Caitlin Matthews Enchanted Lenormand

I find Caitlin Matthews Enchanted Lenormand to be impossible to shuffle. I have never seen cards so thick. At least one Amazon reviewer has said the same. Has anyone else encountered this? Just wondering if this was a fluke in printing or not.

Village Witch said:

I find Caitlin Matthews Enchanted Lenormand to be impossible to shuffle. I have never seen cards so thick. At least one Amazon reviewer has said the same. Has anyone else encountered this? Just wondering if this was a fluke in printing or not.

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They will shuffle but it really takes some breaking in, they are VERY thick, but they will bend and it wont damage them.

danielnogo said:

They will shuffle but it really takes some breaking in, they are VERY thick, but they will bend and it wont damage them.

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It may take a very long time for me to break them in as I started getting blisters on my fingertips from trying to shuffle the cards.

I noticed how thick they are too but at least they are small. The card stock isn't slippery but I find I like that, they feel a little grainy as though they don't have a lot of lamination on them. But they are my favourite Lenormand so there isn't anything I don't like about them.

Even though I did have to alter one of the cards because it had been misprinted. Now in a tarot deck that card would have stuck out like a sore thumb, I glued a small section of paper over the playing card insert to make it look right - 8 Clubs I think it was, I like the playing card inserts in this deck and I do use them, but the card stock is so thick that I have to go looking for this card so it blends in well.

danielnogo said:

They will shuffle but it really takes some breaking in, they are VERY thick, but they will bend and it wont damage them.

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After working with this deck over the past several days, it is getting easier to shuffle, but most certainly does not shuffle easily. Better than it was, though.