Best Tarot Deck

[Aguilero]

Hi everyone,
what do you think is the best tarot deck for all purposes?

 

[PinealisGlandia]

I recently picked up a "Rider Waite Playing Card Deck" that I'm in love with. The cards are standard playing card size, so I can actually shuffle them properly. Feels so much better than typical oversized tarot cards, and the art is still perfectly legible.

 

[Aguilero]

I recently picked up a "Rider Waite Playing Card Deck" that I'm in love with. The cards are standard playing card size, so I can actually shuffle them properly. Feels so much better than typical oversized tarot cards, and the art is still perfectly legible.

I also believe that Rider-White's cards are the best and most complete, after comparing them with a huge number of other decks and versions (I think I compared about 90). In my opinion, they are the only ones that give a complete representation of the Universe and, consequently, of the Tree of Life.

What do you think?

 

[Robert Ramsay]

So many Tarot packs nowadays seem really "gimmicky" so unless you're desparate to own a Looney Tunes Tarot pack, Rider Waite is a good solid choice.

 

[AbammonTheGreat]

I like the hermetic tarot for visualization and ritual, the Mersailles is good for contemplation and meditation, and then for all purpose/divination my deck ive used for nearly a decade is the Tabula Mundi which is a thoth inspired deck so it works with Crowleys Book of Thoth.

 

[TheKEKist]

I still use the first two decks I have ever used:
-The Medieval Scapini Tarot
And
-The Vision Tarot

Both have served me well and will continue to well into the foreseeable future (it's a divination pun).

 

[KjEno186]

I favor the Continental Marseilles decks which predate the English remake by Waite. I disagree with the Qabalistic associations made by the Golden Dawn because there was never a set numbering system involved with the ordering of the triumphs/trumps. If they work for you, all fine and good... for you.

I've been reading The Devil's Picture Book by Paul Huson lately and learned more about the lore behind the images than I ever learned in any other book on the Tarot. Huson references the Ars Notoria, which is also recommended reading.

After the 'standard' Marseille-style decks, I do rather enjoy Huson's fully illustrated deck, Dame Fortune's Wheel Tarot. There is an illustrated guide in the forum's library.

 

[Hathen]

A fun one that got me started after Rider-Waite (the one most people use/start with) was the Tarot de Marseilles. That, paired with the book The Way of Tarot by Alejandro Jodorowsky, is a great place to start. Jodorowsky mainly just uses the Major Arcana, making it the perfect entry-point. Probably the most advanced deck in my opinion is the Tabula Mundi, which is just a more modern Thoth deck. The best one though, is the one you make yourself.

 

[Anziel_Merkaba]

I would argue the best tarot deck is the one you have and can actually use. But then again I shifted away from tarot ages ago as directly scrying was much more useful for me in 95% of cases.