Darkana Tarot

The Darkana Tarot deck is a post-modern grunge style black and white tarot deck. It was released in 2012 to a successful crowdfunding campaign by its artist, Janden Hale.

The Darkana tarot deck won the 2012 Pecto Award for Outstanding First Work of an Illustrator. and won the Tarosophists Award for best self-published tarot deck of 2012. The deck has also been voted as one of the "Top 50 Essential Tarot Decks" by a group of over 13,000 people.

Features
The deck is comprised of 79 cards instead of the standard 78, the extra card being The Badass. It also departs from traditional convention in that Strength is called Fortitude and Judgement is called Prudence. This was done to better emphasize the presence of the four Cardinal Virtues.

The deck features 22 total Major Arcana Trump cards and four suits: swords, wands, cups, and pentacles. The court cards for each suit are pages, knights, queens, and kings.

Editions

 * 1st Edition - the original deck from the Kickstarter release. Featured 100% recycled material and a Jack Daniels style box. Smaller cards than standard tarot. No booklet. Only 500 in existence.
 * 2nd Edition - redone in standard tarot size. Features newly designed box art and now comes with a booklet. Currently available through The Game Crafter.

Expansions
The Darkana is also the first tarot deck to ever use expansion packs to make it more like a LCG (living card game). Alternate cards are available in booster packs of 10 cards to allow readers and collectors the ability to pick their favored art for their decks. The first expansion is Ambition; each one will be named for a different virtue, as virtues are a major theme in the deck.

Current Expansions

 * Ambition

In Popular Culture

 * The Darkana deck was the subject of a collection of themed short stories on Thunderdome Magazine from June–July 2012.
 * Several cards from the deck are prominently featured in the movie Sweet Leaf, directed by Julian Grant.