Extremely comprehensive tarot deck?

[Haelos]

I'm not sure if this was a good place to post this.

I'm looking for the single most advanced and comprehensive set of tarot cards I can find. If I'm going t o spend money on a deck, they need to have as many correspondences and symbols as humanly possible, while still looking kind of nice.
I'm no expert on tarot. Hell, I can't even say I'm experienced with them. But I've been wanting to learn more, and this lame little LotR deck I found in a box doesn't cut it (first time they'd been opened.)

Like I said, I'm not too sure what to look for or where to look, so any help would be appreciated.

[Desecrated]

Rider-waite.

[Clockwork Ghost]

Don't choose Rider Waite unless you just want a Hermetic tarot deck. Thoth is the tarot of Thelema. In my opinion, and I own many tarot decks, I'd suggest Deviant Moon, Night Sun, or tarot Illuminati - three seriously hard hitting tarot decks. Deviant Moon is very easy to use, and the art is incredible, Night Sun is the premier 'occult' tarot deck, and tarot Illuminati is a massively improved take on the old Rider Waite.

[frackture]

I'm also looking to buy a Tarot deck. So far i'm more inclined to the deviant moon, simply because i like the artwork better but i also like the night sun.

From your viewpoint which one is more adequate for a beginner?

[Desecrated]

I'm also looking to buy a Tarot deck. So far i'm more inclined to the deviant moon, simply because i like the artwork better but i also like the night sun.

From your viewpoint which one is more adequate for a beginner?

Get em both

[Clockwork Ghost]

Get the Deviant Moon if you want a tarot deck that will serve you for divinatory purposes or the Night Sun if you want a deck you can use in conjunction with magick ritual work.

[Cybernetic_Jazz]

Unfortunately I don't think there's any 'best for everything' deck. The most 'stacked' deck I think was the Thoth, just that it's got its own obvious Thelemic twists. As far as straight GD-inspired decks Nick Farrell's Golden Dawn Temple Tarot is beautiful and I think worth every penny I paid for it, just that it's also limited addition and came on card stock that you'd destroy if you shuffled them - thus strictly meditative. Anything Rider-Waite is your most standard workhorse and yes, ubiquitous, but also pretty reasonable in symbolism.

As far as beautiful decks of the 19th century - I still have a soft-spot from my Oswald Wirth deck, just that I still have to say it would be a wonderful deck (same for my Masonic Tarot deck) IF it wasn't still stuck with the Fool on Shin. There's a Universal Wirth and I love the boarders but whoever drew it also cheesed out a lot of what I loved about the original so the point kinda got lost.

The Night Sun that Clockwork mentioned is a fascinating deck, I picked up a copy a while back and feel like there are cards I really like (The Star was really interesting IMHO) and others like the Empress and Emperor that I just didn't get. It looks like it was written with a pretty extensive system in mind but I don't know which system that is.

The other thing you could still do is get a Marseilles deck or a Visconti if you find them to your liking.

Just keep reseaching but like I said, I don't know that you'll find any easy answers and - quite possibly - you may find yourself begrudgingly settling with Rider-Waite. If so that's still a great place to start, and probably better to start branching off into other decks, which all of these decks really are branch-off, when you know which direction you'd want to branch off in.