Morwenna
kittiann said:So the consensus is that 1984 US Games decks with the Popess in the window are the good printings, correct? They seem fairly plentiful on ebay US. I just got one for $14, and there's others for $15-$20. So maybe I'm looking at the wrong edition? I guess I'll see in a few days
Yep. Mine is nice and clear, good detail, good color. I suppose you could call the background yellowish, though I'd rather call it cream, kind of like parchment only not mottled. The gold and silver are pictures of gold and silver, but they reproduce as well as can be expected. In fact if you hold a card to the light sideways, to produce glare, the silver pops out. It's particularly cool with the Popess, where a few details of the picture done in silver get accented.
I paid $20 for mine in a store, which is the blanket price of most of the single decks there, I think.