New guy here. Me personally, my favorite deck is actually just a cheap $7 deck I got at a mall some five or six years ago; it 's a reproduction of a "Highlanders" deck by the Lawrence & Cohen company from 1864, made by U.S.G.S. It handles well, and while I don't use it for a whole lot of tricks because it's just so different from a modern deck (it's missing the indices found on modern cards, for example), it is quite the conversation starter when I pull it out between classes at college. For the occasions I do tricks and flourishing, though, gotta go with the good ol' Bicycle Rider Backs. Instantly recognizable, and as mentioned earlier, people don't suspect that they'd be a trick deck (although I do have a Svengali deck laying around among my small deck collection somewhere).
