Iva Hüttnerové
OT Kolín
I got this deck because I was already ordering from Baba Prague store! I know, what a silly reason! But I am glad I did.
This is a 32 Card deck and from what I can tell, it is essentially a Biedermeier style gypsy deck. The cards are all there, except four. The four that do not correspond to the traditional Biedermeier cards are: Love, Dissimulation, Trouble, and Temptations. The cards from the Biedermeier not depicted in this deck are: Anger, Constancy, Ecclesiastic, and Unexpected. Most had the same names, but a couple of the cards were slightly different, but still aligned with a Biedermeier card.
The card stock is fair, but did stand up well to the enormous drops of water that accidentally fell on a few of them. They dried nicely, but not without giving me a panic! The size is typical for an oracle deck - relatively small. The colors tend to muted tones, but the artwork is nice. Dreamy looking, but nice. As I gain more experience with various oracle decks of this type, I have noticed that each one has its own flavor, or depiction of a common theme. For example, the cards for Man and Woman cards (each named "Beloved"), are quite narrowly defined in this deck. The Man is a dapper fellow, out to meet his mistress under the cover of darkness. The Woman sits naked on a bed - wearing nothing but black stockings and The Man's top hat! It is interesting to note that the same characters are depicted through out the deck, showing, I think, a story.
I found this to be an interesting deck - getting used to these gypsy decks is going to take some time. There is no touchy-feely psychology in these. No. Just straight up "this is this and that is that!"
Rating: Keeper +
