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The Magician #1 Final version

The Magician #1 First version
GM response :
Hi Rian –
The Magician card is looking fantastic – just what I hoped for. Only a couple of
notes.
I like the face and head of the character in the alternate version, as the look is
more feminine and less overtly Ziggy Stardust/Bowie. Maybe we could use a touch
more femininity. Love the lighting bolt referencing Ziggy AND Harry Potter.
The disco ball could take on a more appropriately esoteric dimension if it was
moved to the centre above the magician’s head, taking the place of Kether, the
highest sephira on the Tree of Life diagram.
While traditional to the Rider-Waite imagery, the robe and cape the Magician is
wearing seem slightly old-fashioned. I still like how it all looks however so any
other suggestions are just thrown out as food for thought: the Magician wearing a
kind of Ziggy/Paradax catsuit with the Qabalistic lightning flash on the front and
a bra perhaps.
OR more convincingly a Major Tom style Mercury SPACESUIT without the helmet (a
Mercury style suit would of course tie nicely into the generally “mercurial” tone
of this card…hmmm..)
Having said that, I’m reluctant to have you do too much more work and the image
looks so good as it is, we may not have to include any further elements of
modernity at this stage.
Best
Grant

The Magician #1 Rare early variant
Would you like to see more? Rian and I could easily be convinced into doing a full
deck!