Tarot of Fantastic Shoes by Osvaldo Menegazzi   This deck was a lot of fun to review.  It is a majors-only art collectible presented by Osvaldo Menegazzi, quite possibly the world's most prolific tarot artist and designer.  His Tarot of Fantastic Shoes is graceful in design, light and fun while retaining a sense of intuitiveness that I liked a lot more than I anticipated.  If you think about each shoe, it does indeed portray a kind of least-common-denomenator impression of the card's meaning.   The cards come packaged in a little rigid cardboard slip-sleeve with a second cardboard wrap inside it, which ends up wrapping all four sides when the two are put together.  The copy I had for review is a signed, numbered, limited edition, which was how this deck was marketed.  I don't believe it is in print currently but it may still be available in collector's markets.   The cards themselves are printed on a very stiff card stock, made more for looking at than for shuffling.  It would crease very easily and I imagine greasy fingerprints would soak through it relatively easily, so care must be taken in handling these cards.  Of course, as a collectible, one would hope they would be handled carefully!   There are no suits or court cards since this is a Majors-only deck.  All the cards have a consistent theme of displaying ONE shoe which is the central focus of the card, with a background which stays the same throughout all 22 cards.   All in all, I highly recommend this deck for anyone who is a collector of tarot, especially the weird and unusual decks, for which this deck definitely qualifies.  It's one of the best ones I've seen in a while.   Click here for pictures   or here to return   Please use your browser's back button to return from pictures   Review Copyright 1998 by Gina M. Pace