Deck Review: Otherworld Oracle

Laura and Sandra Caputo, Otherworld Oracle. Torino, Italy: 2024. ISBN: 9780738778747. (link to publisher) 

This is a colorful deck with a shamanic and dream world theme. The kit includes a small companion book and 40 cards. I first used this deck in August 2025 and kept it through September 2025. 

3-Empress. Archetype card

The companion book is a typical Lo Scarabeo book written in multiple languages. This one features text in English, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese. The book is 128 pages long; the English content is 40 pages long. The book includes the following: 

• Introduction. Very short author's note describing the deck's concept.
• The cards. Features a brief description of the deck's system. The deck has 22 Archetype cards and 18 Ally cards. We then get a short definition of what the archetype cards are and their card entries, short definition of the ally cards and their entries. The entries include a paragraph of interpretation. The archetype card entries add some keywords of "shadow aspects to consider." 
• How to use this deck. Five steps for using the deck. Authors offer a method where you draw an archetype card first, then draw an ally card to support the archetype.

The book overall is short with just the basics. The card entries are the core of the book. Can you read the cards without the book? Yes. These cards lend themselves to intuitive reading. However, I would still read the book to get the author's interpretations and insights along with my intuition. The book is mostly OK. 

The cards are very good, and the colorful, dreamlike art is a great reason to get this deck. The cards are colorful and expressive with a bit of an ethereal quality. The card art shows good attention to detail. For folks who do dream work, this may be a good option. It does feel like a night deck and a deck for the dark part of the year. I really like these cards, and I can see myself using them more down the road. 

The cards measure about 5 inches by 3 1/2 inches. The cards have a soft glossy finish. They shuffle with relative ease. The card art is borderless. The archetype cards have an Arabic numeral, and the ally cards have a Roman numeral. The card back art is reversible, though the cards are not really meant to be read in reversals. Card stock is nice, not too thick.

Overall, I really like this deck. It was a serendipity find, and I am glad I took the chance on it. The book is just basic but the cards and art are great. 

5 out of 5 stars, mainly for the cards. 

 

 

 

 

Kit qualifies for the following 2025 Reading Challenge: 

 

Note: images from publisher website.