Stacks
A stacked deck is an incredible powerful tool for the magician. A memorized deck is for the most part committing a particular order of cards to memory. It will require work, practice and frequent use to keep remembering the stack. For systems of how to do this see our Memory & Mnemonics category.
An algorithmic stack allows one to calculate the card value (either the next card or a card at a particular position in the deck) without having to memorize an entire deck. The most famous such stack is Si Stebbins. Each method has its pros and cons. Try them out and see what works best for you.
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Know StackUnknown Mentalist
| 2020 / 9 / 19 | $18.00 to wish list |
KalendeckUnknown Mentalist Kalendeck is a calendar deck. If at all it is possible to "Pre-Know" any stack, it is this. In other words, you probably already know this stack but you are simply not aware of it. If you know the basics of a calendar, then you already know most of this deck. Or you can easily pick this up in just a few minutes. It is that easy and that simple.
Kalendeck is a memorized deck which looks very random and well shuffled - both values and suits. Given any position, you know the card instantly and vice versa. It may take all of about ten minutes for you to learn this stack. Of course, practice... | 2020 / 7 / 13 | $18.00 to wish list |
The Bammo Tarodiction ToolboxBob Farmer A new method to quickly and secretly arrange cards from a small pack all the way to a full deck. No math needed unless you want to understand why it works. Within magic, no mind approaches Bob Farmer's. Outside magic, Machiavelli came close. The evidence is presented in "The Bammo Tarodiction Toolbox." - Stephen Minch | 2020 / 7 / 9 | $30.00 to wish list |
Spell DeckUnknown Mentalist The Spell Deck is an easy to learn and easy to use memorized deck. Just a couple of very simple rules and you instantly know the value of any given position and vice versa. The Spell Deck is also flexible in that the same rules can be used to generate 4 different memorized decks. All that is explained clearly.
S.O.S Vol3 is included in this ebook. It contains 3 cool ideas for ordering suits, not just for the Spell Deck, but can be used for other stacks as well. When you combine the 4 variants of Spell Deck with these 3 Suit Ordering Systems and their built in variants, you can create a whopping... | 2020 / 2 / 15 | $12.00 to wish list |
Psychic Card RevelationsDevin Knight Effect: Two people each select a card. The performer then shuffles the deck by giving it a riffle shuffle. The spectators take the deck and returned the cards with the deck in their own hands in such a manner that there can be no suspicion of trickery. The two cards are not forced.
The performer now spreads the deck face up on the table so all the faces are in full view. The first card is found by contact mindreading (apparently). The first spectator holds the performer's wrist while he moves his fingers over the face up cards. Suddenly, the performer's finger drops down on a card and it... | 2019 / 3 / 31 | $8.00 to wish list |
Hold'em Poker Stacked DecksBruce Carlley You will learn stacks for 2 - 10 players which allow you to do the following:
Presentation: Bring out the card case and remove the cards. Briefly show the cards and hand the deck to one of the players. Have them cut the deck. And cut again. State that you think he (or she) is lucky and let them deal. He deals and he wins! They have no explanation. He cut the cards and dealt and you did not touch the deck after he cut the cards. 1st edition 2019, 16 pages. | 2019 / 1 / 19 | $6.00 to wish list |
King StackUnknown Mentalist The King Stack is a cyclical stack. Probably the world's easiest cyclical stack to date. As easy as the Si Stebbins stack. But much more random looking for both values and suits. If you can add 1 and 2 then you can instantly learn the King Stack, it is that simple and easy. It should not take more than 3 minutes to actually fully learn it. The real core principle of this stack can be explained in just 2-3 sentences. It is that simple
and yet looks fairly random.
The King Stack is so named because the Kings have a special place in this stack and play a key role. A hidden beauty of the ... | 2018 / 10 / 7 | $12.00 to wish list |
Si Stebbins Card RoutineGene Anderson An apparent demonstration of total card mastery, this series of card effects entertains and baffles a lay audience. The magician names missing cards by glancing at a riffling pack, listens to the riffling cards to count packets or locate any card, and detects truth from lies by spelling with the cards.
1st edition 1988, 5 pages; PDF 6 pages. | 2018 / 9 / 29 | $6.00 to wish list |
The ExpositorWilliam Frederick Pinchbeck A series of letters, between an unidentified friend and his correspondent (William Frederick Pinchbeck) comprising of how to train a pig, invisible lady and acoustic temple, philosophical swan, penetrating spy glasses, several magic tricks, such as how to catch a bullet, and reflections on ventriloquism.
This book includes the first known description of the "Eight Kings" card stack.
| 2018 / 8 / 20 | $6.00 to wish list |
Ten Mystifying Card TricksHugh R. Johnston Easy to learn, hard to detect. A booklet of routines that use the Si Stebbins stack.
This is an early publication by Hugh Johnston predating his larger Modern Card Miracles by several years. Includes research on its likely publication date by Chris Wasshuber.
| 2018 / 7 / 5 | $6.00 to wish list |
Optik DeckUnknown Mentalist Optic Deck is an optical/visual memorized deck. You 'see' a number 1-52 in your mind's eye and you 'optically' or visually know what card is at that number. Similarly you 'see' any card in your mind's eye and you again 'optically' know what position the card is at.
The stack looks very random, the suits look random, there is no red/black alternating pattern and even after reasonable scrutiny it would be almost impossible to spot a sequence, because there is none. Even magicians after being told that there is a stack involved will find it extremely difficult to spot the stack. This is a... | 2018 / 6 / 10 | $12.00 to wish list |
Modern Card MiraclesHugh R. Johnston & F. B. Sterling A complete card-act with patter.
This ebook describes moves and routines for a stacked deck. The authors are using the Si Stebbins stack, but most of what is taught applies to other stacks, memorized or algorithmic. At the very end a simply two person code is taught. Dornfield, President of the Chicago Society of Magicians writes in The Sphinx magazine, November 1919 page 209: "On the same program, Hugh Johnston put over his line of incomprehensible sliders and puzzlers. The way that fellow can make a card or a whole deck do his bidding is nothing short of miraculous. He is at present busily engaged in conducting the only... | 2018 / 3 / 18 | $10.00 to wish list |
Mnemonica for EverybodyGeoff Williams Mnemonica for Everybody is a streamlined, graphical method for easily and quickly learning the Tamariz stack.
It's the same Peg Memory System (PMS) I developed that I used to learn the Aronson Stack in an hour while driving. BTW, this same technique works great for every memorized stack out there including the Aronson Stack, The Six-Hour Memorized Deck by Martin Joyal, the Nikola stack and others. Even though there are no actual tricks taught in this manuscript, it does contain links to several free memorized deck tricks and other resources (including a free e-book from Simon Aronson). Please refer to the writings... | 2018 / 1 / 31 | $15.00 to wish list |
Lucky DeckUnknown Mentalist This is a combo of 2 ebooks. Lucky Deck and Suit Order Systems Vol. 5.
Lucky Deck is a very special stack. Because this arrangement of the deck can be used both as a memorized deck and/or as a cyclical stack. Both the values and suits look fairly random. Just by learning 3 simple and easy rules, you will be able to pick up the entire stack within no time. Probably by the time you finish reading this manuscript, you should be able to pick up this stack. Given any position, you will be able to name the card and vice versa. Also given any card, you will be able to get the next card as well.... | 2018 / 1 / 23 | $18.00 to wish list |
Recycling Stebbins AgainSteve Sanders More fun with the original Si Stebbins Stacked deck. Contains an explanation of the original Si Stebbins stack and how to set up any deck of cards in that order.
Four different effects using the stack:
Kind of a Four
Curried Stebbins | 2018 / 1 / 16 | $7.00 to wish list |
Si-StepSteve Sanders Si-Step is a system which enables you to know what card is at a given position in the deck or get the position of any named card. Specially developed for the original Stebbins Stack and for people who do not like mental arithmetic.
It was originally published in 2014 in Recycled Stebbins. PDF 8 pages. | 2018 / 1 / 16 | $0.00 to wish list |
Jack's PackJack Yates Jack Yates was a very clever and innovative magician who has somehow stayed below the radar and is completely unknown - undeservedly so - to many particularly in the US. Jack's Pack is a clever stacking method for finding any card in a deck by way of using numbers, names, words, etc.
Edited and with additional notes by Ken de Courcy. 1st edition 1978, 8 pages; 1st digital edition 2017, PDF 10 pages. | 2017 / 12 / 11 | $7.00 to wish list |
Aronson Stack for EverybodyGeoff Williams In 1979, Simon Aronson gave the world of magic an incredible tool - A Stack To Remember - which has come to be known as the "Aronson stack," a seemingly random arrangement of cards that has amazing miracle properties built into it.
Many magicians have avoided adding memorized deck work to their repertoires because of the daunting task of committing a stacked deck to memory. Struggling to grasp the associations of the cards and their locations within the stack, most quit after a few hours or days. I was the same way... until a Harry Anderson manuscript got me to thinking about how to make... | 2017 / 11 / 29 | $15.00 to wish list |
Stebbins Surprise StackUnknown Mentalist
| 2017 / 3 / 4 | $18.00 to wish list |
Magic Card SystemPercy Abbott This is one of the books that Abbott published for the troops during wartime in the 1940's. It uses Si Stebbins system, except the step size is 4 rather than 3, also known as "The Riverboat Stack". Routines can be performed with most other stacks.
| 2017 / 2 / 26 | $4.00 to wish list |
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