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Originally Posted by jackdaw*
I have the Golden Rider, and I love it. But there are many reasons you don't want it, sravana ...
Yuck backs.
Thick oil paint medium means that there is no such thing as fine detail in this deck!
(I think due again to the medium) the faces are very crude.
Colours are very flat, this is not a three-dimensional deck.
When all is said and done, this is still just another Rider-Waite clone. And not one of the better ones.
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Backs: yes, they are awful. But not nearly as bad as the Haindl!
No fine detail: I rather like that idea. Kind of an "International Icon Tarot"-lite. I'm trying to get away from seeing every little detail (hello - THOTH - I'm looking at you!) and into a more broad, global way of reading.
Lack of faces: well, some of them are an improvement that way! (the Star is a notable exception. Oh well)
3-Dimensional: I've yet to see a deck of 78 cards that is in more than the usual 2 dimensions! ..
Actually, I know what you mean there...
NEXT!