"Syssk: The Alien Tarot of Ancient Japan" is a highly obscure tarot deck created by Armenian poet Lilit "Baba" Yagian, revolving around an alien (marked only by the stolen head of H. R. Giger's Xenomorph) named Syssk who "finds herself unexpectedly marooned in Medieval Japan" and "attempts to navigate a human society while assuming the role of a samurai."
The cards are created via crude digital collage, most prominently using Ukiyo-e woodblock and anime art with some psychedelic filters. A book containing lengthy explanations of the cards, Armenian-language only, is available on archive.org
https://archive.org/details/the-book_202210/mode/2up
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@detondev This is one of the stranger decks I've ever seen. I didn't really vibe too much with the major arcana, some didn't feel accessible (presumably because I'm not an expert on Japanese culture), some I found myself arguing with. I kind of wish it didn't have those web-generated sigils on every card.
Temperance though I lingered on for quite a while, perhaps because I did some karate years ago and felt the psychological shift towards responsibility and emotional balance.
Now the minor arcana I dug a whole lot more. I'm still taking time to look at all of them, but the imposition of capitalism anachronistically on the suit of coins gave me the impression of looking at medieval Japan through an alien perceptual filter. I don't know whether that was an intended consequence by the artist.