Fantastical Creatures Tarot by D.J. Conway & Lisa Hunt

Legend's full bestiary. Mythic beings from world tradition assigned across the 78 cards, each creature carrying its card's archetype.

Lisa Hunt's artwork. Dramatic, gold-toned paintings from one of tarot's most beloved fantasy artists.

78-page instruction booklet. Conway's interpretations and practical spreads guiding every reading.

• Contents: 78-card tarot deck, 78-page instruction booklet
• Author: D.J. Conway; artwork: Lisa Hunt
• Card size: 2.8" x 4.9"
• Publisher: U.S. Games Systems, Inc.
• SKU: DFANCRE

D.J. Conway spent a prolific career at the crossroads of mythology and practice, and this deck is her thesis in card form: the world's legendary creatures are archetypes with millennia of tenure, dragons carrying power and guardianship, unicorns purity and rare grace, the phoenix its unmatched brief on death and renewal, and mapping them onto tarot's structure lets each card speak in a voice the subconscious already knows. Hunt's gold-warmed paintings deliver the bestiary with the drama it deserves, and the pairing became one of U.S. Games' enduring fantasy titles.

As a working deck it reads with mythic amplification: standard tarot structure underneath, so trained reading transfers directly, while the creature imagery gives intuition larger handles than pips ever offer, which suits readers who think in story and querents who freeze at abstraction. It converses naturally with Hunt's other work on our shelf, her Fairy Tale Tarot most of all, and with any practice that keeps one foot in the old legends.

1. Read by any standard tarot method; the traditional structure carries beneath the bestiary.
2. Meet the creatures through the booklet before first readings; Conway's assignments reward it.
3. Let the beings amplify intuition; a dragon says what a pip card whispers.
4. Use it for mythically minded querents; the imagery meets them halfway.
5. Journal recurring creatures; the bestiary tracks a season's themes vividly.

Read it beside the old myths now and then. The deck's whole faculty came from that library.

• Fairy Tale Tarot by Lisa Hunt: the artist's own story-built deck beside her bestiary.
• Dragon Tarot by Donaldson & Pracownik: the single-creature deep dive for the deck's most famous resident.
• Faery Forest Oracle by Lucy Cavendish: the otherworld's court in oracle form.
• Easy Tarot: New Edition by Ellershaw & Marchetti: the fundamentals course this deck rewards.
• Fire Dragon Poster, 8.5" x 11": the reading room's guardian in the deck's own register.

Is it a standard tarot?

Yes: full 78-card structure beneath the creature imagery, so any tarot training reads it directly.

What creatures appear?

World legend's menagerie, dragons, unicorns, phoenixes, and their kin, each assigned by Conway to the card whose archetype it carries.

Who made the art?

Lisa Hunt, one of fantasy tarot's most collected painters, in the deck's signature dramatic gold tones.

Who is it for?

Mythically minded readers, fantasy art collectors, and querents who understand stories faster than symbols.

What size are the cards?

2.8" x 4.9", a comfortable working size with a 78-page booklet in the box.