Cards in Magic & Conjuring: page 81

The Top Change

• The Top Change
• Top Change Covers
• The Top Change as an Out for the Classic Force

  TRICKS WITH THE TOP CHANGE

• Metamorphosis
• The Lucky Coin

The full volume ebooks can be found here: Card College 1 & 2

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The Crimp

• Crimping with the Index Finger
• Crimping with the Heel of the Thumb
• Crimping with an Overhand Shuffle
• Cutting to a Crimped Card
• Applications

  A TRICK USING THE CRIMP

• Transposition Extraordinary

The full volume ebooks can be found here: Card College 1 & 2

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The Reverse

• The Braue Reverse
• Double Lift Reverse
• Double Turnover Reverse
• The Leg Reverse
• Deck Turnover Reverse

  TRICKS WITH THE REVERSE

• The Whistle
• Reversible Mix-up

The full volume ebooks can be found here: Card College 1 & 2

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False Cut Techniques, Part 2

• A True, Single, Tabled Cut
• Single, Tabled, False Cut I
• Single, Tabled, False Cut II
• A True Running Cut
• Up the Ladder
• Dai Vernon’s Cold-deck Cut
• Affas-gaffas False Cut
• Gambler’s False Triple Cut
• Acebo’s False Quadruple Cut

The full volume ebooks can be found here: Card College 1 & 2

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Flourishes, Part 2

• Turning Over the Top Card IV
• Turning Over the Top Card V
• Turning Over the Top Card VI
• Springing the Cards
• The Cascade
• The Swivelleroo Cut
• The Flip-flap Cut
• One-handed Riffle Shuffle

The full volume ebooks can be found here: Card College 1 & 2

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Theory

• Some Thoughts on Theoretical Subjects
• Presentation
• Construction
• Directing Attention
• Technique, Handling and Management
• Timing
• Outs for Disasters and Disturbances
• The Study of Card Conjuring

The full volume ebooks can be found here: Card College 1 & 2

John Gelasi's Wild Color Twist has never been better! This new video download features an updated handling of John's favorite packet trick, making it cleaner and more mechanically direct than ever.

The effect is this: Four aces are shown. Each ace turns face up in the packet, one by one: first the ace of diamonds, then the clubs, then the spades - to mix things up a bit, the performer surprises everyone by turning all of the aces into aces of spades, except for one: the missing ace of hearts. The magician snaps his fingers, showing that all of the aces have gone back to being different -...

Jon Racherbaumer steps forward with a very keen Introduction to this Baxter treatment of the classic Three Jacks Deal. “…celebrate and perform Baxter’s latest, evolutionary entry.” It has been around since 1928, but this version guides it well into the 21st century.

Ian Baxter has accomplished something remarkable. He has taken a wonderful classic self-working effect, that has been described and worked on by such luminaries as Walter Gibson, John Scarne, Rufus Steele, Harry Lorayne, Ed Marlo and made it even better, more direct, less dealing procedures while preserving the effect, the sleight-less feature as well as adding an additional climax....

A collection of three re-worked card classics and as Dan Tong says in his Introduction, “Ian has produced three very usable approaches to three classic effects.” That says it all!

Easygoing Carlyle is a no-palm Card To Pocket with a repeat phase that any serious magician can do in a few days. It is almost self-working.

With Nicely Controlled, Ian has refashioned an old trick that was a favorite of none other than S. Leo Horowitz.

Follow The Leader is certainly a classic. What Ian offers here is a six card routine that is simpler to set up than most of the older eight card routines...

Four easy card routines that flow nicely together, plus a false shuffle and a false cut. The routines are:

• Card Control
• Expert versus Amateur
• A Lesson in Cheating
• A Gambling Story

11 pages

Brother John Hamman's effects are conducive to creating strong, synergistic routines. That is, many of his individual effects, including its discrete parts, can be combined to form powerful presentations. The following nine-phase is a good example.

Holistic Hamman was originally part of an unpublished book titled Real-World Cardstuff: Synergistic Schemes.

Requisites: A regular deck of cards.

1st edition 2000, 2nd edition 2013, 15 pages.

A simple and easy, but, effective way of doing the famous, or infamous, Three Card Monte. The effect where three cards are placed on a table and the 'money' card keeps appearing or disappearing!

Using the story-line of Field Marshal Montgomery's attempts, during WWII, to keep the enemy guessing where he was, you use the cards to illustrate the story and allow you to use a very bad pun.

You will need to buy a 'special' card or two to do this effect. But, these cards can be very easily found on the internet or obtained from your local friendly magic dealer. (Or you can make them yourself!) ...

New tossed out deck where 5 people peek at a card and each sits down one at a time as each card is revealed.

"Devin first released 'OuttaSight' which was really good. Now, he has released "Knockout Tossed Out" which is as good, if not better than OuttaSight. Any student of the tossed-out deck can learn a lot from Devin's version. It's not just the method behind it but the psychology as well that makes this one really special and fun to perform. I enjoy it, fooling laypeople and magicians alike, and so will those who use it." - Robert Marsi

The Knockout Tossed Out is the latest craze in tossed...

This came about thanks to Larry Jennings' classic effect, "The Visitor". David has always loved that effect. It is impromptu, there is no setup, a borrowed deck can be used, and the effect is stunning. One day, David was playing with the routine, and began to think along the lines of, "Wouldn't it be cool if the selected card could be seen the entire time? What if the spectator could see their card sitting between the two face down cards right up until the very moment that it vanishes?" The answers, of course, are yes! Of course it would be cool. And with The Visitation these things are possible!

Here is...

A blue backed deck is shown. A card is removed, and placed aside. The deck is spread face down. It is seen that all of the cards have blue backs, except for one card which has a red back. Two cards are now very randomly chosen, and their values are added together. Let's assume that the total is "13" (the actual total is up to you!). The deck is turned face up (in every instance) and the cards are dealt one at a time until the 13th (or whatever value was chosen) card is dealt. Let's say that the 13th card is the Queen of Clubs. The deck is now spread face down. Each and every card has a blue...

This is a silent film from the 1950s from Harry Stanley's Unique Magic Studio featuring Lewis Ganson performing mostly card manipulation and a few other routines with silks, coins and lighters.

Contents

• card manipulation (back palm)
• diminishing cards
• card fans (also see his Fan Finale)
• card flourishes
• giant fans
• a clear case of anti-gravity
• coins at his finger tips
• multiplying lighters

length 6 min 40 seconds

The "2 as 4 count" is a very versatile utility move which can be applied to any number of effects.

Peter goes into detail on how to grip the cards, make it look natural and even teaches you a little trick you can do with the move. People have been begging Peter to teach them his counts, that time has finally arrived!

length 2min 27s

To many, this will look like the flustration count but different. Many call it the FRUSTRATION count, so here's a good alternative to use in your effects.

length 2min 18s

The big holes in the cards make for a great visual change. It also is an interesting take on an old principle.

length 3min 33s

Four regular cards are shown front and back, only to have X's appear on both sides right in front of the spectators eyes!

You will need:

• 2-as-5 Count (briefly explained)
• Flustration Count

length 2min 11s

Four kings change to aces, the Pellikaan way.

You will need:

• double backer
• wax

length 3min 1s

Another epic effect by Peter Pellikaan – with an unexpected kicker!

You will need:

• three double facers (Queen/9H, Queen/9H, Queen/9H, regular 9H, four regular Queens)
• Cut Count (briefly explained)
• Elmsley Count

length 4min 23s

This is a signature effect from Peter, containing multiple counts and a surprising ending. This trick involves color changes of both the front of the cards as well as the backs. As a kicker, at the end of the routine you will be able to show four different backs all different from the ones shown to the spectators before.

You will need:

• 2 double backers
• 4 Jacks with different backs
• 2-as-4 Count
• Elmsley Count
• Pelli Spread

length 2min 19s

You will learn the Xerox Spread that allows you to spread five cards as four, hiding one - the second from top.

length 1min 45s