TrueBlack Tarot Deck (Arthur Wang)

I'd say, after using this deck, that this is a gorgeous art deck, and not really a reading deck. It was a labor of love and a Kickstarter project of Arthur Wang's, and you can read about it, and see more of the cards, here:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/61940810/true-black-the-tarot-deck

The Kickstarter is over, but you can still order the cards like I did--they ship fast and are presented in an admirable way:

I actually had some trouble photographing the deck--for one thing, the black is very black--a soft matte black, with the image and the Major Arcana having line decorations in shiny ink, like a fabric jacquard. Here's the box cover so you can see the contrast between matte and shiny:

This is a deck that you select your favorite cards from, and lay them out on your black slate coffee table with a few carefully chosen stones and then Instagram the whole thing :D Or set them up inside one of those brass-and-glass terrariums as a display piece and rotate them occasionally (a more practical way of displaying them, especially if you have pets). If you are a collector, this is a deck you need.

Now, the bad news for people who actually do readings with their decks. Wang carefully chose a heavy cardstock and that exquisite petal-like matte black--which means there is no shuffling this deck. Even my method of dealing the deck into piles and recombining them is difficult--the cards cling to themselves with the additional help of static electricity, and those little buggers Do Not Bend.
Also the thicker stock makes the deck very..tall. Or maybe thicc.

The paintings are gorgeous and all cards have images, not just pips or spots. For the Wands, it's actually a little hard to tell that they are wands on some of the cards--the imagery isn't the standard Waite/Coleman-Smith memes, and sometimes the wands are branches or whatnot, with another element being bigger. You can see that the names and numbers are just done as "shiny over matte", so you have to tilt the card to see them:

Going from left to right, that is the Seven of Cups, the World, and The Sun.

The Four of Pentacles, the Eight of Cups...

A very cool Emperor (you can actually see the name in this photo, after a lot of tilting on my part ;) )

And the Little White Book, (in this case the Little Black Book); which you will need since Wang has his own take on some of the cards.

 This is definitely a Fancy Deck, a beautiful deck, and a deck worth collecting as art-- but if you are going to pop up a card table on a streetcorner at a Faire, I'd say go with Miss Cleo's deck. It shuffles so well-- and if you lose a card, you can always order another Cleo deck for the price of a mug of beer.