Cards in Magic & Mentalism

This is my direct cut to the four Aces and four Kings routine. It's simple and easy to learn, using only basic card handling techniques. No crimp, no estimation needed. Full performance in the video.

1st edition 2025, video 4:29

Corner Short Cards (CSC) are the secret weapon of the top card magicians. These advanced secrets will take your card magic to the next level.

• Reduce the amount of riffling to find the CSC in the deck
• Cutting a non-index CSC to the top of the deck
• Riffle stacking secrets using CSCs
• An Incredible force using CSCs
• Know the spectator’s freely chosen CSC blindfolded
• Practice Tips

This eBook is for magicians who have a working knowledge of CSC. How to create them and the differences (index vs non-index CSC) is not covered in this eBook.

1st edition 2025, PDF 18 pages.

On the occasion of the 10th birthday of the Unknown Mentalist (yes, the Unknown Mentalist was born in 2015 and he is now all of 10 years old), for the next 10 weeks, you will be able to buy Special Bundles every week for never-before & neverßagain prices. Each Special Bundle will be live for only 10 days. So watch out for the Lybrary newsletter every week as this is exclusive to Lybrary only. You can catch the Special Bundles on the "On Sale" page of Lybrary also. The biggest buyer of Special Bundles during these 10 weeks put together will get a Nostradum Wallet worth $63 free. This special...

This is a location-based stack that allows you to determine the position of two freely cut cards, even after the spectator shuffles. No sleights, no force, no gimmicks. Full performance is in the video.

1st edition 2025, video 5:53

In the art of magic, the ultimate goal is to create a moment of pure, unadulterated astonishment - an experience so clean and impossible that it transcends mere trickery and feels like real magic. For the spectator, this requires an effect built on a foundation of total fairness. The challenge is to guide them to a place where the only remaining explanation is: your spectator has just experienced the impossible.

Effect: Imagine this from your spectator's perspective. You are handed a deck of cards. You inspect it and shuffle the deck. When you are satisfied, the magician turns his back....

Five effects that connect into one routine.

Tired of forgetting your best tricks when an audience asks for a spontaneous performance? Magic a la Card solves the routine problem, offering a complete, five-effect card set that requires zero sleight of hand. This is a fully sequenced act designed to build in crescendo to a powerful climax: a sleightless Card in the Wallet effect. From the psychological deception of The Lie Detector (where the back of the card predicts the outcome) to a modernized 21 Card Trick and an impossible Mathematical Prediction, the pack is prearranged, and the tricks...

Annemann's Synthetic Sympathy is a long-regarded classic of card magic, with a history dating back to 1921 when Charles T. Jordan put out his original version. Annemann slotted it into an early edition of his magazine The Jinx. It took off like wildfire and Jean Hugard promptly included the Annemann update in Encyclopedia Of Card Tricks, further enhancing its popularity. Then Max Holden jumped on the bandwagon and published it yet again, including it in his Annemann compendium Full Deck Of Impromptu Card Tricks.

Holden was particularly...

The Gombert Pass, as published in the Gen Volume 22, Number 3, July 1966, has a complicated and mysterious past. At some point, some card experts believed Gombert was a pseudonym of Edward Marlo. Jon Racherbaumer traces its history and finds and connects with Jan Gombert, the author of the article in the Gen.

• Meetings And Passings: Memes And Themes
• Gombert Pass Reverse
• One-Third Of The Gombert Pass
• Cervon's Invisible Reverse
• Turnover Pass Reverse
• One Fantastic Move
• Bibliography
• Finding Gombert

1st edition 2004, PDF 25 pages.

An adaptation of a classic card routine - the Spades 1, 2, 3, and 4 travel between the top and bottom of the deck, finally gathering together on top. Just when you think it's over - no, the magic has only begun. The Spades 5, 6, 7, and 8 appear on top of the deck, the Spades 9, 10, J, and Q appear on the bottom, and the final Spade King rises to the very top of the deck. For full details, see the performance video.

1st edition 2025, video 8:00.

Effect: The spectator freely selects a card under the fairest of conditions. It is lost in the deck by the spectator. After placing the cards in the cardbox, it is wrapped in a handkerchief. The spectator holds the handkerchief and gives it a shake. His card falls to the table.

Description: This is a classic of card magic. Under the fairest possible conditions, a spectator selects a card from a deck that he has shuffled. The deck is placed in the cardbox and wrapped in a handkerchief. It is dropped by the spectator instead of the magician. This version uses an ungimmicked opaque handkerchief...

A card game between four players, in which the magician seems to have no control, unless he manages to use magic to enchant the cards of each of the players.

This is a completely improvised card trick that the illusionist performs by randomly choosing three spectators and giving them a common deck of cards (even borrowed) that they can freely shuffle, before dealing a hand of cards (five apiece) to each of them.

The magician will show that, after everyone has looked at their cards, they must choose and remember the highest value card, placing it on top of their deck, keeping all cards...

Ready-to-perform routines from a working magician's repertoire.

Hidden in Plain Sight isn't just another magic book - it's a curated collection of four battle-tested routines from Marko, a professional magician with 57 years of real-world experience. These are not theoretical curiosities or over-engineered gimmicks, but practical, powerful tricks that have fooled audiences on television, cruise ships, corporate stages, and intimate parlors across two continents. Each routine is streamlined for performance, easy to prepare, and designed to leave spectators genuinely astonished.

Whether...

This ebook explores the famous card magic theme "Any Card At Any Number," coined by mentalist David Berglas.

"This book has been produced with great attention to detail. Each effect is accompanied by numerous images that clearly illustrate the method, preparation, and execution. In some cases, links are provided to useful videos for further exploration of the topic covered. It contains some ingenious effects alongside others that are simpler, but all are guaranteed by the "trademark": B. Magic." - Davide Rubat Remond

All these effects, selected from the best I have...

Sandwich and Collectors are two of my favorite card effects and the ones I've studied the most. This is my original routine combining both effects.

The spectator selects a card, returns it to the deck, and the deck is shuffled. The magician cuts the two Jokers and four Aces into the center. When the deck is spread again, the two Jokers are found sandwiching the spectator's selection, while the four Aces have collected the other three cards of the same value. A pure sleight-of-hand routine with no difficult moves.

1st edition 2025, video 6:59.

Effect: The spectator shuffles the deck and cuts it, looking at the card he cut to (4D). The magician does the same showing his card to the spectator (KS). He places that card (KS) face down on the table. The magician spreads the deck face up, revealing one face-down card. It is the magician's card. The card on the table is the spectator's card.

Description:

Are you looking for an easy-to-do card effect that delivers an astonishing transposition while convincing the spectator they are in full control? This is the card transposition the spectator does not see coming.

Maximum deception...

Impromptu rising card trick.

No setup is required, no gimmicks, and no difficult sleights. With just a regular deck, the spectator's selection rises from the pack. The effect is direct and fast. For the full effect, see the performance video.

1st edition 2025, video 3:32

Effect: Spectator thinks of any card, no force. They can change their mind. Without asking any questions or looking at the faces of the cards, the magician names the card. This is about as close to pure mind reading as it gets.

Description:

If you could truly read a spectator's mind, you would have them think of a card and then reveal it without asking any questions. But there's one more important element: verification of the card the spectator is thinking of. We all know there are spectators who want the magician to fail. They might lie about which card they were thinking of.

You...

Effect: Spectator 1 shuffles the deck, takes it under the table and looks at any card. Spectator 2 just thinks of a card. The magician reveals the name of spectator #1 card and the name and position in the deck of spectator #2 thought of card!

This is the strongest effect I have ever created! An effect that dives deep into the timeless mystery of chance versus choice.

This routine combines two classic principles of magic into an amazing new weapon: a third principle that can be used with other card effects. And just when you think it can’t go further, a brand-new principle is introduced—pushing...

This is my control system, which allows you to cleanly push the card into the deck with no visible break, and still maintain control.

The system can control the card to four common positions: the top, the bottom, the second from the top, and the second from the bottom. It can be applied flexibly in many card routines, taking your sleight of hand to the next level. For the detailed controls, please watch the performance video.

1st edition 2025, video 4:11

Ace Assembly routines have been with us for decades. Some originate from the best brains in magic, others too numerous to mention, are utterly forgettable - lengthy, complex routines overburdened with ham-fisted false counts, lugubrious palming techniques, endless Double Lifts and quaint presentation ideas.

If you are heartily sick of these approaches, here is a routine that will grab your attention.

Aces With Artistry is just what its title implies, an Ace Assembly that stands up there with the best of them. Visually captivating, AWA owes its pedigree to Ed Marlo and is based...

A new card magic effect, incredibly automatic and hands-off, in which the spectator himself, after choosing any card from the deck, will start an impressive "A.C.A.A.N."!

The title refers to a new Automatic Card Magic effect that is completely hands-off, where the magician, once he has introduced, shuffled, and quickly shown the deck, will have it cut and leave it entirely in the hands of a spectator, until the end of the experiment, without ever touching the cards again! It is an "Any Card At Any Number" effect type where, thanks to the introduction of a brand new stack, almost impossible...

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This series of Suit Ordering Systems is probably the world's first 'super store' for ordering suits. The main purpose of these various Suit Ordering Systems is to create a random sequence of suits while retaining a secret pattern visible only to the performer. The applicability of these SOS methods is for various stacks like memorized, algorithmic, mnemonic or any other type of stacked decks.

In this SOS Volume 5, a new innovative concept of Position Pair Suits is used to create a random suit sequence instead of the obvious red/black...

You feign a centre deal with basic moves. You openly cut the four Kings into the deck and deal them to the spectator. But the four cards you get are the four Aces. Easy and magical! You get a bonus tutorial of Imperial Bicycles.

1st edition 2025, video 10:05.

Snow Drift Deck: A find the Lady type of effect using a deck of 52 blank cards and a Queen.

Origami Card Discovery: A strip of folded paper displays a prediction of a card which a spectator will select. It's wrong! The image magically changes, and the prediction is 100% correct.

Simplicity Card to Wallet: No special wallets used, yet the same effect is accomplished using a very simple method.

Peek-A-Boo!: A joker card, which has a corner missing, is used to locate a chosen card within a shuffled deck.

Split Down the Middle: Ian's version of the classic 'Split Deck'. The deck has...

This is a trick for quickly locating four selections.

During an overhand shuffle, four cards are freely chosen, with no control involved. The spectators clearly see the cards lost in four different positions. Yet in the end, the magician can still locate all four selections with precision. For the full routine and effect, see the video demonstration.

• No force
• No gimmick
• No memory work
• No peeking

1st edition 2025, video 6:42.

Four, say, duplicate Queen of Clubs magically change to four Ace of Spades. These then change to the four Aces. It's a beauty to perform and watch.

1st edition 2025, video 8:44

Jon Racherbaumer lectured around the globe. These are the lecture notes for a lecture he gave in Italy in 2008.

• Rules of the Game / Max Maven
• Snap-Slap Transpo / Marc Serin
• Supra-Gemini / John Guastaferro
• Mathematician - Psychic - Magician
• Suit Yourself / Henry Evans
• Unambiguous Discernment / Edward Marlo
• Humma-Humma-Hummer / Lewis Jones and Jack Avis
• In the Nick of Time / John Gustaferro
• The Last Game / David Britland
• Dunbury Lie Speller

1st edition 2008, PDF 28 pages.