While Europe was still recovering from the aftermath of the unprecedented damage of the World War I, T. S. Eliot began his career as a poet and a critic. Although his future seemed bright, he fell into a difficult situation. First, the death of Eliot’s father in 1919 cast a shadow on his life. Although Eliot had tried to reconcile with his father, the possibility was lost forever. Working as a bank clerk to earn his living deprived him of precious time he could spend on writing, but marriage life of Tom and his wife Vivienne was not going well. Finally Eliot was diagnosed as a kind of nervous disorder and had to go on retreat. Nevertheless, Eliot had an ambition to write a long poem which would become his representative work. This was to become his most famous poem, The Waste Land. The typed manuscript in The Waste Land: a Facsimile & Transcript of the Original Drafts showed the way Eliot strived to write a long poem. He used various methods he had attempted in his earlier poems and elaborated various ways of narratives. A long poem, however, needs a solid framework that could support the whole tightly. He came upon the work of an anthropologist J. L. Weston: From Ritual to Romance. In this book he found an important character “Fisher King,” whose life and energy would synchronize the destiny of his kingdom. In the draft of the first part of The Waste Land, Eliot added “fisher king” to the encircled typed letters of “man with three staves.” This was the Tarot card Madame Sosostris showed in her fortune-telling to the narrator of the poem. Although Eliot explained in his note that the man with three staves was an authentic member of the Tarot Pack, such a card cannot found in the ordinary Tarot pack. While a lot of critics expresed various views on the card in the past, most of them assumed it should be one of twenty- two cards of Major Arcana of Tarot pack. This article examines some problems surrounding the card of the “man of three staves” or the Fisher King, and the possibility the card is included in “Waite-Smith Tarot pack” that Arthur Edward Waite and Pamela Colman Smith published in the early twentieth century.