Your 'What The Heck?!' Decks

[Penthasilia]

I have been collecting for, ahem, a minute or two.

 

And yet still, to this day, I get these "What the heck?!" moments- or, as I like to think of them "What the heck?! decks".

 

These are the decks you somehow missed out on- no idea they were even out there, and you stumble across through some weird portal and, ta-dah, there it is. Sometimes in print or sometimes not.

 

I have had two recently: the Peterson Noblet and the Golden Renaissance (I literally had no idea there were decks out there that had a majority of the Charles VI imagery, sadly missed on the early two limited print ones that were better). Make that three actually- I missed the Tourcaty from Yves, which makes me a cry a little on the inside.

 

So- what are your "What the heck?!" decks? I am hoping for a thread of decks that we don't know about, something to keep a running list of those lesser known, but amazing historical decks that are out there floating in the ethers. 

 

PS- I am in love with the Peterson, no idea why, but I ended up giving my Flornoy Noblet to a friend as I didn't gel with it. This one is sublime.

[Guest]

I'm sure I have more than one, but Robledo's Vandenborre Flamand comes immediately to mind. I missed the first edition by a minute, then got in a very long line for the second. I did get one though, and it's lovely!

[Penthasilia]

Wonderful- I saw that one and it is gorgeous.

 

Found another for myself- the Rolichon- thankfully still available.

[Eric13]

The Sola Busca. 

But, I don't need it. Really. I don't.

And, most of the historical re-issue TdM decks. Which I don't need either. Really. I don't.

[katrinka]

A beautiful deck, replete with Wirthy goodness, designed by a man who made fools of the Nazi gestapo by eating paper.
(Karen Mahony once shared this gem at AT: “certainly many occultists hid everything (Madame de Thebes was killed by the Nazis, Lasenic was questioned about occultism by the gestapo and escaped – in what we now recognise as true Lasenic style – by EATING the charge papers when his interrogator left the room for a minute. The super-efficient Nazis could not cope with this and let him go – wonderful story and apparently true).”

More on the man here: http://magicbohemia.com/2017/10/23/pierre-de-lasenic-a-modern-esoteric-soul/

 

 

So much Wirthy goodness - WITH MINORS.

And I could have easily missed it, because it is only available at an unfamiliar, sketchy-looking website. I ordered, but I wasn't sure I would even get a deck. I fully expected to dispute the charge.
I needn't have worried. The deck arrived, the stock is sumptuously good, barely coated but flexy, and the deck lives in one of my best Wirth Moon velvet bags.

Order here. It's perfectly legit, https://pyroskin.com/catalog/index.php?SECTION_ID=128&ELEMENT_ID=687

[Penthasilia]

Add to my list a gold foil Rosenwald! I love the one from Sullivan, but to have one with color and gold is sublime! Thank you Sherryl for posting this on FB!

 

https://www.facebook.com/MarcoBenedettiTarot

 

Edited September 22, 2019 by Penthasilia

[Flaxen]

53 minutes ago, Penthasilia said:

Add to my list a gold foil Rosenwald! I love the one from Sullivan, but to have one with color and gold is sublime! Thank you Sherryl for posting this on FB!

 

https://www.facebook.com/MarcoBenedettiTarot

 

Wow! That is beautiful!

[gregory]

God yes, the Benedetti; I have one without the gold.

 

Oops wait - you refer to his gilding. I have his DECK - his own deck, but the ungilded version.

 

This one.

 

 

Edited September 22, 2019 by gregory

[Penthasilia]

I had not even heard of him before seeing that post- he also has a Wirth but that was lower on my list of wants. But that gilded Rosenwald is one I am dying for! He has one that is colored but not gilded as well- but if you have the choice.... 

[Joe_Peterson]

Thanks for your kind comments on my Noblet deck.

 

[Misterei]

I’m waiting for Il Meneghello to reprint their Piedmontese deck. I just can’t go $300 on e-bay for it. Waiting waiting waiting…

[Sanchez]

The new Alice in Wonderland one by Disney... The suit cards are plain, but the major arcana are surprisingly reflective. It's an art deck for me, just to look at, but interesting. I thought it would be a cutesy deck for kids but just like the imagery style and what was chosen for the major arcana cards.

 

Shadowscape Tarot by Stephanie Pui-Mun Law is sooooo out there. I do like some of the little tales in it, though they have little to do with traditional tarot. Which made it a very confusing first deck, hoo boy.