Reddit reviews The Steampunk Tarot

It's not an entirely unreasonable comparison.

Nowadays you can buy your own tarot cards in a hobby shop with a booklet about how to "skillfully read them." Special editions-- like [steampunk] (http://www.amazon.ca/The-Steampunk-Tarot-Barbara-Moore/dp/0738726389/ref=pd_sim_b_12?ie=UTF8&refRID=1GE2RA0ZY73T7VTV9K92) and [angel] (http://www.amazon.ca/Angel-Tarot-Cards-Doreen-Virtue/dp/1401937268/ref=pd_sim_b_7?ie=UTF8&refRID=1GE2RA0ZY73T7VTV9K92)-- are released every now and again. Like Magic Cards, most people roll their eyes when they see them come out, except for a small crew of highly devoted fans. Both have a lot of fairies.

Now, Pokemon on the other hand...

"Modern" is a pretty broad category -- it would help to know more about what kind of art style you're looking for. For example, are you hoping for something that's more minimalist, or detailed? colorful, or monochrome? digitally drawn, or painted? focused on figures, or more inventive with imagery?

That said, here are some decks in a pretty wide variety of styles that come to mind when I think "modern art." I personally own the first six decks on this list and can vouch that I like them; the rest I don't own but I know other people like them.

• The Light Grey Tarot
  
  
• The Cosmos Tarot & Oracle
  
  
• The Body Language Tarot
  
  
• The Fountain Tarot
  
  
• The Dark Goddess Tarot
  
  
• One of my all-time favorite decks, a feminist classic Thea's Tarot is apparently getting a second printing soon! Maybe not in time for your friend's gift, but perhaps for the future.
  
  
• The Book of Shadows Tarot, Volume 1: As Above and Volume 2: So Below
  
  
• The Wild Unknown Tarot
  
  
• The Wooden Tarot
  
  
• The Prisma Visions Tarot
  
  
• The Linestrider Tarot
  
  
• The Wanderer's Tarot: Solar Edition and Midnight Edition
  
  
• The Golden Thread Tarot
  
  
• The Illuminated Tarot (note that this is a playing-card style deck with 53 cards instead of 78)
  
  
• Dame Darcy's Mermaid Tarot
  
  
• The Prismatic Tarot
  
  
• The Ethereal Visions Illuminated Tarot (I'm including this even though Art Deco is decidedly not modern because it is very different from the traditional RWS style, so your friend might like it anyway)
  
  
• I don't know of any specifically videogame/media themed decks, but The Steampunk Tarot does come to mind as being up that alley, thematically.
  
  I have to stop here otherwise I'll just keep on going, lol, I love talking about different tarot decks. So I'll just leave you with a note that there are lots of items in the Little Red Tarot shop that might interest you.
  
  Hope this helps!

I got a different Steampunk deck, by Barbara Moore: http://www.amazon.com/Steampunk-Tarot-Barbara-Moore/dp/0738726389/ It has really neat steampunk imagery but is definitely based on Rider-Waite, so the symbolism is essentially the same. I am also a beginner and I feel like this deck is fairly intuitive to use.

Good luck!

Thank you so much for posting this! I had no idea about this deck. Thank you for the exposure.

For tarot, only the above mentioned Golden Thread tarot comes to mind, but there is this awesome Claire De Lune lenormand deck.

Possibly the Steampunk Tarot deck?

This is the one I have. It is very easy to read and has done me well
The Steampunk Tarot https://www.amazon.com/dp/0738726389/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_E0G0Db47MZMJA

It's the Steampunk Tarot - /u/rarelyserious actually gifted it to me :) I love it a lot so far, this is the first time I've really had the chance to use it.

Although it can be a drag, a lot of it does come down to practicing ad nauseam. I do readings absolutely all the time, perhaps especially for friends and family, and sometimes it's unpleasant stuff, but more often than not it's letting them know that things will be okay. And if I can break bad news more gently, that's definitely a good thing!

that said... I do have a couple little tips.

• find a deck with memorable pictures that relate to the message.
  
• every time you do a reading, try to remember what the cards mean before you look.
  
  While some of the cards (Major arcana I'm looking at you) can be pretty arbitrary, the right illustrations help enormously.
  
  A great inexpensive deck (though very odd) is the Steampunk Tarot. The pictures are very helpful and attractive. It's SFW, which is helpful when you're practicing with god knows who. And they are made a little smaller and thinner so it's easier to mix them up and handle them casually.
  
  final note: as much as I love a good novelty tarot deck, they're next to impossible to practice with or even use normally.

What about the Steampunk Tarot? (There are a couple but this is the one I mean: The Steampunk Tarot https://www.amazon.com/dp/0738726389/)

Maybe also check out the Modern Spellcaster’s Tarot, Pagan Otherworlds, and Darkness of Light Tarot. These aren’t in the same digital art style but they might appeal to you.

Before buying anything, I’d recommend searching on YouTube for deck flip throughs (if you don’t already do that) so that you know you’ll like the whole deck.

Edited to add: Decks by Kim Huggens also look similar to Ciro Marchetti so you might want to look at those too!

Edited to add: Another one to check out is Ellis Deck: https://ellistrations.bigcartel.com/product/ellis-deck-5th-edition Very heavily RWS-based (though not a clone) but the illustrations are truly unique. The colors look pretty bright in photos, but the real-life colors are more muted.

The name of this deck is The Steampunk Tarot and it was made by Barbara Moore and Aly Fell.

What makes this deck unique is that it's a Steampunk deck.

More information about it can be found here: http://www.aeclectic.net/tarot/cards/steampunk-fell/

You can purchase it here: https://www.amazon.com/Steampunk-Tarot-Barbara-Moore/dp/0738726389

And here is the Major Arcana in a zip file: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1O1EjrQf-zD1o7H0ce3Ed_mWrV5RrHIC0/view?usp=sharing

I have never been more delighted with a deck and book combo than with Barbara Moore's steampunk tarot.
It's engaging, playful-yet-perfectly-serious, and has some very insightful and intuitive descriptions for t cards. It's easy to start simple and then dive deep with this deck.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0738726389/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_oayIDbM7XYCDJ

You Capricorn would love this....if you aren’t an experienced reader, the pics make it easy to read as you’re starting out.
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