At some point in life something’s got to give, so I don’t think I will use this deck very much, but I was browsing on Ebay and I came across a vintage Skat deck. I am sucker for vintage decks just as much as a hate the new ones more or less uniformly, plus I had just published my new article on reading this type of deck, so I took it as a sign and bought it. I love the papery texture of the cards. They probably wouldn’t survive aggressive use, but it will be enough to experiment with on occasion. Interestingly, if we take the King of Hearts to represent me and we use the meanings I received, this großes Blatt (grand tableau) describes my recent past quite accurately.

MQS