Atleier Iris: Eternal Mana
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So I got this game last christmas since I loved the screenshots and heard that it's based on alchemy. The game starts off with an amazing CGI scene with phenomenal music. The battle system is quite easy is to follow except you have a lack of HP. I like the idea of using mana synthesis to create more duplicates of items such as a heal jar, to heal your HP when your running out. As well as using your mase to turn an object like a barrel to a certain element to use to create more and more duplicates of items. The only problem is that you can only create 9 items for each instead of more. I love the animations, as well as the character sprites which reminds me of the good ol times when RPG's first came out. Anyway this was a pretty underated game from an underated company.
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I got the Tarot of the Sidhe as one of my latest deck in my tarot collection. It is a faery/fae or more specifically a Shide theme based tarot deck. Firstly Schiffer publishing has done a wonderful job in getting this published. The cards are large measuring roughly 3.5 inches wide by 5.5 inches tall with black borders. The backs has a large faery glyph which is not reversable. It comes with a little guide book which explains the majors very well and with brief key words for the minors. The card stock is excellent and thick and comes with a nice sturdy box to store your cards.

The cards themselves are really beautiful. The images are stunning, and highly symbolic, they are roughly based on the Raider Waite style. The colours are rich and vibrant. The deck is indeed unique. It allows one to open themselves up to new possibilities/ avenues and also to harness their intuition when doing readings. It really is a beautiful and breathtaking tarot deck with 78 stunning artwork. Many of the illustratins are unique and wondeful to look at. My favorite card would have to be the Sun as pictured in the front box cover. There are just to many unique and wonderful illustrations to pick from hence I highly recommend this deck for those who are in to Emily Carding's innovative artwork or to anyone who is looking to work with the Sidhe.
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This is a quality hardbound blank book with ivory pages. This is one of various cover designs that publishers Abyss Distribution produced, beginning about 2000. The book is primarily intended for recording personal rituals, spellwork, and other magical workings that an individual or "coven" might want to document. The quality is archival and suitable for presentation.

The cover art is hot embossed gold, this volume being one of the Goddess Diana, probably a favorite for Dianic and Dianic Feminist traditions.  Cover art is the kneeling Goddess drawing her bow- wolf at her side, encircled, partly within stretched wings of an owl or wren (sacred symbol).  The iconic image spans more than half of the cover. There is a small similar stamp on the spine.

I obtained copies of this book as well as the various wiccan and egyptian versions because I believe the quality ensures a lasting record, when using the best quality archival inks. I particularly like the egyptian cover art: Goddess Maat, God Thoth, the Eye of Ra, and the Ankh. There are also covers with a Triple Moon symbol, a Triquetra, or a Pentacle, all well done and repeated on the spine.

Because this book is solidly bound blank pages, it requires some pre-planning before beginning to record your information. You will get the best use out of this book if you take time to divide it initially by topics you plan to write about or record. I recommend taking time to insert loose pages to section the book, as best you can to give it some index for the eventual content. Basic indexing will make your project easier to reference when filled, and more appreciated by others who may someday peruse your Book of Shadows.

I recommend these books, though they are increasingly very difficult to obtain, and none have been reprinted to date.
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A spiritual pathway is shown to us by Orion Foxwood a well renowned Faery seer who has drunk from many a well of wisdom. The path to enlightenment lies within, as does your journey through the tree of enchantment. Before you begin your journey you must first have self understanding. You have three different souls and one spirit. Your consciousness is able to move from one to the other, with proper training. The first soul is your surface walker. This is your everyday body that roams the planet earth. Your dream walker is the being that walks beneath in the underworld. It is very emotional and corresponds to water and oceans. Your Star Walker is your higher self the one that roams about in the Astral realms.

Your journey begins with the realization that although you have freewill you are really connected to everything on this planet. The Division of separation is just an illusion. You start with your ancestors. You contact and work with your ancestors by setting up an altar for them and an ancestor pot. You make daily food contribution of the food and drink they enjoyed in this world. Your objective is to reach the River of Blood. It is at the River of blood that you heal your ancestors and get guidance from them. They can also protect. Sometimes there is a melancholy as you feel their sorrow but on the other bank which is the Bank of Truth. You will travel down the River of Blood and contact the Supernal Ancestor of Man. It is both male and female and lives on an island of bones. It has a silver object for you. This reconnects you to mankind.

Your next destination in the Guardians and this is a horned god who is in charge of nature and maintains the laws. He is also the one who guards the way to the weaver who is in charge of generation, destruction and regeneration. Creation and destruction on our planet through the three threads she weaves. Both of these divine beings are attended by other beings. The guardian is enthroned by representative of thee four elements. The weaver is attended by three women of fate and sometimes washer women. Faery women that cleanse you before meeting the weaver. Meeting the weaver will help break the chains of illusion and fear and show you your true purpose. After meeting these two divine beings you go to the well of the dreamer.

The Well of the Dreamer is surrounded by by thorny rosebush. If your heart is pure and humble then they will open us for you if not they will cut you. The dreamer is the one who dreamt this world into being. We are all part of his dream. The Dreamer is an androgynous being that is asleep. During the age of Aquarius he will open one of his eyes and the world will experience enlightenment. The dreamer who is the creator of this world is a child of the Star Father and the mother Goddess who is identified as the Utterer. The Dreamer is likened to a piece of Star that fell to earth and penetrated it. This is the reason that there is life on the planet Earth.
The of Faeries lies in the underworld. Brigh is their queen. The faeries came down to Earth with the Dreamer. We each have a Faery counterpart whom will experience enlightenment with us.

Next we travel to the Astral realms were we experience contact with the the Star Father and the Utterer. We also meet the Holy Fire or formless fire. This is the life force that permeates us all. This is the master creator. It is a long journey and do not think you will make it in a year. Such a journey may take life times.

Anyone wanting to learn about Faery seership would be well advised to read from this book. The book outlines the path that you will take and it gives you exercises to help you traverse along the path. Mr. Foxwood has studied Traditional Witchcraft and Appalachian magic traditions. This book get 4.5 broomsticks out of 5.

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Received as a gift, the power in this deck was felt immediately. Very special; meaningful with great ease of understanding. The artwork is awesome and I am captivated and drawn into the world of the mystic shaman. The cards began to speak to me almost immediately giving me confirmations of my present journey and what I know is to come. A powerful, accurate tool that has a special punch for those who have a shamanic background or those initiated to the Rites of the Munay Ki.
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I make Iris greeting cards for gifts and pleasure. I bought the book because I needed inspiration for the infinite variety of colors these flowers come in. Doesn't do justice to the real thing, but it comes p d close. A nice homage to my favorite flower.
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This is a fun surprise card.

I've wrestled with the thought of is it worth the 4 CMC.

It is. Here is why: the ability, pretend this card is two U for the card itself, and the other 2 mana pays for the thopters.
That ability makes it worth more than 4 if you have enough colorless on the field.
Tap two artifacts and you can make an unblockable hit. Pretty nice since this gives you the two artifacts you need if you didn't have them already.
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This Tarot deck is an interesting new rendition inspired on the Golden Dawn's tradition as intended by its designer, Giordano Berti. Patrizio Evangelisti`s beautiful artwork resembles contemporary comic book style. Black inked outlines and tones define the images, while contrasting colors and soft shadows fleshed out the scenery.

In the Golden Dawn Tarot, the suites are evidently associated with the four elements: wands with fire, chalices with water, swords with air, and pentacles with earth. This association is more prominent within the court cards, showing figures within flames for wands, on a shore for chalices, within clouds for swords, and on a grassy field for pentacles. These have been labeled Princess, Prince, Queen and Knight like in the Thoth Tarot.

The Mayor Arcanas are labeled the same way as in the Rider-Waite-Smith (RWS) or Marseilles Tarots, and the imagery shows evidence of both traditions for most of these Trumps.  However, a few lean more toward one tradition than the other.  Such are the case of The Chariot, Death and The Sun Trumps which leans toward Marseilles, while The Wheel of Fortune leans toward RWS.  There are a few Trumps that are beyond RWS and Marseilles traditions.  For example: The Fool depicts an innocent child sitting on the grass with a wolf watching over, and The Lovers depicts a warrior coming from a cloud to confront a sea serpent which is about to attack a chained maiden.

An interesting feature of this deck is the inclusion of an additional  set of Justice and Strength cards, swapping 8s and 11s on these cards to allow you to match either RWS or Thoth ordering. At least that was the intention. My deck contains a card with a scene of a girl standing by a lion which is Strength (8), and another with a woman sitting on a throne with a sword and scales at hands which is Justice (11).  However, a second card with a girl standing by a lion was labeled Justice (11), while a second card with a woman sitting on a throne with a sword and scales at hands was labeled Strength (8).  This is an error as the names should have not  been swapped.  It may be just my deck, but beware.

I recommend this deck for tarot collectors in general, and for those interested on the Golden Dawn tradition in particular. It includes a satin bag and the usual Little White Book.

Other decks by Patrizio Evangelisti:
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The old and the new of Mana is in this edition, I love it! it has everything I remember and more, great buy.
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Beautiful, inspired grimoire. I cannot praise this volume enough. I have only gotten to the second section, but already I will never think of plants the same way again. They are so much more that magical tools or ingredients. I agree with the other review, in that the playful beautiful language forces you to slow down and absorb the material, and that there is a lifetime of study in this tome. If I only get to use a quarter of the material in my life, I will still consider myself a pretty good Wytch. Thank you, Mr. Schulke, for bringing forth this Light. Not the pale wan light of the New Agers, but the Dark Light that shines from the Garden.
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Each card in this deck is rich with imagery and symbolism.  I was active for awhile in the study group for this deck on a tarot forum. It amazed me how much depth there was in each card.

This is a black-and-white deck. The process to create this deck is incredible: the artist carved handmade woodcuts, and the cards were printed from the woodcuts.

Although I appreciate this deck from an intellectual standpoint and am very glad to have it in my collection, I do not read a lot with it. I find myself appreciating the deck for its symbolism, its beauty, and its imagery.

The cards are large, and it is a wonderful meditative deck. I will continue to approach the deck as decks speak to me in different ways. At times a deck will speak to me in one way, and then at another time, it will speak to me in another way. So this deck may yet speak to me intuitively. I do love it as a meditative deck, and it is a wonderful deck for the artwork. I know of no other deck handcrafted in this fashion.

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"I want to die peacefully in my sleep, like my grandfather. Not screaming like the passengers in his cab." <<
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I'm personally more interested in this deck than in Aleister Crowley's; though this one is less theoretical (i.e. less connective to astrological system, less to Hebrew symboles), it is more, I may say, traditional in  card-order and in symbolic system. Drawing and its feminist tendancy is one  of the reasons why it is interesting. The names of Goddesses attached in  minor Archnar cards are revealing. However, the card would be somewhat  doubtful since its theoretical basis, i.e., the Secret of Tarot: Origins,  History and Symbolism, has some errors, especially those words about  Chinese costums. I'm a Chinese and I'm familiar with traditional Chinese  symbolic systems and religions. I just cannot agree with all of those  written in her book. However, that'll be another review. :-)
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Tldr: good deck, get galaxy eyes xyz and dark matter, amorphage goliath, and if you can afford the blue eyes cards, get them.

This structure deck has quite a few people feeling salty that D/D/D got delayed (and trust me, I want it just as bad as you all), but objectively speaking this IS a great deck. It's not monarch caliber, but honestly I hope no deck reaches the level of brokenness monarchs have and will rightfully lose. You can play this deck using mostly cards exclusively in it, but certain cards will bring it to a whole new level. Some I'd recommend are any rank 8 galaxy-eyes monster and dark matter dragon (sends Arkbrave and any level 8 for some good combos), hope harbinger (r8nk negates spells), and amorphage goliath (level 8 dragon that locks the extra deck). The blue eyes archetype is a natural fit, and makes the deck incredibly strong, especially with the aforementioned cards and dragon shrine included as well, but many blue eyes cards are expensive, and may put poorer people (like me) off, especially when galaxy eyes r8nks cost so much already ($6-$10). I recommend tcgplayer if you want to find good deals on single cards. For me, I'm mixing the deck with my tried and trusted hieratic deck plus the cheap blue eyes cards. But honestly, there are many creative ways to play the deck, like with zombie world and mezuki.

The app in the screenshot is called YGOPRO for those who are wondering. Unfortunately the website is down, but there should be download links to the android version somewhere. For PC use devpro. No, my deck is not expensive outside of the Galaxy eyes cards and hot red dragon archfiend bane (which is just a personal pick honestly).
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For a four mana drop this planeswalker is one of the absolute best at the moment. I pair him a couple of Ajani mentor of heroes in my abzan midrange and watch as he becomes a hassle for my opponent on turn four. Cheap and effective he holds a place in quite a few of my decks im running (modern and standard).
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This beautifully illustrated tarot is the creation of Stephanie Pui-Mun Law.  The imagery in these cards exudes an ethereal quality like no other tarot that I have ever seen.  In spite of the superb imagery, this deck doesn't depart much from the Rider Tarot tradition.

These cards are bordered in gray; numbered and labeled at the bottom.  The back of these cards is reversible, showing the classical depiction of a sun surrounded by an ornate ring which gives out an aura over a purple-black and starry space.

The Major Arcana are numbered with roman numerals.  Labeled with the standard naming convention from the Rider Tarot, these cards certainly follow this tradition in a spectacular way.  For example, The Tower shows a city, and within the city a tree stand taller than anything.  At the top of the tree there is a tower being struck down by lighting.

However, I thought that the superb ethereal imagery could have inspired, and easily justified, at least a name change of a few of the Major Arcana.  For example, Death shows a Phoenix like creature perching on a tree, while the Hierophant shows an Ent like creature sitting on the branch.

The suits on the Minor Arcana (swords, wands, cups and pentacles) corresponding element (air, fire, water and earth) are subtly integrated within the scenery of the cards.  The court cards follow the standard naming convention of Page, Knight, Queen and King.  My favorite cards from the court must be Knights, with the Knight of Swords riding a swan, the Knight of Wands riding a horned lion, the Knight of Cups riding an unicorn on high surf, and the Knight of Pentacles riding a earth Dragon.

Overall, I'm very satisfied with this deck.  This deck comes with a full size guidebook.
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When I first received the "Wisdom of Avalon Oracle" I was so excited.  After all, the legend of King Arthur and the Lady of the Lake are among my favorites.

The author of the deck is Colette Baron-Reid.  I'd heard many good things about her, and was looking forward to reading her interpretations of the characters of Avalon.

Gary A. Lippincott is the artist for the deck, and I have to say, his artwork is absolutely beautiful.  He's one of the featured artists on the world famous site for the Duirwaigh Gallery (a favorite site for those of us who love faery and fantasy artwork).

The deck itself includes 52 cards, and is divided into four groups.  The first 31 cards are done in a soft watercolor.  The last 21 cards look they could be a photograph of a trail through the forest.  These cards are all the same, except for the journey marker sign than is specific to that card.

The Messengers of Avalon contains eight cards and includes the Merlin, the High Priestess, the King, the Queen, the Novice, the Grail Knight, the Bard and the Lady of the Lake.

The Animal Guides of Avalon contains 18 cards, and includes the Eagle, the Raven, the Hawk, the Swan, the Owl, the Frog, the Spider, the Bee, the Stag, the Cat, the Dog, the Cow, the Wasp, the Deer, the Serpent, the Dragon, the Butterfly, and the Horse.

The Guides of Faery contain five cards, and include the Earth Faery, the Water Faery, the Wind Faery, the Fire Faery and the Goblin.

The largest grouping is the Sacred Journey Markers, which contain 21 cards.  These include Partnership, Focus, Wealth, Restriction, Movement, Joy, Protection, Disruption, Risk, Communication, Perception, Burden, Letting Go, Love, Death, Trust, Fear, Forgiveness, Birth-Rebirth, Truth, and the Mystery.

Where the characters aren't actually from the legends of King Arthur, they are still definitely of Avalon and the realm of the faery folk.  I was especially pleased with the section on animals, as this deck includes many animals sacred to the Celts that aren't included in other Celtic oriented decks I've seen.

There is a 109 page guidebook that goes along with the deck that gives a more detailed description of each card, along with a chapter on how to use the cards (including how to do a single card reading, and a three and five card reading).  I found the book to be very well written and highly enjoyable.

I've already given several readings with this deck, and have to say they have been very insightful.  The more I work with this deck, the more I enjoy it, and the deeper the insights seem to go.  And one does not need to be a pro to enjoy reading with these cards.

Whether you are a beginning reader, or a seasoned intuitive, or just someone who loves to collect Celtic inspired decks, I would highly recommend "The Wisdom of Avalon" to anyone interested in the realm of Avalon.
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[[ASIN:140195250X Mystical Shaman Oracle Cards]  These are gorgeous Oracle cards with powerful images, rich color, and sacred symbolism that mesmerize and draw me in immediately. Their energy is incredible. I am enjoying using these cards daily for meditation and for discovering how the three messages (The Essence, The Invitation, The Medicine), included in the guide book, connect me with Spirit and nature to help guide my manifesting of my dreams.