Top 10 deck list for 2013

BeyondtheVeil said:

I definitely vote for Tarot of the Hidden Realm as the number one deck of 2013!!! It is a GORGEOUS and AMAZING reading deck!

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Yes, I think so too ... but this also:

tarot heart said:

But, Tarot of the Kilted Chicken was my favorite TdM!

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Is the Alice Tarot (by Magic Realistic Press) a contender ?

Every year we get confused about what was published when. Thank goodness for the organized collectors with data bases. I don't even have a list of my decks on paper.

I'm enamored of the Sola Busca, the Wolfgang Mayer printing, true to the original, put out by Giordano Berti in 2013.

Sola Busca is the oldest known deck with all 78 cards fully illustrated.
It had a huge influence on Pixie Smith's drawings for the Rider-Waite deck.

The Mayer cards were printed in 1998, 700 copies, apparently most unsold. After the printer died, Berti bought the remaining decks, packaged them beautifully, and made them available. They are a real treat. Who knows if they would count as "2013" cards, though. Attached photo from Berti's web page.

2014 might be the year to start a thread entitled "Decks published in 2014" for the purpose of keeping track.

As one with an organised database: (and yes, Wild Unknown was 2012)

These are the ones I have (there were quite a few on Gamecrafter and Etsy that I didn't acquire...) And sadly, debra, I don't really think that Mayer Sola Busca can count. Some people had it way back when. (no not me.)

Animal Wisdom Tarot
Anna K Tarot
Archangel Power Tarot Cards
Badger's Forest Tarot
Black Cats Tarot
Bohemian Gothic Tarot - third edition + mini
Bonefire Tarot
Book of Shadows Tarot 2 (so below)
Cat-a-Vasya Tarot
Dark Goddess Tarot
Deck of the Bastard
Dream Raven Tarot
Ellis Deck
Elora Tarot
Everyman Tarot (22)
Fairy Lights Tarot
Fantarocco di Franco Anichini
Golden Tarot: The Visconti-Sforza deck
Golden Universal Tarot
Greater Mysteries Tarot
Gypsy Palace Tarot
Hand of the North Tarot
Healing Tarot
Journey into Egypt Tarot
Kilted Rubber Chicken Tarot
Le Grand Tarot de l'Amour
Mibramig Magical Tarot
Portland Tarot (22)
Rosetta Tarot (mini)
Samhain Deck of the Bastard
Snowland Tarot)
Tarot 3D (22)
Tarot de Marseille Mamanmiyuki
Tarot de Marsella Robledo
Tarot Draconis
Tarot Illuminati
Tarot Lovers' Tarot
Tarot of Marseilles from François Chosson 1736
Tarot of the Golden Serpent (22)
Tarot of the Hidden Realm
Tarot of the Wyrd
Tarot Waiting to Happen (22)
Tiny Tots Tarot
Tyldwick Tarot
Victorian Fairy Tarot
W. T. Horton Tarot (22)
Watersprite Tarot

I doubt if I will vote...

The Alice deck, by the way, is NOT a contender as it doesn't exist. We don't know when it will come out.

I should also add a couple I know of and don't have - as well as those people have asked me to.

Blue Cats
Animism
Sola Busca (Il Meneghello)
Animism Tarot
Animalis Os Fortuna Tarot
Cephalopod Tarot
Purl's Yarn & Monkey Tarot
Wickwillow Tarot
Awakening Aeon Tarot
Frau Grand Duchess
Golden Age of Hollywood
Sevenfold Mystery (questionable)
Steampunk Tarot: Wisdom From the Gods of the Machine (questionable)

Oh I didn't know that it would be possible to mention the Bohemian Gothic Tarot for instance, thus reissues.

How many votes one person has?

I don't approve of allowing votes for reissues myself. Others disagree. I'd love Solandia to exclude them, myself.

gregory, didn't the Illuminati come out this year? I don't see it on your list.

Alta said:

gregory, didn't the Illuminati come out this year? I don't see it on your list.

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Good grief - yes indeed. One moment.... Off (terrified) to database...

That's weird - it shows as 2013, and comes up on a search now.... I hope I didn't miss anything else, then.... Added.

AH and whew. I have the kit and the deck. I deleted one - I must have "over selected", is all.

I was going to vote for the Illuminati but I'll go for the Mibramig for its creative twist.

My first thought after seeing Gregory's list is that the Deck of the Bastard was the best new tarot I bought this year. The whole concept of the deck really blew my mind . . . and it is so freaking beautiful in person.

But then, I really crazy-love the Elora tarot, too.

Decisions, decisions.