Your first deck

[JacksandJokers]

I was just browsing through the General playing cards discussion section and thought we should resurrect this topic.

My first deck was the Limited Bicycle Elegance deck when I first discovered the CPC site & thought that a print run of only 2500 decks was pretty rare

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[Bradius]

I have said it before, but my first deck that started me on my journey was ordered, but I had a decent collection by the time it finally arrived.

[Eric Lee]

Interesting to see so far that JR and LG were the designers who were most responsible for getting us sucked into this addic.... err... hobby. T11 is the company other than Bicycles.

As for me, I'm fairly new to this. My first purchase was Jody Eklund's Titans Robber Barons deck on Kickstarter.
My first custom deck that I got my hands on was the Impressions Cardinal Ed. Playing Cards by MPC. Got both the black and the green decks. (They arrived way before Jody's decks did)

Yup, MPC got me started down this path. Their raised gloss embossed cards were really nice and different for me as a newbie. Those were the coolest looking cards for at that time when most of the cards I played with were free airline cards, cheap Chinese made knockoffs or the free Beer cards (Tiger, Guinness, Carlsberg, Heineken)

Ben Jones' Pipmen World deck was the 3rd purchase. Really amazed with the transformation art and there was no turning back after that.

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[Bradius]

Eric Lee, then we started collecting about the same time. The Impressions Cardinal Edition was also one of my earliest purchases as was Jody Eklund's Titan Robber Barrons on Kickstarter.

[Magic Tapp]

[Well, what got me into playing cards was coming across Alex Chin's Apothecary campaign on KS (which should also tell you that I have not really been at it for too long).

My first collected deck, however was this one, from Theory 11 (of all the T11 decks, this and the red edition are probably my favourites):

[theCapraAegagrus]

The first custom deck that I ever bought was Ellusionist's Black Ghost 1st Edition in 2007. Jackson Robinson's Federal 52 is what jump-started my collection, though. I bought all 4 of the most common Unbranded decks for $80 in the Autumn of 2015 (around the same time I registered here).

[Bradius]

TwoPiece, did that Federal 52 unbranded set include the Federal 52 Unbranded Black Reserve Note? If so, please note that I HATE YOU.

[theCapraAegagrus]

TwoPiece, did that Federal 52 unbranded set include the Federal 52 Unbranded Black Reserve Note? If so, please note that I HATE YOU.

No, that's why I stated, "4 of the most common".

I did buy 2 Unbranded Black Reserve Note decks for $30 (opened) and $99 (sealed) in 2016, though.

[Bradius]

I did buy 2 Unbranded Black Reserve Note decks for $30 (opened) and $99 (sealed) in 2016, though.

Groan. I did get a nice set of opened Federal 52 decks, but not the Unbranded Black Reserve. Still, happy with what I have.

[theCapraAegagrus]

I did buy 2 Unbranded Black Reserve Note decks for $30 (opened) and $99 (sealed) in 2016, though.

Groan. I did get a nice set of opened Federal 52 decks, but not the Unbranded Black Reserve. Still, happy with what I have.

If you have the White Reserve Note deck, then you're not missing out on much, really.

The Unbranded Black Reserve Note's appeal is definitely the tuck case and the completion of the series. The face cards are identical to the White Reserve Note, and while the back design is nice, the metallic red ink doesn't pop off the black as much as you'd expect/want. The tone of black isn't even consistent from card-to-card. It's pretty much a marked deck because of the inconsistent color.

[Adonael]

My first was really JR's Federal 52 part 2, seems to be a common occurrence! It can't develop into an addiction if you're always broke though, so it hasn't for me, always been quite fussy about what I back. I had never held a proper deck of cards before the first arrived, the cards immediately tried slip out of my hands and I was like whoa so that's what real cards are like. The reason I still keep collecting are the same reasons I started, great designs and artwork, oh and Lotrek/Lorenzo/Gio.

[wingedpotato]

The first deck I remember buying just to collect was this 1002 Aladdin 28 years ago back in 1990. I was in Thailand and got a kick out of the fact that the cards were made in my hometown of Cincinnati. At the time I had no idea the gilding was a special thing. I bought many licensed decks later (Mulan, Bug's Life, Star Wars, etc.) because I loved the unique faces and pips, but it was the Black Tiger, Tally Ho, and Ghost decks from Ellusionist that started my modern era of collecting.