Strange decks; which are the ones that tempt you?

[bogiesan]

Get thee behind me and, dude, stop pushing!

I wish to thank everyone who has contributed to this thread. I made a list of a dozen decks to research. Holding my Visa in one hand and my iPad in the other, I managed to talk myself into purchasing not a single one.
None.
Zero.
My collection will not be growing.

[Masa]

Originally Posted by bogiesan

My collection will not be growing.

Mine will. I just added Metamorphosis to my list in a big way. :O

[vee]

Greg, I feel the same about Holy Light. I don't mind esotericism but I want to be able to ignore it and that deck is like a collaged scrapbook of every esoteric symbol and thought ever. And yet...

Tarot of the Metamorphosis is added to my wishlist now. I was intrigued by it earlier but never looked very close, but that strength card! *swoons*

[GoldenWolf]

Fortunately for my budget, I own most of the strange decks mentioned. I keep thinking that I could master both the Liber T and Dame Fortune's Wheel I have already if I could fully understand the picatrix associations although they are two very different decks.

Of the few that I don't own, I am interested in the Tarot of the Silicon Dawn because I am curious about the extra cards and whether they work or not as well as the UV effects (though I have a deck with the latter-Quantum 2d edition). Also interested in the Tarot of the Holy Light with all of its symbolism although I may wait for the companion book before buying that one.

[magpie9]

I caved and ordered Silicon Dawn...it sounds fascinating. I already have most of the others mentioned here, so I'm safe. Comparatively. Odd that no one's mentioned the Deviant Moon...is it just not weird enough?

[Greg Stanton]

Originally Posted by GoldenWolf

Fortunately for my budget, I own most of the strange decks mentioned. I keep thinking that I could master both the Liber T and Dame Fortune's Wheel I have already if I could fully understand the picatrix associations although they are two very different decks.

The Picatrix Decans relate only to GD/Crowley-type decks, like Liber T. Dame Fortune's pips depict the traditional, pre-GD meanings of the cards — no Decan associations whatsoever.

[Cat*]

Originally Posted by Greg Stanton

I'm tempted by the Tarot of the Holy Light. I just like the look of it. I can't stand esotericism, so my attraction to this deck is very out of character.

Me too! I got a reading with it once in the ISG (purely intuitive readings, no references to any known symbology) and really loved the colors.

The same is true for the Tarot of the Sephiroth, by the way. I love the artwork but I'm sooo not one to do a lot of research about esoteric symbols and qabalah and whatnot!

Originally Posted by vee

Tarot of the Metamorphosis is added to my wishlist now. I was intrigued by it earlier but never looked very close, but that strength card! *swoons*

Yes, that was one of the cards that made me buy it, too!

[Masa]

I'm pretty tempted by Dark Grimoire. I adore Lovecraft stuff, and this deck is incredibly well done. SO GOOD.

Despite this--or more likely because of it--I feel weird about buying it and giving it a home in my house. It feels like I should lock my door against it, not walk right in and put it on the shelf. I can't shake the superstitious feeling that it would sit there pulsating with Mephistophelean danger just like the books it depicts on its own aces.

[Cerulean]

and it has huge tiles for cards.

Yet it has a heart as warm as summer, a clean read and a fantasy flourish to its majors.

I really find it charming, so odd...there are beetles and running igunas in curious colors. But it is not a busy deck, rather the pips are spare. Somehow the deep colors and clean pips balance out the majors and courts.

But not many find attraction to a Prince of Ginko roots. Can you believe I haunted the web for three yearsas I waited for a translation of this card?

I almost guarentee a smile and nonpurchase.

Cerulean

[vee]

Masa, Dark Grimoire is a really fabulous deck. I am using it this week for the deck of the week group and loving it so much. <3

It's very delightfully Lovecraftian/gnostic. Strange, uneasy, but beautiful and not without hope.