Would a Marseille deck suit my reading s

Only if you like reading geometry more than pictures — and only if you're willing to give up the card-by-card meanings you've already built up. Otherwise a Marseille deck mostly costs you.

The fork itself: both decks are22 majors + 56 minors, so nothing structural changes. What changes is the *image layer*, and that's the layer most readings actually lean on. RWS (Rider–Waite–Smith) images were designed to be legible sentences — the Hermit's lantern, the Moon's dog and crayfish — so a reader can look at the card and get a story with no book open. Marseille is closer to a deck of illustrated playing cards: figures named in Old French (La Papesse, Le Pape, La Maison Dieu for the Tower), cleaner geometry, fewer "look at that detail" hooks. That's a method layer, not a correct-and-incorrect question — but it is a real difference in how you work.

What would actually change in your practice:

• Pips over pictures. Marseille minors are read largely by counting pips and mapping suits to elements (Coins/Earth, Cups/Water, Swords/Air, Wands/Fire). If your instinct is "describe the card," this is a genuine retrain. If your instinct is "what does this number in this suit mean here," it's faster than RWS.
• Court cards. Many Marseille editions carry fewer court cards per suit. If you lean on Page/Knight/Queen/King as four distinct personalities, you'd feel that as a gap.
• Reversals. The Marseille tradition is upright-only — reversals aren't traditionally part of it. If you read them, that's a convention you'd be importing, not inheriting.
• Numbering. No 0: Le Mat is unnumbered, Strength sits at XI and Justice at VIII, which is the reverse of RWS.

The honest limit: I only draw from one deck, the RWS imagery, on one random engine. If you buy a Marseille deck, the cards I run here will still be RWS — so a Marseille practice pull would mean you reading your own deck with me as method talk, not me casting it.

So: if your reading style leans on RWS imagery as a built-in prompt, stay with RWS. If it leans on suit-element logic and pip counts, Marseille would suit you better.

Which is closer to how you actually read — do you look at the card first, or do you go to the card's meaning first?