Hi,
I had missed this thread, but it sounds interesting !
Though I'm a newbie, I already have bought a deck I shouldn't have : the gilded tarot !
What's strange is that a lot of people say they love this one, and that's why I chose it as a first deck, but when I recieved it, I felt weird.
I did want a colorful deck, I liked the imagery and the black background...
The first card I saw was the magician, but lack of luck, I do not like this one at all. Anyway, I did spend a lot of time studying each card as adviced in the guidebook... I ruined a handmade notebook with feelings and interpretations of these 78 cards I didn't feel any appeal with...
When I finally got my Marseille, everything was different ! I felt like I had a real jewel into my hands, even if I didn't like the imagery at first.
I think I would have kept the gilded if it wouldn't have sounded foolish... Yes, I felt deeply sorry and disappointed when I drew my first cards with it... I tried many times, puryfied it, slept with it, but every try I gave it was a failure. He told me nonsense, although my understanding of the cards had been made easy thanks to the long hours I had spent working on them...
Well, I've got a gilded tarot on sale.