Alright so a few disclaimers before we get to the matter:

I'm focusing on gaming tarot decks as that's what I know most closely. Three from the following five decks are sometimes used for divination, but I own them for gaming purposes. The Swiss deck is actually a translation made in mind with divination (what with the wands and pentacles), but the Swiss use their originals for playing.

Because tarot decks are pretty big, especially in their full card count, and I want you to be able to zoom in without issue, I will be focusing on the trump cards + the fool, in divination known as the Major Arcana. On top of that, I'm focusing on the entirety of the trumps rather than singling out designs I like because the cards are all gorgeous and I don't want to cause the Tarot-jan war.

other than my no1, the order is pretty much arbitrary.

So without further ado, my top 5 sets of tarot trumps!

Number 1 - Industrie und Glück Tarock

I'm totally biased towards this one because it's the first gaming tarot deck I got, the trumps in this picture are from a deck I've had for two years now (though had little occasion to use them :'3), and I got them for a game reconstruction project I undertook those two years back. It's used in much of central Europe, notably Austria, Czechia, Slovakia, Hungary and Slovenia. They're also used in one metropolitan area in Silesia, Poland. The game I mentioned reconstructing was also a Polish tarock game.

The rest of this deck consists of 32 french suited (♥♦♣♠) cards - King, Queen, Cavalier, Jack, and then the pips are split by suit - red suits get Ace, 2, 3, 4 while black suits get 10, 9, 8, 7.

In games played with this deck, the Fool (the single card on the far left) is actually a trump.

Number 2 - Tarot Nouveau

Tarot Nouveau is the formal name of the tarot deck used in France and Denmark for their national tarot games - French Tarot and Grosstarock/Danish Tarok respectively. This is the second deck I ever got and due to its indices both on the trumps and suited cards (which similarly to Industrie und Glueck, are french suited, but this time it's a full deck with pips 10-1. The ranking of the pips depends on the game - in Danish tarok reds go in reverse order because that's the older way of ranking them) it saw the most of use and was the deck I use most often to introduce people to tarot games, with tremendous success!

In games played with this deck, the fool is generally the "excuse card", and not a trump. What that means is that you can play it anytime to excuse yourself from following suit. You won't lose the fool, but you will also not win the trick.

It's one of the most easily available decks, search for French Tarot or Jeu de Tarot and you should be able to find it.

Number 3 - Swiss 1JJ Tarot

Oh hey that's me :D

For this deck I went ahead and included examples of the face cards because this deck is just so gorgeous.

Like I mentioned in the disclaimers, despite the translation, this deck is 100% a gaming deck. French and German versions are possible to find in Switzerland, and there's one organisation that publishes it in Rumansch!

You may notice that these trumps are pretty much the same as in divinatory tarot (even setting the translation aside - the magician is never called that in the french and german versions of the deck for example), and that's because divinatory tarot took its design from playing cards. 1JJ is a variation on Tarot de Marseilles (also a gaming tarot used in piemont under the name of tarocco piemontese) and the name comes from a product code which refers to the fact that instead of papess and pope it has Juno and Jupiter.

This deck is used for the games of Troggu and Troccas, the former being a very good introductory point. In those games, the fool has a use in between the two uses I mentioned in the previous two entries.

Number 4 - Tarocco Bolognese

The tarot deck of Bologna, used to play one of the oldest games in Europe. Excuse the sudden change in the ordering of the cards, I only realised my mistake once I was done taking the pictures.

There are a few notable things about this deck - a number of trumps + the fool are unnumbered, and those cards have some sort of importance. On top of that, the numbering starts at 0 (the fool isn't the 0 because it's not a trump), so the Begato (=magician) is at 0, the angel (=judgement but here it's the highest card, I'll get to that) is at 20.

So the first five cards are all unnumbered - the first one is Begato (=magician), then instead of the papess, empress, emperor, pope there are the four so-called moors, which are all equal to each other in rank.

Then the top four trumps are of course the moon, the sun, the world and the angel (=judgement). "but hey, isn't the world the highest card?" outside of italy and in divination? yes! But in Italy, where tarot originates from, the two top trumps are generally ranked in "reverse", to the point that even when playing with the tarocco piemontese deck, which numbers the trumps from 0 (the fool, which is so jarring to me it shouldn't have a number why does it have a number) to 21 (the world), they still put the angel (20) above the world.

This deck is generally only used to play tarocchini (little tarots) - ottocento, millone, quattro scartate (800, 1000, four deals), because the presence of the four moors makes it difficult if impossible to play other games.

Number 5 - Tarocco Siciliano

Another Italian deck! This one is sadly slowly dying out, being made by only one manufacturer, Modiano, while others are seemingly not interested in making it. It's still occasionally used in Sicily, though often people substitute it with the tarocco piemontese deck.

This deck has a few curiosities not found elsewhere, which are in some ways holdovers from another tarot game once played in many parts of Italy, including Sicily, but which is now extinct.

First is the Trump no 0, the Miseria (misery), ranking below the 1, i picciotti (the boys =magician). Then there's the lack of the papess and the pope. In their place we get two new trumps, held over from Minchiate, the game I mentioned earlier. The first is Constancy (4), theo ther is the Ship (14). We also lose the devil (presumably in favour of the miseria). The order is also a bit different - the virtues (constancy, temperance, strength and justice) are right after the emperor, pushing the lovers right next to the chariot.

Another novelty is that the tower isn't having a bad time, it's the only intact tower in tarot.

The world is "replaced" by Atlas, the sky-bearing titan of Greek myth. Though sicilians just call it la palla, the ball. And in place of the angel we get another instance of Jove.

The fool in this deck is also often called the Fugitive: u fujutu, il fuggitivo.

This deck is also the last vestige of portuguese suits in Europe - they survive regionally in Japan too, but originally they were used in Portugal and parts of italy, notably Tarocco Siciliano and Minchiate. Portuguese suits are simply latin suits (clubs, swords, cups, coins) but drawn in a specific way.

Ooooh lets see what I remember-

Charlie reigned supreme- like really and truly so many blogs and so, so much content was Charlie Charlie Charlie, everyday, all the time and I mean he still is insanely popular but definitely back in the day Charlie in the show and of the cast was easily the most popular, like it felt like 7/10 posts were about him. Glenn was next in line but I do distinctly remember Kaitlin and Rob didn't have as much content about them, at a certain point I kinda was the Kaitlin Olson tag, that's not me being up myself I just used to be in her tag constantly and it'd be a lot of posts in a row of just me- the girls of the series def didnt always get the love they should and I'm not really sure that's changed much ☠ But yeah this was also around the time that everyone was also going gaga about Pacific Rim so that def made Charlie even more popular too.

Macdennis has always, always been a popular pairing but their popularity 100% has skyrocketed the past few years, and I mean SKYROCKETED. Like they're on par with some wildly popular mlm ships nowadays and it's lowkey so funny to see em in the ring with like. destiel 😂 now when I go in the tag it seems half the posts feature mac and dennis, which is notable to me bc Mac especially was kinda... Unloved is not the right way to phrase it bc fans have always loved him but Rob/Mac def didn't get /as/ much love back in the day. Like people often spoke of him as the weakest character but after season 13 I think he's gained more appreciation.

Fans have def gotten much bigger on theories and stuff these days, I'm sure they had em back then too but it wasn't as prevalent and none particularly stand out, it was usually just the "X characters are secretly sleeping together" type beat. I also remember a popular theory that everyone was going to die in the inevitable series finale but then the show never got cancelled and I dont know what that was about?

Reddit has always been messy and there def was a pretty big us vs them type vibe between sunny fans back then- though it was less reddit vs tumblr and more "straight dude bros" vs everyone else like I remember so many posts being like "Ugh straight dude bros don't get the show" I probably made some of those posts 😂 Lots of "Mac isn't actually gay" too which is very, very funny in hindsight- No one ever thought they'd canonize his sexuality.

Ummm... Probably the most notable thing to me tho is seeing how popular the cast has become, like 8 years ago Danny was the only "Big name" Like the media absolutely spoke of the show as these no name people and Danny Devito. I mean that was not totally the case for Charlie, he was becoming more and more popular and gaining traction in the mainstream with pacific rim and the likes but with Glenn, Kaitlin and Rob they were definitely not super well known outside Big always sunny fans so seeing them go from that to Rob being besties with Ryan Reynolds and stuff has honestly been super interesting and funny. Like I remember posting rob and kaitlins wedding pictures and getting so many people going WAIT THEYRE MARRIED?? it was hilarious to see the transition.

Yeah those are probably the biggest changes I can think of- it's gotten more popular which explains most of it, shipping has def become a much bigger thing as well, ships were pretty chill back then, there wasn't too much fic or art so thats different now :)

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