A City Setting for the Tarot's Traditional Figures

The Urban Tarot resets the standard seventy eight card structure in a contemporary city setting, replacing the historical courts, wands and swords of earlier decks with modern urban figures and settings while keeping the traditional Major and Minor Arcana count and the Marseille and Continental trump order, Justice at eight and Strength at eleven. It was created and illustrated by Robin Scott and published by U.S. Games Systems in 2019, documented on the artist's own site rather than through a third party retailer listing, which is where this deck's structural facts are drawn from directly.

Its minor arcana cards are non scenic, carrying printed titles and astrological attributions rather than illustrated scenes, a treatment it shares with the Golden Dawn Tarot within this catalogue even though the two decks otherwise share nothing in setting or period, one restoring a nineteenth century occult order's own card designs, the other resetting the same underlying structure in a present day city. That shared non scenic pip treatment across two structurally and thematically unrelated decks shows the choice is a formal option available within the tarot's traditional framework rather than tied to any one deck's theme or era.