Cards in Magic & Conjuring: page 20

The Svengali deck of cards is a specially prepared deck of playing cards (Poker-sized or Bridge-sized) that can be used by magicians or entertainers to perform various tricks. The deck and the tricks performed with it are assisted by its unique design and require almost no skill. It is based on a very old principle of entertaining deception and confidence game manipulation.

The cards of the deck can be flipped or riffled to create the illusion that the deck is completely ordinary. It can even be apparently mixed and shuffled. The trick involves a spectator choosing a card from the deck and...

Featuring mostly unpublished material and other rarities from some of America's Finest Creators. 49 contributors - 80 routines and moves.

JON ARMSTRONG
My Opening Act:
Deciding to show off your ESP skill and having only a deck of cards and a rubber band, you hand your deck out to be shuffled to a nice man named Ted. After he is finished shuffling, you ask Ted to place the rubber band around the cards to make them tamper-proof. You ask Ted if he will stop you on a card as you riffle them past his eyes. To prove to Ted that all is on the up and up, you offer to stare at his girlfriend Mary...

Fourteen mind magic routines with a deck of cards.

From the introduction:

• The Author's Foreword
• Introduction
• Fascination
• Clairvoyancy ...

"This is loaded with stuff that is both simple to do and deceptive (not to mention entertaining). Would I recommend this book? You betcha!" - Jim Canaday, The Magic Portal

"There's way more here than simply 28 tricks between two covers. There's an assemblage of original thoughts and methods from a consummate professional you can buy for a trifle." - Rick Carruth, The Magic Roadshow.

"In addition to killer tricks, Paul also provides his innovations and handlings of useful sleights, including Pinky Ovette, Center Double Control, and Simple Double Card Control. His essay Thoughts on Multiple...

Excerpt from the introduction:

Card Kinetics is a manual dealing with methods of making ordinary playing cards move, rise or jump. A number of different approaches are used, all practical and baffling.

In Card Kinetics, David Britland carries on the work detailed in his other manuscript, The Angel Card Rise Plus, and details several versions of this popular effect, each using a simple, disposable gimmick which can be added to your own or a borrowed deck. Users of David's Angel Card Rise should be pleased with its final incarnation, The Ultimate Angel, described in this ebook.

But there is more. Angel Aces, Spring Heeled Jacks, Inside-Out Angel, Business...

After four books on impromptu card magic, Aldo is back with an ebook containing different material with cards, impromptu and not so impromptu but all the routines have the emphasis on strong effects and leave lasting impressions on the audiences. Card Journal is not just 'another card book'...it's something much more special, something different in themes and effects. This is a 'must have' ebook packed with tested material.

• Introduction
• Lone Rider
• Followers
• Dreamers' Choice
• Beat the Rhythm
• Trio Sonata
• Melting Pot
• Little Big Card (requires a miniature deck and a double backed card of...

The 'card to wallet' effect is one of those all-time classic magic effects. It is probably the best application for palming. A spectator freely selects a card, signs it, shuffles the pack, and magically the chosen and signed card ends up in a zippered compartment in your wallet.

runtime: 2min 49s

The Effect of the Card in the Orange ranks with that of the Bank-Note in Lemon, or the Card in the Egg effect, but has one main advantage over the other two and that is that it is easier to do. Although the impact on the audience is precisely the same, the trick can be performed under any conditions and is literally worry-free. The Card in the Orange is one of those effects that, in the right hands, can be a reputation-maker. The whole effect depends entirely upon showmanship and presentation.

• Edwin's Routine
• What You Require
• Another Method
• Knife Force
• Simplicity Force
• The Glide ...

A practical, easy to construct gimmick for accomplishing the effect of getting a selected card to vanish from the deck and be transported into a sealed envelope to be removed by a spectator.

You will receive a PDF and a video (see the digital shelf) explaining the process.

1st edition 2020, PDF + video 1min 9s.

The card in bottle has become somewhat of a trade mark trick for Ron in the last few years during his restaurant and bar work. Over the years he has come up with a variety of methods and he put them all together in this ebook. These methods will allow you to perform this great trick in just about any performing condition. Learn them all and when the time comes decide which method is best for your current performing condition. This will take a lot of the guess work out of it for those who would like to add this great trick to their close up performances.

1st edition 2006; 6 pages

Five Impromptu card tricks with a regular deck. No hard sleights, no gaffs and no setups!

The Magic Number: A close-up version of the classic 'Six Card Repeat', with a killer ending they won't see coming.

Gone Figured: A super simple handling of a classic Larry Jennings effect. From a genuinely shuffled deck, a spectator locates a four-of-a-kind without the slightest idea how they did it.

Cheap Suit: The Four aces identify the suit of card chosen by process of elimination. The selection itself makes a surprising appearance. A great quickie for when someone hands you a deck.

PAC-MAAN: A prediction...

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.

Seventeen excellent card routines from an innovative card man.

1st edition, 2000.

FREE AS A BIRD: This effect is a two card discovery that I find quite effective. It uses the Hamilton/Finnell Free Cut Principle - a visual deception of the highest order.

WEDLUCK: The trick that follows is a simple, yet effective, royal marriages effect using the Rusduck Stay Stack principle. A Stay Stack is a mirror stack that retains its properties after certain shuffling.

THE PARANORMAN: A chosen card is found using three unknown numbers. This uses the Norman Gilbreath Principle. Before commencing set...

Ten super card routines.

• IMPULSE (Peter Duffie): A three-phase routine with a finale that will blow their heads off. A card changes place with another card with a hole!
• REMEMBER/FORGET (Mike Rogers): A quickie but so commercial where a card is revealed under a spectator’s finger.
• A BUNCH OF BLARNEY (Aldo Colombini): The classic plot of the Lie Detector revealing a selected card and the four Aces.
• COMPOSITION (Aldo Colombini): Incredible routine with a lot of surprises. A closing effect!
• WILD MIX (Aldo Colombini): Stand up magic at its best. The classic Wild Card Theme performed entirely in...

Get ready for a firework of card magic starting where a card just vanishes, a pair of cards mysteriously rise, another shoots out of the deck as soon as named, and two others change locations. Jerry also presents his spin on prior work by by Trost, Krenzel, Corin, Dingle, Fulves, and others.

• I. Short Subjects 6
  • Easy Go 6
  • Bi-rise 9
  • Shootout 10
  • Changed Changeling 11
• II. Selected Subjects 13
  • Trap-ease 13
  • Go-llectors 15
• III. Subjects under Control 17
  • Twist on the Aces 17
  • A New Twist 19
  • Ace Backwards 22
  • An Impact on Impact 24
  • Poker Face-to-Face 26
• IV. Subject to Changes 28 ...

• The Two Handed Fan
• "Spot Fan"
• Automatic Closing Of The Fan
• Instantaneous Colour Change
• The Reverse Fan
• The Blank Fan
• Reverse Instantaneous Colour Change
• The Split Fan
• The Flash Fan
• The Diminishing Fan
• The Single Handed Fan
• The Giant Fan
• The "Weave"
• Spreading The Giant Fan
• Routining
• Eliminating The Weave
• "Crazy Fans"
• Care Of Cards

1st digital edition 2016, 19 pages.

A complete treatise on the continuous production of fans of cards from the fingertips. Illustrated with many sketches, front and back views. One of the greatest applause-getters in the business, and you can easily learn how to do it from this ebook. Includes work with gloves, descriptions of performances, ...

Illustrated by Eugene Gloye.

• Introduction
• The Instruction
• The Hat Steal
• The Card Clip
• A Net For Catching The Cards
• Two Types Of Fans
• Gloved Productions
• By The Same Author

1st edition 1941; PDF 20 pages.

This is not a book for beginners. But it is a book that will lift up the devoted student by two or three levels of proviciency in card handling. Buckley, born in Australia, was one of the masters and innovators of card magic. He studied the card gamblers as well as the top magic performers. This book with over 300 photos, of which most have been enhanced by drawing lines over them to increase contrast, and 40 outstanding routines, is a gold mine and challenge for any card worker.

Paul Fleming wrote:

14 Chapters, 70+ tricks, 150+ illustrations by Joseph K. Schmidt.

1. Interlocked Principle: Topmost; Blackjack Aces; Between 2 Worlds
2. Jog Switch: The Producers; JS Ace Production; Rags to Riches
3. Kosky Switch: Compression Agents; Compression Agents Revisited; Fan Dancing Queens; Infallible Foolable Kings; Self Correcting Sandwich & variants
4. Misc. - General: Bottom Biddle Following Orders; Change-Over Queens; Clockwise; Con-found; The Piston; Shiftless Royalty; Impaired Royalty; The Ringmaster; Return to Sender; Traveling Queen; Vollmer Variant; Ambitious & Overworked
5. Misc. - Set-ups: Flexible Choice; Harvey's...

1. Biddle Force: 26 Faces North; Double Knavery; 25 Faces North + 1 South
2. Concealed Allerton Control: CAC Visitor; Only Joking; Anti-Matter; Anti-Matter Revisited; Final Control
3. Cut Force: Diminishing Matches; Beastly Assembly; Faith Counter; 51 Faces North
4. Daley's Delight Switch: Hotel Daley; Shifty King; Repelling & Attracting; Double Rouge et Noire; Daley's Do-as-I-Do
5. Daryl's Diminishing Count: Bad Guys Wear Black; Just a Little off the Top, Please; Repligator; Blackjack & Blackjacks
6. Divide and Conjure (Marty Kane)
7. Double Deal Turn-over: S.O.P. (Slightly Open Prediction); Blackjack Transpo;...

12 Chapters, 50+ tricks, 150+ illustrations by Joseph K. Schmidt.

1. Biddle Force: 26 Faces North; Double Knavery; 25 Faces North + 1 South
2. Concealed Allerton Control: CAC Visitor; Only Joking; Anti-Matter; Anti-Matter Revisited; Final Control
3. Cut Force: Diminishing Matches; Beastly Assembly; Faith Counter; 51 Faces North
4. Daley's Delight Switch: Hotel Daley; Shifty King; Repelling & Attracting; Double Rouge et Noire; Daley's Do-as-I-Do
5. Daryl's Diminishing Count: Bad Guys Wear Black; Just a Little off the Top, Please; Repligator; Blackjack & Blackjacks
6. Divide and Conjure (Marty Kane)
7. Double Deal Turn-over:...

Card College Lightest is the final volume of Roberto Giobbi's acclaimed 'Light' trilogy. In it are taught 18 thoroughly astonishing tricks of professional quality, complete with performing psychology, presentations, valuable tips and insights, all of which contribute to making these sleightless effects into near miracles.

The tricks Giobbi has selected this time range from time-tested classics to little-known wonders by masters of the craft, including Larry Becker, Henry Christ, Aldo Colombini, Paul Curry, Alex Elmsley, Karl Fulves, Martin Gardner, Stewart James, Howard Adams, Richard Vollmer and more.

Also explained are simple methods for achieving false shuffles,...

Roberto Giobbi's newest survey of sleightless card magic, Card College Lighter, gives the famous Giobbi treatment to 21 baffling card tricks by some of the craft's greatest masters, including Vernon, Annemann, Leech, Maven, Fulves, Hummer, Vollmer and Krenzel. These tricks do not require sleights, but they all show the cunning perspective of a professional performer, guaranteeing astonishing and entertaining results.

Following in the footsteps of his Card College Light, Roberto Giobbi teaches the secrets of professional-caliber card magic, providing insights into the presentation, psychology and routining that make these simple tricks into...