Da Brigh Tarot of Marseilles Cards Deck

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Great quality. Lovely colorization. Semi-gloss, linen cardstock. Very nice Guidebook accompanies. Very happy with this deck.

This is not a standard tarot de Marseille deck. This deck has all the "updates" of a RWS deck, including the switch of cards 8 and 11, and the "LWB" in this box is based on Arthur Waite's revisions. The only thing "Marseille" about this deck is the look of the actual cards, and in the end, maybe that's all that really matters. That's why I'm not making it a one-star review. But switching cards 8 and 11 really mess things up for me, personally. I feel no connection to this deck. Someone at da brigh was like "hey let's make a Marseille deck!" even though they had no idea what they were doing, and everyone just went along with it. Stay in your lane, da brigh. Stick with the RWS decks.It's a pity, because they're good quality, too. Love the design on the back. It just could have been done with more, taste. This is a money grab.

I just love the colours used on the deck and the the exquisiteness of the back of the cards.

I like the linen cardstock. Everything else is terrible.The decision to use shading rather than flat fields of color is defensible, but no thought at all seems to have gone into color choice. Worse, the faces of the figures are bizarre--neither ancient nor contemporary, saccharine and clumsy. Ben Dov also modified the faces and can be reasonably criticized for how everyone in his tarot looks like they've recently come up on quaaludes, but it's successful in his work. This deck reminds me of the sort of thing you'd see on a young person's deviantart.Arbitrary choices sure to irritate TdM people abound. Arcanum XIII is named and facing left. The ox on The World has a halo. Temperance is standing on an unbroken field of water. That sort of thing.I can't use this.

These beautiful cards are what I use for meditation. They can be used for readings as well.

I was so excited for this deck- I have been looking for a Marseilles deck for so long that actually has a nice guidebook and not just a LWB... however... I was EXTREMELY disappointed when I received the deck, only to find out that all of the interpretations of the cards are RWS based, and not Marseille based. Really wasted my money with this one, unfortunately.

I have a fair collection of Tarot cards which I have acquired all over the world, over the course of many years. I enjoy them for the art, as well as their connections to various cultures. I have a few older / historical decks, and I do appreciate accuracy in those. Most of the ones I have gotten have been straight reproductions. Da Brigh has redrawn the cards, making some changes along the way. Now, they are not way off, and several people have pointed out the differences. They are absolutely usable and authentic tarot, they just are not authentic Tarot de Marseilles.I have gotten some decks from China which are so far off it is almost insulting to western traditions. That is not the case with this deck, which was produced by Russian artists, living in North Carolina. They make original decks and some reproductions. My biggest issue with this deck (hence the 4 star rating) is that it ships with interpretation from the Rider Waite. Surely there is overlap in the interpretations of various western decks, but the use of the Waite interpretation moves it even farther away from being an accurate reproduction of the Tarot de Marseilles.For beginners, well I doubt any would notice the difference, and the Rider Waite is a good place to start learning about Tarot. It is just not the best guide to this particular deck.