Ever looked at your stack of decks and thought, “If only I could mix this Fool with that Death card”? Congratulations - you might be a Magpie reader.
A Magpie deck is a Franken-tarot of your own making: a working deck cobbled together from multiple others. Some readers do this for aesthetic reasons (“the Moon from this deck is perfect”), others for energy (“this Queen of Swords reads better than any other”). Some people build them just because it’s fun to play tarot mix-and-match.
There’s no wrong way to magpie, though there are a few practical considerations: keep the card sizes compatible, watch out for wildly different backs if reversals matter to you, and try a few test readings before you commit to your magpie masterpiece.
The results can be gloriously mismatched or surprisingly cohesive - and either way, utterly unique.
Would you ever read with a deck built from all your favourites, or does the idea make your inner perfectionist twitch?
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