There are many SIMILIARTIES between the TAROT deck and the regular playing card deck. For instance, there are 56 cards in the regular playing card deck. While there are 78 cards in the Tarot deck. This means that there are 22 ADDITIONAL cards. These 22 cards are what is known as the MAJOR ARCANA. Some Tarot readers read using only these 22 cards, but you will be much more detailed and ACCURATE if you will use all 78 cards. Let's go through them one by one, shall we?