Mystic Faerie Tarot

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 Forest of Enchantment Tarotplugin-autotooltip__default plugin-autotooltip_bigForest of Enchantment Tarot

Deck Notes

This is by far my favorite deck for intuitive reading. I love my Alchemical Tarot (5th Edition) deck, but I've found this deck to be easier to read without referencing my notes or the accompanying book. The Forest of Enchantment uses familiar Germanic fairy tale imagery combined with the archetypes found in the Tarot. are much more appealing in this way.

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.