Crow's Magick

Londa Marks made this deck in 1998 with computer-generated artwork, which places it at a genuine frontier: digital tarot before digital was respectable, machine-made mysticism a decade before tablets made the technique invisible. The archive's reviewer loved the artwork and warned about the keywords, two per card and cryptic enough to mislead, correctly concluding this is no beginner's deck despite the labels that usually signal one. The crow presides, trickster and omen-bird, and the digital rendering's slightly alien surfaces suit a corvid deck better than warmth would: the imagery reads as transmissions rather than illustrations. Early digital art has since acquired its own period charm, the way early synthesizers did, and the deck doubles as an artifact of that aesthetic moment. It suits crow people and corvid-deck collectors, readers who enjoy working past unhelpful keywords to their own meanings, and historians of tarot's first digital wave. Readers who need the printed words to help should heed the review's warning.