Cheap Tarot Deck
Tarot decks can be pricey.
How To Make a Tarot Deck With Two Decks of Playing Cards and a Permanent Marker
Tarot decks can be quite expensive. Regular playing cards, on the other hand, can be acquired at any gas station.
From one deck of cards:
- Write "0 / The Fool" on one of the two provided jokers.
- remove the other provided joker, and all "rules of draw & stud poker" style inserts.
From the other deck of cards
- Take the Queens, cross out the Qs, and write "P" nearby, to make Pages in each suit. (You may also consider drawing moustaches on them.)
- on 20 of the remaining cards, preferring cards with lots of space, cross out the suit and rank ("2 diamonds")
- Write in:
- I / The Magician
- II / The High Priestess
- III / The Empress
- IV / The Emperor
- V / The Hierophant
- VI / The Lovers
- VII / The Chariot
- VIII / Strength
- IX / The Hermit
- X / Wheel of Fortune
- XI / Justice
- XII / The Hanged Man
- XIII / Death
- XIV / Temperance
- XV / The Devil
- XVI / The Tower
- XVII / The Star
- XVIII / The Moon
- XIX / The Sun
- XX / Judgement
- XXI / The World
- Somewhere memorable, write: "Clubs -> Wands, Spades -> Swords, Hearts -> Cups, Diamonds -> Pentacles"
- Add the Pages and the newly created Major Arcana to the first deck. Remove the remaining cards.
- The final deck should have 78 cards in it.