Show threadCRYPTICAMar 14

@moss

So this^^^ is my #MagpieTarot deck. 2 of each major, a full Tower suite of 6 (i think) tower-related cards, 10 Wheels of Fortune, each of the four suits has a fifth court card and an 11th pip card. And then there's a whole oracles-worth of erratic cards

deer witchMar 13

Starting my #MagpieTarot deck!

I’ve wanted to for a while but it felt like a big undertaking — then I realized

a) I don’t have to do it all at once! I already have two loose cards I love, might as well slowly start collecting 😻

b) if I’m drawing & writing a health journey deck, it is going to be probably at least a couple years of process. I’m me, so this involves a lot of research, and I’ll probably encounter more potential magpie cards over the course of researching the deck too.

CRYPTICAMar 6

I cut a new card for my mixydeck out of some trash

#MagpieTarot

Show threadcrypticaJan 22
THE ARCANALESS

This one is from fellow Alley artist and community member, Matthew Pazzol https://pazzoldeckshop.bigcartel.com/

The Alley is the name of the facebook group for the members of the Alleyman's Tarot fandom/community, and has kind of become one of the general ways to refer to the folks actively participating in the community. Alleyfolk or The Seventeen (which I don't personally care for) are also common.

The Arcanaless is a deck meant to be split apart and used for #MagpieTarot decks, so there's not actually a structure to this one. There's a suit of birds, a partial suit of worms, a bunch of oracle style cards, and then a section that aren't even titled at all, they're just his artwork.

His card art construction techniques and mine are similar, but he has better image resources to remix, and likely spends a lot more time per card than I ever did.

Anyway, I love his work, I wish I could afford his other 4 decks.
Show threadcrypticaJan 21
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.
Show threadcrypticaJan 19
@Sadsquatch They're from a couple community-made booster packs for magpie decks

By the way, have you considered making yourself a #magpieTarot deck yet? 😸😸😸

(The two 2 of cups are in the 3rd and 4th booster packs found here : https://www.thegamecrafter.com/designers/the-alleyfolk-s-decks )
Show threadcrypticaJan 18
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.
crypticaJan 17
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.
Dr. Zalka Csenge VirágDec 27

Final result of my magpie tarot advent calendar 😊 (I only kept the cards I really loved). It was a lovely idea, I'll do it again next year!

#tarot #MagpieTarot #AdventCalendar #image

Dr. Zalka Csenge VirágDec 3

NUDIBRANCH!

#tarot #MagpieTarot #AdventCalendar #nature #image