Cartomancy is the act of divining fates from cards - in other words, fortune-telling using those cards. In the world, the most common cards that are used for this purpose are tarot cards containing some novel cards that complement that very purpose, although regular playing card decks can also be used with particular methods. This then leads to the pondering that other cards could be used to do so, and within the scope of this blog, that would mean the cards of the Pokémon TCG.
What would be conceivable is that a player who possesses the usual 60-card deck used for TCG matches would go to a "cartomancer" who can also deal with Pokémon cards as well as the usual purposed cards. The deck would be shuffled and cards would be drawn from it, and then divinations would be made according to the cards that are turned up, much like the process with the other purposed cards. Something that would also be conceivable is that the elements on the cards - like the moves on Pokémon cards or the descriptions of Trainer cards - would be part of the divinations, with other elements possibly contributing to them.
Yet challenges are certainly abound. A big and obvious one is that there are many, many more Pokémon cards than there are for the other purposed cards, and more and more of the former are being made all the time, as veteran players can attest. The divinations may have to have (or be based on) certain ground rules that pertain to most of these cards, and perhaps more importantly can be proactively applied to cards that will be developed in the future. In that respect, card descriptions are consistent (and standard) in this regard even if the cards themselves are different, and like the purposed cards, they'll have certain interpretations.
Divining fates or the future, with cartomancy as the specific form based on cards of some kind, is an activity that may only be loosely grounded by what's on the cards, but could still be thought of as a fun interpretative exercise. The cards of the Pokémon TCG would be an unusual basis for performing the activity in comparison to the purposed cards that are more established, but then that may go back to the "fun" part, and the rest of that future may be determined through other means.
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