A Comparison Between 5 Popular Kipper Decks

Looking at five (well, kind of six) different Kipper decks: The “Original” Wahrsage Kipperkarten x 2, the Salish, the Fin de Siecle, the Alexandre Musruck, the Mystical Kipper,

“Original” Wahrsage Kipperkarten with original 1890 directions, English version

There are beginning to be more Kipper cards on the market these days, as the system has got more popular, and designers are showing more and more interest in creating new decks. But what should YOU be looking for in a Kipper deck if you’re wanting to purchase one?

As a matter of interest and for comparison, let’s take a look at five of the most common Kipper decks you’ll see around, particularly in light of some of the ‘issues’ around directionality we raised in the Introduction to Kipper and the directional posts, should you care to use them (and no, you don’t have to use directions to do a reading - but it’s quite useful to know about). If you missed those, subscribers can find them here:

If you DO have a Kipper deck yourself, which do you have or which is your personal favourite? Take the poll below!

As you may have guessed, I’m absolutely NOT a believer in One True Ways (TM) of reading; nonetheless, as we’ve seen, the illustrations in these decks can be helpful and add additional nuance to your stories, so hopefully, this’ll help you make your mind up on which way you want to go in terms of designs, decks and your own approach to this issue.

So let’s take a good look, then, at the five most common Kipper decks available, what’s good about each of them, and what might not be quite so good…