So her birthday is coming up, and I heard that she wanted a deck for a while and thought It would be nice for her.
Any decent deck below 15~ USD? What ahould I look out for and not?
Get her a pig and name it tarot deck.
I’ve always wanted a pig.
Here’s my rec from AliExpress. Modern shape and color but a lot of classic imagery still. This one sort of as well. You could then pair either with a more traditional RWS deck for her to compare the imagery too. I wouldn’t fuss too much on getting a guide book. The internet has a wide range of interpretations to draw from. Wikipedia even has a pretty good set of pages on all things metaphysical and I find that it approaches them from a pretty grounded place as spiritual traditions without placing a lot of weight on them as truly divinatory or anything.
Like the other comment, Rider Waite is OG, but Albany Waite has cooler colors IMO.
I’d go with either of these original sets and then they can venture into the infinite varieties of decks out there.