Butler

First decks by working artists have a particular honesty: they are made for the maker. Chris Butler's tarot began as a personal working deck, fusing traditional imagery with digital technique, and its most instructive feature is a quiet heresy: Swords are assigned to fire and Wands to air, reversing the most common attribution. That swap is a live debate in tarot's history rather than an error, and Butler siding against the majority tells you the deck was reasoned, not assembled. Read it with that in mind. RWS fluency mostly transfers, but the elemental logic underneath runs on the minority current, so readers who work elementally get either friction or a useful jolt depending on temperament. It suits digital-art appreciators, students curious about the Swords-Wands controversy in practice, and collectors of personal decks that escaped into publication. Readers who want their attributions orthodox should know exactly what they are picking up.