Crow Tarot: 78-Card Rider-Waite® Style Tarot Deck with Mystical Crow & Raven Artwork – Includes Guidebook, Intuitive Meanings, and Custom Spread for Beginners & Experts Cards – January 4, 2019

Big cards, real solid cardstock. The crow and raven imagery is right up my alley. I wear a raven on my finger because I like 'em. I also collect Tarot Cards, not because I like to divine, but because I like the stories they tell and games you can play with them. This deck is a great deck to help tell stories about the crows when they're outside crowing in the trees and you don't understand what they're saying. They might be crowing about you, y'know? Smart birds. So draw a card and read into the highly speculative world of bird watching.

The media could not be loaded. I suggest wash shuffling this deck and hand over hand. The card stock on my deck was nice and thick. I thumbed through the guidebook a little but didn't really sit and read it. It seems a decent guidebook, I would suggest for those wanting a good guidebook to actually check out some of the Fools Dog Tarot card apps or the Labyrinthos one which is really awesome and goes beyond Tarot. Some of the Tarot card apps have good guidance in them even if they don't belong to your particular decks.For size comparison I have put these cards with some of my others. Crow Tarot, RWS, Hanson Roberts, and Gypsy WItch Fortune Telling cards.What I like:Mine have a nice card stockSturdy box for storing the cardsLWB is a small book not a few pages stapled togetherEvery card has crows no people at allIt's a gender fluid deck in my opinionThis deck is neutral in that there's no age or race biasesWhat I don't particular like but is okay:The court cards especially the Queens and Kings is meh. Not a fan of the Queen and King of Wands. Both feature lions which is great but it look like the same image file was used and they just added an extra lion to one.The smell. My deck just had a stinky what I am guessing is ink ....maybe...it smells. It's not my first "stinky" deck. I just let them air out, add stronger smelling herbs to sit in an organza bag with them....star anise, clove, that sort of thing. I had a challenge on a few of the cards seeing what the number was, dark background, dark ink over it, so that was not something that I liked but I could handle.For shuffling:May be challenge for smaller hands or less agile hands. As mentioned before, wash shuffle or hand over hand if you canFor energy:I felt a positive energy with this deckFor how it reads:It reads very directly, not afraid to shake things up a bit, it has an it's for the better sort of feelAddressing some of the negative points of other people who have reviewed this deck:Some reviews did mention the size being comparable to an oracle size and I would agree with thatThe cards being distracting because of inconsistent scroll work, card colors. Personally I noticed but it didn't hold my focus.The smell but that can be worked withMy take on whether this is suitable for a beginner or not:No. I don't think this is a good first deck. I feel like it lacks some of the key symbolism the RWS gives you. Yes it is based off of the RWS style but that doesn't mean that it contains all of the visual cues the RWS has.Yes, for an intermediate to advance Reader.Regardless of whether you're a by the book Reader, an intuitive Reader, or a combination of the two you need to have a good connection to the cards. I have a family love for crows so this deck really was an instant hit for me. I have included a flip through video so you can get some idea of whether this is a deck for you or not.

I now have all 4 crow tarots Crow’s Magick, , Urban Crow, Murder of Crows Tarot, and this, Crow Tarot. (Plus, a Raven deck lol) The lidded box is thiq n lovely, the LWB is a real mini book, the card stock is nice, gloss is slippery. I hesitated buying this one because I dislike RWS decks, and this is certainly based on the artwork in the Rider Waite Smith deck, see pic of 5 of cups above. But the artwork is lovely, the colour palette is consistent. I read cards intuitively, so I personally find reading with RWS decks limiting as you’re getting a facsimile of a fax of a fax of a copy of a facsimile which will water down your reads. If this isn’t your opinion or you dig RWS for some reason (lol) the. You’ll love the deck. I don’t, but I DO Like this deck. It is a bit of an art grab but I copied enough of that deck to allow the meaning to be transferable. The artwork is far superior to the original RWS deck!! I’ll give it 5 stars

I use this deck in most of my readings, very good quality card stock. Hasn't crinkled or bent yet. Images are beautiful and easy to interpret intuitively. Guide book is easy to use and understand, gives both upright and reverse meanings.

I bought this deck because I love Crows and was attracted to the color palette of the images. The quality of the cardstock, box, book, etc. is great. I do love the artwork, but at first, I was like, "I don't get how this image conveys the meaning of this card." However, after sitting with them a while and really trying to tease out the symbolism of colors, objects, etc. I'm warming to being able to interpret the images intuitively. I wouldn't exactly say this is a "beginner deck," but it is certainly not inscrutable.

Succulent and juicy! I literally scream in delight when opening this deck