Your top ten list

Alright , here's my Top Ten; it's pretty consistent

1. RWS; specifically my worn, beloved RWS (blue box, pre-US Games)
2. Thoth
3. Le Tarot Noir - straight in at #3! Love at first sight
4. Sacred Rose
5. Aquarian
6. Pierre Madenie
7. Greenwood
8. Bohemian Gothic
9. Vertigo
10. ....ok, I've been struggling with the 10th deck. Contenders include the Mary-El, the Secret Forest, the Paulina, the Navigators of the Mystic SEA and the Zirkus Magi. All decks I possess, use & love. However, I've decided to choose the Nusuntara. A deck I don't have and that I have little chance of finding, a 'holy grail' deck I suppose.

In no particular order:

Golden Dawn (Regardie-Wang)
Waite/Smith
Tarot of the Angels - Lo Scarabeo
Oswald Wirth
Golden Tsar
1JJ Swiss
ST. Petersburg
Connolly
TDM Grimaud/Fournier
Sacred Rose
G.O.M Kabbalistic
Arthurian (Matthews)
Tarot of the old Path


Freddie

My top 10 are...

1. good ol' RWS
2. Morgan Greer
3. Victorian Romantic
4. Bohemian Gothic
5. Starchild
6. Vampyres
7. Tarot de Paris (the companion book is simply amazing!)
8. Wisdom of Avalon oracle
9. AA Michael oracle
10. Paulina

***and...Baba's Fantastic Menagerie Tarot is on my wishlist. Not sure how it reads, but the artwork would enchant me forever!

No particular order, and I'm always revising this in my head!:

1. RWS- the PCS Centennial version
2. Morgan Greer
3. Deviant Moon
4. Dame Darcy's Mermaids
5. Tarot of the Crone
6. Anna K
7. the Daniloff
8. Hidden Realm

Wow, I got to 8 and realized that none of my other decks (and I have around 70 total!) are on the same level as these 8 in my mind. There are some very close honorable mentions (Victorian Fairy, Pagan Cats, Victorian Romantic off the top of my head) but I haven't worked with them quite enough to put them among the above group just yet.

I also own multiple copies of most of these decks (RWS, MG, Deviant, Dame Darcy, and Anna K!)

feynrir's ten

1. Rider-Waite-Smith (NOT A GLOSSY/TYPEFONT COPY THOUGH, DEAR GOD)
2. Thoth
3. CBD Tarot de Marseille

The essentials are out of the way.

4. Hidden Realm
5. Victorian Romantic
6. DruidCraft
7. ISIS Tarot de Marseille
8. Fairy Lights

The beauties are out of the way, too.

9. Joie de Vivre
10. Deviant Moon

My cheeky decks of choice, and two of my most consistent and best readers.

Honorable mentions of the Chosson TdM and the Bonefire. This list would change every day but tonight it feels like this is a pretty solid Top Ten for me.

1. Morgan-Greer
2. Dark Angels
3. Ludy Lescot
4. Undersea
5. Fairy Lights
6. Halloween
7. Herbal
8. Vision Quest
9. Vampyres
10.Nine Lives

In no particular order.

1. Fergus Hall
2. Illuminati
3. Via
4. Fournier TdM
5. Balbi
6. Thoth
7. GD Temple
8. Masonic
9. Holy Light
10. Roots of Asia

Almost got ins - Legacy of Divine, Liber T, Magow, Night Sun

As of today though, I would swap the Fournier for the Pointner

10 decks? That would have to be a mix of the decks that work best for reading and some of my all time favorites:

Illuminated tarot
Thoth
Rosetta
Maximo
Ingesrid Blakstad's
Mansions of the Moon
Daniloff
Belline
Sola Busca revisited
Illuminati
a cat deck

Thoth
Morgan Greer
CBD TdM
Anna K.
Daniloff
Touchstone
Botticelli
Secret Forest
Wild Unknown
Dreaming Way

There were some difficult choices. Botticelli or Saints? Wild Unknown or Badgers Forest? Dreaming Way or Dame Darcy? Touchstone or Golden? ...

But if I had to leave all my other decks behind and just grab ten, these are the ones I'd most probably grab.

1. RWS - PCS Centennial edition or Hanson Universal
2. Thoth
3. Either ISIS or CBD Marseilles
Then it gets tricky because my views change, but....
4. Pagan Cats
5. Tarot of St. Croix
6. Sevenfold Mystery
7. Shadowscapes
8. Ironwing
9. Gaian Majors
10. Secret