I’ll be honest, I almost scrolled past this one.
There are a lot of collage decks on Kickstarter right now, and not all of them hold up beyond the first glance. But The Faustina Tarot made me pause, then go back, then zoom in.
It’s all hand-cut. You can tell immediately. The edges are not trying to disappear. Layers sit on top of each other in a way that feels deliberate but not overworked. Some compositions are tight, others feel slightly off-balance, and that unevenness actually gives the deck its character.
The creator, TT, keeps the Rider–Waite–Smith structure, so you are not learning a new system from scratch. The familiar bones are there. But instead of clean, illustrative scenes, you are reading through fragments. A face cut from one source. A hand from another. Backgrounds that don’t fully agree with the foreground.
It changes how you read.
You don’t just recognise a card and move on. You have to look at how it’s been put together. Why something is slightly misaligned. Why one element feels heavier than the rest. It slows you down in a way that feels useful, especially if you tend to read on autopilot.
There’s also a certain restraint here. The deck doesn’t try to cram every inch with detail. Some cards leave space. Others lean into texture. It doesn’t feel like it’s trying to impress you. It feels like someone figuring things out through the act of making.
And that comes through quite strongly. You can imagine the process behind it. Cutting, rearranging, starting over. Deciding when to stop.
The campaign itself is pretty straightforward. A limited print run, focused on bringing this handmade style into a finished deck without losing what makes it feel tactile in the first place.
Support the project here from $65: Kickstarter | The Faustina Tarot by TT
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