Cleansing A New Tarot Deck, Is it really necessary? Options

Is it really necessary to cleanse a new tarot deck?

The deck I recently purchased was an Atlantis deck and was pre-owned (although never used). I did a couple of readings for myself which, now upon thinking about it, gave quite confusing outcomes. Should I have cleansed the deck before smudging it?

In the process of smudging I made up a sigil and burned it in the traditional Chaos Magick manner (an oxymoronic statement if ever there was one), i used the smoke form the sigil to smudge the cards.

I'm now thinking that I should have performed a proper cleansing and put the deck under my pillow to make sure it was clean.

Any advice?

Tarot is kind of a tricky tool, each card works with one another to form a group consciousness but still retain their independent minds so a deck tends to have more upkeep than most tools. The biggest thing with a new deck is deffinetly cleansing, which can be used with smudging as long as you mix in your energy and have spoken with your deck and kind of learn it's way of working. Talking with and treating your cards well is really important, other wise they may not give tou the reading you need. That's kind of the other thing with tarot, if you want it to be a productive tool you have to make sure your accepting of it's not so sunny messages. If your deck thinks all you want is a sunny outlook, then it will give you inaccurate readings to give you just that. If they aren't treated well, they will give you awful readings, "your mother will die and everyone is going to hate you forever no matter what" kind of thing. They can be temperamental and rrreeeaaaalllllly require to be worked with in the manner that the two of you set down together. Hopefully that helps bro.