Everyday Tarot Review

This is a review of the Everyday Tarot (the deck, not the book, which I bought some time ago and am just getting comfortable with. I tend to find that a new deck will just sit for some time until its time comes to pick it up.
First things first, this is a pocket deck, more like the size of ordinary playing cards. The card is quite thick, so it comes in at about twice the thickness of a playing card deck. The edges are coloured gold. I don't know whether this is the case with all decks, because some pictures on the internet make the edges look shiny as if gilded, and they are not on mine. It is also cheap, compared to most tarot decks, coming in at not much more than a tenner.
I like it, is my verdict. The images are streamlined and simplified versions of the RWS deck. It therefore lacks the hidden mickeys for which that deck is famous. All the cards are in the same purple, gold and white colour scheme, so there is a layer of meaning lacking that the RWS has. The flip side of that is of course that the cards could take on meanings which they don't in the RWS because they are not contained by the colours. A major change is that this deck introduces many more women than RWS, and the illustration to this post shows just some of the cards which depict figures who are usually male but female here. This includes some of the knights!
I think this would be a good deck to learn with, and comes with a little book of meanings. The deck's basis in the RWS means that it can also be used for more developed reading based on that deck.
One thing I would say is that the cards tend to stick together when new, and it's taken several months of handling for mine to separate and ease up.