Expensive decks you just don't want

I don't have really expensive decks on my wishlist at the moment, and there are many I don't need or want - although I am not really aware which are expensive (why would I look at the price if I don't want it anyway...) but to name some:

Daniloff - the elastic bands behind the ears put me right of.
Tyldwick - pretty but not something I would want to read with
Maat - actually had this one but sold it - too many babies and fertility for me!
Alice - not that big on Alice
Victorian Romantic Gold
Buckland Romani.

But, I have a Granny Jones and totally love it, I use it a lot.

The Greenwood, Granny Jones, many of the most highly sought after MRP decks. I don't hate any of them, Granny Jones has a cuteness to it, and if I saw any of these at a yard sale I'd probably buy them, if they had the typical yard sale kind of prices.

Top of the list would be the Tyldwick. I know it has many fans, not dissing the deck, just not a reader for me, which means not a deck I want.

Actually any deck I don't already have except the silver first ed Bohemian Gothic, which I know I will never have and am really fine with that. But this is one I would LIKE that's expensive. Nothing else really.

Aeric said:

Was it really the Wildwood that reignited interest in it? The majority seem to call Wildwood inferior, but I don't believe Greenwood was extremely popular before Wildwood was published?

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Gosh no. The Greenwood was loved and desired way before the Wildwood. Ages before there was even talk of a Wildwood. And ages before the original artist was touted (Virginia Lee who did the Enchanted Lenormand - I still just know that if she had done it, the deck would have had a more earthy, gentler, less sketchily male vibe and I would probably have liked it much more.)

I regret spending money on the Ironwing. I should have gone with my instinct. Curiosity sometimes gets the better of us. Now it languishes in a box of unused stuff. I doubt I'd get what I paid for it - I wasn't overcharged - but I see more expensive stuff taking longer to go in Trading now.

I rack my brains to think of others - the biggies - like the Greenwood, Magna Veritas, MRP limited edition Gold & Silver decks are very valuable to me. I love them. So many of them that I see going for high prices, I bought at normal price when new. But the Granny Jones really is out there. With the others, I do see large numbers of people rave about them and I think "yes, how deserved etc" but I have only ever seen half a dozen people at most rave about the Granny Jones. I can think of nisaba, Altena used to like and use it too and now someone mentioned it above - but I think that's about it (actually not even half a dozen).

It surprises me to see the Tyldwick and Daniloff here. I don't think of them in this way. But different strokes etc.

Le Fanu said:

It surprises me to see the Tyldwick and Daniloff here. I don't think of them in this way. But different strokes etc.

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I was surprised about the Daniloff too. I love mine. I'll have to look at the Tyldwick again, I can't recall much about it. I think I looked at scans ages ago.

rylla said:

It's a HTF deck for many years and it used to be a quite popular one. There was a period that you could 'hear' many people looking for it (and many people said they loved it).

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That'd be me. It's stood the test of time. It's still outstanding and numinous with depth after two decades. Can I say that of ANY other deck in my collection? Er - no.

Laura Borealis said:

I think Granny Jones is charming, and it reportedly has a lot of depth, but I don't feel the need for that one either. I'll leave it to those who cherish it.

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<shakes head sadly>

prudence said:

I was surprised about the Daniloff too. I love mine. I'll have to look at the Tyldwick again, I can't recall much about it. I think I looked at scans ages ago.

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Me too. I can understand not being into the art style, and I remember that some people were put off by the masks, but I don't know where "does not seem like tarot" is coming from.

Just a comment that this thread went off exponentially!

nisaba said:

The thing with decks is that their cost is a complete unknown to me. I would have no idea what expensive decks are on my never-to-buy list, because I don't realise what the prices are until I've made up my mind to buy them.

There are probably dozens of supposedly desirable, overpriced decks that I'd never even glance at, but I have no idea which ones of the ones I don't glance at they are.

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I find all the truly antique decks interesting, but would not buy any of them for any price, because I do not connect with them on an emotional - reader level....
An exception would be an original old Soprafino deck, because of my family connection to this deck, but pay $ 1800.00 for it like the last on I saw?
No, not really.....
What do the truly oooold complete Marseilles decks in go for these days anyway?