There are decks that are generated and then there are decks that are made. Every deck we carry is the second kind.
Every tarot deck in our shop was made by a named human artist. Each of them drew, painted, photographed or assembled the cards themselves and each has told us that no AI image generation was used. We asked every creator directly and every one of them gave us the same answer.
This matters more in tarot than it might elsewhere. A deck is not a collection of pictures. It is a visual language you return to for years and every flower, gesture and shadow was placed there by someone who meant it. Knowing that a person made those choices changes how the cards speak to you. This is not a quarrel with technology. It is a preference for knowing who stands behind the cards you read with.
No AI does not mean no screens. Some of our artists paint in acrylic, some assemble collage by hand and some stage and photograph every card. One illustrates by hand and renders the finished cards digitally. What they share is that every mark was a person's decision.
If you are choosing a deck from somewhere else, there is no single test that works every time. Ask who made it and how. A maker who is proud of the work will usually be glad to tell you and will often share sketches, work in progress or the story of the years it took. Be wary of a deck with no named artist, no account of its making and a price that seems too good to be true. We have written more on this, and the links at the foot of this page will take you there.
Below is every creator we carry and how their cards were made. Each name is a person you can read about.
Fanny Wuyts & Bridge BerneCosmosis Tarot Deck£65Fanny drew all 78 cards over five years with no AI and Bridge wrote the guidebook. It keeps the traditional structure, which makes it an easy first indie deck.
J. Edward NeillDark Fantasy Tarot Deck£60J. Edward Neill's cards come from his original acrylic paintings, with a 177-page guidebook of his own interpretation beside them.
Pre-orderJames R. EadsPrisma Visions Tarot£49James R. Eads paints the Visions line, from the Prisma Visions Tarot to the lenticular Mirra Visions and the Oracle of Many Paths.
Nicky FerradaThe Shadows We Cast Tarot Deck£45Nicky illustrated all 79 cards by hand and rendered them digitally in Photoshop. No artificial intelligence was used, in the tarot or in her Remembering affirmation deck.
Rae Serafina BarkerRooted Remembrance Tarot Deck£67.50Rae makes every card herself in hand-layered collage, across her tarot and two oracles.
Danielle NoelThe Moonchild Tarot Deck£60Danielle Noel assembles each of her 81 cards by hand, in two editions of the Moonchild Tarot.
ST SOLEILLucid Dreams Beginners Tarot Deck£55ST SOLEIL's collage was made by hand in 2016, before AI image generation existed.
Eugene Vinitski and Elsa KhapatnukovskiLiber Somnia£105Eugene draws and Elsa writes. Each of their limited editions is hand-drawn and comes with its own book.
Nicolas BrunoThe Somnia Tarot Deck£57Nicolas Bruno staged and shot every card himself, drawing on the sleep paralysis he has lived with since his teens and the dream journals he kept through it.
Anastasia DyshlovenkoAmber Tarot Deck by Life Spirit Team£70Life Spirit Team staged the Rider-Waite-Smith deck with real people, costumes and sets and shot it on film, with no AI or Photoshop.
Worth reading alongside these: why we champion independent creators, how to spot a fake tarot deck, what indie tarot means. Looking for something else? tarot decks for beginners, shadow work and dark tarot decks, dream and psychological tarot decks, indie oracle decks, tarot and oracle decks for meditation and mindfulness, indie tarot decks uk. Or see the full collection of indie tarot decks, every one of them stocked and shipped from the UK.
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