I love the Nightmare Before Christmas Tarot Deck! It’s beautiful.
It reads right out of the box for anyone who’s familiar with the Rider Waite system. It also comes with a little booklet that includes a full-color picture of each card and an introductory upright and reversed meaning. There are three sample spreads in the back, named Eureka!, A Peek Behind the Cyclops’s Eye, and Blown to Smithereens.
Backs are reversible (and they’re gorgeous — not enough decks have backs that I like as much as these).
Courts are Page, Knight, Queen, King. Suits are Needles, Candles, Potions, Presents.
The majors are all beautiful and a lot of the minors are as well, but some of the minors are basically pips and, while they look nice, they’re not as inspiring in a reading as the ones with characters.
The cards have a glossy finish that doesn’t shuffle well right away. I spent several minutes separating the cards into stacks in lieu of shuffling because they were clinging to each other. They become easier to shuffle the more you work with them.
Anyone who likes Tarot and The Nightmare Before Christmas will definitely want to get this deck. It’s not perfect, but it’s charming. It’s illustrated by the same woman who illustrated the Dark Wood Tarot.
4 out of 5 stars
Disney and Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas Tarot Deck
by Minerva Siegel, illustrated by Abigail Larson
Insight Editions
2020
