Ephemere Tarot: A Tarot Deck By True Black Tarot

Artist(s) : Arthur Wang ; Author(s) : Arthur Wang, Mat Auryn
Publisher : Self-Publish

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Item Number: 10595
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Ephemere is a deck of 80 hand painted cards. each adorned with pale gold foil on both front and back. Just like its spiritual counterpoint TrueBlack, each deck features the same iconic "rose petal" feel and comes with a magnetic storage box and a little white booklet co-written by Arthur Wang and Mat Auryn.

Ephemere represents the stories, traditions, and heritages that humans create and pass forth in their journey to conquer the most eternal and timeless of enemies; the ephemerality and temporality of life. With scenes that evoke feelings of a half-remembered dream, figures fading into mist, and an unbounded timelessness, these paintings reflect the fleeting quality of our lives and the memories we leave behind.

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:

Origin, Dream, Summon
Fighter, Alchemist, Keeper
Voyager, Dulcess, Nemesis
Obscurio, Burn, Healer
Seeker, Counterpoint (m/f), Counterpoint (m/m), Counterpoint (f/f)
Defiance, Crescendo
Victor, Sacrifice, Ovation
Death, Legacy, Continuum

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.

Each deck comes complete with:
- 80 hand painted, foil stamped cards with rose petal finish
- A little white instructional booklet with gold foiled cover
- A matching foil stamped hard box with magnetic closure

True Black has been called the "Ferrari of tarot decks", and that same unerring quality and attention to detail lives on through Ephemere.

We are using the same printers as the original True Black deck for our cards, booklet, and box, giving us all the quality and detail you've come to expect.

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.

Lastly, the cards will be printed right here in the US and each deck is gift-wrapped and shipped personally by us.

Country of Origin: USA
Volume/Weight/Size: 80 cards, 2.75" x 4.75"
Price: $1380 HKD
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