The shapeshifter tarot card Deck -1998

Number of cards in deck: 81, which includes three extra major arcana cards.
Measurements: 2.75 x 4.6 inches; or 69 x 117 millimeters.

Back of card: Solid blue field with, in center, a fancy Celtic circle motif in light yellow. I can make out an abstract yin/yang figure, as well as a less abstract trefoil. Can be inverted.

Book included: Yes, 237 pages, 6 x 9 inches, or 152 x 229 millimeters. Cards are illustrated in black & white. Illustration & text comprises about 3 pages per card. The authors & illustrator are the same as for the deck.

Publisher: Llewellyn. Printed in the US.

Comments: This is the hot new deck, though we weren't so impressed. Tarot seems to be drifting towards free-form, where the major arcana is here 25 (instead of 22) cards of whatever we like, suits are whatever names we like & no longer need to have their objects (swords, rods, coins, cups, whatever) printed on them. There's nothing wrong with this approach, though you do loose the classical feel of majo