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Tarot Card Deck

Next to playing cards, the main reason people would want to use the card deck tool is for tarot cards. So how about making a tarot card deck as one of the defaults?
Well, part of the problem is that many people have a personal deck and the symbology is usually different. I have no problem loading/making a deck, but the shuffle command needs an option somewhere to randomly rotate the cards (zero or 180 degrees) when they're dealt since orientation is critial to tarot readings and RPGs that use tarot cards. -- TAZ
Another problem is that the Rider-Waite tarot deck might be still under copyright in the UK, and has a publisher claiming to enforce that copyright world-wide. All more recent decks are still copyright. Short of buying a licence or hiring a designer and artist, Roll20 would be confined to using a Marseilles pattern deck—which I think a lot of users used to the fully-illustrated decks would find unsatisfactory. I guess that the biggest use for card decks in Roll20 is actually going to be decks of die faces. Building in some of those would be easy and not raise copyright problems.
Don't forget dominoes! I use them in The Trouble with Rose. So, making a 'deck' of dominoes was one of my top priorities.
Note that if we're going to upload tarot decks (whether because there is none built in or because we want non-"standard" ones) or sets of dominoes, it is going to be a significant advantage to be able to do a batch upload. Not only will it save a large number of tedious drag-drog-&c. actions, but it will be much less prone to user error.
True, 28 dominoes tested the (decidedly low) limits of my accuracy. :-)