penguinmagic.com/product.php?ID=S12582

"Bicycle presents Alchemy 1977 England Deck of full color playing cards featuring 53 classic Alchemy Gothic Artworks on every individual card."

Does anyone own this? Sounds like they could be used as an Oracle deck if nothing else. And the price is certainly right.

Lela

Don't own it, but it certainly seems interesting. Curious what the cards actually look like.

Nydia

I just checked ebay and there are a bunch of those cards there with pictures. I searched for alchemy cards. There's another deck called Anne Stokes which is for sale with the Bicycle Alchemy deck in some auctions.

Lela

After looking at them on Ebay, I will definitely pass on these, don't really care for that art style.

cardlady22

Alchemy 1977 playing cards

I picked this deck up on a whim as I was walking out of the bookstore. Not quite what I expected, but it's certainly dark enough for this time of year. Is it the same illustrations?
http://www.gamesandjigsaws.com/product_info.php/Alchemy_1977_Playing_Cards

52-147
manufactured & distributed by Aquarius

MareSaturni

cardlady22 said:
I picked this deck up on a whim as I was walking out of the bookstore. Not quite what I expected, but it's certainly dark enough for this time of year. Is it the same illustrations?

Wow, they are very dark indeed! Looks like a good deck for Halloween - although I find the Skeletons a bit too scary for my tastes... :bugeyed:

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cardlady22

It's most assuredly the Dark Side. Not sure if I'll be keeping it. That illustration of the angel and death had me thinking that two of the suits would be Light and two would be Dark. I could have lived with that happily.

ETA: There are 4 cards that I really like, in addition to the card back.

J :heart: