Cards in Magic & Conjuring

A card magic act that won the hearts of millions.

In 2024 Mark Lewis appeared on the Canada's Got Talent television show and got a sensational result winning $25,000 and a place in the semifinal by winning the Golden Buzzer. You have to see his performance below.

Now you can learn the entire act from the man himself, Mark Lewis, with all the bits of business, additional ideas, and showmanship the man has to offer. You do not need to be a sleight-of-hand wizard to perform this act. Clever sequencing, psychology, and a winning persona are the keys to success, and of course this ebook, too. ...

When Ed Marlo expressed his wish that his material be kept available "For the Guys," it was not his intent that the cost be prohibitive. That was not Ed's way. Ed didn't publish his material for the small amount of money they produced. He never received payment for most of the material he contributed. In keeping with the spirit of Ed's pricing, Wesley has decided to offer special pricing for those who purchase the full set of Marlo In New Tops.

In the month of October 2024, in recognition of the passing of the self-proclaimed "King of Cards," Harry Houdini, and the birth of the true, modern "King of...

A classic in card magic. A chosen card is repeatedly placed in the middle of the deck and repeatedly returns to being the top card.

The ebook features many color photographs that make the readability even easier, to the point that the ebook can be understood even just through the images.

1st edition 2024, PDF 14 pages.

In the chaos of a shuffled deck, the magic is not in the randomness, but in the unseen order, waiting for the perfect reveal.

In these pages, I am sharing an effect using a method in card magic that many magicians these days do not use. This effect is capable of deceiving not only laypersons but also fellow magicians who are unfamiliar with the method used, and due to the nature of this routine, this effect will probably fool magicians who have a basic understanding of its application.

• No gimmick or gaff cards are needed.
• Easy to perform, if you know how to shuffle cards.
• Uses a standard...

The Lie Detector is a card magic and mentalism effect that can be performed at any time and employs six cards, randomly chosen by the spectator, which put together in a pack will act as a polygraph. Alternatively, it is possible to use six cards on which to write as many names, cities, emotions, instruments, or any other idea that makes it possible to freely choose between six elements. The spectator will have to choose the six cards, one of which will have to remain a secret, to be guarded at all costs, even in the face of the four questions that the illusionist will have to ask him so that...

An unprecedented Semi-Automatic A.C.A.A.N. effect that will amaze: a spectator freely chooses, from a few cards, one representing value, one for suit, and the sum of the values of the others will return the position in the deck in which the card will be found.

The title plays on the words "Some Suit of Value", where "Some" is pronounced the same way as "Sum" and both "Suit" and "Value" can be referred to playing cards. In fact, this effect involves the spectator choosing after the deck has been shuffled and cut, from a group of six cards that will be drawn, one card that will represent...

Almost as challenging as reading all the card and coin material Ed Marlo packed into the 22 years of M.I.N.T. (1963-1985), is locating specific pieces of material when you want to study or review them. You certainly aren't going to learn it all in one sitting. Moreover, both Ed and Wesley liberally reference the works of other authors and their published material. With the Annotated M.I.N.T. series now complete in 14 volumes, this 15th volume will make it far easier to locate any Ed Marlo or Wesley James material from the series, as well as other referenced Indexed contributors to magic's...

The Annotated M.I.N.T. series concludes. It is now complete. Thanks to Ed Marlo and Wesley James, M.I.N.T III, IV, V, VI, and Annotated M.I.N.T. 1963 - 1979 (M.I.N.T. I, and II) are now available in 14 Volumes, plus, in a 15th volume, all the Index, Table of Contents, and Bibliography for all 14 volumes. After releasing M.I.N.T III through VI, and Annotated M.I.N.T 1963 through 1976 this volume again departs by including three years of material. It includes the years 1977-1979 - comprised of some longer and broader Marlo explorations. As Wesley progressed toward completing the full run of...

Price will increase to $19.97 on October 9th, 2024.

Estimation is a secret weapon that enables you to create seemingly impossible effects. While it may appear challenging at first, mastering this skill is more possible than you might expect. When executed correctly, the results can be truly amazing.

This comprehensive eBook covers all aspects of estimation, including prerequisites, fundamental principles, and the distinctions between "in the hands" and "on the table" estimation techniques. It also provides practical advice and describes various effects that can be achieved through estimation....

A new spin on the classic piece-by-piece card restoration.

This is a real-world Torn & Restored Card that's easier to do and better on angles than most. It looks great on social media or in the real world. This is a T&R that was built for workers.

• Simple set up
• Easy moves
• Great for strolling or table hopping
• Perform it back out or face out
• Multiple handlings included

1st edition 2024, video 33 minutes.

A spectacular series of 'sandwiches' with a deck of cards.

Aldo Colombini is back with Checkmate, another full routine never before published in English. The routine takes full advantage of the 'sandwich' theme, where selected cards mysteriously appear between pairs of Kings, and escalates into a series of transpositions and revelations that defy logic.

Much impressive is the “instant sandwich transposition”, where a selected card (that can be signed) instantly transposes from between the red Kings to between the black Kings while they are in the midst of two different packets. Each...

Effect: From a deck of cards, the spectator selects a card and then loses it in the deck without showing it to anyone. The performer takes another deck of cards, shuffles it, and shows that each card is in a random position. He notices two twin cards in the center. Taking advantage of this, he says it's a sign of fate and that he will use the twin cards to find the selected card, even though he doesn't know what it is. He shuffles the deck again, and magically, the pair of twin cards capture a card, which turns out to be the twin of the chosen one. Undeterred, the performer adds the value...

An unprecedented self-working effect in which 2 cards chosen to represent two bratty kids hiding among the other cards, will be captured by three cards called to represent daddy, a lady, and a boy.

This is a new automatic card effect, accompanied by a nice story, where the magician, drawing from a common deck of cards, uses only the face cards, dividing them into three piles: the Jacks, the Queens, and the Kings. He introduces the latter as a small group of friends, four separated fathers, who decide to hold a party to which they invite four dames and four Jacks, their sons. Nevertheless,...

You start by showing four cards from the back, one of which is orange, while the others have red backs. The front of the orange-backed card is blank. You table that card. As you show the three remaining red-backed cards for the second time, one has changed to a blue back. The front is again blank. One more time around, and another card has changed its back to a different color.

You pick up the four cards and show their faces, but they now have all turned into four Jokers. Another magical gesture and they have changed into four Queen of Hearts. Then the four Queen of Hearts change to the...

This special intro price will go up to $12 from October 14, 2024.

MASQ Stack is a rotational or sequential stack that is very easy to learn and looks very random. You should be able to remember the sequence in under ten minutes. Given any card, you will know the next card instantly. Knowing this stack, you can perform almost all the routines out there which can be performed with a Si Stebbins or 8 Kings or similar stacks.

But behind the "MASQ" there is another hidden secret. Once you know the MASQ Stack you can also perform a magic square routine anytime, anywhere to anyone without breaking...

Using a small packet of cards, a spectator fairly creates a playing card which was predicted by the magician.

A packet of playing cards is on display. On one side: A mix of every value (from 2 to King) and every suit. On the other side: A mix of red and blue backs. The spectator is asked to create a random card. First, he selects which back color represents the suit and which one represents the value. Following the magician's instructions, he mixes the cards up and cuts them as many times as he wants. Then, he deals the cards on the table in six pairs. Finally, he picks one pair with a red...

You start with 5 blank cards - blank on both sides. A magic word and one of the blank cards has turned into a regular card. Progressively, each blank card assumes a differently colored back until you can show a fan with all five cards showing backs.

1st edition 2024, video 3:32.

A spectator names a number from 1 to 5. The magician takes the deck of cards, shuffles it, and after doing so, lays the cards out like a ribbon on the table, and only 4 cards remain face up, that is, the four-of-a-kind poker hand made up of the number chosen by the spectator.

1st edition 2024, PDF 4 pages.

This is a compilation of two booklets that gambling house supply companies sold. The first part, Master Key, describes various ways playing cards can be marked. Illustrations of many marking methods and systems are included. Some of these methods go under the names of shade, glaze, block-out, line, build-up, trim, sorts, etch, swell natural or edge work, and others. The author of this section is unknown. It appears to be culled from various gambling house supply catalogs.

The second part, Run-Up Systems, was culled without credit from S. W. Erdnase's famous book The Expert at the Card Table. It explains several methods of stacking...

This ebook is packed with amazing card magic. Intended for advanced card workers, this is expert material for the person who wants top-notch, subtle work. It contains 45 great tricks.

• Author's Remarks
• Barnhart's Fan Steal
• Johnson's False Cut
• Gusias' Fancy Lift
• Marlo's Two Card Throw
• The "S" Shaped Turn Over
• Push-In Ace Control
• Imperfection Force
• Best Two Card Pushoff
• Marlo's Gambling Routine
• The Sucker Hand
• Bridge Honors
• Marlo's Miracle Routine
• Cards By Weight
• Miracle Location
• The Prediction
• A Straight Flush
• Perfect Bridge Hand
• The Rummy Game
• Faro Aces
• Just Imagine
• The Punch Deal
• Marlo's...

This is my go-to effect. Once you have done this effect, the spectator will believe you can read their facial expressions and more.

If you are looking to: build rapport with spectator(s), learn a memorized deck, and perform jazz-type magic this effect is your incentive.

I have gotten more incredible responses from this effect than any other. The method looks extremely fair. The only sleight, if you call this a sleight, is riffling cards off of your index finger. Learning this effect will make your magic better.

Note: You will need to know any memorized deck perfectly.

1st edition...

A spectator, very inexplicably, leads the performer to produce a four-of-kind poker hand in a very casual manner. The second is my version of an effect by John Mendoza also published in the book I dedicated to him, called 1-2-3-4 & 5 Ambitious.

1st edition 2024, PDF 4 pages.

A novel semi-automatic effect in which a spectator rolls a pair of dice and freely chooses any card, to arrive at a random spot in the deck where two more cards will determine both a random card and a number where it will be magically found.

A new semi-automatic card magic effect, where the magician, once introduced to an ordinary deck of poker cards, proceeds with a quick shuffle and finally hands it to a spectator, asking her to cut it into three parts. She shuffles the last one and chooses from it any card. Before turning it over, the magician announces that its value, added to that...

A printing effect. Five blank cards turn in an instant into a royal flush.

You show five blank cards. They are blank on both sides. In a snapping motion, you pull them apart and suddenly their faces show playing cards, a royal flush, and the backs are also printed.

1st edition 2024, video

This is the authoritative reference for false counts and displays. It is the only encyclopedia of its kind. If you read somewhere a reference to the Copdiddle Count or the Biddyro Count and you have no idea what they are and how they are done, Racherbaumer's Counthesaurus will provide the answer. More than 70 counts and displays are explained. False counts are particularly useful for small packet tricks. If you want to create your own small packet tricks and you need a false count with particular characteristics and features you will likely find it here.

Includes Robert Walker's trick "Hyper...

I have learned a dozen false shuffles and the Rosetta shuffle was the clear winner. The Rosetta shuffle is one of the most convincing false shuffles of all the false shuffles. It looks so innocent and impossible to manipulate.

Key points:

• Learn step by step how to perform this amazingly deceptive shuffle.
• Practice tips
• Psychology approach
• 9 crystal clear photos to help you learn how to perform this amazing shuffle.
• Demo video provided so you can see for yourself how deceptive this shuffle is.
• This is the shuffle to use when you absolutely want your audience to believe the deck is...

You show four cards, one of which has a big round hole cut out. Suddenly all the cards have a big round hole cut out. In another blink of an eye, the round hole has transformed into a square hole and you are only holding a single card. This effect is best seen performed. Watch the demo video below.

1st edition 2024, video 2:39.

A semi-automatic and completely impromptu Any-Card-At-Any-Number effect, in which a spectator rolls a pair of (imaginary) dice to draw a number, and randomly chooses a card, only to incredibly succeed in finding it, after the stop decided by the magician at the turning of the cards, at the very number he indicated.

An almost self-working "Any Card At Any Numer" effect, always improvisable, where the magician, once introduced to an ordinary 52-card poker deck (minus the Jokers), even possibly borrowed, hands it to a spectator to shuffle freely. Having got the cards back, he hands the first...

The routine is built on different principles learned from different authors who have dedicated themselves to the exploration of this path.

Effect: A spectator chooses a pair of cards and another a second pair of cards. A third spectator will choose one of the two pairs and put them in his pocket without seeing their faces. At this point, 27 cards are shown and the third spectator will always have to think of one of those he sees and then indicate 3 times where it went to be placed but always without ever saying its name. Once this is done, the deck is shuffled and only at this point the...

"A very nice mentalism routine. And the method is devilish!" - Tony Bianco

"After I was taught the method for this, I immediately smiled. It is super clever, you won't be disappointed." - Brian Draven

"Many of you know the Unnamed Magician by now. But I've had the privilege of knowing him for a long time now. Any time he creates a new routine and sends it to me, I always make time that very day just so I can see it. This routine is no different." - Tommaso Guglielmi

To mark my 1st year anniversary at Lybrary, I am (in collaboration with someone else) releasing something very special, which, if you like...

Card tricks with big holes in some cards is one of Peter Pellikaan's unique themes. This is another visual effect using cards with holes.

You show four regular playing cards and a coin. When you count the cards again one card suddenly has a huge hole cut out of its center. You place this card aside and count the remaining three cards. Another card has a hole. You do this until all four cards have turned into cards with big holes cut from their center.

When you pick up these four cards with holes, they magically become whole (pun intended) again. They are restored without any holes just like...

It is a card magic effect that seems truly impossible to understand even for the most experienced in the field. The idea was born from a study carried out on a routine by Benjamin Earl, and subsequently modified and dressed according to the UMI (International Magic University "Damaso Fernandez") thought. The work was created by the very young cardist Gino D'Alessandro, under the guidance and supervision of Maestro Damaso Fernandez and Gianluigi Sordellini.

A spectator freely cuts the deck and stops wherever he wants, looking at the card under the deck where he stopped to memorize it. During...

"I love your new creation! Great illustrations. A well-structured semi-automatic card trick that could be repeated immediately at table-hopping. I like that instead of the usual counting, only the cards of a chosen color are counted this time." - Dr. Hans-Christian Solka

A new card effect, completely self-working and hands-off, in which it will be the spectator, after freely choosing the color, to find the card at the number as traditionally in any good A.C.A.A.N.

This is a new automatic and completely hands-off card magic effect, where the magician, once the deck has been introduced, shuffled and quickly...

Are you looking for an effect that will make spectators exclaim, "That's impossible!"? Look no further. This is the perfect closer for your show or to impress a client.

Here's how it works: The magician cuts the deck and gives spectators cards to shuffle. After that, he never touches the cards again. Three spectators each choose any card from their shuffled packet. After viewing their cards, they replace and reshuffle them. Once the deck is reassembled, all three spectators select another card, each using a different method: cutting, dealing to any card, or picking from a spread. Amazingly,...

A new mentalism and card magic effect, impromptu and self-working, in which the illusionist, making use of less than half a deck, will call the sister of the one chosen by the spectator and incredibly those cards will always answer the call.

An always improvisable experiment with a dash of mentalism where the magician, making use of less than twenty cards from any deck, after showing them, shuffling and having a spectator cut the deck, makes her freely choose a card. After further shuffling the remaining cards by chaotically dividing them into three separate piles, he asks the spectator...

You show four Eight of Diamonds. On one you draw a large X and you ask the spectator to follow it. You turn the cards face-down, and after some mixing, you table the cards one after each other face-down. When you turn the cards face-up they have all changed to aces. The eights including the one with the cross on it have vanished.

1st edition 2024, video 3:30

There is no more powerful effect than one that uses some personal information of the spectator that the magician could not possibly know. Here the selected card is found using either the spectator's zodiac sign or the month in which the spectator was born. Self-working. No sleights. Any deck, even a borrowed one.

1st edition 2024, PDF 6 pages.

Selected card at selected number.

This is a very clean "selected card at selected number" effect. The spectator selects a card, shuffles to lose the card, selects a number, and the card is miraculously found at the number. A performance video can be seen below.

Imagine:

The magician introduces a deck, spreads it face up to display that all the cards are different and in no particular order, and then hands it to the spectator. He invites them to cut off about a third of the deck and to look at the bottom card of the cut-off portion as their selection. The magician then asks them to thoroughly...

What is the most deceptive false shuffle: Zarrow, Faro, Push-Through, Shank, in the hands shuffle? The answer to this intriguing question is that the most deceptive false shuffle is when the spectator shuffles the deck themselves! This eBook explains this ingenious principle, how to use it, and its numerous variations. One variation uses the spectator's deck. Mastering this technique will elevate your card magic to new heights, leaving your audience in complete awe and amazement.

1st edition 2024, PDF 30 pages.