I have some fairly regular tarot decks also. I figured I'd touch on these before I get into some of the weirder decks I have.

First, my regular standard Rider Waite Smith that I got for 1$ from an online underwear store (I actually got 7 copies, because they were 1$ and having extra cheap tarot decks hanging around isn't a bad thing), cardstock is average, colors are fine. Only possible complaint is that you can tell if a card is reversed or not by the back, since it's not radially symmetrical. However I don't actually care about that part.

The Fairy Tale tarot is pretty much just a simplified Rider-Waite-Smith-alike deck. I got it with the intention to split/sell card singles for magpie decks (I had a decent trade in card singles for a couple years, enough to buy new decks to split and to give me a extra few pocketdollars). Honestly it's a little too simplified for my tastes, but could be nice for a beginner or perhaps just for someone that likes the sort of manga look of the art. Nice magnetic flap box, and the card edges are gilt in an aqua foil.

Star Trek TNG deck because of course. It's half awesome (The majors and courts) and half crap (The minors are just pip cards). Relatedly I just got a text from someone 2 days ago about this deck, they found that the store Ollie's has them for 5$ usd and wondered how many I needed, so I'll probably end up with a couple/three extra copies of this one for purposes as yet unknown.

The Miss Cleo deck was actually the first deck I owned, because it was cheap AF. This isn't the original copy I had, I split that one for magpie trades long ago. But the deck was still cheap AF, so I snagged an extra just to have. It's basically an Egyptian flavored Rider-Waite-Smith-alike.

THE FINAL ROSE TAROT

I love this one because it is so eye searingly pink and red and gold foil. Also the art style kinda reminds me a tiny bit of Patrick Nagel. Also it's based on everyone's favorite reality dating show. Like you'd expect from a TV reality show deck, reading from this deck tends towards the most dramatic answers, not neccessarily the best ones.

I didn't get it through the kickstarter, but that seems like the best link to the deck/artist. Don't buy this (or any deck) from amazon, there's counterfeit, shit quality copies out there.

Get decks from the artists that made them.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1712955714/the-final-rose-tarot #tarot

One thing I will note is that I do not have any Thoth decks because Crowley was a turdhuffer and ceremonial magic is so fuckin pretentious and pedantic. If you're into Thelema, great, you do you, but I'm not interested in ceremonial magic stuffs.

MOOD TAROT

This one...is complicated. First, the neat stuff: The cards are fully plastic, and therefore fully waterproof. Yes, that autograph from the creator is directed at me "#diceboi" (because Natalie made some assumptions as to gender, etc.) , and is only like 85% joking.

Natalie tried to run a sequel project to this one, where each card would be done by a different artist, then have the speech bubbles, et al, added. I signed up right near the deadline, paid the 50$ fee (red flag), and made a new card for it. Anyway, it turns out that some folks were using GenAI, I "innocently" inquired about AI policies, and the upshot is that like a fifth of the artists opted out of the project. I offered to let her use my card so long as I could be credited under a different name:

This was because I was not trying to torpedo the project entirely (despite hoping it would fail due to AI use), and also because Natalie has drastically unpredictable moods and I was more interested in not being a target as the whole thing came crashing down. The eventual kickstarter brought in about 5% of it's absurdly large goal, and was cancelled.

At some point, in the middle of all that, I correctly predicted that interacting with a particular instagram post would likely get her to send me some stuff to show off "influencer" style on my instagram, which she did. This deck, some stickers, a selenite wand, a package of ramen, and a few single cards. I duly showed them off to my audience of like 75 folks (She never checked to see if I even had a following)

Anyway, I cannot recommend dealing with this artist in any fashion, even to purchase a deck. However, as I said, the deck itself is fine. Just a lot of weird vibes tied up in my personal relationship to it.

I got 18 more decks to post, I think. I don't have the most extensive collection, but I have "enough". Yeah, there's a couple decks and some coins and stuffs that would be nice to have, but I'm not actively tempted by new divination stuff very much. I have plenty of widely varied tools with an expansive vocabulary. And also I got piles of blank cards and sharpies if I need new divination vocabulary.

Also I'm poor AF these days.

For completeness' sake, I'll repost my assorted divination dice. There's a complete set of the Publishing Goblin "Seasons" set of divination dice, plus also I've been a gamer dice goblin for a very long time, so there's just lots of assorted weird interesting dice.

This is a separate copy of the Seasons set of div dice from the ones in the blue tray in the hot pink chest.

On the topic of the divination dice from Publishing Goblin, there's also a card deck of the die faces. I'd intended to use this one as a way to be able to lay out like a 3x3 card mat to toss dice or coins on, but in practice I rarely go for it, mostly because the typeface and color choices make it hard for me to read.

THE LOMISHT
(a Darisa tarot)

So this one is pretty interesting, it's based on a world built by the designer. The anthromorphic species of the world is mono-gendered. The deck itself can be used as either a standard tarot deck (by pulling out certain cards), or as the in-world Lomisht (by pulling out certain other cards).

Anyway, if you're interested, check out the 222 page pdf covering the deck hosted on the designer's google drive here: https://goo.gl/16u7ou

Or if you want to just have a better overview than my scattered thoughts, check out the original kickstarter:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/58157872/a-darisa-tarot-the-lomisht

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Now, the way I acquired this deck is that, shortly after I moved in with my sister when my marriage finally crapped out, my sister said to me that she was making an order from an artist, and it happened that they made a #tarot deck, and would I be interested? So I said yes, obviously, sight unseen, and this is that deck.

MYSTIC GARBAGE ORACLE

This is one that knew would split well for magpie sales. It has 8 suits of 8 cards each. Thre's a moon phases suit, a deadly sins suit, a goddess suit, a mouth suit, a magic tools suit, and some other stuff.

I also just liked the art style and color palette. So when the artist had a huge sale because of an unplanned move, I managed to snag 5 copies of this one, and besides my copy here I still have one copy in shrinkwrap.

I don't really use this as a standalone oracle, but I do use the entire suit of sins is in my magpie deck.

TAROT ASSEMBLED

This one is a pretty cool oracle of symbols found in the Rider-Waite-Smith deck. It also lists the cards that the symbol appears on along the border, and then the background is filled with other symbols from those cards.

Just kind of a neat way to think about the symbols, and see connections between cards.

There's heavy iridescent foiling around the symbols, and the edges are colored a matte cyan. For me the downsides are that I'm not really a fan of the color choices for this deck, and also it's got that matte "velvet" finish (which I do not like the feel of, and it also interferes with my shuffling style)

I did make sure to get the separate guidebook for not just this deck, but the Tarot Disassembled tarot deck done in the same style (despite not actually having that deck). Very nice reference books on the symbols of the RWS

THE FORTY SERVANTS (and Four Devils)

So this one is designed to be a dvination deck, but also a library of servitors/egregores/archetypes to work with in chaos magic. This is the deluxe version, so it's on oversized 3.5x5.5 inch cards, but the standard version is on standard tarot sized cards.

I don't work with entities on my path, so I don't really interact with these as servitors or anything like that, but I have used some of these as sort of non-sentient archetype energies to flavor certain magic stuffs I do. The Four Devils are not traditional devils or demons, but are also servitors, covering the domains of Health, Wealth, Happiness, and Wisdom.

Anyway, the archetypes/servitors have fairly straightforward names and meanings, so you could probably find a way to use this deck no matter your path.

https://www.adventuresinwoowoo.com/thefortyservants/

the DECKTET

This playing-card-sized one is actually primarily designed for gaming, with six suits, and most cards having multiple suits. I honestly haven't really tried to wrap my head around the structure of it from a gaming perspective, but I know there's multiple games written for it.

However, it's also built for divination. Disregarding the suits and ranks part of the cards, each card is also an Ace, a Personality, a Location, or an Event. Many card illustrations are reversible, with different details (Such as the Miller presenting a sheaf of wheat in peace, or presenting a thresher in aggression).

My copy is actually a Double Decktet, which is the original deck plus the Capital deck. The Capital deck has the same suit and ranks as the original, but the card name and illustration are different. So from a games perspective, two of the same deck just with different art, but from a divination persective, two different decks.

You can tell at a glance which deck a card belongs to by looking at the "the" in the titles. It's all lower case in the original, and all capitals in the capital deck.

The artwork is fine, not my favorite style ever, but it's clear enough. One cool thing is that the illustration colors are almost entirely done with the colors of the suits of the card.

http://wiki.decktet.com/fortunes covers how to read the cards for divination

9 more posts until the crown jewel of my collection

the ALLEYMAN'S TAROT, the BOOSTER PACKS, the SEQUEL DECKS (to the Alleyman's), and the SEASONS LORDS ORACLE.

So these are technically 5 different decks from Publishing Goblin and several booster packs. Except, it's the Alleyman's tarot and the descendants thereof (And also the lords oracle from the divination dice but I'll explain that later)

The Alleyman's is a deck made up of cards licensed from a couple hundred artists, meant to be a replica of the deck used by the Alleyman, a mythical divination cryptid created by Seven Dane Asmund. Anyway, without getting too into the weeds, let's just say there's significant amounts of lore.

So it's a #MagpieTarot style deck, with each card having it's original card back replicated as well. The AlleyWAY tarot and the two oracles are recreations of three other decks "found" in the lore, also with unique card backs (Fun fact, a Cryptica card appears in the Alleyway tarot and another one is in the Oracle of Play). So I put my open copies of all these into a single card pool, and constructed myself a magpie of only Publishing Goblin cards. In the second picture, the closeup of the card edges, the stack inside the cloth lined container are the leftovers, and the pile standing up against the side of the container is the magpie I compiled out of it. Much like a TCG player, I'll sometimes tear down and rebuild a magpie deck out my personal card stash (I've got a separate stash of non-pub-gob cards for rearranging my personal magpie that lives in the hot pink chest). And then of course some example cards from my curated deck, and a card back spread are the third picture.

The Lords Oracle actually belongs to the Pub Gob Divination Dice. Each die is presided over by a "lord" from Seven's fictional worlds. Each lord has a card, so I shuffled them into the curated magpie deck. When one turns up, I roll the corresponding die, if I'm feeling energetic, or just read the lord card itself if I doin't feel up to dice.

THE NORMAL TAROT

tl;dr, it isn't normal.

So, the Normal Tarot. If you've ever run across Normal Horoscopes on tumblr, this is Caretaker's deck. Well, decks. There's 4 different decks, but they all have the same structure, just different art.

Here's how it's set up:

The three omens. The four maidens. The five dreams. The six books. The seven dead kings. The eight moons. And then a suit for each season, starting with the solstice or equinox as an ace, then the second through the tenth of the season. Then the first, second and third Knights for the season. And then the Lady, the Queen, and the Mother of the season.

The deck in the top row is a reprint of the original version, with the original art, and silver gilt edges. (and the version I tend to prefer, it's easier to see details and read the text on this version.)

Theoretically, there's a missing row for the "silver" edition. The silver edition uses the otiginal edition art, with some changes made to darken some negative space to make the silver foil details pop. I have a copy, but it's still in shrink.

Then the middle row in the pic is the Gold edition. I got this one when only the gold and silver editions were in print, so this one is an earlier printing than the other two in the pic (Why the box is a slightly different style than the other two). Lots of cool gold foil detail work on these, and gold edge gilding. I actually like the art on this better than the original/silver, it's just harder to read the text because of the typeface and also because the text is foiled.

The color version is the newest one, with no foil or edge gilding. It's nice but it's very soft, hard for me to see details in, and the titles are tiny. One notable thing about this version is that there is a person on every card which is not the case for the other versions.

The example cards are a Dead King, a Moon, a Book, and a card from a season from each of the three decks. I didn't bother to match them up between the decks, but should still give you a good idea of the different art flavors.

I ended up with these because during the final hour of crowfunding campaigns, Seven does a livestream and drops some ridiculous deals. Like, early on, I caught a "wandering tier" that was open for a short time to pick up one deck for 20$ which was already a significant discount, but then during the final hour livestream, Seven dropped an add-on item that was a copy of each of the 4 versions without the accompanying book for 20$ total.

Anyway, the upshot is, go attend the final hour livestream on publishing goblin crowdfundings

THE ADVENTURER'S TAROT (Empress Deck)

This one is actually a d&d tool. It's got multiple copies of all the classes, dnd races, and creature types as cards, and you use them to replace initiative rolls. You add a card for each actor in the encounter, shuffle 'em up, and flip 'em one by one, and that's your initiative.

They added on a dvination/oracle method though, which is what I reference with the d&d class coins in the coin casting conglomeration posted previously.

I never really liked trying to use this one as a standalone oracle. The art is really nice, I particularly like the color palettes. Cards of the same type use the same art, but recolored, so each is visually distinct at a glance, in addition to being marked like "I of humanoids, II of humanoids, III of humanoids", etc.

Lots of gold foil detail all over the fronts, backs, and the box.

One thing I'd like to point out, I kickstarted this deck only 5 years ago, january of 2020. It was 20$, and was going to retail for 30$. They just did a crowdfunder to do an updated reprint. 45$ for the deck, to retail at 60$.

That's how much costs have gone up in 5 years due to pandemic price gouging, supply chain whatevers, and also just the general state of The Everything.

from https://www.weird.works/

Seems like a good time to throw in these couple from the board game shelf. The art cards in Mysterium (and Dixit) make great divination decks, if you're comfortable with a looser more intuitive type of situation. I used the Mysterium cards before I got my first actual tarot. I don't go for it much these days because there is One Billion pieces in that game box that I am too tired to fight.

The other is Looney Pyramids in Magic the Gathering colors (on a pub gob dice mat). This method is still sorta in the prototype stage, but here's kind the rough idea. The pyramids show the interplay of different energies (M:tG color stereotypes/philosophy) in a situation. The point of the pyramid shows what the energy is acting upon like an arrow. Different sizes show the Primary, Secondary, and Etc. factors.

The pyramids can be read alone or tossed atop a coin, dice or card reading.

the HIERONYMOUS BOSCH TAROT

This is the one from Travis McHenry that uses the actual Bosch art, not the one from Lo Scarabeo that's just 'inspired' by Bosch.

This one is probably even more weirder than you're picturing. There's a 22 card major arcana the vaguely corresponds to the standard array of Majors, but this one has cards like The River To Hell, The Flower Pusher, and Mistress of Terror.

But wait, there's more!

This deck has 8 suits of 7 cards each: Berries, Birds, Skates, Swords, Vessels, Books, Coins, and Sins.

How does a 7 card suit work in this deck? Well, there's no pip cards, just court cards and aces. So each suit (excepting sins) has the Page, Knight, Baron, Prince/Princess, Queen, King, and Ace.

This is the first version of the deck, it's had a reprint with keywords added to the cards, and blue foil edge gilding.

Given how Christianity-oriented the deck is, it's not one I tend to go for to actually use, but it's weird, it messed with "traditional" tarot structure, It was on sale to make way for the new edition, I had to acquire it.

THE ARCANALESS

This one is from fellow Alley artist and community member, Matthew Pazzol https://pazzoldeckshop.bigcartel.com/

The Alley is the name of the facebook group for the members of the Alleyman's Tarot fandom/community, and has kind of become one of the general ways to refer to the folks actively participating in the community. Alleyfolk or The Seventeen (which I don't personally care for) are also common.

The Arcanaless is a deck meant to be split apart and used for #MagpieTarot decks, so there's not actually a structure to this one. There's a suit of birds, a partial suit of worms, a bunch of oracle style cards, and then a section that aren't even titled at all, they're just his artwork.

His card art construction techniques and mine are similar, but he has better image resources to remix, and likely spends a lot more time per card than I ever did.

Anyway, I love his work, I wish I could afford his other 4 decks.

STARCODES ASTRO ORACLE

The title makes it sound a lot more "new age woo" than it actually is. (I know the irony of talking about new age woo on a post about an astrology oracle deck, you don't have to @ me about that part). It's actually a straightforward astrology deck, with all the planets, houses, signs, asteroids, points, and aspects you'd expect. The card number and text are easy to read.

But the artwork.

And the colors.

This one is just pure eye-candy for me. This is what my elementary school trapper keepers aspired to be.

Also this one is a mass-market deck, so it isn't even expensive.