Erenberg

Steve Erenberg was a professional artist and graphic designer and, per the archive, a colleague of Stuart R. Kaplan, who founded US Games Systems. That proximity to the industry's central publisher is the most interesting fact about the deck, and it frames it: a Rider-Waite-Smith variant made by someone who knew the machine that made Rider-Waite-Smith the default. Variants of the Smith images are the most crowded category in tarot, and the honest question for any of them is what the redraw earns. Here the answer is contemporary illustration and refinement rather than reinterpretation, so the symbolic content stays where you already know it. That is a legitimate goal and a modest one. It suits readers who want the familiar structure with cleaner draftsmanship, collectors tracing the US Games orbit, and anyone assembling a survey of Smith derivatives. Readers wanting the images actually reinterpreted should keep looking.