My best buy was my first deck, the Servants of the Light which I bout for at a garage sale for $15CAN . (At that time it was selling for around $100US). I wasn't familiar with the tarot and I was curious what it could be. I haven't seen any layouts before so I did a reading placing the first card in the middle and I attributed to 4 surrounding cards the [below-above-behind-in front of ] meanings. I've got the 10 of Swords as in front of me card, which I interpreted that I am going to die. So I put the cards away waiting to die. When I didn't I read some more about the tarot and found layouts with the same meanings that I've came up with. I considered it to be a sign that tarot is for me LOL. I'm in love with it to these days.

Edited December 3, 20223 yr by rylla

I have three best deals. One was trading my Revelations tarot ($20-30) for the Ophidia Rosa ($60) with someone on reddit. I made sure they knew mine was easily accessible, but they didn’t care, To be honest, Revelations tarot is way easier to read and might be the better deck, but I wouldn’t have bought this deck otherwise and it is interesting and pretty.

The second is a trade I got on a forum for Baba Studio’s OOP Fairytale Tarot in exchange for a couple amazon decks shipped directly to them. It wasn’t too expensive, though I don’t remember exactly how much I spent. The only thing was it didn’t come with a guidebook, but that isn’t too bad because I can just google the Fairytales if I’m not familiar with them.

The third was a good deal at the time. It was a first edition Tyldwick. I think I bought it on CollecTarot. I had signed up for alerts in case they brought it back in stock. I got it for $110 with shipping and it’s the most expensive deck I own, but it was way better than the hundreds of dollars it was going for online. Some lady on instagram actually offered to buy it and said “name your price” but I declined, haha. Hopefully she got one of the recent reprintings.