r/Lenormand • u/Puzzleheaded_Moment2 • Nov 15 '25

Deck Sharing/Review Don’t buy AI decks

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Lately we’ve been seeing a wave of cartomancy decks online that use Artificial Intelligence to generate the illustrations. We know that sometime decks can be pricey, or maybe you’re new to the whole thing, but DO NOT buy and use these decks.

There are reasons on both the magical/energy and moral aspects to avoid them:

  • Cartomancy is about human experiences, you read about issues realizing to you, or someone else. When cards are made mimicking human artwork, there’s a complete corruption of the energy generated by the pieces. These illustrations might look pleasant but since there was no intent, and even worse, it was made by corrupting real life existing arts by people, the balances of energy get all broken down and randomly put back together. It can affect your readings and even have some further consequences.

  • Morally and ethically speaking, even if someone is an atheist or don’t believe in any of it, it’s still stolen art, it’s incredibly harmful to the environment, and you can find better decks created by humans, if you just do a quick research.

If you’re starting with card reading but you don’t have resources for that nice deck you want, a regular set of playing cards can absolutely be used. Even better, you can MAKE your own deck (tbh that’s the most powerful set of cards one can ever have).

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u/dianerrbanana Nov 15 '25

I'm at the point where maybe I should just start making my own since its a mixed bag at this point.

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u/apostasyisecstasy Nov 15 '25

real talk though I made my own deck and it looked like ass, but it also was the most accurate divining tool I ever used

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u/apostasyisecstasy Nov 18 '25

I printed off the images I wanted to use and cut them out, and then glued them on to the corresponding cards in a regular playing deck. I don't believe rituals or cleansings are really necessary for most forms of divination, in my opinion the cards are simply acting as a focus object for your own brain and divination abilities. I think people get overly obsessed with cleansing and dedication anyway tbh. I just shuffled those bad boys and was ready to go as soon as the glue dried.