The Zerner/Farber Tarot

One of my best art decks which ALSO has incredible card stock ina dimunitive size and the guidebook is VERY good. I'm a reader and I've been doing Tarot for years. I will find only maybe 1 in 10 guidebooks helpful and this is one of them Every single one of these cards is a joy to look at. Feels like a little treasure

I love the art and the cards rock quality but I wish the card size was slightly bigger so we could see the beautiful details. But the gilding and the purple backs are gorgeous. Great deck! Now I want to invest in more art by Amy Zerner.

The cards are gorgeous and the book is very informative. I love that it’s a husband/wife duo who created it. You can really hear the love he has for his wife when reading it.

These have always been my favorite tarot set . So 10/10 always! They are gorgeous. Colors are beautiful and the book is very informative.

Love the nostalgic, a bit whimsical collage designs of the cards. The cards are slightly narrowed and smaller than those of standard RWS. But they shuffle well in my opinion. The guide book is adequately informative, and a storage box with magnetic closure is always welcomed. I'd happily use it for self-reflection on relationships. The general quality of the whole package was a bit disappointing though, as seen in the photos. On arrival, the package has shrink plastic wrap allover, so I assumed the set that I received was brand new. However, the cardstock bumper inside the box was found torn when opened, as shown in the photo. The cards have a plastic sleeve for holding them in a pile. After unboxing, some of the cards were found to have creases, as shown in the other photo. There were minor color bleed around the card edges. As the cards had a plastic sleeve protecting them inside the box, I think the creases and color bleeding were from production errors rather than shipping damages. There were duplicated cards from the suite of pentacles. But the overall number of cards was right and made a complete set. I am keeping this purchase only because of the card designs and the guide book. But I have to say the whole set was poorly made indeed. I hope the publisher would improve in future production.

I did not have any of the issues that another reviewer had…my cards are gorgeous!! These are absolutely on par with well printed indie decks. The card stock is a lovely smooth matte, and the gilding is matte as well and not one of my cards were stuck together. The cards are the same width as the original deck, but slightly taller. Still a small deck when compared to a standard tarot deck…I used a Fantastical Creatures card to show the size difference. And the new backs are a lovely dusty purple with a much less intrusive Z design. The original magenta and white combo was a bit harsh. To be honest, I am finding that as I get older tarot reading is no longer just what images are on the cards. It’s how the cards feel and how well they shuffle. With the gazillion choices available today, I’m just not going to pick up a deck with awful card stock that hurts my hands to rifle, or that is so flimsy the cards are always in danger of tears and bends. I have an original edition of this deck and that is what I compared it to in the photos. The original had papery thin card stock, so light the cards won’t even lay flat. And you can see the new printing has better color saturation…just beautiful. This deck is everything I didn’t even know I wanted. The enchanted tarot, in all editions, is so big. The original Zerner Farber was so cheaply made. This deck is just right…feels so beautiful and sturdy in the hand, is small and beautifully printed, shuffles well right out of the gate but will continue to get smoother and softer the more it is worked with. Yes, this is definitely The One of this dynamic duo’s decks that will stay out on my tarot table. Finally a beautiful and useable printing…exactly what art this spectacular deserves. I will be grabbing a copy for my daughters.

I don't know which I love the best... the cards or the guide book! The size of the cards surprised me but my hands simply loved them... perfect for jumpers. I consider this whole package a treasure. Very well done and just beautiful.

Everything in this set is of poor quality. Yes, the cards are slightly thicker than, for instance, “The Instant Tarot Reader” set, and slightly taller…the width is the same. “Instant…” is published by St. Martins Press; this newer version, simply called “The Zerner Farber Tarot, Guidebook and Cards Set” is published by REDfeather Publishing, although the name of the publisher is nowhere to be found on the box, either front, side, or back, or underneath. There is a redfeather symbol in yellow on the side of the box, which looks like a small “fire”, sitting atop of an “infinity” symbol (on its side) as a “log”. Other than that symbol, there is nothing…no publisher’s name. There’s a photo of an ISBN tag on the bottom with the retail (full) price, and “Printed in China” under that. Nothing on the back at all, other than photos and info about what is inside the box. The box is mat paper covered cardboard, with a magnetic closure, but no kind of coating on it to make it heavier and more resistant to wear or banging corners. Inside the box, there’s a 239 page guidebook, with a color print on the left side of the page for each card, keywords directly under the title. On the right side of the page is an upright quick read, which consists of two short paragraphs, and a “secret”, which consists of 3 lines. Then, under this, is a reversed quick read, 2 paragraphs, and a “secret” of 3 lines. There is no other card description given for those who don’t want a “quick read”….a “quick read” is all you get, whether you wanted it to be quick or not! This is the format for all cards: an upper half page for upright meaning and a lower half page (the same page as upright) for reversed, with the color print of the card, along with keywords to the left. There is a contents page with intro, as well as 12 different suggested layouts (each with a sample reading) in the back, along with a brief “about the authors” page (3 paragraphs), and an author’s printed color photo to the left of that. The book is a paperback and has a mat finish. The cards are very light cardboard paper, and are mat and easy to bend and possibly damage. The cards already had a slight bend to them, which I attempted to bend back….they have a dull yellowish gold “guilding” around the outside of the deck. The guilding is very thin and mat: so much so that I wasn’t completely sure the deck was guilded at all and had to look very carefully. The cards are slightly thicker than the previous “Instant Tarot Reader” deck that Zerner and Farber put out earlier by St. Martin’s Press, and, as mentioned, slightly taller. Yes, the backs of these cards are purple, rather than the more magenta color of the St. Martin’s set, but both decks are the same width, which makes these cards rather odd sized, imo. The cards came with a clear plastic band around the center, but like the St. Martin’s set, are only held in place by a cheap piece of raised cardboard with a hole in the center (where you drop in the cards). The cards can slip through the underside, and they definitely do not fit deep enough into the space, so are slightly taller than the cardboard holder, which means they can and do slide around inside the box. The book does sit on top of the cards, but the weight of the book is not enough to keep the cards in place….a really poor and inadequate holder for the cards. All of the materials used for this set are cheap, compared to Llewelyn card sets, which have much higher quality outside boxes and cardstock, and are much nicer and better done. There is also no ribbon inside either the card compartment or the box itself, to allow for easier lifting of the cards or the book. Truly, the overall quality of this boxed set is not good, and nowhere near as good, as the Llewelyn sets, and the price of this boxed set is still $25, which is not inexpensive. I am very disappointed with this set, overall. The color saturation of the cards is not that good either, even as compared to the prints of each card in the book, and definitely not even close to the saturation of the card prints on the outside of the box! The holder for the cards is abysmal and inadequate. There is no excuse for allowing the cards to slide around inside the box/underneath the book. The cards aren’t even made well enough to do so, nor should they ever do so. I don’t know what to do about this set, as there are currently not many options for this particular Zerner/Farber deck or sets: just a deck with a small booklet from 1999 which is ridiculously priced (cheapest at $120), and the “30th Anniversary Set”, which actually says “25th Anniversary Set” on the box from 2017 which has poor quality card stock, huge cards, and is around $25 (the best thing about this set is the velvet bag), and this one. Seriously, I wish Zerner and Farber would make a good quality deck (nice saturated colors) set from a better publisher (like Llewelyn), with a better box and holder for the cards that actually holds them. A satin ribbon and nice velvet bag would also be nice. This deck is such a beautiful deck. It deserves to be made from much better quality materials, have a good quality card holder, and be sold with a nice, color guidebook in a nicer and better protective box. I wish they would stop taking the cheapest available option(s). It really stinks, and it’s annoying as all get out to me, and I’m sure, lots of other people as well, so just “stop it!”, already!

とても綺麗な状態で届きました。ありがとうございました。 Red Featherのタロットにして箱が大きくて驚きました。But, Llewellynのカードの箱とどっこいどっこいのサイズです。ガイドブック（英語）も心配していたほど大きくなく（これもLlewellynサイズ）書かれている説明は、著者に話しかけられてる感じの本で怖い意味は書かれていません。カード自体は、スタンダードのタロットカードより小さく、マットな金エッジングが施されていて、最初は気を付けながら一枚ずつ剥がしていった方がいいかもしれません（2枚ずつ位に引っ付いている感じ）。バッキングは紫ですが、カードを剥がしていく際にほんの少し傷がついて白くなりがちですので、勢い良く”エイヤ！”と剥がさないほうがいいと思います。カードストックは薄い方ですが、riffle shuffuleするには硬い感じで、オーバーハンドでした方がいいかもしれません。長い間、購入するか否か迷っていましたが、買ってよかったです。

Em geral prefiro tarôs com imagens mais "limpas", em que se percebe a simbologia com mais rapidez e que proporcionam uma visão geral da tiragem com mais facilidade. No entanto, não resisti a este tarô que traz imagens de painéis criados um a um por uma artista de mixed media. É um trabalho único e valioso! Fisicamente, gostei muito do tamanho e da sensação deste baralho: acho as cartas menores mais fáceis de manusear e ocupam menos espaço na mesa. Elas também são mais grossas do que o padrão, como mostra uma das fotos que estou compartilhando (o baralho vermelho ao lado é o Old English Tarot da US Games). O toque das cartas é fosco, semelhante por exemplo ao pocket Wild Unknown ou ao Weiser Tarot, porém elas me parecem mais firmes. Achei muito gostoso de manusear e embaralhar. O gilding é um dos melhores que já vi: dourado no ponto certo, sem parecer artificialmente alaranjado ou exagerado. O livro é um primor: papel e impressão de boa qualidade, imagens coloridas e descrições que me agradaram muito: o texto consegue ser sucinto sem perder em conteúdo. Depois de um tempo lendo sobre tarô fica cansativo ler descrições e mais descrições de um novo autor, mas neste caso achei que vale a pena. Ainda não li sobre todas as cartas, mas o que li até agora acrescentou ao que eu já sabia. Fiz uma primeira leitura para mim mesma e o resultado foi impressionante. Boa energia, boa conexão. Pontos negativos (mas não o bastante para prejudicar minha avaliação): há realmente algumas cartas ligeiramente descentralizadas; e a impressão, embora boa e nítida, não é das melhores que já vi. Diversas imagens podiam ser um pouco mais claras. Mas vale lembrar que este deck não utiliza artes feitas em computador ou desenhadas/pintadas: são fotografias de painéis artísticos. Nunca vai ser a mesma coisa que um Light Seer's ou os desenhos da Pamela Colman Smith. Eu amei e estou feliz com a compra! Especialmente porque paguei 180 reais e no momento ele está custando 350. Uma dica: Salve os decks que deseja ter na sua wishlist e seja paciente: os preços flutuam MUITO (verifique todo dia), e uma hora você consegue comprá-los por preços super vantajosos.

Absolutely beautiful cards

Have been waiting for this to be released, only to be disappointed. It wouldn’t have been an issue for me if it was only a card or two but a handful of them raised the question of no proper screening or quality control? For the price point not worth it. I only took four pictures & that’s not it.🫠

Excelente producto.