I'm going to talk in some detail about Norbert Lösche's Cosmic Tarot deck, my favorite and most used deck and one I find very Pagan-friendly despite its lack of direct Craft references.

Overview

Cosmic is a smallish deck, just over poker deck size, which makes it easy to handle.  It's on decent stock, thinnish but tough.  The backs carry a gorgeously intricate graphic in blue and white on black: at the center, a rose; around that, a pentagram with crystals and energy lines in the centers of its points; around that and cutting across the tips, an equilateral diamond; around that, a Galileo-like nest of planetary circles with a bright sun at the top, a dark sun at the bottom, and spheres and gemlike octahedrons around the rim; around and behind all that, the stars.

The art is appealing and unlike anything else I've seen in Tarot decks.  The predominant colors are muted, with a lot of primrose yellow, slate blue and rose, lightly overlaid with Benday-like lithographic effects that make them look almost pointillist; stronger colors serve as counterpoint.  Lösche is a self-taught West German artist, born in 1951, who worked as a surveyor before studying art history and taking up painting. The surveyor side shows up as a great sense of composition and the deep (both senses) perspective of the paintings.

The quality of the drawing is superb, especially the faces, which are always interesting and almost never sentimentally pretty. The costumes range from medieval to modern and across a good range of geography, but the range isn't jarring; quite simply, he's chosen the right era for the right card. Where landscapes appear, they are usually detailed; some of these must have been quite large works before they were made into cards.

The facet of this deck that gets the most attention is that a few of the faces are of the great old movie stars of the glamor era.  This could have been vulgar or cartoonish, especially if he had insisted on doing it throughout, but it isn't; most of the faces aren't famous, but hey, who could be a more drop-dead-romantic lover in the Two of Cups, for instance, than Bogart, or a nobler Queen of Swords than Ingrid Bergman?  He treats them as archetypes, and it works.

The minor arcana are full scenes, not pips, and are every bit as interesting as the majors, which is rare.

The deck is available from US Games for around $16.  Two books have been written about it in English; the only one I've seen is by Jean Huets, and it's interesting and original, but I think she misses a lot and superimposes a framework that doesn't work as well for readings as it does for meditation.