Marseille Tarot: The Magician
MidjourneyA Midjourney v7 prompt for a Marseille-school Magician tarot card in bold woodcut linework with flat red and blue hand-colouring and a blank title banner, faithful to the sixteenth-century print tradition.
Last tested: August 2026 with Midjourney v7
Part of the Midjourney prompt library · see more vintage prompts .
Prompt
A Marseille-school tarot card illustration of a young man standing behind a rough-hewn wooden table, his right hand raised holding a wand pointing skyward, his left hand pointing to the ground, a lemniscate infinity symbol above his head, the four suit symbols arranged on the table (a cup, a coin, a sword, a baton), bold black woodcut outlines on aged cream paper, flat hand-coloured red and blue accents on the tunic, a decorative leaf border with a blank banner panel at the bottom, no text, no letters, no numerals --ar 2:3 --stylize 250
Settings
- Model
- Midjourney v7
- Aspect ratio
- 2:3
- Stylize
- 250
How to use this prompt
The Marseille school is the oldest tarot print tradition and the one Midjourney most often conflates with Rider-Waite, so "Marseille-school" plus "bold black woodcut outlines on aged cream paper" is the anchor that holds the style. The lemniscate above the head and the four suit symbols on the table are the two iconographic tests — skip either and the card stops reading as The Magician. "Rough-hewn wooden table" matters because a smooth surface drifts toward modern illustration. The hand-coloured red and blue are the only two colours Marseille printers used, and naming them as "flat" keeps Midjourney from blending into a gradient. Stylize 250 gives enough decorative push without abandoning the woodcut line.
Variations to try
- Recolour to muted ochre and sage for a Provencal palette while keeping the woodcut line
- Redraw as The High Priestess: a seated woman between two pillars, a scroll in her lap, a crescent moon at her feet
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{
"title": "Marseille Tarot: The Magician",
"prompt": "A Marseille-school tarot card illustration of a young man standing behind a rough-hewn wooden table, his right hand raised holding a wand pointing skyward, his left hand pointing to the ground, a lemniscate infinity symbol above his head, the four suit symbols arranged on the table (a cup, a coin, a sword, a baton), bold black woodcut outlines on aged cream paper, flat hand-coloured red and blue accents on the tunic, a decorative leaf border with a blank banner panel at the bottom, no text, no letters, no numerals --ar 2:3 --stylize 250",
"model": "Midjourney",
"model_version": "v7",
"settings": {
"aspect_ratio": "2:3",
"stylize": 250
},
"style_tags": [
"vintage",
"line-art"
],
"use_case_tags": [
"tarot-cards",
"illustration"
],
"source_url": "https://promptkoi.com/prompts/midjourney/marseille-tarot-the-magician/"
}The whole library is available as an open JSON dataset · developer docs.
