I finally got around to reading the guidebook that comes with the deck and I have to say it's the best tarot text in my house right now (Beating even Kitchen Table Tarot). Whoever wrote it did a great job of making the descriptions of the cards easily relatable and succinct.
A word from Anthony, the author:I cannot even begin to express how much it meant to me to read this. I learned tarot on a fandom deck myself - the metaphors drawn from a work of fiction I knew like the back of my hand helped me remember and truly understand the meanings of the cards in a way that just rote memorization couldn’t ever match.Tarot is a lot like Shakespeare - in that, at its origin it was made to be accessible for the common folk, but over time pretentious people claimed it as their own, and now it’s this huge muddied mess. Older tarot decks like the Rider-Waite draw imagery from the Catholic church and other common cultural images and were, at the time, drawn in a way that someone illiterate could use them just by looking at the images. The idea of needing an elaborate guidebook full of annotations in order to read tarot is actually a fairly modern phenomenon.A lot of traditionalists might turn their noses up at the notion of a fandom tarot, but what I’ve tried very hard to achieve with the decks I’ve written for with CTT is to translate the craft through a modern lens and bring it back around to that same level of accessible, understandable visual metaphor for a modern practitioner.All of this is a very long-winded way to say that I tried very hard to make it so that someone who knew absolutely nothing about tarot, (but had a passable understanding of Overwatch lore,) could still almost flawlessly grasp the concepts of the cards. I wrote the guidebook with the hopes that it might only have to be relied on for a little bit before the user would be able to recall the information just from the images on the cards themselves.
