My favorite tarot deck is the Marseilles Tarot. I like the primary color scheme and the classic medieval and Christian imagery. More importantly, I enjoy its simplicity and lack of pretense. Unlike the designers of most modern decks, the designers of the Marseilles Tarot felt no need to slather on layers of occult symbolism beyond the elementary references of the cards themselves. The symbols in the cards were readily grasped by ordinary people, and referred to universal concepts such as time, fate, life and death, virtue and vice, order and disorder. The court and pip cards contain simple portraits of court figures and geometric arrangements of the suit symbols, again, without imposing any arcane meaning beyond what a reader chooses to attach to the suit and the rank of the card. That's really all you need in order to do a decent tarot reading.