Columbia Tarot Deck



The Columbia Tarot Deck is special pack of playing cards created in Columbia during BioShock Infinite. The cards are most commonly used for divinatory readings.

BioShock Infinite
While Booker DeWitt and Elizabeth explore the war-torn Emporia, they come across an unnamed tavern on Harmony Way. In the wine cellar, in addition to a pair of Vox Populi agents harassing an upperclass man named James, they find the corpse of woman slouched over a table. She appears to have been doing a spiritual reading using the Columbia Tarot Deck when she was viscously stabbed in the back and bled out.

The cards in the deck are specially suited to the flying city and, as such, feature Columbia's landmarks and famous people to represent the Arcana. The four cards layed out on the table are Judgement, Strength, The World, and The Chariot respectively represented by the golden statue of Jeremiah Fink, the stone statue of Zachary Hale Comstock, a floating island of buildings, and one of the winged statues personifying Columbia. The final card is stabbed through by the dagger and mostly covered in blood making it difficult to identify. The two final letters on the card's name are either "ol" or "ot" making the card either The Fool or another The Chariot card. The deck's cover is decorated by the statue of Robert and Rosalind Lutece.