What exactly is a Mortal Arcana deck?
Illustrated modern tarot. The flagship Modern Arcana is a full 78-card deck — twenty-two major archetypes for the way we live now plus the 56 universal minors. The themed decks (nurse, teacher, IT, realtor, dating, and more) are 22-card major-arcana decks, each with a real upright and reversed reading written for every card.
Physical or digital — what are my options?
Physical — printed to order in the US for $34.99, free US shipping. No warehouse, no leftover stock: your deck is printed because you asked for it. Digital — pay-what-you-want downloads to print at home or keep on your phone. Ordering opens very soon; reserve a deck and you’ll be first to know.
When will my deck ship?
Each deck is printed to order, so allow printing time plus transit — you get an email the moment it goes to press and again when it ships. Change your mind before it ships and that money stays yours — the fine print lives in the terms.
Is the art AI-generated?
Yes — openly. Every card is rendered locally on one desktop GPU with a style model we trained, then curated, corrected, and re-rolled by hand until it passes review. The whole story — and the full energy receipt, drafts included — is on AI & Energy and the AI disclosure page.
Is this real tarot? Can I actually read with it?
Every card maps to a classical arcanum — The Quiet Fix stands in the place of The High Priestess — so any spread you already know works. Start with how to read, or pull today’s card on the daily read. It is also, deliberately, entertainment: it punches up at the systems and the feeds, never down at people.
Who makes this?
A very small team in Louisiana — one writer-curator, one machine that does what it’s told, and a review process stricter than either of them.