The tarot ( often tarot cards ) are a set of seventy-eight cards , comprising twenty-one trump cards , one Fool , and four suits of fourteen cards each and four Face cards . In the English speaking world , tarot cards are mostly used for divination . Although obviously influenced by divinatory tarot , they do not follow the traditional structure of Tarot ; they often lack any suits of numbered cards , and the set of cards differs from the conventional major arcana .