Novelty Cards

Novelty Tarot cards and decks with humourous, fun or light-hearted themes.

Alcohol Tarot An amusing English tarot deck paying homage to all aspects of drinking. Beginning with The Drunken Fool, the majors of the Alcohol Tarot cover beer, spirits, wine, pubs, raucous ladies, even the dreaded morning after, in true-to-life photographic style.

Chat du Marseille Tarot The Chat du Marseilles Tarot is a trumps-only deck drawn in French style, based on the 1761 Conver Marseilles. It's quite traditional but for one thing - instead of humans, there are cats!

Cyburrealism Tarot The Cyberrealism Tarot is a wacky, edgy Tarot with surrealist watercolours and digital images combined. The deck is loosely based on Tarot and has six extra major arcana cards, and is to published in a limited edition of 500 decks.

Epicurean Tarot The Epicurean Tarot matches cooking and Tarot in its 78 recipe cards. Each card has an American-style recipe, an image from the Universal Waite Tarot, and a small blurb about its traditional meaning.

Ferret Tarot The Ferret Tarot is an amusing, unique and readable Tarot focusing on the perspective and life of the ferret. The symbolism of the 78 cards is loosely based on the Rider-Waite. Printed in black and white on non-laminated card.

Get Some Therapy Cards The Get Some Therapy Cards are a simple, hilarious and painfully honest - even brutal - set of 70 oracular advice cards. In the words of the creator, find out 'what your therapist is really thinking!'.

Glow in the Dark Tarot The black and white images are standard Rider-Waite... but with one very special feature. The Glow in the Dark Tarot cards glow that unearthly pale green for a few minutes after being exposed to bright light.

Gummy Bear Tarot The Gummy Bear Tarot has cards in Rider-Waite style, featuring those chewy lollies, Gummibears. The deck was originally published in German as the Gummibear Tarot, but the English version has been released in 2005 by US Games.

Halloween Tarot A fun Rider-Waite-based Tarot deck in the theme of the American Halloween holiday. The Halloween Tarot is done in lots of black and orange, vampires, skeletons, bats and jack o' lanterns abound. Frankenstein makes an unusual Emperor.

International Icon Tarot The International Icon Tarot is a reworking of the Rider-Waite images, applicable to a universal audience by using simple iconic signs with neutral, faceless figures without sex or race. A modern classic (with the addition of The Happy Squirrel card).

Linweave Tarot The Linweave Tarot is a 42 card deck printed in 1967 to promote a range of Linweave brand papers produced by the publishers. The huge - over 15cm by 22cm - cards were created by several artists and include only the majors, court cards and the Aces.

Miss Cleo's Tarot Power Miss Cleo's Tarot Power was a 78 card deck designed for the 'psychic' reader of the same name. Artwork and symbolism are very average.

Movie Monster Tarot The Movie Monster Tarot is a fun deck of 23 cards, featuring well-known monsters and horror movie stars like Frankenstein, Elvira, Freddy Krueger, Dracula and more.

Original Dog Tarot The Original Dog Tarot is a light-hearted tarot-inspired oracle, with 'Major Barkana' and 'Minor Barkana' cards. It's designed specifically for divining the canine mind.

Rock & Roll Tarot The Rock &am; Roll Tarot is a groovy deck featuring a digital collage of popular musicians and rock stars of the fifties, sixties, seventies, eighties and nineties - Elvis is the Emperor, Madonna is the Libido card. The popular deck was published in two editions of 500 copies in 2000 and 2002, and the second edition has extra 'alternate' cards.

Silicon Valley Tarot The tarot deck for the employed computer nerd. The Silicon Valley Tarot art is a little roughly drawn, but the symbology is perfect. The Spam card certainly strikes a chord.

Stick Figure Tarot The Stick Figure Tarot is a wonderful humourous deck, using all the essential Tarot symbology and artwork hand-drawn in black on white. Minimalistic tarot at its finest, but now unfortunately out of print.

TaRat The TaRat is a cute miniature novelty deck, painted in watercolour, that features white rats as the tarot characters. It's in similar style to Nakisha's previous deck, the Rabbit Tarot. Originally designed as a mini deck, it's now available as a full size deck with color backs.

Tarot 3D The Tarot 3D is the first of its kind, a tarot deck with a three-dimensional effect to its cards. The 22 larger sized cards have images from the Pictorial Key Tarot. Due out in mid-2013 from Lo Scarabeo.

Tarot Giguil The Tarot Giguil is a fun miniature deck from Lynyrd Narciso. Similar in size to the Tarot Parac, it's different in feel with a cute, retro vibe to the cards. Giguil is a Filipino word that very roughly translates as 'squee'!

Tarot Mondo Lirondo The Tarot Mondo Lirondo has 22 cute, playing-card size cards. The card art features hand-drawn stick-figures, and each of the majors is printed in a different colour. The title, 'Mondo Lirondo' is a play on a Spanish saying.

Tarot Tags The Tarot Tags are major arcana tarot images that started as a deck and have been made into jewellery. Kathleen King's original, diverse, full-colour Tarot scenes have been stamped onto stainless steel dog tags that can be worn on a necklace.

Transparent Tarot A stunning innovation in the world of Tarot, the Transparent Tarot uses clear sheets with symbolic elements that can be combined in layers, to make combined pictures and meanings. The full deck of 78 transparent cards is now out from Schiffer Books.

Universal Transparent Tarot The Universal Transparent Tarot uses images from the Universal Tarot in an innovative way - by making a part of the card transparent, and so allowing up to six cards to layer together into a mosaic. It's similar to the Transparent Tarot but uses more standard tarot imagery.