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    There's been some interest in my collection of #divination tools/decks, so I figured I'd run through them. At least most of them, I'm sure I have a few tucked away forgotten somewhere.

    So first up are probably my 3 most important ones.

    There's a pic of the coins and such that live in the white jaw rack under the skull. I have a divination coin collection but these are the ones that are just too big to play nice with the others. There's a zodiac coin, a fibonacci sequence coin, a standalone divination fidget/challenge coin, and assorted other weird coins I've accrued.

    The hot pink chest contains my
    #MagpieTarot deck (mixydeck), and the Seasons set of divination dice from Publishing Gobblin. I tend to use my mixydeck almost more as a magical item than a divination tool. (Side note, I tend to call it a mixydeck, but the general consensus is to call them 'magpie decks'. To me that feels more like a traditional witchery/"whimsical" type name/vibe, and I am on a different path)

    Next up is that little grey bag. That's my "travel" copy of the Cryptica Tarot (technically that's a copy of the Erratica Tarot, but the same card art. The difference between Cryptica Tarot and Erratica Tarot is that each card in the Erratica is actually two different cards, printed obverse and reverse. So the Erratica is 100 cards thick, but contains 200 different card faces.) Also there's a d20.

    Finally is my "director's cut" Cryptica Tarot. It's hard to tell but about 20% of the deck is on holographic card stock. All the standard Major Arcana and the Aces are holo, as are several other random cards that I just thought would look cool in holo.

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      There's been some interest in my collection of #divination tools/decks, so I figured I'd run through them. At least most of them, I'm sure I have a few tucked away forgotten somewhere.

      So first up are probably my 3 most important ones.

      There's a pic of the coins and such that live in the white jaw rack under the skull. I have a divination coin collection but these are the ones that are just too big to play nice with the others. There's a zodiac coin, a fibonacci sequence coin, a standalone divination fidget/challenge coin, and assorted other weird coins I've accrued.

      The hot pink chest contains my
      #MagpieTarot deck (mixydeck), and the Seasons set of divination dice from Publishing Gobblin. I tend to use my mixydeck almost more as a magical item than a divination tool. (Side note, I tend to call it a mixydeck, but the general consensus is to call them 'magpie decks'. To me that feels more like a traditional witchery/"whimsical" type name/vibe, and I am on a different path)

      Next up is that little grey bag. That's my "travel" copy of the Cryptica Tarot (technically that's a copy of the Erratica Tarot, but the same card art. The difference between Cryptica Tarot and Erratica Tarot is that each card in the Erratica is actually two different cards, printed obverse and reverse. So the Erratica is 100 cards thick, but contains 200 different card faces.) Also there's a d20.

      Finally is my "director's cut" Cryptica Tarot. It's hard to tell but about 20% of the deck is on holographic card stock. All the standard Major Arcana and the Aces are holo, as are several other random cards that I just thought would look cool in holo.

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      Here's another one I've made, the Cryptica Lenormand/Playing Card deck. It's a full (more than full) playing card deck, with the appropriate Lenormand cards illustrated as such.

      Each card suit is in a different color that represents the standard elemental association for the suit. Each suit has the cards Ace through Ten, Page, Jack, Bishop, Rook, Queen, King, and Squirrel. There are also 4 jokers, one cyan, one magenta, one yellow, and one black.

      The Lenormand deck typically includes a "Man" and a "Woman" card, whch the Cryptica Lenormand also has. However for folks who prefer different- or non-gendered significators, there's options. First, all the cards in each suit in the ranks of 2 through 5 have various imagery, and could be easily swapped in the replace the Man and Woman cards. So the Signifactors could be Cat and Window, or Radiation and Biohazard, or Broccoli and Cauliflower. However if none of those fit right, you can make your own with a sharpie and the Page cards.

      All the Pages are Blank Pages with no illustration or title.

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        Here's another one I've made, the Cryptica Lenormand/Playing Card deck. It's a full (more than full) playing card deck, with the appropriate Lenormand cards illustrated as such.

        Each card suit is in a different color that represents the standard elemental association for the suit. Each suit has the cards Ace through Ten, Page, Jack, Bishop, Rook, Queen, King, and Squirrel. There are also 4 jokers, one cyan, one magenta, one yellow, and one black.

        The Lenormand deck typically includes a "Man" and a "Woman" card, whch the Cryptica Lenormand also has. However for folks who prefer different- or non-gendered significators, there's options. First, all the cards in each suit in the ranks of 2 through 5 have various imagery, and could be easily swapped in the replace the Man and Woman cards. So the Signifactors could be Cat and Window, or Radiation and Biohazard, or Broccoli and Cauliflower. However if none of those fit right, you can make your own with a sharpie and the Page cards.

        All the Pages are Blank Pages with no illustration or title.

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        My hand-scribbled Oblique Strategies deck. My handwriting has been charitably described as "whimsical", and this was made beck when I was still drinking, so it's even less constrained than my usual scrawls.

        I'd found a large spreadsheet showing all the various differences in the different editions of the
        #ObliqueStrategies , so I made mine an omni-edition. I know I've lost a couple cards out of it but it doesn't really matter for this type of deck.

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          My hand-scribbled Oblique Strategies deck. My handwriting has been charitably described as "whimsical", and this was made beck when I was still drinking, so it's even less constrained than my usual scrawls.

          I'd found a large spreadsheet showing all the various differences in the different editions of the
          #ObliqueStrategies , so I made mine an omni-edition. I know I've lost a couple cards out of it but it doesn't really matter for this type of deck.

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          This is my poker card #MagpieTarot deck. I started with a copy of https://playingcarddecks.com/products/pcd-5th-anniversary-playing-cards-uspcc and swapped in other single poker cards I had that I liked better. Then I added a Major Arcana and Page cards, and a small "oraclesworth" of other cards. The Majors are made up of TCG game cards that worked, cut down full sized tarot cards, and at least one (lovers) that was cut out from a greeting card.

          That Judgement is from the first Tarot keyword deck I scribbbled before I got an actual tarot deck. I've had that particular Leviathan from Magic The Gathering for pretty much exactly 30 years.

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            This is my poker card #MagpieTarot deck. I started with a copy of https://playingcarddecks.com/products/pcd-5th-anniversary-playing-cards-uspcc and swapped in other single poker cards I had that I liked better. Then I added a Major Arcana and Page cards, and a small "oraclesworth" of other cards. The Majors are made up of TCG game cards that worked, cut down full sized tarot cards, and at least one (lovers) that was cut out from a greeting card.

            That Judgement is from the first Tarot keyword deck I scribbbled before I got an actual tarot deck. I've had that particular Leviathan from Magic The Gathering for pretty much exactly 30 years.

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            This is my coin casting set. The 2 copper colored columns are D&D class tokens (meant to be used as "minis" on a battle mat). There's coins for the 5 mana colors in M:tG, a chakra set (I don't use chakras but it's useful vocaulary for the set). Some icosahedron shaped coins, some sci-fi type coins, and then the bulk of them are the silvery coins in the bottom half. There's Major Arcana and Lenormand coins, and a few erratic ones, like the three alchemist and four virtue coins.

            At some point, I'd like to get some minor arcana coins, but given the current state of The Everything, I doubt I'll ever actually make it happen.

            Anyway, I usually keep these in a drawstring bag, and to use, I just shake it up, then grab a pinch of coins and drop them, either in a dice tray or on a divination mat.

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              This is my coin casting set. The 2 copper colored columns are D&D class tokens (meant to be used as "minis" on a battle mat). There's coins for the 5 mana colors in M:tG, a chakra set (I don't use chakras but it's useful vocaulary for the set). Some icosahedron shaped coins, some sci-fi type coins, and then the bulk of them are the silvery coins in the bottom half. There's Major Arcana and Lenormand coins, and a few erratic ones, like the three alchemist and four virtue coins.

              At some point, I'd like to get some minor arcana coins, but given the current state of The Everything, I doubt I'll ever actually make it happen.

              Anyway, I usually keep these in a drawstring bag, and to use, I just shake it up, then grab a pinch of coins and drop them, either in a dice tray or on a divination mat.

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              I have some fairly regular tarot decks also. I figured I'd touch on these before I get into some of the weirder decks I have.

              First, my regular standard Rider Waite Smith that I got for 1$ from an online underwear store (I actually got 7 copies, because they were 1$ and having extra cheap tarot decks hanging around isn't a bad thing), cardstock is average, colors are fine. Only possible complaint is that you can tell if a card is reversed or not by the back, since it's not radially symmetrical. However I don't actually care about that part.

              The Fairy Tale tarot is pretty much just a simplified Rider-Waite-Smith-alike deck. I got it with the intention to split/sell card singles for magpie decks (I had a decent trade in card singles for a couple years, enough to buy new decks to split and to give me a extra few pocketdollars). Honestly it's a little too simplified for my tastes, but could be nice for a beginner or perhaps just for someone that likes the sort of manga look of the art. Nice magnetic flap box, and the card edges are gilt in an aqua foil.

              Star Trek TNG deck because of course. It's half awesome (The majors and courts) and half crap (The minors are just pip cards). Relatedly I just got a text from someone 2 days ago about this deck, they found that the store Ollie's has them for 5$ usd and wondered how many I needed, so I'll probably end up with a couple/three extra copies of this one for purposes as yet unknown.

              The Miss Cleo deck was actually the first deck I owned, because it was cheap AF. This isn't the original copy I had, I split that one for magpie trades long ago. But the deck was still cheap AF, so I snagged an extra just to have. It's basically an Egyptian flavored Rider-Waite-Smith-alike.

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                I have some fairly regular tarot decks also. I figured I'd touch on these before I get into some of the weirder decks I have.

                First, my regular standard Rider Waite Smith that I got for 1$ from an online underwear store (I actually got 7 copies, because they were 1$ and having extra cheap tarot decks hanging around isn't a bad thing), cardstock is average, colors are fine. Only possible complaint is that you can tell if a card is reversed or not by the back, since it's not radially symmetrical. However I don't actually care about that part.

                The Fairy Tale tarot is pretty much just a simplified Rider-Waite-Smith-alike deck. I got it with the intention to split/sell card singles for magpie decks (I had a decent trade in card singles for a couple years, enough to buy new decks to split and to give me a extra few pocketdollars). Honestly it's a little too simplified for my tastes, but could be nice for a beginner or perhaps just for someone that likes the sort of manga look of the art. Nice magnetic flap box, and the card edges are gilt in an aqua foil.

                Star Trek TNG deck because of course. It's half awesome (The majors and courts) and half crap (The minors are just pip cards). Relatedly I just got a text from someone 2 days ago about this deck, they found that the store Ollie's has them for 5$ usd and wondered how many I needed, so I'll probably end up with a couple/three extra copies of this one for purposes as yet unknown.

                The Miss Cleo deck was actually the first deck I owned, because it was cheap AF. This isn't the original copy I had, I split that one for magpie trades long ago. But the deck was still cheap AF, so I snagged an extra just to have. It's basically an Egyptian flavored Rider-Waite-Smith-alike.

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                THE FINAL ROSE TAROT

                I love this one because it is so eye searingly pink and red and gold foil. Also the art style kinda reminds me a tiny bit of Patrick Nagel. Also it's based on everyone's favorite reality dating show. Like you'd expect from a TV reality show deck, reading from this deck tends towards the most dramatic answers, not neccessarily the best ones.

                I didn't get it through the kickstarter, but that seems like the best link to the deck/artist. Don't buy this (or any deck) from amazon, there's counterfeit, shit quality copies out there.

                Get decks from the artists that made them.

                https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1712955714/the-final-rose-tarot #tarot

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                  THE FINAL ROSE TAROT

                  I love this one because it is so eye searingly pink and red and gold foil. Also the art style kinda reminds me a tiny bit of Patrick Nagel. Also it's based on everyone's favorite reality dating show. Like you'd expect from a TV reality show deck, reading from this deck tends towards the most dramatic answers, not neccessarily the best ones.

                  I didn't get it through the kickstarter, but that seems like the best link to the deck/artist. Don't buy this (or any deck) from amazon, there's counterfeit, shit quality copies out there.

                  Get decks from the artists that made them.

                  https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1712955714/the-final-rose-tarot #tarot

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                  One thing I will note is that I do not have any Thoth decks because Crowley was a turdhuffer and ceremonial magic is so fuckin pretentious and pedantic. If you're into Thelema, great, you do you, but I'm not interested in ceremonial magic stuffs.

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                    One thing I will note is that I do not have any Thoth decks because Crowley was a turdhuffer and ceremonial magic is so fuckin pretentious and pedantic. If you're into Thelema, great, you do you, but I'm not interested in ceremonial magic stuffs.

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                    MOOD TAROT

                    This one...is complicated. First, the neat stuff: The cards are fully plastic, and therefore fully waterproof. Yes, that autograph from the creator is directed at me "
                    #diceboi" (because Natalie made some assumptions as to gender, etc.) , and is only like 85% joking.

                    Natalie tried to run a sequel project to this one, where each card would be done by a different artist, then have the speech bubbles, et al, added. I signed up right near the deadline, paid the 50$ fee (red flag), and made a new card for it. Anyway, it turns out that some folks were using GenAI, I "innocently" inquired about AI policies, and the upshot is that like a fifth of the artists opted out of the project. I offered to let her use my card so long as I could be credited under a different name:

                    This was because I was not trying to torpedo the project entirely (despite hoping it would fail due to AI use), and also because Natalie has drastically unpredictable moods and I was more interested in not being a target as the whole thing came crashing down. The eventual kickstarter brought in about 5% of it's absurdly large goal, and was cancelled.

                    At some point, in the middle of all that, I correctly predicted that interacting with a particular instagram post would likely get her to send me some stuff to show off "influencer" style on my instagram, which she did. This deck, some stickers, a selenite wand, a package of ramen, and a few single cards. I duly showed them off to my audience of like 75 folks (She never checked to see if I even had a following)

                    Anyway, I cannot recommend dealing with this artist in any fashion, even to purchase a deck. However, as I said, the deck itself is fine. Just a lot of weird vibes tied up in my personal relationship to it.

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                      MOOD TAROT

                      This one...is complicated. First, the neat stuff: The cards are fully plastic, and therefore fully waterproof. Yes, that autograph from the creator is directed at me "
                      #diceboi" (because Natalie made some assumptions as to gender, etc.) , and is only like 85% joking.

                      Natalie tried to run a sequel project to this one, where each card would be done by a different artist, then have the speech bubbles, et al, added. I signed up right near the deadline, paid the 50$ fee (red flag), and made a new card for it. Anyway, it turns out that some folks were using GenAI, I "innocently" inquired about AI policies, and the upshot is that like a fifth of the artists opted out of the project. I offered to let her use my card so long as I could be credited under a different name:

                      This was because I was not trying to torpedo the project entirely (despite hoping it would fail due to AI use), and also because Natalie has drastically unpredictable moods and I was more interested in not being a target as the whole thing came crashing down. The eventual kickstarter brought in about 5% of it's absurdly large goal, and was cancelled.

                      At some point, in the middle of all that, I correctly predicted that interacting with a particular instagram post would likely get her to send me some stuff to show off "influencer" style on my instagram, which she did. This deck, some stickers, a selenite wand, a package of ramen, and a few single cards. I duly showed them off to my audience of like 75 folks (She never checked to see if I even had a following)

                      Anyway, I cannot recommend dealing with this artist in any fashion, even to purchase a deck. However, as I said, the deck itself is fine. Just a lot of weird vibes tied up in my personal relationship to it.

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                      I got 18 more decks to post, I think. I don't have the most extensive collection, but I have "enough". Yeah, there's a couple decks and some coins and stuffs that would be nice to have, but I'm not actively tempted by new divination stuff very much. I have plenty of widely varied tools with an expansive vocabulary. And also I got piles of blank cards and sharpies if I need new divination vocabulary.

                      Also I'm poor AF these days.

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                        I got 18 more decks to post, I think. I don't have the most extensive collection, but I have "enough". Yeah, there's a couple decks and some coins and stuffs that would be nice to have, but I'm not actively tempted by new divination stuff very much. I have plenty of widely varied tools with an expansive vocabulary. And also I got piles of blank cards and sharpies if I need new divination vocabulary.

                        Also I'm poor AF these days.

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                        For completeness' sake, I'll repost my assorted divination dice. There's a complete set of the Publishing Goblin "Seasons" set of divination dice, plus also I've been a gamer dice goblin for a very long time, so there's just lots of assorted weird interesting dice.

                        This is a separate copy of the Seasons set of div dice from the ones in the blue tray in the hot pink chest.

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                          For completeness' sake, I'll repost my assorted divination dice. There's a complete set of the Publishing Goblin "Seasons" set of divination dice, plus also I've been a gamer dice goblin for a very long time, so there's just lots of assorted weird interesting dice.

                          This is a separate copy of the Seasons set of div dice from the ones in the blue tray in the hot pink chest.

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                          On the topic of the divination dice from Publishing Goblin, there's also a card deck of the die faces. I'd intended to use this one as a way to be able to lay out like a 3x3 card mat to toss dice or coins on, but in practice I rarely go for it, mostly because the typeface and color choices make it hard for me to read.

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                            On the topic of the divination dice from Publishing Goblin, there's also a card deck of the die faces. I'd intended to use this one as a way to be able to lay out like a 3x3 card mat to toss dice or coins on, but in practice I rarely go for it, mostly because the typeface and color choices make it hard for me to read.

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                            THE LOMISHT
                            (a Darisa tarot)

                            So this one is pretty interesting, it's based on a world built by the designer. The anthromorphic species of the world is mono-gendered. The deck itself can be used as either a standard tarot deck (by pulling out certain cards), or as the in-world Lomisht (by pulling out certain other cards).

                            Anyway, if you're interested, check out the 222 page pdf covering the deck hosted on the designer's google drive here:
                            https://goo.gl/16u7ou

                            Or if you want to just have a better overview than my scattered thoughts, check out the original kickstarter:
                            https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/58157872/a-darisa-tarot-the-lomisht

                            ---

                            Now, the way I acquired this deck is that, shortly after I moved in with my sister when my marriage finally crapped out, my sister said to me that she was making an order from an artist, and it happened that they made a
                            #tarot deck, and would I be interested? So I said yes, obviously, sight unseen, and this is that deck.

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                              THE LOMISHT
                              (a Darisa tarot)

                              So this one is pretty interesting, it's based on a world built by the designer. The anthromorphic species of the world is mono-gendered. The deck itself can be used as either a standard tarot deck (by pulling out certain cards), or as the in-world Lomisht (by pulling out certain other cards).

                              Anyway, if you're interested, check out the 222 page pdf covering the deck hosted on the designer's google drive here:
                              https://goo.gl/16u7ou

                              Or if you want to just have a better overview than my scattered thoughts, check out the original kickstarter:
                              https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/58157872/a-darisa-tarot-the-lomisht

                              ---

                              Now, the way I acquired this deck is that, shortly after I moved in with my sister when my marriage finally crapped out, my sister said to me that she was making an order from an artist, and it happened that they made a
                              #tarot deck, and would I be interested? So I said yes, obviously, sight unseen, and this is that deck.

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                              MYSTIC GARBAGE ORACLE

                              This is one that knew would split well for magpie sales. It has 8 suits of 8 cards each. Thre's a moon phases suit, a deadly sins suit, a goddess suit, a mouth suit, a magic tools suit, and some other stuff.

                              I also just liked the art style and color palette. So when the artist had a huge sale because of an unplanned move, I managed to snag 5 copies of this one, and besides my copy here I still have one copy in shrinkwrap.

                              I don't really use this as a standalone oracle, but I do use the entire suit of sins is in my magpie deck.

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                                MYSTIC GARBAGE ORACLE

                                This is one that knew would split well for magpie sales. It has 8 suits of 8 cards each. Thre's a moon phases suit, a deadly sins suit, a goddess suit, a mouth suit, a magic tools suit, and some other stuff.

                                I also just liked the art style and color palette. So when the artist had a huge sale because of an unplanned move, I managed to snag 5 copies of this one, and besides my copy here I still have one copy in shrinkwrap.

                                I don't really use this as a standalone oracle, but I do use the entire suit of sins is in my magpie deck.

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                                TAROT ASSEMBLED

                                This one is a pretty cool oracle of symbols found in the Rider-Waite-Smith deck. It also lists the cards that the symbol appears on along the border, and then the background is filled with other symbols from those cards.

                                Just kind of a neat way to think about the symbols, and see connections between cards.

                                There's heavy iridescent foiling around the symbols, and the edges are colored a matte cyan. For me the downsides are that I'm not really a fan of the color choices for this deck, and also it's got that matte "velvet" finish (which I do not like the feel of, and it also interferes with my shuffling style)

                                I did make sure to get the separate guidebook for not just this deck, but the Tarot Disassembled tarot deck done in the same style (despite not actually having that deck). Very nice reference books on the symbols of the RWS

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                                  TAROT ASSEMBLED

                                  This one is a pretty cool oracle of symbols found in the Rider-Waite-Smith deck. It also lists the cards that the symbol appears on along the border, and then the background is filled with other symbols from those cards.

                                  Just kind of a neat way to think about the symbols, and see connections between cards.

                                  There's heavy iridescent foiling around the symbols, and the edges are colored a matte cyan. For me the downsides are that I'm not really a fan of the color choices for this deck, and also it's got that matte "velvet" finish (which I do not like the feel of, and it also interferes with my shuffling style)

                                  I did make sure to get the separate guidebook for not just this deck, but the Tarot Disassembled tarot deck done in the same style (despite not actually having that deck). Very nice reference books on the symbols of the RWS

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                                  THE FORTY SERVANTS (and Four Devils)

                                  So this one is designed to be a dvination deck, but also a library of servitors/egregores/archetypes to work with in chaos magic. This is the deluxe version, so it's on oversized 3.5x5.5 inch cards, but the standard version is on standard tarot sized cards.

                                  I don't work with entities on my path, so I don't really interact with these as servitors or anything like that, but I have used some of these as sort of non-sentient archetype energies to flavor certain magic stuffs I do. The Four Devils are not traditional devils or demons, but are also servitors, covering the domains of Health, Wealth, Happiness, and Wisdom.

                                  Anyway, the archetypes/servitors have fairly straightforward names and meanings, so you could probably find a way to use this deck no matter your path.

                                  https://www.adventuresinwoowoo.com/thefortyservants/

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                                    THE FORTY SERVANTS (and Four Devils)

                                    So this one is designed to be a dvination deck, but also a library of servitors/egregores/archetypes to work with in chaos magic. This is the deluxe version, so it's on oversized 3.5x5.5 inch cards, but the standard version is on standard tarot sized cards.

                                    I don't work with entities on my path, so I don't really interact with these as servitors or anything like that, but I have used some of these as sort of non-sentient archetype energies to flavor certain magic stuffs I do. The Four Devils are not traditional devils or demons, but are also servitors, covering the domains of Health, Wealth, Happiness, and Wisdom.

                                    Anyway, the archetypes/servitors have fairly straightforward names and meanings, so you could probably find a way to use this deck no matter your path.

                                    https://www.adventuresinwoowoo.com/thefortyservants/

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                                    the DECKTET

                                    This playing-card-sized one is actually primarily designed for gaming, with six suits, and most cards having multiple suits. I honestly haven't really tried to wrap my head around the structure of it from a gaming perspective, but I know there's multiple games written for it.

                                    However, it's also built for divination. Disregarding the suits and ranks part of the cards, each card is also an Ace, a Personality, a Location, or an Event. Many card illustrations are reversible, with different details (Such as the Miller presenting a sheaf of wheat in peace, or presenting a thresher in aggression).

                                    My copy is actually a Double Decktet, which is the original deck plus the Capital deck. The Capital deck has the same suit and ranks as the original, but the card name and illustration are different. So from a games perspective, two of the same deck just with different art, but from a divination persective, two different decks.

                                    You can tell at a glance which deck a card belongs to by looking at the "the" in the titles. It's all lower case in the original, and all capitals in the capital deck.

                                    The artwork is fine, not my favorite style ever, but it's clear enough. One cool thing is that the illustration colors are almost entirely done with the colors of the suits of the card.

                                    http://wiki.decktet.com/fortunes covers how to read the cards for divination

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                                      the DECKTET

                                      This playing-card-sized one is actually primarily designed for gaming, with six suits, and most cards having multiple suits. I honestly haven't really tried to wrap my head around the structure of it from a gaming perspective, but I know there's multiple games written for it.

                                      However, it's also built for divination. Disregarding the suits and ranks part of the cards, each card is also an Ace, a Personality, a Location, or an Event. Many card illustrations are reversible, with different details (Such as the Miller presenting a sheaf of wheat in peace, or presenting a thresher in aggression).

                                      My copy is actually a Double Decktet, which is the original deck plus the Capital deck. The Capital deck has the same suit and ranks as the original, but the card name and illustration are different. So from a games perspective, two of the same deck just with different art, but from a divination persective, two different decks.

                                      You can tell at a glance which deck a card belongs to by looking at the "the" in the titles. It's all lower case in the original, and all capitals in the capital deck.

                                      The artwork is fine, not my favorite style ever, but it's clear enough. One cool thing is that the illustration colors are almost entirely done with the colors of the suits of the card.

                                      http://wiki.decktet.com/fortunes covers how to read the cards for divination

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                                      9 more posts until the crown jewel of my collection

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                                        9 more posts until the crown jewel of my collection

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                                        the ALLEYMAN'S TAROT, the BOOSTER PACKS, the SEQUEL DECKS (to the Alleyman's), and the SEASONS LORDS ORACLE.

                                        So these are technically 5 different decks from Publishing Goblin and several booster packs. Except, it's the Alleyman's tarot and the descendants thereof (And also the lords oracle from the divination dice but I'll explain that later)

                                        The Alleyman's is a deck made up of cards licensed from a couple hundred artists, meant to be a replica of the deck used by the Alleyman, a mythical divination cryptid created by Seven Dane Asmund. Anyway, without getting too into the weeds, let's just say there's significant amounts of lore.

                                        So it's a
                                        #MagpieTarot style deck, with each card having it's original card back replicated as well. The AlleyWAY tarot and the two oracles are recreations of three other decks "found" in the lore, also with unique card backs (Fun fact, a Cryptica card appears in the Alleyway tarot and another one is in the Oracle of Play). So I put my open copies of all these into a single card pool, and constructed myself a magpie of only Publishing Goblin cards. In the second picture, the closeup of the card edges, the stack inside the cloth lined container are the leftovers, and the pile standing up against the side of the container is the magpie I compiled out of it. Much like a TCG player, I'll sometimes tear down and rebuild a magpie deck out my personal card stash (I've got a separate stash of non-pub-gob cards for rearranging my personal magpie that lives in the hot pink chest). And then of course some example cards from my curated deck, and a card back spread are the third picture.

                                        The Lords Oracle actually belongs to the Pub Gob Divination Dice. Each die is presided over by a "lord" from Seven's fictional worlds. Each lord has a card, so I shuffled them into the curated magpie deck. When one turns up, I roll the corresponding die, if I'm feeling energetic, or just read the lord card itself if I doin't feel up to dice.

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                                          the ALLEYMAN'S TAROT, the BOOSTER PACKS, the SEQUEL DECKS (to the Alleyman's), and the SEASONS LORDS ORACLE.

                                          So these are technically 5 different decks from Publishing Goblin and several booster packs. Except, it's the Alleyman's tarot and the descendants thereof (And also the lords oracle from the divination dice but I'll explain that later)

                                          The Alleyman's is a deck made up of cards licensed from a couple hundred artists, meant to be a replica of the deck used by the Alleyman, a mythical divination cryptid created by Seven Dane Asmund. Anyway, without getting too into the weeds, let's just say there's significant amounts of lore.

                                          So it's a
                                          #MagpieTarot style deck, with each card having it's original card back replicated as well. The AlleyWAY tarot and the two oracles are recreations of three other decks "found" in the lore, also with unique card backs (Fun fact, a Cryptica card appears in the Alleyway tarot and another one is in the Oracle of Play). So I put my open copies of all these into a single card pool, and constructed myself a magpie of only Publishing Goblin cards. In the second picture, the closeup of the card edges, the stack inside the cloth lined container are the leftovers, and the pile standing up against the side of the container is the magpie I compiled out of it. Much like a TCG player, I'll sometimes tear down and rebuild a magpie deck out my personal card stash (I've got a separate stash of non-pub-gob cards for rearranging my personal magpie that lives in the hot pink chest). And then of course some example cards from my curated deck, and a card back spread are the third picture.

                                          The Lords Oracle actually belongs to the Pub Gob Divination Dice. Each die is presided over by a "lord" from Seven's fictional worlds. Each lord has a card, so I shuffled them into the curated magpie deck. When one turns up, I roll the corresponding die, if I'm feeling energetic, or just read the lord card itself if I doin't feel up to dice.

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                                          THE NORMAL TAROT

                                          tl;dr, it isn't normal.

                                          So, the Normal Tarot. If you've ever run across Normal Horoscopes on tumblr, this is Caretaker's deck. Well, decks. There's 4 different decks, but they all have the same structure, just different art.

                                          Here's how it's set up:

                                          The three omens. The four maidens. The five dreams. The six books. The seven dead kings. The eight moons. And then a suit for each season, starting with the solstice or equinox as an ace, then the second through the tenth of the season. Then the first, second and third Knights for the season. And then the Lady, the Queen, and the Mother of the season.

                                          The deck in the top row is a reprint of the original version, with the original art, and silver gilt edges. (and the version I tend to prefer, it's easier to see details and read the text on this version.)

                                          Theoretically, there's a missing row for the "silver" edition. The silver edition uses the otiginal edition art, with some changes made to darken some negative space to make the silver foil details pop. I have a copy, but it's still in shrink.

                                          Then the middle row in the pic is the Gold edition. I got this one when only the gold and silver editions were in print, so this one is an earlier printing than the other two in the pic (Why the box is a slightly different style than the other two). Lots of cool gold foil detail work on these, and gold edge gilding. I actually like the art on this better than the original/silver, it's just harder to read the text because of the typeface and also because the text is foiled.

                                          The color version is the newest one, with no foil or edge gilding. It's nice but it's very soft, hard for me to see details in, and the titles are tiny. One notable thing about this version is that there is a person on every card which is not the case for the other versions.

                                          The example cards are a Dead King, a Moon, a Book, and a card from a season from each of the three decks. I didn't bother to match them up between the decks, but should still give you a good idea of the different art flavors.

                                          I ended up with these because during the final hour of crowfunding campaigns, Seven does a livestream and drops some ridiculous deals. Like, early on, I caught a "wandering tier" that was open for a short time to pick up one deck for 20$ which was already a significant discount, but then during the final hour livestream, Seven dropped an add-on item that was a copy of each of the 4 versions without the accompanying book for 20$ total.

                                          Anyway, the upshot is, go attend the final hour livestream on publishing goblin crowdfundings
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