This is the tenth and last set of cards in my Pony Tarot Nouveau project, featuring the last three "uncategorised" atouts and the card back.

Atouts 10 and 11 do constitute a quartet of the classical elements – they're just paired so as to fit onto two cards. In the real-life deck, with two scenes per card, this is trivial to accommodate; in my deck this means two ponies on these cards, for which Lyra/Bon Bon and Octavia/Vinyl fit perfectly, but whereas atout 10's scene came "naturally" I had great trouble linking Vinyl to fire and Octavia to water for atout 11. I eventually settled on transforming them into a seapony and dullahan (neck flame included), thus providing an "artificial" contrast with atout 10.

The real atout 20 represents the game and depicts a card table in its urban scene and the jeu provençal (a boules game that was the predecessor of pétanque) in its rural scene. This I translated to genie Parcly holding a d20 while her Albumin Flask doubles as a stake/jack for a game of horseshoes (after all, both this game and D&D are canon to MLPFIM). As the last card front to be completed it also functions as a kind of signature, and I have hidden the four French suits behind Parcly.

Traditionally the back of Tarot Nouveau cards only sport an uninterrupted pattern of crossing lines, and I would have used that had I not been criticised by a few for the solid-colour back of my prior 52-card deck. To this pattern I therefore added the circling alicorns motif of the flag of Equestria I did years back – they point counterclockwise like the direction of play of almost all tarot games – replacing the central sun and moon with my own sixfold-symmetric design, inspired by that on my 601 Eagle deck. The specific line pattern used also evokes P and T in Morse code.

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