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

[Nina*]

Visconti
TdM
RWS
Thoth
Quantum
Victorian Romantic
Morgan Greer
Röhrig
Aquarian
Alchemical

Today:

Thoth
TdM (Camoin/Jodorowski)
Albano Waite
Bohemian Gothic
Deirdre of the Sorrows
Victorian Romantic
Morgan Greer
Universal Fantasy
Diary of a Broken Soul
Sun and Moon

 

[zan_chan]

Hmmm Top Ten decks, huh? That's pretty tough, actually. Well, let's see...

1. Haindl, trimmed (never woulda guessed, huh? )
2. Thoth (large, trimmed, UN-greenie)
3. Morgan Greer (Morgan's Press, especially)
4. Albano Waite (Tarot Productions, especially)
5. William Blake Tarot of the Creative Imagination
6. Jacques Vieville
7. Minchiate Etruria (LS)
8. Fantastic Menagerie
9. Barbara Walker's Tarot (don't ask. guilty pleasure. oh the shame)
10. Rohrig

ETA: Hmm, forgot the Navigators of the Mystic SEA. Got me one of those (two actually) because of Le Fanu and keep meaning to get it out...)

Not gonna lie - rarely, if ever, use a number of those. But right now, if I could only keep ten decks, it'd probably be those.

 

[Jesii]

Never done this before, but here goes

1. The Manga Tarot
2. BGS
3. Black Tarot
4. Favole
5. Solleone
6. Moon Princess Himoko Tarot
7. Dragon Tarot Type 2
8. Hello Kitty
9. Halloween Tarot
10. Looking for a Lunatic card edition to put here

 

[roppo]

1 Blue Box Rider.
2 Aquarian
3 PCS Commemorative RWS.
4 AG Muller RWS mini.
5 Tarot de Paris.
6 Hoi Polloi.
7 Sternenmadchens Wahrsagespiel
8 Soprafino
9 1JJ
10 Oswald Wirth

Mine is a strange mixture of Traditional Tarot and 60s-70s occult oriented decks.

 

[Silver Crow]

My very own top ten-

Waking the Wild Spirit
Soprafino
Deidre of the Sorrows
Deviant Moon
Cosmic Tarot
Pearls of Wisdom
Minchiate Fiorentine
RWS
Golden Tarot
Anna K (I would have to leave all the TDM's behind for this one)

That's my list at the moment. There's quite a mixture there.

 

[Le Fanu]

OK, I'm going to try and do this without looking at the previous TWO lists! It's "of all time" right? Not just "like"...

Ok.. concentration...

(in no order)

Thoth
Jacques Vieville
Victorian Romantic (Gold or otherwise)
Bohemian Gothic (Silver or otherwise)
Navigators of the Mystic SEA
Minchiate Fiorentina
LoS Ancient Tarot of Marseilles
J.B Benois Besançon deck (Meneghello)
William Blake, Tarot of the Creative Imagination.
I hate to waste a space but I'd have to say the RWS. I mean, you just have to don't you? How could I live without consulting this? Without thinking about this? It would be either my 30-odd year old Rider & Co edition I bought at the beginning of my Tarot journey, my Pamela B or my grubby "Original" "Made in Belgium" one which I really do get out an awful lot.

OK, now I'm going to post the last post I did...

A few changes...

1. Victorian Romantic (Gold or Regular)
2. Greenwood
3. Bohemian Gothic (Silver or Regular)
4. Thoth
5. Golden Tarot of Klimt
6. Jacques Vieville
7. Royal Fez Moroccan Tarot
8. Minchiate Florentina
9. Tarot Balbi
10. Russian Tarot of St Petersburg

The Soprafino has become a bit of a "take out and drool but don´t really use" deck now.

The Vieville has stayed; I knew it was a special one from the start

ETA; had to put the Minchiate back in there...

mmmmm. interesting!

 

[Angie9]

Angie's Top Ten

1. Spiral
2. Mythic
3. Victorian Romantic
4. Baroque Bohemian Cats
5. Fantastical
6. Anna K
7. Paulina
8. Deviant Moon
9. Pearls of Wisdom
10. Celtic Dragon

 

[inanna_tarot]

Ok, my top tarot decks (NOT including all the oracles that I love to pieces)

1)Thoth
2) RWS Commemorative edition ( I dont like any of the others)
3) Druidcraft
4) Deviant Moon (ohh yes, my precious!)
5) Transparent Tarot
6) Tarot of the Sidhe
7) Sol Invictus : The God Tarot
8) Witches Tarot (Cannon-Reed)
9) Vargo Gothic
10) Vampire Tarot (place)


and my top oracles would include
1) Transparent Oracle
2) Frouds Faeries Oracle
3) Madame Endora
4) Druid Plant Oracle
5) Ogham oracle

 

[Vesper]

If I could only keep ten of my tarot decks:

Angels Tarot, (Robert Place)
Baroque Bohemian Cats 2nd ed.
Bohemian Gothic 1st ed.
Diary of a Broken Soul
Fantastic Menagerie
Mythic
Pimped Rider Waite (the Tarot Sutra)
Vampire Tarot (Robert Place)
Victoria Regina
Victorian Romantic, Gold

(it would be interesting to see this in poll format. My guess is the Victorian Romantic would come out close to the top.)

 

[Alta]

Rider Waite Smith: read with it for over 30 years exclusively; part of my mental reading background.
Robin Wood: my second deck: 2 exclusive years, years and the time I learned to meditate and ground, using this deck.
The Minute Deck: the first deck that ever struck me as deeply humourous and witty; reads so well for me.
Baroque Bohemian Cats because it gave me so much insight into my work issues (still excellent, but then was when it shone for me)
The Noblet: the first TdM that I have ever genuinely liked visually and have gotten readings from(!!).
The Thoth: my love/hate deck but I think its images are burned into my brain and it has just become part of my reading background. Sometimes I am reading with another deck and the Thoth image of that card superimposes mentally and that is always correct for the querent.

Those 6 sort of stand alone for me, but I'll add 4 other decks that I found influential, to me and in my time.

Shining Tribe: I spent a long time with this one year, both by myself and with amyel. Amazingly insightful deck, reaches deep into the older layers of your psyche.
The Fey: another deck I used for a long time and found it could be harsh and revealing. The swords suit in this deck to me reveals a way of looking at swords that sometimes I suspect is closer to their real meaning than some prettier decks (not that the Fey isn't pretty).
The Crone: I hesitate here, because this deck is new. But, I have been using it as a conjunction to the Shadow Work spreads (for which I am using Robin Wood) and have found it shockingly revealing. Perhaps it is my physical age.
Gaian: a majors only deck, I use it often for personal daily throws. Maybe I just like the art, but there must be some reason as I am drawn to it again and again and have since I purchased it. I also like the ways she describes the cards on her web site.

Marion

I was a little surprised to see that the first 6 decks still stand for me. My last 4 however have receded into the background. Shining Tribe, I just don't use any more, The Crone never really took, the Gain 78 card edition was such a massive disappointment that I cannot look at even the Majors (which I used to adore) any more, The Fey I would probably still like but other shave supplanted its attractions.

So, my 'new' final & current fav 4 decks to complete the list:

- Infinite Visions
- my copy of Illuminated (medium, light sparkly paint)
- Celtic Dragon
- Shadowscapes.

In my heart I doubt that any but the Illuminated will pass the test of another 2 years though.

Alta