I am in a tarot group where we have a lot of decks that people share. Many tarot users believe that a deck develops a personality specific to the user and because of that I got my own deck which I take to the group.

There's the general belief that all magical tools develop significance for the user over time, something that my wife who is a "secular green witch" who doesn't believe in psi at all would tell you all about.

Scientifically though, if somebody isn't a good shuffler their deck is not going to be well shuffled and they'll get readings that deviate from what you'd get from a well shuffled deck. It's harder to shuffle a tarot deck well because it has more cards and these are frequently larger. (Personally my riffle shuffle is awful and probably not much better than an overhand)

A new deck usually has the major arcana together and in order and other cards might be sorted by suit and then number. We do a 5 card spread and if your have a new and poorly shuffled deck of course you are going to have more spreads where you get both the Emperor and the Empress or the 4 of Swords and the 7 of Swords.

One of the things is, I do magic, and used to do tarot.

I found the tarot readings were infinitely better to the person getting the reading when I just forced the results. So I did.

I still did all the things you're indicating about talking about specific personality, etc, as the patter to the concept.

I find significance in the shuffling and enjoy it. Always overhand. And very thorough; I have a perhaps overmechanistic view but I suspect effective divination requires true randomness in the information theory sense.