Cards in Magic & Conjuring: page 16

Effect: The magic-man reaches into his pocket and removes one solitary playing card say for example, the Ace of Diamonds. Draw on the back of this playing card is a rudimentary stickman. The performer goes on to explain that "the stickman lives on this card, the Ace of Diamonds is his home", as this is explained the card is shown clearly on both sides. The performer then goes on to say "like all other people, Mr Stickman likes to go on holiday". With one quick shake the stickman drawing disappears from the back of the Ace of Diamonds which is then placed face-down on the table. The deck of cards...

A new 2020 edition of the sequel to Small But Deadly and a continuing exploration of packet tricks, their creators and the evolution of plots and methods, discussion and analysis of effects plus routines to add to your repertoires. If you loved the first book, then you'll love this one too. This new edition now has 212 letter sized, information packed pages. Includes updated chapters, new chapters and now 668 packet effects get mentioned throughout.

Includes effect contributions from:

• Cameron Francis
• David Gemmell
• David Neighbors
• Hideo Kato
• Howard Adams
• John Guastaferro
• Peter Duffie
• Richard Vollmer
• Ryan Matney
• Scott F. Guinn
• William Goodwin ...

Let someone choose a card, and then put the card back in the deck. The spectator himself can shuffle the cards, and then lay them on the ground, face down. You now claim to find the card, without your hands touching them. Now you step on the cards on the floor, and show the spectator a card, which is underneath your shoe. But It is not the card the spectator has chosen. But no problem. You step a second time on the floor, lift up your shoe, and now the card has turned into the one, chosen by the spectator!

You require:

1. A Reel with a break
2. Some double sided scotch tape
3. Some magician...

You'll find incredible detail and over 90 photographs. You'll learn some of the original handling ideas from when these effects were first created.

In addition, there is a ton of information about performing and practicing and how to move from reading the ebook to performing the effects.

And if that's not enough, you'll get a healthy dose of Jason Montoya's artwork and more of those crazy Saga Stories including several that have never been published.

1st edition 2008; 79 pages.

BEGINNING STUFF
5. Preface
8. Update For 2008
10. The Basics

    NINE GROOVY TRICKS

13. Ace Bandage
21. Dethroned
28. Keep...

"If you are looking for a fresh dose of commercial, audience-tested card magic, look no further than Jeff Stone's Stone Cold Magic. There's plenty of useable card effects presented in a wonderfully friendly, casual and straightforward manner. My only criticism is that Jeff came up with the idea of using the Erdnase-Houdini Color Change as an invisible palm. It looks so darn good, I wish to heck I had thought of it!!" - Jay Sankey

"Jeff is a real worker and tips his mitt in this DVD. There are some great ideas that are really USABLE. In addition, it's just a fun watch as noted by others. Jeff is...

This is a neat little ace revelation using three bottom deals. Performer deals cards to the table until spectator says: "Stop." Another packet is dealt until spectator says: "Stop." This is done for another two times until a total of four packets are on the table. The bottom most card of all those four packets is an ace.

runtime: 1min 23s

The Wesley James Magic Castle Lecture

Not everyone will immediately recognize the name Wesley James. Those in the know will. For many years Mr. James has been an underground secret. During his many years as a professional he refused to lecture for magicians or publish the effects he used in his professional performances. Since Mr. James has retired from performing and has lectured for magicians. Stop Fooling Us! are the lecture notes from his first lecture series.

"One of the best sets of lecture notes I've seen in quite some time. Top notch stuff! and a good value." - Harvey Rosenthal ...

Spectator chooses a card, remembers it, and the card is lost in the deck. Then the performer places cards one by one on the table until the spectator says: "Stop!". Magically the spectator has stopped exactly at his chosen card.

This version of the Stop trick uses the Benzais Cop to achieve the effect.

runtime: 1min 49s

Five of Baxter’s best with cards – all impromptu, all straightforward, all within reach of the average card man. Included is Easy Going Triumph, which puts the famous Vernon effect into an even more convincing mode and not a sleight in sight.

Direct and clean effects achieved by simple methods. With an introduction by Charles Gauci.

• Shared Sandwich
• Staying In Touch
• Rag
• Coin Spell
• Easy Going Triumph

1st edition 2018, 16 pages.

Excerpt from the Foreword:

• Foreword
• It Is Certain To Happen
• The Notorious Society
• Nebuchadnezzar’s Nightmare
• Occult Powers In Full Force
• Unfriendly Influence
• The Offensive Jacks
• An Unexplainable Purpose
• So Great Is Its Power
• This Strange Mystery
• Within The Realm...

No Gaffs or Duplicates. This is a reworked version of "The Case in Hand" that appeared in Duffie's Card Compulsions. You tell a story of a stranger and a gang of four in an unpleasant neighborhood. The gang needs to defend their turf but the stranger with the help of two body guards finds a clever place to hide.

Stratagem is a 3 phase modular routine using a regular pack of playing cards. It is easy enough for a month old beginner and at the same time delivers an impact of an expert. Each phase of Stratagem stands on its own and at the same time builds upon the previous one.

Phase I (CAAN on Steroids) :: A crossbreed of 'Do As I Do' and 'Card At Any Number'. CAAN not just once but twice - once in the hands of the performer and the other time in the hands of the participant with zero sleights involved. Each time all the decisions are made by the participant.

Phase II (Remote Viewing) :: With your...

A treatise on how to determine a thought of card.

• Out of Sight - Out of Mind (Dai Vernon)
• Streamlined Discernment (Edward Marlo)
• Mental Discernment Improved (Ken Krenzel)
• Mental Selectivity (Charlie Miller)
• Far Out Of Sight (Bob King)
• No Questions Asked (Randy Wakeman)
• The Spectator Seems to Really Think of any Card (Bob Farmer)
• A Card That Lies = A Deck That Tells The Truth (Bob Farmer)
• Unambiguous Discernment (Edward Marlo)
• Fish-Fry For Two (Robert Baxter)
• Fish (Lewis Jones)
• The Discerning Mentalist (J. K. Hartman)
• Mental Schemental (J. K. Hartman)

1st edition 2011; 52 pages....

A lovely card stretching routine - very simple to do, because a little something does most of the work for you.

Have a card selected (totally free choice) and draw a happy stick figure on the back of the card. The spectator can even sign the back, too. Then you place the card back on the top of the back and add another card on top of it - the stretch box. You now stretch the card with the signature clearly showing. At the end, simply square up table the top card, the stretch box, and hand out the selected with the stick figure as a souvenir.

This is very simple, no difficult sleights,...

An excellent work on the Svengali Deck, including drawings and photos.

• Mechanics Of Svengali Deck
• Handling The Svengali Deck
• Main Points To Remember
• Running The Cards
• Double Lift
• The Riffle Shuffle
• The Overhand Shuffle
• The Fan
• The Spread
• The Drop
• Effects With Svengali Deck
• Stabbing Trick No. 1
• Stabbing Trick No. 2
• Stuthard’s Svengali Subtlety
• Methods Of Switching Deck To Ordinary Cards
• Suggested Routine With The Svengali Deck
• Finally

1st edition 1948, 15 pages; PDF 13 pages.

Ten amazing routines with a regular deck of cards.

• LONE RIDER (Aldo Colombini): A spectator selects a card from a deck. It is the only one with a different colored back.
• THE MAGNETIC ACES (Nick Trost): A spectator deals the cards and finds the four Aces.
• SPELL-KING (Aldo Colombini): A funny routine. You find the four Kings and then the four Aces.
• NOW SERVING (Karl Fulves): Missionaries and cannibals are involved. You find them all.
• PALATINO (Aldo Colombini): A card is selected. You show the four Aces. The Ace of the same suit turns out to be the selection.
• MAGIC ELIMINATION (Hideo Kato): A selected card is found...

Peter Duffie is one of the world's most creative cardmen and Subtle Miracles gathers together some of his most inventive work. Many of these effects were marketed as exclusive manuscripts (Solo, Duet, Trio, Quartet, Double Indemnity) and are now brought together for the first time, together with a selection of brand new routines using equally clever methods. David Britland contributed a routine called 'Red Alert' as well as added notes commenting on Peter's routines. An appendix teaches a couple of important sleights.

• Introduction
• Solo
  • Wildlife
  • Hamman Count Variation
• Duet
  • Point Blank Assembly
  • Impulse: Two cards transpose under...

This is a work mostly of card magic, but not exclusively so. It has some photos and some illustrations by Sid Lorraine. From the introduction by H. Adrian Smith:

Marcus Gordon hails from Aberdeen, Scotland. He is the grandson of Ron Gordon; a true Wizard of the North! This is Marcus's first publication and contains an eclectic collection of 12 card effects using both, sleight of hand and sleight-free principles. While not for the beginner, the intermediate to advanced card handler should find much to enjoy and think about in this ebook.

Contents

• Triumphant Return: An in-the-hands Triumph for walk-a-bout
• The Hoff: A direct approach to the Hofzinser Ace Problem
• The Clockwork Shift: Learn a Pass that won't break your knuckles!
• Complex Colours:...

A deep dive into a key principle - the sunken key card.

• So It Begins ...
• Adding the Pips / Larsen - Wright
• Automatic Location / Oscar Weigle Jr.
• The Three Pile Trick / C. W. Jones
• The Twenty-Sixth Location
• The Triple Discovery / Charlie Miller - Jack McMillen
• Watching the Pitchman / Charlton Chute
• Improved Twenty-Sixth Location
• Middle Maze / Bruce Elliott
• The Twenty-Sixth Card Location - Using a Corner Short / George G. Kaplan
• Koran's Miracle Card Stab / Al Koran
• A New Use for a One Dollar Bill / John Henry Grossman
• Buried Treasure / Alex Elmsley
• Shadowed / Alex Elmsley
• S-D Location / Dave Solomon - Steve Draun
• S-D Plus / Simon Aronson
• An Exploration...

The following effect, "All That Jazz," was first published in Gregg Webb's underground magic newsletter, FEEN-X in 2000.

• A great packet trick with normal cards - no gaffs are used.
• Packed with surprises, eight cards transpose and assemble in front of your audience in the cleanest manner.
• The cards are displayed face up at key points in the performance. Gregg's setup allows you to present the trick as slowly as desired - no discrepancies can be seen by the sharpest spectator.

1st edition 2020, 4 pages.

Presented are two versions of the effect, "Twisting the Night Away," by Gregg Webb as first published in the ebook, The Book That Doesn’t Exist. The two versions presented here each have their own subtleties and strengths.

1st edition 2019, 5 pages.

This effect was originally published in Gregg Webb's ebook Lizard Wizard's Diary. This Super Session explains a clean and fast transposition of two cards. This ebook has hand-lettered text.

1st edition 2020, 2 pages.

The featured effect, "Five Card Phlugelheimer," enables you to walk among your audience and allow five people to mentally select five cards from a deck:

• Each spectator mentally selects a card - the deck is shuffled and cut each time.
• The miracle worker rapidly reveals the selected cards.
• As a bonus kicker, a sixth spectator mentally selects a card - the deck is shuffled again. Single cards are dealt to the table as the name of the selected card is spelled - the final card dealt is the selection.

1st edition 2020, 5 pages.