Your very own list of "Top Ten Decks of All Time"

Ooo Interesting!

No particular order:

Gilded
Tarot of Dreams
Russian Tarot of St. Petersburg
Archeon
Greenwood
Druidcraft
Medieval Enchantment
Fantastical Creatures
Victorian Romantic
Bohemian Gothic

At this point I honestly can't imagine my life without these decks to tap into. They have become my foundation to so much in my life.

My very own list has it's own criteria.
If I had to get rid of all my tarots, and could keep 10

These are my top 10

Hanson Roberts
RWS
Rock N Roll
Fairytale
Lunatic (portfolio edition)
Ferret
Aquarian
Fournier
Minute
Phantomwise (majors)

(with the three decks almost making this list that deserve an honorable mention...
BB Cats, Buckland Romani, Genius and Very Bright...)

Chronata said:

My very own list has it's own criteria.
If I had to get rid of all my tarots, and could keep 10.

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That's exactly how I picked mine too.

1. Greenwood.....my very personal deck.
2. Robin Wood.....my best reading, good buddy deck.
3. Morgan Greer...the deck with the best colors for psychic flash information.
4. International Icon....ditto, and the simplicity is genius.
5. Gilded....the deck most clients love to pick for readings.
6. Tarot of Transformation....my sink into the pictures and meditate deck.
7. Universal RWS...I've used it so much it is soft and lovely now.
8. Old English....sweet deck, and my introduction to reading a non RWS deck.
9. Halloween...because it always makes me smile.
10. Vacchetta...so beautiful, and readable. Hard pick between the Soprafino or the Vacchetta...but the people in the Vacchetta are so charming and talkative.

Chronata said:

My very own list has it's own criteria.
If I had to get rid of all my tarots, and could keep 10

These are my top 10

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Same premise here.........

no order

Bohemian Gothic Silver
Thoth
Fantastic Menagerie
Druidcraft
Golden
Ma'at
Mythic
Il Tarocco Bizzarro
Secret Forest
Victorian Romantic

So it's interesting that a lot of the top ten lists are similar to the AT Top Ten... especially interesting because of all the speculation made about what the list "should" include.

My top 10 are the decks that I have worked with that made the most significant impact on me as a reader in no particular order are:

Aquarian - My first deck
Legend - The deck that taught me the value of a book/deck relationship
Thoth - The deck I began using (badly in retrospect) to do public readings
Rider Waite - Finally turned to it when I wanted to "get serious"
Cosmic Tribe - started working with ecstatic spiritual experience and there was the perfect deck to coincide with that
Secret - This deck has been everywhere and told me everything - i have even on occasion listened
Fey - the first deck that I felt I had a strong emotional connection to
Rhorig - The first deck I owned that I thought of as "beautiful"
World Spirit - The deck that for a long time seemed most in sync with my own spirituality
Gay Tarot - a rocky relationship at first but ultimately I found a great deal of insight in its

These are the decks I like most. They are not my best decks- because I would have to put the Noblet on the list first, followed by the The Classic Tarot (Della Rocca) or Le Tarot de la Rea.
These 10 decks I just really like......
Bosch Tarot
Fantastic Menagerie
Golden Botticelli
Kazanlar Tarot
Medieval Scapini
Osho Zen
Phantasmagoric Theatre Tarot
RWS Giant
Universal Tarot
Visconti Gold

Thanks Debra!
~Rosanne

Because I have four shoe boxes, I conceive of tarot decks in four categories. Those on this list I love most.

The ones I read with:
Rider Waite Smith
Victoria Regina
Golden Tarot
Victorian Romantic

Art tarots:
David's Tarot
Rotin Tarot

Historical tarots:
Soprafino
Vandenborre Bacchus

Whimsy:
Jacques Vieville

The deck I most wish I had:
Bill's Marseille

And I think I will never give these up:
Ten cards from a 19th century Conver deck (probably 1880)

Shade made an interesting point about personal lists so far including a lot of the same decks that have been voted onto the "top ten" on the Aeclectic site.

So FYI--here are the decks that have appeared on the Aeclectic Tarot "Top Ten" lists.

Prior to 2005, there was only one annual "top ten" list. Beginning in 2005, there were two annual lists.

So this first list includes every deck that was voted "Top Ten of All Time" at least once in 2005, 2006 or 2007.

Aleister Crowley Thoth Tarot
DruidCraft Tarot
Fey Tarot
Gilded Tarot
Golden Tarot
Rider-Waite Tarot
Robin Wood Tarot
Tarot of Dreams
Tarot of Prague
Universal Waite Tarot
Victorian Romantic Tarot
World Spirit Tarot

And this list below includes the other decks--these appeared at least once on the "Top 10" of 1999-2004 or on the "Top 10 of the year" 2005-2007 but are not on the first list


Animals Divine Tarot
Archeon Tarot
Baroque Bohemian Cats' Tarot
Bohemian Gothic Tarot
Celtic Dragon Tarot
Cosmic Tribe Tarot
Dragon Tarot
Fairytale Tarot
Fantastic Menagerie Tarot
Fantastical Creatures Tarot
Fenestra Tarot
Full Moon Dreams Tarot
Goddess Tarot
Golden Botticelli Tarot
Golden Tarot of Klimt
Haindl Tarot
Jean Noblet Tarot
Kingdom Highway Tarot
Legend: The Arthurian Tarot
Lo Scarabeo Tarot
Llewellyn Tarot
Maat Tarot
Major Tom's Tarot of Marseilles
Manga Tarot
Morgan-Greer Tarot
Mystic Faerie Tarot
Mythic Tarot
Osho Zen Tarot
Pearls of Wisdom Tarot
Quest Tarot
Revelations Tarot
Sacred Circle Tarot
Sakki-Sakki Tarot
Sol Invictus: The God Tarot
Sheridan-Douglas Tarot
Spiral Tarot
Steele Wizard Tarot
Tarot of the Secret Forest
Tarot of the 78 Doors
Tarot of the Sidhe
Universal Goddess Tarot
Vampire Tarot
Vanessa Tarot
Victoria Regina Tarot

I don't think I can honestly pick a top 10, cause there are only really 5 or so I know very well.... But I'll do it anyway Maybe this represent more, the most used 10 from my own collection.

Crowley Harris Thoth
Mythic Tarot
Golden Tarot
Universal Waite
Haindl Tarot
Original RWS
Liber T
Standard RWS
Buckland Romani
Archeon

I figure we are looking at decks we have rather than ..? - because if not, the wooden Kashmiri is a real top ten for me....

Because I wouldn’t feel complete without the big three:
Marseille (Dodal)
Thoth (the early Müller large sized one – but with an added UCH card !!)
Original Waite-Smith

For reading:
BBC
Kitty Kahane
Pearls of Wisdom

Just because I love them:
De la Rea (the most beautiful deck of all time !)
Genius and Very Bright Too Also
Aubrey Beardsley
Wannabe (the funniest deck in the world !

ed: and my near miss (fell off my copy and paste !!!) Liber T