Advaitarot

The Advaitarot ships in a plain cardboard box rather than the pouch or fabric wrap more common in tarot packaging, a practical detail the archive singles out. Jan Strube designed the deck with basic borders and a larger card format than most tarot decks use, part of a minimalist approach that carries through the whole German-made object. The cards are also non-reversible, one more sign that this deck was built around function rather than decoration. Plainness like this is a design decision, not an absence of one. Stripping away ornate borders and packaging puts the attention squarely on the central image, card after card, an argument in miniature about what a working deck actually needs. It suits readers who find heavily embellished decks distracting, and anyone who wants a plain, sturdy deck built for daily handling rather than display. Anyone drawn to tarot chiefly for its illustrative richness will find little of that richness here.