====== Mystic Faerie Tarot ======

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deck_names: Mystic Faerie Tarot
artist_tarotags: Linda Ravenscroft
author_tarotags: Barbara Moore
publisher_tarotags: Llewellyn
artwork_ratings: 3
intuition_ratings: 3
lwb_ratings: 5
quality_ratings: 3
purchase_buytxts: https://amzn.to/32maGki
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I picked up this deck on Amazon when I was looking for a deck with art nouveau-style artwork. The Mystic Faerie Tarot isn't very nouveau at all. Its styling is more like illustrations in a book of fairy tales. The imagery is pretty easy to decode without the book or even an existing background in the RWS card meanings. Each of the four suits is a story, and the book that's included with Llewellyn's more expensive offering is complete with the story narrative, as well as the card meanings.

What annoys me about this deck's artwork is the effeminate look to all the male characters. Fairies are naturally somewhat feminine, but it's totally possible to draw masculine fairies - the images in the [[tarot:reviews:forest]] are much more appealing in this way.

===== Production Quality =====
This is a typical Llewellyn-produced deck. The book has black-and-white illustrations of each card. Llewellyn also publishes a deck-only version of this particular offering. The LWB in that deck is much shorter, and doesn't include any narrative for the story arcs depicted by each suit.

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