Mystic Dreamer

The Mystic Dreamer Tarot
Heidi Darras (Llewellyn Worldwide 2008)

Review
My powers of Photoshop will never be this awesome.

The artist was clearly going for dream-like, and as such gives up mist effects and opacity changes, not to mention the ripped card borders that make it look as though I've managed to pick a hole into someone's subconscious.

And like any good dream, there are jarring moments where I found myself thinking "oh wait, what?" The Magician and the Devil are actually female, though in the Magician's case you may not realise at first glance. And once you get to the second glance, you see the obvious problem with the Photoshop approach. There are in fact only about six human models used, though the digital effects and the range of costumes does a reasonably good job of hiding this fact.

Standout card in the Majors has to be Judgement. No naked dead people, just an astonishing moon-framed angel. The Minors boasts the best Seven of Wands I've seen a while- I shamelessly covet her outfit, not to mention the figure to wear it.

If you're looking for a digitally produced deck that isn't precisely a RW clone but remains reasonably familiar, you could do plenty worse than this deck.