Each card features an incredibly soft, tactile, and nonreflective rose petal finish on the front and backs, along with intricate pale gold foil stamping.
Cards are printed on art-quality 14pt thickness paper. While this is slightly thicker than a standard mass-market deck, they are significantly more flexible and 10% thinner than True Black's 18pt cardstock, better reflecting the light and airy quality of the deck's artwork.
Everything will come packaged in a rigid, magnetic closure closure box adorned with gold foil stamp on the front, back, and inside cover.
The cards printed right here in the US.
Inspired by odysseys and epics of old, the major arcana cards have been reimagined as a "hero's journey" in place of the classic "fool's journey". Just as the Epic of Gilgamesh centers around a hero's struggle to conquer death and his own ephemerality, our deck recants a timeless story of determination, struggle, failure, and how we pick up the pieces to continue onwards. Realizing our minuscule stature on a galactic and eternal scale, what pieces do we choose to leave behind?
Literary classics, historic mythology, and ancient anthropological findings inspire the cards of this deck. The majority of these major arcana cards retain strong parallels to traditional Rider Waite-Smith counterparts, though a small number are completely new.
These reimagined majors are:
The booklet, co-written by Mat Auryn and Arthur Wang, will detail the similarities these new cards have to traditional RWS majors, as well as where these new archetypes differ and depart from their predecessors.
Minor Arcana cards still follow traditional Rider Waite-Smith symbolism and the classic 4 suits