Desconhecido
Do Malazan completo Livro dos Caídos :
"The Deck of Dragons. A kind of structure, imposed on power itself. Who created it? No-one knows. My belief – Tattersail’s belief – is that each card is a gate into a warren, and there were once many more cards than there are now. There may have been other Decks – there may well be other Decks . . .I said no-one knows who created the Deck of Dragons. Yet there is another entity equally mysterious, also a kind of structure, focused upon power itself. Think of the terminology used with the Deck of Dragons. Houses . . . Houses of Dark, of Light, of Life and Death . . .Think of the word “Finnest”. Its meaning, as the T’lan Imass know it, is “Hold of Ice”. Long ago, among the Elder races, a Hold was synonymous with a House in its meaning and common usage, and indeed, synonymous with Warren...Where resides a Jaghut’s wellspring of power?"
Então a Silverfox acredita que ninguém sabe quem criou o Deck. Certamente o Deck em si não é nada fundamental, uma vez que existem sistemas equivalentes correspondentes à magia antiga: ou seja, Tiles e Holds. Em outras palavras, o Deck não veio antes dos Holds (eu acho). Não tenho certeza se há alguma declaração explícita em outro lugar na série de quem fez o Deck.
No entanto, acho que pode haver uma pista sobre o que é dito sobre o criador do Deck.
De acordo com o Deus Crippled em Memories of Ice :
"It was ever thus. You speak of the Deck as an entity, but its maker is dust, as we both know."
Mais cedo, do Warren de Tellann:
What then, is the Warren of Tellann that the T'lan Imass now use? Ah, that warren must have been born from the Ritual itself, a physical manifestation of their Vow of Immortality, perhaps. Aspected, not of life, nor even death. Aspected… of dust.
Isso talvez seja uma dica de que o criador do Baralho é, ou era, T'lan Imass ou Imass. Isso é bem especulativo, no entanto.