CRAFTERIAN Classic Tarot Set - 78 Gold-Edged Classic Cards with Guidebook - Perfect for Beginners - Sleek Light Deck & Comprehensive Manual - Authentic Tarot Experience.

I bought both light & dark versions of this deck. The card stock is the same (as you can see in the short video I included). Both decks have gold edging, which causes the cards to stick a bit. Separating the cards by placing cards one after the other between 2 piles. Then shuffling, helps to unstick them. Do that a few timed & they eventually get unstuck. The books both have the exact same text for upright & reversal meanings. Overall, good quality, good interpretations of the cards & readings are a breeze. Great for beginners & seasoned readers.

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The media could not be loaded. I have purchased several decks off Amazon. This is the only one I didn't send back.The cards are thick with a matte finish. Vibrant colors! I was afraid that the gold edges would flake after use; however, there has been minimal chipping/flaking, and I use them a lot. Many other reviewers have stated that the card stock is not thick enough... I disagree! They are quite sturdy, yet flexible enough to shuffle like playing cards (after you warm them up a bit). I don't shuffle by spreading them all out. I think it is much more efficient and effective to shuffle like you would a set of playing cards, and these shuffle great! They don't crease or bend too much! Just enough for a good shuffle.These are great for beginners as they are the traditional images. The guidebook is (as many small guide books are) very superficial and give a very very elementary review of the card meanings. I do not hold any bad feelings for this against the publisher. There is only so much space to put information in such a small book in the box.My final recommendation is that you should get these cards! They are actually very great for the value!

These are nice thick cards; "standard-wide" size. It's a struggle finding the Waite-Smith deck borderless for some reason, and this is one of the better ones I've found—assuming you like the patina. The colors are obviously subdued, but I greatly prefer this over some of the obnoxiously bright (practically like it was colored with highlighter) and poorly colored versions out there. I like the backing well enough, and even though the gold edges seems almost out of place with this style, I don't mind it. The box is sturdy but nothing special and the lid is loose rather than snug. The book is nicely made and better written than many, but it's a more modern flavor of messaging than what Waite actually wrote.There are two issues that caused me to drop a star though: (1) The small issue I have is that the patina is literally copy-paste identically on every card—this is extremely lazy, but they probably would have gotten away with it if it weren't for the dark splotch in the upper left corner (my mind went to Scooby Doo too). But the real problem with this deck (2) is that they tried too hard to be creative and they moved the titles up from the very bottom (where they belong); I get it, it would look nice if the art had been designed around the idea, but it's not. So, what happens is that you pointlessly reveal dead space and you obscure important and interesting details in the art. That's a really, really bad trade-off. For example, on the Empress you get extra lines of wheat that look like a barcode, but on Death you can't even tell the king is in the foreground or see the crown at all. On the aces you lose most of the foreground. Basically, it adds nothing to any cards, but it takes things away from quite a few cards.Overall, I still like it, they're nice cards, they're borderless, and I personally like the patina. However I recommend the Mary Hanson-Roberts version (requires cutting in my opinion) so that you can really see all the little details and have a companion deck that is way more vibrant and clean looking (see pics), but loses some of Smith's original lines in the process.