my very first tarot deck i bought i was 8 years old at the time i bought the tarot of love cards. i still have that deck to these day they look like the day i got them. i still read them i ony use thoses cards for my lovelife.
The pocket sized Goddess Tarot by Waldherr when I was 16 (I think?). I loved it, but I kind of lost the connection I had with it and recently gave them away to my boyfriend's younger sister.
The very first one I got (bought it from a secondhand bookshop) was the Medicine Woman, together with the book, a few months ago. I didn't use it for readings though, except for the daily 1 card, and then I forgot to even do that. Somehow this deck never drew me to start learning tarot. Now I have the Mythic deck, and I love it already
The first I got was a Marseilles (was 6 years old) got it from a polish friend of my mother who already learned me allot of the tarot and found that it was time I got mine
The very first I bought myself was the RWS when I was 18 and was starting college.
The pocket-size Rider-Waite, in the year 2000.The other decks in the store were Universal Waite,and Ancestral Path Tarot.The lady in the shop thought I should begin with it(R-W),and I still use it for serious questions.It has it´s very own wooden box.
My first was the Aquarian, many years ago (I was in my teens when I bought it). Back then, the only bookstore nearby was B. Dalton Booksellers in the local mall (this was pre-Internet shopping), and the only deck choices were the Waite-Smith, the Thoth, the Aquarian, and maybe one or two others. I went with the Aquarian becuase it was the best looking to me at the time....