Surreal Cards

Tarot decks with surreal imagery.

Akron Tarot The Akron Tarot is a German set with 80 cards and a large 395 companion book. The surreal Tarot scenes depart from standard imagery and emphasise the female energies.

Bosch Tarots Strikingly vibrant, the Bosch Tarot deck depicts humans, monsters, and visions as Tarot cards. The art style is modelled on that of Dutch artist Hieronymous Bosch and has elements from his paintings. Fascinating.

Dali Universal Tarot Salavador Dali created a few of the 78 cards in the Dali Universal Tarot, which features collage-type paintings, made up of what looks like clip art coated with liberal amounts of gold ink.

Dante Tarot Inspired and directed by the life and works of the medieval Italian poet Dante, who is perhaps best known for his Divine Comedy. The Dante Tarot is a stunning and unique tarot deck that has tranformed the traditional tarot symbols.

Dreams Tarot The Dreams Tarot is an unpublished deck, based on dream imagery and illustrated in a surrealist, photo-collage style. The artist, Tamara, also created a 78-card Romanian-published deck called the Tarotul Visurilor.

Phantasmagoric Theater Tarot For some reason, the art in the Phantasmagoric Theater Tarot reminds me of Rugrats cartoons. It has slightly crazy and surreal tarot deck with a clashingly bright art style and symbols personal to the author.

Sakki-Sakki Tarot The Sakki-Sakki Tarot incorporates the structure and divinatory meanings of the traditional Rider-Waite-Smith deck, together with Astrology, the Kabbalah and personal symbolism. The deck has an extra card, The Artist, for our individual and collective creative journeys.

Tarocchi del Respiro The Tarocchi del Respiro is a majors-only art deck from Italy. The artwork is a darkish and surreal collage landscape, the uneven edges of the scene set inside thin white borders. Published in a limited edition of 500 copies.

Tarot Murciano El Tarot Murciano is Spanish published, 22 card tarot deck. The cards are very glossy on the top surface and painted in a surreal two dimensional style. An atypical collector's deck.

Tarot Mystique The Tarot Mystique has 22 major arcana cards of surreal imagery in strong colours. The deck, by Alexander Mourouzi, was published in 1983 in Switzerland.

Tarot of Metamorphosis Tarot of Metamorphosis illustrates the transformation of beings or objects into something else. The 78 cards are somewhat surreal and the art ranges from dreamlike fantasies to futuristic anime art.

Tarot of the Imagination The Tarot of the Imagination is a surreal tarot deck painted in fine oils. Its structure is that of a standard tarot deck, but its minor arcana images are very non-traditional in both symbol and meaning.