Alcohol

Created under the name The Drunken Prophet, this deck does not pretend to be anything but what its title promises: a British novelty tarot built around the fun, frivolity, and excess of drinking. It keeps the standard seventy-eight-card count. The archive notes its creators describe the project as restoring what they call the ancient link between alcohol and tarot, a cute framing device more than documented lineage, and readers should take it as the joke it is, not as tarot history. Novelty decks live or die on whether the joke sustains seventy-eight cards without going thin, and a theme this narrow, one beverage category spread across the entire major and minor arcana, is a real test of that. How the humor holds up card by card is another matter; the premise is committed to from the start. Buy this one for a laugh at a gathering of drinking friends, or skip it if you would rather keep your tarot practice separate from the bar cart.