Designed by Lorenzo Gaggiotti, The House of the Rising Spade is a place built for imagination; an esoteric realm full of mysteries built for cartomancers, cardists, magicians, collectors, dreamers, and card enthusiasts. Cartomancer has a tarot feeling. The aces have a magick sigil, the borders of the 54 faces are in gold. Cartomancer was printed by Cartamundi with B9 true linen finish and cold-foil on both sides of the cards. Full-bleed black back design and gold cold-foiled graphic elements.

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This is the second edition, and even if it looks the same as the first one, some changes have been made to the cards and the tuckbox.

This is a luxurious deck of cards with gold foil application on both sides of all the cards, custom illustrated court cards, 3 jokers and ace of spades surrounded by shiny gold. The cards handle fantastic and the light reflected on the gold foiled areas makes the cards pop and shine.

Cartomancer 2nd Edition:

Printed by Cartamundi

Paper stock: true linen B9 finish, slimline

56 cards poker size

Golden cold-foil on both sides of the cards

100% custom, with one-way court cards and spot cards.

Back design is also one-way

55th card: double backer

56th card: 3rd Joker, "The Fool" from Keymaster Tarot

Tuckbox printed by Oath Playing Cards with black foil, gold foil, inner graphics and embossing on black paper.

Cards are cello-wrapped

Tuckbox is cello-wrapped as well

No seal / No signature

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The differences:

Tuckbox:

size, slightly thinner

paper stock

MMXX instead of MMXVIII on the front

bottom flap design

top flap design

inner graphics

Cards:

new paper stock: B9 true linen slimline

Ace of Spades: date in roman numerals and some small details in the illustration

55th card: 3rd Joker

Full deck scan by macstrat @ https://cardscans.piwigo.com/index?/category/559-cartomancer

The inspiration behind my project. Tarot; French cartomancy; transformation deck; analytical psychology; art; surrealism; symbolism; fingerprints; vintage prints; and illustrations (to name only a few.)

Diamond: Sensation, perception with our senses, childhood and earth.

Spade: Thinking, becoming part of society, early adulthood and air.

Heart: Intuition, abundance and fertility, midlife and water.

Club: Feeling, knowing without reasoning, late adulthood and fire.

Why is this deck unique? Each card tells a story. The whole deck paints the landscape of our lives with vintage engravings and prints—the ideal synergy between significance and design in a pack of cards. There is nothing like it out there—that’s why I’m doing it!

Cartomancy, divination? Yes, of course! The Cartomancer Poker Deck uses the existing structure of a standard deck of cards as a canvas for a new insightful cartomancy system. ALL the cards feature universal archetypes and symbols making it a very instinctive tool for divination. But if you're not into this, you will still enjoy the deck for its beauty and uniqueness.

The deck also was shipped with a 32 page companion booklet the size of the box, containing an introduction to the deck, keyword meanings for each card, and ideas for divination.

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https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/919324046/cartomancer-duality-playing-cards Let me introduce you to the newest member of the Cartomancer Series – Duality. Two individual fully-customized packs make a set and complement each other like the sun and moon. I've named these two decks Clarity and Shadow. The CLARITY Deck is a modified reissue of the first Cartomancer Poker Deck. These award-winning playing cards are what many of you have come to love. Plus, it’s also the pack that others have been looking for but cannot find. Consider it the deck of insight and intuition. In the new SHADOW Deck, night has fallen on all the Cartomancer cards. Each one features a mirror image of the Clarity Deck illustration yet is set on a dark gray background. Look close enough, and you'll notice the shadow cards concealing differences rich in symbolism. That's why it’s considered the deck of dreams and secrets. Clarity and Shadow, inseparable opposites! I’ve named the Aces after Carl Jung’s concept of how we perceive and experience reality. DIAMOND: Sensation, perception with our senses, childhood, and earth. SPADE: Thinking, becoming part of society, early adulthood, and air. HEART: Intuition, abundance and fertility, midlife and water. CLUB: Feeling, knowing without reasoning, late adulthood, and fire.

Full Deck Scan: https://cardscans.piwigo.com/index?/category/1218-cartomancer_shadow