Beautiful Creatures Tarot

Beautiful Creatures Tarot pairs artist Jasmine Becket-Griffith's large eyed fantasy figures with structure and guidebook text by J. R. Rivera in an eighty card deck, two cards beyond the standard seventy eight, first published by Schiffer in 2014 with a second edition from Schiffer's Red Feather imprint in 2017. It keeps the historical suit and trump framework intact, following the Golden Dawn and Rider Waite Smith trump order in which Strength sits at eight and Justice at eleven, and reads upright and reversed like most tarot built on that later ordering.

The deck's sourcing here is bibliographic rather than biographical: its structural facts, the eighty card count, the extended Major and Minor Arcana and the scenic pip treatment, are independently stated on Schiffer's own product listing for the deck, distinct from the promotional material that surrounds Rivera's own name elsewhere. Extending a deck beyond the traditional seventy eight cards while keeping every historical suit and trump in place, rather than replacing or renaming them, is a narrower structural change than decks that rename suits or add unnumbered cards outside the sequence altogether, placing Beautiful Creatures Tarot closer to the historical Rider Waite Smith framework than many newer illustrated decks.