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Dustin Marks

#2 Cards author
#3 Magic & Mentalism author

Dustin Marks was a professional blackjack player and blackjack dealer in Las Vegas during the 1980's. After retiring, he wrote the books: Cheating at Blackjack and Cheating at Blackjack Squared, and his newest book How I Did It and Got Away With It.

Dustin's main focus on Lybrary.com is card magic. Many of his effects rely on clever principles instead of difficult sleight of hand. He has published eBooks on popular card principles, such as: The Corner Short Card, The Rosetta False Shuffle, Double Backers and Equivoque. Dustin is Co-Host of the podcast: Cheating at Blackjack.

website: www.Dustinmarks.com

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A borrowed deck. The spectator shuffles and cuts. An impossible outcome. And absolutely zero sleight of hand.

Imagine handing a normal, borrowed deck of cards to your spectator. They give it a genuine table riffle shuffle, cut the deck, and deal five random, face-down cards to themselves. You have had a single face-down prediction card sitting on the table from the very beginning.

  • The Prediction Miracle: If they place the target card face up on the table as an "insignificant" card, there is no elimination process. They turn over your prediction card to find a perfect match: "You placed...
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Read more about The Unforceable Force by Dustin Marks

Stop practicing your passes and palms for a moment. What if you could perform a miracle where the spectator shuffles the deck, cuts the cards, and simply thinks of one - all while you never touch the deck?

Two variations. Perform the one that best suits your style.

The Unforceable Force is not just an effect; it is a masterclass in psychological manipulation and deceptive procedure. This effect allows you to perform a clean, "hands-off" revelation that leaves your audience convinced they had a completely free choice.

The Power of Psychology Over Sleight of Hand

This effect is designed...

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Read more about Reading the Tell by Dustin Marks

The human lie detector

Imagine an effect where the cards are seemingly merely a formality and the true focus is on the psychology of the human mind. In this incredible effect, a spectator can freely shuffle the deck using any shuffle they choose.

Your spectators cut the deck into multiple packets - which don't need to be equal in size - and shuffle their own packets to ensure total randomness. They can even exchange packets among themselves before looking at their cards, leaving you seemingly with no information at all.

This is where the real magic happens. You explain that in the high-stakes...

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Read more about Corner Short Drawing Duplication by Dustin Marks

The most deceptive drawing duplication you'll ever perform - no electronics, no imp-pads, just pure psychological hacking.

Are you looking for a stunning and simple drawing duplication that leaves spectators completely baffled? This effect allows you to duplicate a meaningful image drawn by a spectator without ever asking a question or seemingly touching their billet

The Effect: Your spectator thinks of a meaningful event - something impossible for anyone else to know - and draws a symbol or image representing it on a blank card. They mark the back with an "X," place it face down, and...

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Read more about The Bent Truth by Dustin Marks

A complete guide to the crimp in card magic.

Tired of spectators catching your pinky break? The Bent Truth: A Complete Guide to the Crimp is your essential guide to mastering one of the most reliable tools in card magic.

Why the crimp is your new best friend:

  • It's Set-and-Forget: Unlike a pinky break, a crimp requires zero muscular effort to maintain. Once it's set, you can do anything with your hands-or even hand the deck to a spectator.
  • It Survives the Shuffle: Whether it's a riffle, overhand, or Hindu shuffle, a properly applied crimp stays intact. Your spectator can genuinely shuffle...
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Read more about The One Way Back by Dustin Marks

Stop ignoring the back of your cards.

There is a secret hiding in plain sight on almost every deck of cards you own. It's been there for decades, but most of us overlook it because we're too busy practicing our passes and bottom deals. It's called the one-way back principle, and it is arguably the most undervalued tool in card magic.

Why should you care? Because the one-way back principle allows for genuine miracles that require zero sleight of hand. We're talking about effects where the spectator shuffles the deck themselves, yet you can still find their card instantly. It survives genuine...

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Read more about The Shadow Card: the duplicate card by Dustin Marks

Are you tired of magic effects that fool people - but don't amaze them? Have you ever watched a spectator's face "break open in genuine, unguarded astonishment" and realized they weren't amazed by a trick, but by a fundamental violation of reality?

Most magicians treat the duplicate card like a last resort. A gimmick. Something you use when you don't have the chops for the "real" method. That's exactly backwards. The duplicate card doesn't ask your spectator to miss something happening in front of them - it asks them to fail to conceive of something entirely. Nobody watching card magic...

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Read more about The One-Way Forcing Deck by Dustin Marks

Here's a question worth sitting with for a moment. What if you already knew the card before the spectator touched the deck? Not because you're skillful. Not because you're fast. Not because you forced it with your hands. But because no matter what they do - shuffle, cut, mix, choose freely - they are going to pick the same card every single time.

That's the one-way forcing deck. And in the right hands, it's the most devastatingly fair-looking card magic you can perform.

What this eBook covers: The one-way forcing deck is one of the most underrated tools in card magic. Most performers...

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Read more about The Key Card Principle by Dustin Marks

Stop burning your fingers on complex sleights and start performing miracles.

Master the Key Card Principle, a "secret weapon" of card magic that has empowered magicians for centuries and remains a favorite of legends like Dani DaOrtiz and John Bannon. This eBook is your essential guide to a principle that allows you to know the "impossible" while maintaining the illusion of complete fairness and randomness.

Why Use the Key Card Principle?

  • Deceptive Power: Locate chosen cards and make perfect predictions without the need for intricate sleight of hand.
  • Versatility:...
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Read more about Magic 2.0 by Dustin Marks

Using AI to create better tricks, more bookings, and a smarter magic business.

The magician next door is using AI. Are you?

Right now, somewhere in your market, a magician with average skills and a good AI strategy is out-earning you. Not because they are more talented. Because they stopped wasting time on everything around the performance and started using the smartest tool available to handle it.

This ebook will make you more money, save you money, and time. Magic 2.0 is the book that closes that gap.

Here is what changes when you read it:

You stop staring at a blank page, waiting...

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Read more about Conviction and Acting by Dustin Marks

Stop practicing moves. Start entertaining people.

You've practiced that pass for six months. You've never spent six minutes on what your face and body are doing while you execute it. Here's the uncomfortable truth most magicians never face: your moves are not what fool people. Your acting is. This eBook fixes that. No fluff, no images, no charts, just practical advice that will make your magic better.

What You'll Learn

The Two Hands Problem - the single most useful concept in close-up magic, and most magicians get it backwards. Learn why the hand doing the dirty work should be the boring...

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Read more about The Dice of Prognostication by Dustin Marks

The spectator shuffles the deck. The spectator rolls the dice. The spectator chooses which die to use. The spectator deals the cards. And you never touch a thing. Then comes the impossible. The card they set aside as an "offering" is revealed to match the sum of the dice - a perfect 7. And when they turn over the four packets they dealt themselves? The Four Aces. It looks like the dice predicted everything.

Why you'll love performing this:

  • Spectator does all the work. They shuffle, they cut, they roll, they deal. You appear to be a bystander.
  • No equivoque. No force. The spectator can...
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Read more about How I Did It And Got Away With It by Dustin Marks

Principles and stories from cheating at the blackjack table.

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Step into the world of 1980s Las Vegas, where the casinos were iconic and the stakes were a matter of life and death. In his gripping memoir, Dustin Marks reveals how he executed over 500 cheating plays and retired without ever being caught.

Discover the "Double Down from a New Deck" and the high-tech "Computer Cooler," a masterpiece of deception that netted $151,000 in a single night. This is more than just a story of crime; it is a master class in psychological manipulation...

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Read more about Fake Memory Test by Dustin Marks

You begin with a challenge: can the spectator remember just four cards? You clearly display the Two of Hearts, Three of Diamonds, Four of Spades, and Five of Clubs. They're simple, random, and unforgettable. Or so they think.

Phase 1: The Transformation - Without a moment's hesitation, the four random cards are turned over to reveal they have transformed into the four Aces. The spectator's memory hasn't just failed; it has been completely rewritten.

Phase 2: The Callback - The spectator gathers the deck. To prove your control over their "fake memories," you instantly cut to the original...

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Read more about A Different Ace Production by Dustin Marks

Effect: The spectator names their favorite ace. The magician hands them the remaining three aces, which the spectator freely inserts into different parts of the deck. The deck is spread face down across the table, and the magician instantly removes the three inserted aces by pulling them out with his fingers.

The spectator then deals cards face down from the deck, stopping at any point. The card they stop on is turned face up - it's not an ace, but an indicator card. Using the value of that card, the spectator counts down to a new position in the deck, where they discover the named...

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Read more about Perfectly Divided by Dustin Marks

When the spectator controls everything... and you control the impossible.

The Effect

Imagine a routine where every decision belongs to your spectator - how to cut, where to stop, and even the exact order the cards are gathered. Yet in the end, the deck is perfectly separated into reds and blacks.

And just when they think they've witnessed the impossible, you reveal your kicker: a written prediction proving you knew the outcome all along - including the fact that their chosen Queen of Hearts would be the only red card in the black half of the deck.

Why Magicians Love It

  • Mathematical...
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Read more about 6 Imaginary Coins by Dustin Marks

This is a powerful everyday carry (EDC) effect designed for real‑world performers. It hits hard, is incredibly easy to do, takes up almost no pocket space, and features an instant reset - perfect for walk‑around, casual performances, and those "show me something" moments on demand. This is the kind of piece you'll find yourself carrying all the time and actually using.

At the same time, it doubles as a focused, practical study of equivoque. The structure is logical, visual, and taught in a way that lets you quickly grasp the core ideas and immediately apply them. Once you understand...

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Read more about The Underground Oracle by Dustin Marks

Effect: The deck is shuffled in portions - genuinely - by the spectators themselves. One of them cuts off a portion of cards and takes that packet beneath the table. Another spectator takes the remainder of the deck and does the same, both packets now hidden from view. The magician was turned away the entire time - no glimpses.

Yet, in spite of these impossible conditions, the magician reveals exactly how many cards were cut by the first spectator and how many the second spectator has. In the advance version the magician reveals the very card secretly placed from one packet into the other...

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Read more about The Tops by Dustin Marks

Effect: A letter card, which appears to be a mistake, is placed on the table without explanation. The spectator sees 32 different lettered cards. The cards are shuffled. The spectator freely selects four cards and arranges them to form a word. The mistake card is turned over - it matches the spectator's word!

A "mistake" that turns into a miracle!

Imagine placing a single card on the table - a card that appears to be nothing more than a scribbled mistake. You then introduce a deck of 32 lettered cards. Your spectator sees that the cards are all different and is even allowed to shuffle...

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The spectator takes half the deck, shuffles it, and then slides the bottom card out from the packet. After they shuffle the other half of the deck, they place it on top of that card and look at it - all while the magician's back is turned. After shuffling the entire deck together, the magician identifies the spectator's chosen card without asking a single question.

The spectator chooses and shuffles their own packet, selects a card while your back is turned, and then shuffles the entire deck themselves. You never ask a single question.

Instead of a simple "this is your card" reveal,...

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Read more about The Bottom Card by Dustin Marks

Effect: A deck is shuffled and then cut into four piles by a spectator. The spectator takes the bottom card of any pile and places it in their pocket without looking at it. Your back is turned the entire time.

Through a "reading" of their body language, you identify which pile they took the card from. But then you go further. You name the exact card in their pocket - a card that even the spectator has not seen yet.

Why it fools magicians and laypeople alike

  • Two Powerful Reveals: You don't just find the card; you first identify the location, creating a double-punch of mentalism and...
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Effect: After the spectator shuffles the deck, he looks at a card in the fairest conditions and buries that card in the deck. He then freely selects a helper card (QD) and cuts the deck again. Unbelievably, the Helper card finds the spectator's card without the magician touching the cards.

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Imagine a routine where the spectator does everything. They shuffle the deck, they look at any card - no force required - and they bury the card into the deck. You don't touch a thing while they "fairly" lose their card in the pack.

Why it's a must-have:

  • Total Freedom: The spectator...
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Read more about Corner Short Breakthrough by Dustin Marks

If you're a student of the Corner Short Card (CSC), this new discovery is going to captivate you. The ability to locate a CSC can transform your card magic - making your handling appear completely natural.

Say goodbye to holding breaks and using crimps. A CSC remains permanently hidden in plain sight, and this method lets you find it without suspicion.

You'll discover the most deceptive CSC discovery technique ever devised - so subtle it's practically invisible, even to seasoned eyes. This is a sleight-of-hand method; no external devices are used. Over a dozen crystal-clear instructional...

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Read more about InBetween by Dustin Marks

Effect: The magician writes a secret prediction and gives it to the spectators to hold. The spectators shuffle the deck. Under the fairest conditions, two spectators each look at a different card (no force) in different locations in the deck. The deck is cut by both spectators. The magician's prediction reveals the card in between the spectator's two chosen cards.

Description: The spectators never see the ending coming! This is not another prediction effect. This plays like the classic Magician in Trouble ploy.

With minimal magician involvement, a true miracle happens. Before the effect...

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Read more about Total Hallucination by Dustin Marks

This is not just a card trick. It's an experiment in the fallibility of human memory and perception. With one card you create a miracle!

A single card is placed on the table by the spectator. Both spectators look at the card, and yet they see different cards. The magician never touches this single card. In the spectator's mind this is a hands-off miracle.

This effect creates a moment where the spectators question their own perception and memory!

Two variations: One variation is simple with no preparation; the other version requires a two-way forcing deck, but this leads to an impossible...

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