stardusting
Hello!
I'm looking to pick up another deck or two, however I'm very picky about what I want in a deck. I get the most from cards I can perceive as individual characters in their own right - and thus, would prefer something that displays a persona, event, or object in a style which allows for a very powerful meaning derived from studying & thinking about the card itself.
While it's neat to be able to pull out a book and say "oh, this card also traditionally means this", I like the personal weight that discovering my own meaning within the card brings to viewing & using them.
At the moment, I own one deck. This is the Clow Card set, which was fan merchandise from an animated series focusing on magical cards. The art is very simple, and not entirely my ideal, but it very effectively presents the cards as individual entities which have just enough to them to contemplate what each entity would convey between art, name, & personal associations with the concepts.
I would like to own another, but am having problems finding anything that sticks out to me in the same way those personas do.
http://rozamira-tarot.ru/galeria/albom-oze69-watchers-tarot.html
The colors and detail of the above set really leaped out at me, and I nearly chose it. It may have been a traditional meaning deck, but the images themselves had enough to them where I felt like I would not quickly feel that I had to learn all of the previous connotative meanings of the cards to be able to find meaning in the cards.
However, upon discovering that many of the above cards feature nudity, I had to pass. This will remain true for every deck I purchase, as a matter of personal preference. I have extremely negative associations that I do not want polluting my use of the deck.
For another example of a deck I liked, but did not like the brevity of: https://nerdyninjaplatypus.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/20140730-084018-31218473.jpg I waffled on putting this here, as it does feature Pokemon. I also at one point constructed a deck of Yu-Gi-Oh cards with solid personas on the creatures, effects, & traps depicted that I had good luck with - though what happened to the deck between moving, I never found out. As both are something I have grown up with in my imagination, & have greatly impacted my personal code, they do have more meaning for me than average cartoon creatures. However, I do not want to limit myself, or have a perceived limit, of anime only.
Does anyone have a different deck suggestion that features highly detailed, rich, persona & object art & titles? Humanoids, fantasy creatures, real animals, objects, I'm not particularly biased against anything, as long as the cards remain distinct from each other. I have placed this in the Oracle section as I believe this is more likely to be an Oracle deck than a Tarot one, but will accept Tarot suggestions as well.
Thank you for reading the wall of text,
Star
I'm looking to pick up another deck or two, however I'm very picky about what I want in a deck. I get the most from cards I can perceive as individual characters in their own right - and thus, would prefer something that displays a persona, event, or object in a style which allows for a very powerful meaning derived from studying & thinking about the card itself.
While it's neat to be able to pull out a book and say "oh, this card also traditionally means this", I like the personal weight that discovering my own meaning within the card brings to viewing & using them.
At the moment, I own one deck. This is the Clow Card set, which was fan merchandise from an animated series focusing on magical cards. The art is very simple, and not entirely my ideal, but it very effectively presents the cards as individual entities which have just enough to them to contemplate what each entity would convey between art, name, & personal associations with the concepts.
I would like to own another, but am having problems finding anything that sticks out to me in the same way those personas do.
http://rozamira-tarot.ru/galeria/albom-oze69-watchers-tarot.html
The colors and detail of the above set really leaped out at me, and I nearly chose it. It may have been a traditional meaning deck, but the images themselves had enough to them where I felt like I would not quickly feel that I had to learn all of the previous connotative meanings of the cards to be able to find meaning in the cards.
However, upon discovering that many of the above cards feature nudity, I had to pass. This will remain true for every deck I purchase, as a matter of personal preference. I have extremely negative associations that I do not want polluting my use of the deck.
For another example of a deck I liked, but did not like the brevity of: https://nerdyninjaplatypus.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/20140730-084018-31218473.jpg I waffled on putting this here, as it does feature Pokemon. I also at one point constructed a deck of Yu-Gi-Oh cards with solid personas on the creatures, effects, & traps depicted that I had good luck with - though what happened to the deck between moving, I never found out. As both are something I have grown up with in my imagination, & have greatly impacted my personal code, they do have more meaning for me than average cartoon creatures. However, I do not want to limit myself, or have a perceived limit, of anime only.
Does anyone have a different deck suggestion that features highly detailed, rich, persona & object art & titles? Humanoids, fantasy creatures, real animals, objects, I'm not particularly biased against anything, as long as the cards remain distinct from each other. I have placed this in the Oracle section as I believe this is more likely to be an Oracle deck than a Tarot one, but will accept Tarot suggestions as well.
Thank you for reading the wall of text,
Star