The Rider-Waite Tarot is the deck that changed everything. Originally published in 1909 with artwork by Pamela Colman Smith under the direction of occult scholar Arthur Edward Waite, it was the first tarot deck to feature fully illustrated scenes on every pip card — a decision that made intuitive reading possible without years of memorisation, and set the template that virtually every modern tarot deck still follows today.
 
This is the authentic edition published by U.S. Games Systems, Inc. — the original and only authorised publisher of the Rider-Waite Tarot. If you are learning tarot, this is where to start. If you are an experienced reader, this is the reference deck worth owning.