View Full Version : What's the different between the green box and the purple one?
sirona86
02-08-2003, 02:54
hey everyone,
i've been considering buying the thoth deck for al ong time now and went i finally went to pick it up yesterday, i saw that there were two versions. a green-boxed version and a purple one. What's the difference?
maybe the color of the cards are different. you can see the difference here:
http://www.tarotpassages.com/thoth1.jpg
i guess in the decks forum you can find discussion about it as well.
lawguy51
03-08-2003, 21:12
Was one box bigger than the other? There are two sizes. The larger one is what I call (and pretty well everyone else calls) the green deck, because of its greenish hue.
Lawguy51
I`ve got the standard sized AG Muller Thoth deck. It came in a pale purple box and has 3 magus cards.
Crystalmynx xx
suzyspellbound
08-08-2003, 18:30
I bought mine about 7 years ago in a white box. They are rather large- dificult to shuffle the standard way with small female hands. I have seen publications in smaller size in a dark blue box?
I didn't know about the colour variations- very interesting thanks for posting this!
I like the lavender boxed ones, they're smaller, the same size as playing cards and I'm not afraid to actually shuffle them.
Cerulean
20-08-2003, 12:17
and 49 page booklet with text by James Wasserman and additional gallery show text by Lady Frieda Harris.
U.S. Games version.
Lavendar (purple box) is smaller size. One of them has the three magus, supposedly: the green box doesn't.
sirona86
21-08-2003, 05:29
thanks for the info everyone. i think i will go for the lavendar deck.
Little Baron
21-08-2003, 07:23
I think I have the Icky Green tinged one but I am not sure. Can someone tell me. Whatever deck I have, I don't mind the colouring. I have seen some on the net that look brighter and some that look greener so I can't tell which one it is that I have. I wasn't aware of the differences when I bought it.
Ok ...
The box is blue.
There is only one magus.
The bottom of the box says 'AGM AGMULLER, Made in Belgium.
Is this the famous Icky Green one????
Yaboot
Strange2
22-08-2003, 06:03
Yaboot,
The blue boxed Thoth by AGM AGMuller is not the "icky green" deck. If the ISBN # on the box is 0-88079-469-0, then you have the brighter, non-green tinged Thoth deck. This AGM AGMuller Thoth deck is the crisper, brighter version.
Kurai Yuko
23-08-2003, 19:31
Originally posted by Strange2
The blue boxed Thoth by AGM AGMuller is not the "icky green" deck. If the ISBN # on the box is 0-88079-469-0, then you have the brighter, non-green tinged Thoth deck. This AGM AGMuller Thoth deck is the crisper, brighter version.
My deck is also AGM AGMüller and comes in a small blue box, but the ISBN is different: 3-905021-25-0.
I really hope mine isn't the icky-green one ;)
It doesn't really matter, anyway, because i'm deeply in love with my deck :)
~Yuko
Macavity
23-08-2003, 19:40
Originally posted by Kurai Yuko
My deck is also AGM AGMüller and comes in a small blue box, but the ISBN is different: 3-905021-25-0.
I really hope mine isn't the icky-green one ;)
Well, I have precisely that one and I'm pretty convinced it's grey... or even gray? I think I might just be in the market for a slightly bigger one, at some stage - "Big" kinda grows on you... :D
Macavity
Cerulean
23-08-2003, 19:53
My Swiss version has the large size and darkest colors, contained in AGMueller's blue box. This edition was printed in 1986 and has the ISBN 3-905021-60-9. It took me awhile to dig this out and also find the vendor:
http://www.tarotworld.com/
I believe it is page four if you click on tarots. It is is the 'deluxe' version and the gray frames, darker and more brillant colors and availability in different languages is probably what a picky buyer or collector would want.
Tarotpassages reviews this brighter, more brillant version:
http://www.tarotpassages.com/thoth.htm
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I just bought the large green box Thoth distributed by U.S. Games last week. It's a newer deck, same large size, but two to three shades lighter in back and front than the Swiss version. Actually the boxtop says printed in Belgium Samuel Weiser, Inc., ISBN 0-87728-452-0. It's a softer, more faded or washed-out printing, so it might be more friendly to people you read for...it turns out I prefer my older, darker version printed by AGMueller above.