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Drawn just now for your question — three cards, three positions.

Past — Page of Cups, upright. The deck you love was picked on feeling, not method: curiosity, mood, the look of it. That history is real, and it's the reason the question is hard.

Present — Two of Wands, upright. Both decks are in your hands and neither has been used yet. This is the deciding-before-deciding seat: you're holding options, comparing from a distance.

Future — Eight of Cups, upright. If the present keeps going — both decks on the shelf, still comparing — the tendency is to quietly set one aside and read the other less and less. Not a bad ending, just an untidy one: a deck you own and don't reach for.

So: if you can get the recolored version into your hands and shuffle it — a shop, a friend, a returnable one — and the pictures read as cleanly for you as the original does, then switch; the Page keeps its claim through the change. But if you're choosing off product photos alone, then what you have right now is a Two of Wands made of screenshots, and that path tends to end in the Eight of Cups: the new deck arrives, looks wonderful, and your favorite goes unread on the shelf.

Your step, before this week ends: shuffle ten cards from the recolored deck and deal three, then shuffle your favorite and deal the same three — and write down which deck you read faster, not which one you like more. That answer is the one the cards can't give you.

Want this spread drawn as a picture, or saved to your journal?