Years ago late one night I was enjoying a drink, smoking, and free-form pulling cards.  I accidentally grazed the back of this pack with a lit clove cigarette, permanently burning a blemish on the card.  I still love and read with this one. What tarot blunders have damaged your decks unnaturally?  Did you keep it your reading rotation?

 

Pictured: Deck of the Bastard from TarotbySeven, LLC.   This back is a custom choice and I believe no longer available. This is the standard sized, keyworded first edition. Keywords are both upright and reversed.

 

Share your mishaps -- I cannot be the only one with a few tarot regrets.

 

 

Edited July 18, 20251 yr by Wyrdkiss

I have bent a corner on one card of my Cosmic Tarot. Don´t remember what card or how it happen, but of course I got sad.
I can still use the deck but the card reminds me every time that it´s broken...😞

Some years later I got a new deck from my cousin that said she didn´t use her deck anymore.

I could of course bought myself a new deck but this time I didn´t have to.

On 7/27/2025 at 5:27 PM, Libra 58 said:

I have bent a corner on one card of my Cosmic Tarot. Don´t remember what card or how it happen, but of course I got sad.
I can still use the deck but the card reminds me every time that it´s broken...😞

Some years later I got a new deck from my cousin that said she didn´t use her deck anymore.

I could of course bought myself a new deck but this time I didn´t have to.

a bent corner is rougher than my situation above, by far.  If it skews the reading, or pulls more easily out of the deck, that is a problem.  Glad it worked out. 

When I was around 22 years old, when I first got my Shadowscapes deck, I heard a tip that if you sleep with a card under your pillow you may dream of it or have interesting dreams. I used to have intense dreams, insomnia, and sleep paralysis so that sounded appealing. I tried it with my favorite card, the Star, and of course when I woke up it was creased 🤪 

I went to take a picture of it and it was worse in my memory. I guess it healed 😂 You can mostly see it on the title, which isn’t too bad.

If I were to try this again, I’d put it in a book first. I saw that suggestion after trying my experiment. It should’ve been obvious to me, but lesson learned anyway. And yeah, I didn’t stop using the deck, of course.

Edited October 16, 2025Oct 16 by zurgles

I de-bordered my Golden Tarot by Cat Black - and regretted it.

It looks nicer with the borders on. Sigh.

I supposed I should just get a new one... but noooooo - I am attached to my de-bordered one.

Lol.