Dan May is a fine artist that creates narrative paintings. The first oracle deck I bought was the one he collaborated with Lucy Cavendish, and the second I received as a gift from my youngest son back in August. I want to compare and contrast both decks to see whether one deck emerges as more robust than the other. My initial impulse

Published by U.S Games in 2020, Tarot of Mystical Moments is the creation of Catrin Welz-Stein. The cards are on the large size, although they’re not unmanageable. They arrived in a small but sturdy box and come with a small guidebook. We have gilded edging, but this time in silver. However, thanks to the mass-market price tag

The Madhouse Tarot was published in 2020 by artist Eugene Vinitski and author Elsa Khapatnukovski. The uniqueness of the artwork is consistent throughout, and the quality is excellent. The cards are a smooth matte finish and will likely be easy to shuffle. The black edging has a slight shimmer, but it pairs well with

The Mystical Healing Reading Cards is a 36-card deck published in 2020, and I think Inna Segal did a great job creating something that blends old with new. Jake Baddeley did the artwork, and I would’ve liked to see this stated early in the book. It is not common practice to name the artist on the front cover, but I wish writers would reconsider this practice.

The Dark Mansion tarot was created in 2018 by illustrator Magdalena Kaczan and Krzysztof Wasiuk, founder of Taroteca Studios. An enormous amount of thought went into every inch of the finished product. Wasiuk states that he wanted to create something that was not only uniquely beautiful but useable and intuitive.

The Dreamkeepers Tarot is a lovely deck published in 2021. Liz Huston spent the best part of twelve years creating the images, and I like that she talks about this process at the beginning of the guidebook. Liz self-published the first edition in 2018, and US Games published this updated mass-market version in 2020.