Marked & Gaffed
Marked cards allow the magician to identify a card from its back or edge. Sometimes only certain cards are marked, other times each and every card is marked and identifiable.
Gaffed cards come in all shapes and varieties from comedic gaffs of misprinted faces and backs, to sleight-enhancing modifications such as stripper decks, and sometimes mechanical wonders that can change and transform. Some of the most common supplies for these mechanical wonders are invisible thread, either of the regular or elastic kind, double sided tape, magnets of different shapes and sizes, and plenty of playing cards to cut up and or glue together.
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The Stripper Deck: Miracle Methods No. 1Jean Hugard & Fred Braue The Stripper Deck has nothing to do with a girl shedding off her clothes, but rather is a specially gaffed deck. However, the gaff or preparation is not noticeable with the naked eye. It can even be handed out to spectators for shuffling and cutting. This manuscript outlines various moves as well as tricks with the Stripper Deck. Practically all effects can be achieved with pure sleight of hand using an unprepared deck. But the Stripper Deck simplifies the handling and makes miracles possible without difficult moves, leaving you time to focus on the presentation.
32 pages.
| 2005 / 9 / 9 | $2.00 to wish list |
110 Tricks with a Svengali DeckMagic Ian The Svengali Deck is an ingenious magic deck of cards. You can learn over 110 amazing tricks and routines. Some of the tricks you will be able to do:
| 2016 / 4 / 4 | $2.00 to wish list |
110 Tricks with a Stripper DeckMagic Ian The stripper deck is one of the most ingenious magic decks of cards ever invented. You can learn up to 110 amazing magic tricks using this apparatus.
1st edition 1998, 40 pages; 1st digital edition 2016, 39 pages. | 2016 / 4 / 10 | $2.00 to wish list |
The Svengali FoolerDevin Knight This is a new effect from Devin Knight's recent East Coast lecture tour. It uses a special Svengali deck in a way that magicians will never suspect. So you know, you will need to own or buy a Svengali Deck and gimmick it to do this trick. Take this to your next magic club meeting and puzzle the members.
EFFECT: The performer shows a deck of cards and mixes them. He invites a spectator to stop him as he deals the cards face down on the table. The person can stop him anywhere in the deal, there are no restrictions. The performer deals until the person says stop. The performer shows the card... | 2017 / 1 / 13 | $3.00 to wish list |
Magic with a Marked DeckSam Dalal From the introduction:
Most magicians have at some time or the other resorted to faked or trick decks to bring about some miracle or the other. And yet these same performers, who will pull out a Stripper or a Svengali deck at the drop of a pin shy away from a marked deck, presumably under the impression that everybody knows a Marked Deck. | 2011 / 11 / 8 | $4.00 to wish list |
Advantage Card PlayingF. R. Ritter This was the advertisement booklet for Ritter's book Advantage Card Playing and Draw Poker. It describes the motivation of the book and shows some excerpts including four illustrations.
1st edition 1905, 9 pages; digital edition colorized. | 2015 / 1 / 10 | $4.00 to wish list PDF_facsimile |
Tricks with a One Way DeckUlysses Frederick Grant The ever creative and prolific Grant collected in this ebook 21 card tricks all based on the 'one-way' principle. Grant starts out with examples of decks which are one-way, how to setup everything, and how to handle the cards correctly.
1st edition 1935; original 23 pages; PDF 13 pages. | 2008 / 4 / 9 | $5.00 to wish list |
BloodDaniel Madison Learn how to mark your cards with a professional card cheating system. Daniel has been a professional card cheat. He has the injuries to proof a near fatal beating due to an exposed sleight. If you want the real stuff, then here is the manuscript to read.
Bicycle Rider Back; Bicycle League Back; Tally-Ho Fan Back; Tally-Ho Circle Back + The first ever marking system for the David Blaine Split Spades. Blood is a system for applying secret markings to the back of playing cards that can only be distinguished by the performer and are invisible to the naked eye of the spectator. The system... | 2008 / 4 / 27 | $5.00 to wish list |
36 Tricks With Fa-Ko CardsRonald Haines Ronald Haines, through his business Haines House of Cards, sold a deck of gaffed cards called 'Fa-Ko' cards. This deck is not anymore available but perhaps you can find it second hand. However, now that it is very easy to make your own playing cards (see DIY Playing Cards) this collection has gained in value.
From the foreword The gimmicked cards required are listed at the beginning of each effect. The regular cards needed must be removed from a regular matching pack. | 2010 / 3 / 23 | $5.00 to wish list |
Pigment and PixelAbhinav Bothra Two different methods to mark Bicycle Rider Back / Bicycle Standard playing cards. Nothing tough to memorize. You'll literally be doing it in minutes after reading this ebook.
1st edition 2015, 11 pages. | 2015 / 10 / 20 | $5.00 to wish list |
Pigment and Pixel 2Abhinav Bothra Pigment & Pixel 2.0 has two marking systems designed for the standard Bicycle Rider Back. Both the marking systems are based on something that you've been seeing since your childhood hence it is almost impossible to forget. One of the marking systems is small and while the other is big, so you're covered of either kind of eyesight.
Note : This download consists of only the marking systems and does not come with any tricks with a marked deck. 1st edition 2020, 9 pages. | 2020 / 2 / 20 | $5.00 to wish list |
ESP Cards with Bicycle Back MarkedLybrary.com You will receive four sets of 5 ESP cards (circle, cross, three wavy lines, square, star), a total of 20 cards. Two sets have a red Bicycle back and the other two sets have a blue Bicycle back. These cards were manufactured by USPCC on their standard air-cushion cardboard.
All cards are marked on the back in an easy to read way. A short glimpse is all you need to know which symbol it is. However the Bicycle back design wonderfully camouflages the markings if you do not know where to look. Wonderfully matches regular Bicycle cards allowing combinations of effects with ESP symbols and standard... | 2011 / 1 / 24 | $6.00 to wish list |
Mark of the Devil: Six Slick Routines with a Marked DeckPaul Voodini This manuscript features six routines from Paul Voodini, all utilizing a marked deck. As well as fully explaining the routines, Paul also discusses many subtleties that allow the performer to use a marked deck with confidence and the 'tricks of the trade' that mean the spectators never suspect for a moment that there is anything 'funny' about the cards.
The routines included are: The Keeper of Secrets. The performer is able to correctly divine a chosen card despite the spectator desperately trying to keep its identity a secret. Thought Transfer. Performer and spectator work together... | 2014 / 3 / 8 | $6.50 to wish list |
Toony AngelMichael Maxwell The most successful effect of this kind was Dan Harlan's CardToon where a deck of cards doubled as a flip book. Riffling through the cards one would see a cartoon magician drawn on the backs find and reveal a chosen card. This effect was a huge success, potentially it was the most successful magic trick of all times (my guess, I don't really know).
Toony Angel builds on the basic idea to use a deck of cards as a flip book, but rather than animate a cartoon character on the back, the angel on the bicycle, from the Bicycle back design, starts to cycle towards you, zips around on the back of the card and... | 2010 / 12 / 15 | $7.00 to wish list |
Making Tactile Readers Using Boss WorkT. Hayes A new permanent tactile marking method, which is easier to feel and less visually noticeable compared to a punch. Boss work is a marking system that you read by touch, and is designed primarily for use with the punch deal. It is easy to put in and the items required are not too expensive. When compared to the punch, boss work is much easier to feel and more durable. The markings are almost impossible to see on the backs of the cards, and there is nothing to see on the fronts. This video will take you through putting in the work, teaching you the best way to mark the cards, and also showing... | 2020 / 8 / 10 | $8.00 to wish list MP4 (video) |
Meanderings with a Marked DeckSteve Sanders Don't tell anybody but sometimes magicians use marked cards. Apart from pick a card and tell the spectator the name of that card what else can you do with them? Here are five routines to use with any type of marked deck.
What a Coincidence: A routine where unseen cards are put on the table, you go first, the spectator follows and each of the cards coincidentally match. Centre Stage: The cards are mixed, the spectator cuts, without touching the cards you can instantly announce the name of the 26th card, or centre card of the deck. Simple. Pair Enough: 'Mysterious Pairs' from Hoffmann's More Magic is put... | 2020 / 10 / 3 | $8.00 to wish list |
Z ChangeZaw Shinn The Spectator chooses any card from the deck. The magician rips off the corner of that card. One hand wave, and the corner changes color. The magician throws the corner on to the card, the card is restored and the whole card changes color. And that’s not the end. The magician places the card on the deck and the entire deck changes color. Four effects in one trick. (Supplies may have to be purchased in order to perform this effect.)
1st edition 2020, video 17 min. | 2020 / 11 / 5 | $8.00 to wish list MP4 (video) |
Low Vision Marking SystemDr. Hans-Christian Solka A marked deck for people who have less than perfect vision or need glasses.
A blockout system for marking cards has been developed based on the widespread Bicycle Rider Back 808 deck. The development focused on good discernibility of the system for magicians with impaired vision. The marked deck can be prepared in less than one hour.
| 2015 / 6 / 21 | $9.00 to wish list |
HallucinationSultan Orazaly Visual and practical effects are rarely combined into one trick. Hallucination is a very practical and visual trick. Imagine you draw 4 points on a playing card, after which you shake the deck and they line up, and that’s not all, you shake the deck again and the points completely disappear.
1st edition 2020, length 6:27. | 2020 / 11 / 5 | $9.00 to wish list MP4 (video) |
Stars PredictionSultan Orazaly Visual movement of holes on a playing card. Show a playing card which has random holes in it. This is best done by putting it in front of a light source, such as your phone's screen. In an instant the holes rearrange to something meaningful. It could be a simple image, the name of a card, a spectator name, a date, anything you can think of. It is a great way to reveal a prediction.
1st edition 2020, video length 17 min. | 2020 / 11 / 28 | $9.95 to wish list MP4 (video) |
Sky VanishSultan Orazaly A visual vanish of a playing card which looks like real magic. The gimmick can be made in a few minutes.
1st edition 2021, video 7 min. | 2021 / 1 / 2 | $9.95 to wish list MP4 (video) |
Triangle TheoryZaw Shinn Created by Zaw Shinn and taught by Mario Tarasini. This visual ink moving effect is easy to do and it looks just like CGI. No fancy or fragile set up is required and the material to make the gimmick can easily be found.
Zaw likes to thank Martin Lewis, Alan Rorrison, Rizki Nanda, and many more for inspiring him to create Triangle Theory.
1st edition 2020, video 24 min 12s. | 2020 / 10 / 2 | $9.99 to wish list MP4 (video) |
Ted Lesley's Working Performer's Marked Deck (refill)Ted Lesley This is a sheet of custom made white rub-on transfer numbers, characters and symbols. This is exactly what you need to make several Ted Lesley Working Performer's Marked Decks - or other similar decks like the Boris Wild Marked Deck. (The cards you have to supply yourself.)
Please note that you do NOT acquire the right to make and sell Ted Lesley marked decks with these transfers. They are for personal use only. This marking system is considered the very best by many professionals. It combines super easy and reliable reading of the markings - which is crucial for real world under pressure performances - with... | 2010 / 8 / 9 | $10.00 to wish list |
Ted Lesley's Working Performer's Marked Deck ManualTed Lesley & Eric Mason & David Britland "I must congratulate you on producing the most readable 'Reader' deck I have ever seen." - Billy McCombTed Lesley of Germany devised the Working... | 2014 / 2 / 15 | $10.00 to wish list PDF & EPUB |
The Best 200 Tricks With A Svengali DeckJim McKeague This exclusive book has now been republished as an ebook. Encyclopaedic in scope, with notes on making, handling, pitching, and performing in a variety of situations.
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1st edition 1999, 181 pages. | 2014 / 6 / 18 | $10.00 to wish list |
Old School Packet TrickMario Tarasini Effect: Show to spectator 4 blank cards. Suddenly the blank cards change into four normal face cards. Additional supplies may need to be purchased to perform this effect.
length 3min 29s. | 2020 / 6 / 14 | $10.00 to wish list MP4 (video) |
Real WarpedRalf (Fairmagic) Rudolph A Card Warp effect that ends with an 'impossible' signed card with half turned face-out and the other half back-out. Effect: A playing card is folded and then signed by a spectator. This folded and signed card is inserted between another folded card, just like in the classic Card Warp effect. Then the inside card is pushed from left to right and from right to left. First the direction of the white border of the card's back switches position. Then one half of the card turns face outward. At this point the folded and signed card can be handed out as souvenir to the spectator. It will have one... | 2020 / 8 / 3 | $10.00 to wish list MP4 (video) |
U.T.Sultan Orazaly Imagine the viewer selects a card (forced). You take the card box, remove a card and with one wave of your hand the card turns into a candy box. You open it and there is the viewer's card.
To construct the gimmick you will need elastic thread.
1st edition 2020, length 17min. | 2020 / 11 / 20 | $11.95 to wish list MP4 (video) |
Boris Wild's LectureBoris Wild Boris is probably best known for his 'Boris Wild Marked Deck', which he describes here in detail. (For the right material to prepare your Boris Wild Marked Deck please see here.) He also teaches his version of a memorized deck, which you can learn in 6 minutes, because there is a system, a formula if you will, to it. And particularly the combination of his marked deck and his memorized deck allow you to fulfill your Wild-est effects.
If that is not enough then you will also learn the Kiss Count. The Kiss Count is a new move in cardmagic. Thanks to it, you will be able to pretend you have four... | 2006 / 6 / 3 | $12.00 to wish list |
Various Gaffed CardsLybrary.com This set consists of 52 gaffed cards with Bicycle backs. The cards are listed below and can also be seen in the image to the right. They come in a white tuck box that has a small window on one side.
| 2011 / 2 / 6 | $12.00 to wish list |
The Boris Wild Marked Deck Lecture NotesBoris Wild Explanation of the Boris Wild Marked Deck + Explanation of the BW Memorized Deck + 5 incredible routines including "Miracle!" and "Pure Telepathy" as seen on French National television.
"The Boris Wild System is a marked deck for the 21st century. It's intelligent, unsuspecting, and it fooled me sooo bad! I love it!" - Joshua Jay | 2011 / 12 / 6 | $12.00 to wish list |
Beyond Svengali: applying the svengali principle to mentalismChris Wardle & Paul Hallas Here, Chris Wardle explores the use of long and short cards (Svengali Deck style) for mental magic presentations. Whilst initially he gives some background to the Svengali deck and how to make and handle one, some routines use variants on the deck and several don't use playing cards at all. There are thirteen routines from Chris plus some additional commentary and a bonus routine from publisher Paul Hallas. Chances are after reading this you'll not think of the Svengali deck in the same way again.
Since the appearance of this booklet (his third) Chris authored Magic For Everyone (2006) and... | 2012 / 12 / 23 | $12.00 to wish list |
SEIS: Bizarre Mentalism with Marked CardsMystic Alexandre NO sleight of hand - NO complicated tactics!
In this PDF Alexandre shares techniques and six bizarre mentalism effects with marked cards (plus a strong bonus routine), audience tested material he's been performing for many years such as ... PAGANINI - The violin virtuoso fuels rumors of a pact with the Devil by demonstrating his amazing relationship with velocity using a deck of cards. STALKER - A female participant chooses her actions, and a card, but in the end she can't avoid the "stalker's" confrontation. SPIRITUAL TRACE - With an old deck of cards used for fortune telling, a... | 2014 / 12 / 2 | $12.00 to wish list |
Card GuillotineMario Tarasini The Card Guillotine is one of the most visual, mysterious and interesting card tricks. Mario Tarasini has brought it back to life. This is a new method that, when applied, can make the trick even more interesting and can fool any magician. The trick can also be performed with the spectators finger. Requires arts and crafts to make the gimmick.
1st edition 2020, video 11 min. | 2020 / 6 / 28 | $13.00 to wish list MP4 (video) |
Oil and WaterMario Tarasini Here is an astonishing ending to one of the classics of card magic - "Oil & Water". There are many ways to perform it, but Mario Tarasini has created an extremely visual final phase with face-up cards and just before the very eyes of the spectator. After a couple of your favorite phases of Oil & Water, this is an amazing way to end the routine. Just tell the spectator to not blink and she/he will witness a miracle. Requires arts and crafts to prepare the gimmicked cards.
length 9min 7s. | 2020 / 6 / 19 | $14.99 to wish list MP4 (video) |
Coined ChangeMario Tarasini Place a coin on a card. Just wave and the card will change. Mario Tarasini brings a new ultra visual card change system to the magic world. It is called "Jumping card system" and it looks impossible. Take an old trick to a next level.
1st edition 2020, length 6 min 55 s. | 2020 / 7 / 24 | $14.99 to wish list MP4 (video) |
Burmese ChangeZaw Shinn Burmese Change is a triple card change using a gimmick and sleight-of-hand. Spectator signs a card which is returned to the deck. The magician takes a random card and the card changes two times in to different cards, and the third change is when a random card changes in to the card signed by the spectator. After the trick, the card can be given to the spectator as a souvenir. Requires the preparation of a gimmick which is three cards thick.
1st edition 2020, video 13 min. | 2020 / 8 / 2 | $14.99 to wish list MP4 (video) |
Thug MeltMario Tarasini This is Tarasini's version of a popular trick on Instagram where a card appears to be melting through another one.
1st edition 2020, length 8 min 45 s. | 2020 / 8 / 7 | $14.99 to wish list MP4 (video) |
Personal AssistantMario Tarasini Few people know that there is a secret assistant in each deck of cards. “Secret Assistant” is a little helper for card magicians. It will definitely help you find the chosen card. The card can be signed. The gimmick can be used for other tricks. The gimmick requires various supplies to construct.
1st edition 2020, length 18 min. | 2020 / 8 / 14 | $14.99 to wish list MP4 (video) |
UltraWarpMario Tarasini The magician shows two cards: a regular picture card and a blank face one. The magician stacks the cards on top of each other and the card with the picture visually turns white. After the effect, both cards can be examined by the spectator. Includes a bonus idea by Zaw Shinn. Gimmick requires arts and crafts and some supplies you may not have at home.
1st edition 2020, video 15 min. | 2020 / 9 / 3 | $14.99 to wish list MP4 (video) |
ZangMario Tarasini The magician takes a spectator signed card, folds it in half, and splits the card into two parts! Only one hand movement and the card becomes whole again. Before and after the trick the spectator can inspect the card.
1st edition 2020, length 8 min 26 s. | 2020 / 9 / 12 | $14.99 to wish list MP4 (video) |
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