Everyman

John Mangiapane built this 2013 deck as, in his own framing, a tarot for men by a man, a male perspective on a practice whose modern imagery and market lean heavily female, and the archive's review comes, disarmingly, from a woman who took the premise seriously enough to evaluate it on its merits. That exchange is the deck's best introduction: the Everyman is not a grievance in card form but an attempt to give male experience the same specific, dignified representation dozens of decks give female experience. Across seventy-eight cards the male perspective functions the way any deck's perspective does, as a lens that fits some readers like their own eyes and shows others a view worth borrowing. It suits men who never saw themselves in the tradition's imagery, readers of any gender curious what the arcana look like from that angle, and collectors documenting tarot's representation conversations from all sides. Readers who want their decks perspective-neutral should look to the abstract shelf.