Outlaw effects - The Carnie Tarot

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Postby Part-Timer » Jul 17th, '08, 22:26



Roth wrote:The Carnie Tarot is a gritty custom hand aged deck designed to reflect a time long gone, when the true traveling carnival, complete with fortune tellers, side shows and freak shows came into town.


Which is precisely why I love it!

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Postby themagicwand » Jul 17th, '08, 23:38

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Which is precisely why I love it!

Yeah, can't wait to use this deck "in the wild". I'm at Alton Towers on Saturday night and York on Monday night - really looking forward to the reactions. :D

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Postby Replicant » May 23rd, '09, 11:26

I like the look of this deck and going to purchase it until I realised it no longer costs £28. It's now priced at £50 or £60 (Outlaw and Merlin's, respectively), which is a tad excessive for the likes of me.

Nevermind; at least I have my Medieval Tarot by Card-Shark which is a beautiful deck. For those of you who own both these tarot decks, how do they compare?

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Postby themagicwand » May 23rd, '09, 13:34

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Nevermind; at least I have my Medieval Tarot by Card-Shark which is a beautiful deck. For those of you who own both these tarot decks, how do they compare?

They're totally different. The medieval tarot is a beautiful, sophisticated deck while the carnie deck is rough, harsh and slightly ugly. Both they're both beautiful in their own ways, and I go through phases of liking one or the other - depnding on what mood I'm in. Plus remember that the Carnie is major arcana only.

Both are marked and the system can take some practice to get completely up to speed with. I can still c**k it up with both decks!

In short - they're both tarot decks, but the similarity ends there.

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Postby Replicant » May 23rd, '09, 20:42

Thanks, Paul.

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Postby IAIN » May 23rd, '09, 22:19

i may be willing to part with mine repli...but at a price...good as new mine is...

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Postby Roth » May 24th, '09, 22:31

Replicant wrote:I like the look of this deck and going to purchase it until I realised it no longer costs £28. It's now priced at £50 or £60 (Outlaw and Merlin's, respectively), which is a tad excessive for the likes of me.

For those of you who own both these tarot decks, how do they compare?

The Carnie tarot is a hand sanded and then hand aged arcana.

They're not like plastic coated cards.

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Postby Replicant » May 26th, '09, 15:39

Thanks, Roth. I appreciate it is handmade and all that, but £50-60 is more than I would spend on a deck of Majors. Perhaps I will take Iain's deck off his hands at some point, assuming he doesn't decide to keep it in the meantime or someone else takes it.

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Re: Outlaw effects - The Carnie Tarot

Postby artychris » Nov 23rd, '11, 02:00

I know this thread's a little old... but I thought I'd add to it anyway!

I love these cards! I do pretty much all my readings with these! Just taking them out of the box and unwrapping them, and the person you're doing the reading for just knows that it's... well, not sure of the words, but it's certainly not a modern mass produced pack of cards...

They came with me to my tarot group and the people there are pretty experienced readers, and they'd never seen anything like them!

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