LifeDeck of Kelcross

Serge Gagnon's vision of the Magical Realms of Kelcross took five artists to card: Jordan Cameron, Chelsea Ferguson, Ashley Heukshorst, Michelle MacCullum and Courtney MacKay dividing the seventy-eight cards of a fantasy world built to hold a tarot, worldbuilding and deck design as one project. Where the Harrow adapts a game's existing world, the LifeDeck builds its realm for the deck's sake, the elemental lands of Kelcross structured to make the suits geographic. Collaborative fantasy decks of this kind sit between the art collective and the game supplement: coherent enough for reading, gameable enough for tables, the world's lore doing the companion book's work. The six-name credit block documents indie fantasy's workshop economics. It suits fantasy readers who want their deck to come with a map, gaming tables adopting a reading deck, collaborative-project collectors, and worldbuilders studying the deck-as-setting form. The single-world elegance of it answers the 78 Project's chorus: here, many hands, one realm.