the contenders
i decided on two decks a month and tried to pair up the decks in such a way that each month has at least one comfortable/familiar reading style (RWS or TdM) in addition to any "experimental" decks (decks that don't really follow one particular school or use the picard system i'm not too familiar with), and so that they don't "double up". additionally, i tried to get them to somehow match the month/season i'd be using them in, although i couldn't apply that to every deck.
the selection
- january - tarocchi 23 and the shadowplay (handmade)
- february - enchanted tarot and the candyfloss (handmade, majors only)
- march - ritual tarot and the thoth
- april - crystal tarot (picard system) and the basic RWS
- may - claude burdel tdm and my archeology collage deck (handmade, majors only)
- june - the queer tarot and the budapest
- july - the morgan-greer and the drowning world
- august - margarete petersen and the othrysian tarot
- september - the cat people tarot and the ancient italian (soprafino)
- october - visconti-sforza and the polish tarot
- november - trionfi della luna paradoxical and the aquarian tarot
- december - el gran tarot esoterico (picard system) and the black veil (handmade)
the ranking so far
top decks:
- claude burdel
- shadowplay
- ritual tarot
- thoth
- arche arcana
somewhere in the middle, can't really differentiate:
- budapest tarot
- tarocchi 23
- enchanted tarot
bottom decks:
- candyfloss
- queer tarot
- crystal tarot
- RWS
the middling decks certainly have redeeming features and fascinate me in one way or another, but i don't think trying to give them a precise ranking makes sense, if they're clearly not part of the "top" decks. the feeling of using the top vs. the middling decks is markedly different and the entire point is to identify the top decks, so that's enough for me.
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