This is such a great deck, overall - I love the concept of presenting a borderless, "tea-stained" version of the Waite-Smith. I didn't want the RWS, but this one I couldn't resist. The card quality feels really lovely. I was torn between the two sizes, and I'm still torn now that I have the bridge-size in my hands. The description said that the proportions were better for the bridge- than Tarot-sized, and I was ambivalent about the corner decor, so that's ultimately why I swung this way. If you can't live without the corner decor, go full-size!
I would love to give it a 5/5 rating, but there are a couple of cards that were disappointing in their translation. I will send photos to the printer in case it was simply my deck, and not typical. The black cat on the Queen of Wands is weirdly blurred/smudged at the base, and the face/neck of the figure in Strength has some misplaced red and blue color-spotting. There were other cards with more minor blurring/smudging at the bottom (once I was looking for it), but these were the two where I felt the defects were distracting.
**Same-day Update: Customer service from DriveThru Cards promptly and kindly responded to my inquiry indicating the smudging looks like a production error, and they will be printing and mailing a replacement deck. Thank you, DriveThru!
Rating: [4 of 5 Stars!] |