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Colour ConfusionMark LeveridgeA blue-backed deck is openly displayed and one card is selected from the face-down deck. Cutting the selection back into the pack and shuffling the deck, the performer offers to find the selection quickly and effectively. Snapping his fingers over the deck, he turns the cards face down and spreads through the entire deck to reveal that every card back has changed from blue to red, except for just one card, and that turns out to be the selected card! No sleight of hand is required, this is designed to instantly re-set in front of the spectators and everything takes place up in your hands,... | $14 to wish listPDF & MP4 | |
Parade of the Kings RevisitedMark LeveridgeThis is a revised version of the classic Parade Of The Kings packet trick from the 1970s. Four blue-backed cards are counted face down and the performer explains that these are the four Kings. Two spectators between them decide on one of the Kings. Immediately the magician spreads the cards to reveal the chosen King has now magically turned face up. But there is a further surprise when the back of this King is shown to have also now changed to red. Then there is a final kicker when the other three face-down Kings are turned face up to reveal they are in fact three blank-faced cards... | $10 to wish listMP4 (video) | |
The Annotated Royal Road to Card MagicMark LewisMy name is Mark Lewis. This is the book that changed my life. In fact, I suspect it changed the life of a lot of other card magicians too. The Royal Road to Card Magic was first published in 1949 and 70 years later it is still considered the standard work in card magic. A terrific study plan which if you follow carefully (as I did) you cannot possibly fail to achieve proficiency as a card magician. You can start the book knowing nothing about card tricks but by the time you get to the end you will become an expert. Of course, a lot of things have happened in card magic over the last 70 years since the book was first published... | ★★★★★ $15 to wish list | |
Zombies Eat BrainsMark PiazzaAn effect about famous highly intelligent human beings and a hunger for brains. Billy McComb's classic McCombical Deck updated for the Zombie Apocalypse. Artwork included. If you're a zombie, why eat just average brains? Wouldn't you want to eat the most intelligent brains available? That's the premise for this version of this classic effect! Included is the artwork for 7 special cards. 1st edition 2015, 10 pages. | $8 to wish list | |
Psychic InfluenceMark StrivingsPredict a matched pair from a spectator shuffled deck. The deck can be freely shuffled and cut as often as the spectator wishes. The methodology is somewhat involved because you need a billet index, a gimmicked envelope, and a marked deck. You could do without the gimmicked envelope but the rest you will need. Nevertheless, the effect is strong. Recorded live at the Convention at the Capital 1999. runtime: 17min 40s | $6 to wish listMP4 (video) | |
Weston's Ways With CardsMark WestonFrom the Foreword: It has always been my aim to perform close-up magic impromptu, and with unprepared cards. This I do most of the time. Occasionally I find it is better to use the odd special card to enhance a particular routine, and as a commercial performer I have no qualms about this. In my view, the performer's personality should override all else, the props being the tools of his trade. When the blend of personality and props is exactly correct, the performance becomes an entertainment ... this is the aim. The routines in this book are designed to appeal to those using card magic... | ★★★★★ $15 to wish list | |
Effects with the Card IndexMark WestonThe card index is an item that should be in the accessory department of every working magician; once the method of working has been grasped and the necessary practice acquired, a new field of card magic miracle effects is open to the practical performer.
1st edition 1982, 16... | ★★★★★ $8 to wish list | |
A Hard Ace To FollowMartin A. NashFeaturing Infinity Martin is demonstrating the difference between coincidence, or luck, and sleight-of-hand. This is a lovely routine where a spectator selects a card that is lost in the deck. The four aces are shown and one ace with the same suit as the spectators card magically turns face down while the aces are held by the spectator. Perhaps a coincidence. Then another card in the remaining deck turns face down. Luck?! The final climax when the two face-down cards are turned face-up is the transposition of an ace and the chosen card because the ace is found in the deck and the chosen card... | ★★★★★ $6 to wish listMP4 (video) | |
Poker FaceMartin AdamsHave a spectator to think any playing card. Now you are able to reveal their freely thought of card in seconds. Poker Face comes with four routine ideas and the instructions for all the necessary gimmicks that you need to perform this miracle. You can turn this into a prediction effect and you'll be able to predict their freely thought of card. You can always carry it with you. Keypoints to remember:
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The Best of Pentagram Card MagicMartin BreeseFabulous collection of card magic culled from the pages of The Pentagram, including an excellent chapter by Graham Adams.
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Routines for the Bendix Bombshell WalletMartin BreeseThis is a compilation of routines for the Bendix Bombshell Wallet contributed by some of the most recognized performers. The printed version of this booklet comes with every Bendix Bombshell Wallet produce by Martin Breese. A good place to get the wallet is directly from the manufacturer on the Martin Breese website.
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Cut The CardsMartin GardnerThe 17 effects contained in this collection can be performed with an unprepared deck. Never again be caught without a trick. The audience-tested effects range from no-skill puzzlers to outstanding mysteries that require rudimentary sleights. Nelson Hahne's clear illustrations help make everything clear. Here's what's included: A Close Fit - Some of you will win bar bets with this impossible-appearing optical illusion. The Unconfused Joker - The Joker helps locate the spectator's card, though the audience thinks its impossible. Double Vanish and Recovery - A beautiful effect by Ed Marlo where... | ★★★★★ $8 to wish list | |
12 Tricks with a Borrowed DeckMartin GardnerHere are a dozen quality card magic effects that can be performed with an unprepared deck at a moment's notice. While not self-working, most of these miracles rely on just one or two sleights. Some require a setup. Crisp illustrations by Dr. Harlan Tarbell help make it easy to understand and master. Here's what's included:
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A Sharper SharpedMartin LewisA wonderful routine only requiring a false count. Martin Lewis uses the Buckle count but several other false counts can be substituted. The premise is a game of cards with a card sharper. You deal cards and the sharper counts his cards. He has 6 cards. Since you can't play poker with six he removes one card and counts them again still leaving him with six cards. This is repeated two more times always leaving him with six cards. Only the last time he is left with 4 cards. Since you can't play poker with 4 cards he adds a card but still is left with only 4 cards. This continues until in the... | $6 to wish listMP4 (video) | |
Extreme PickpocketingMats G. KjellstromPluck a selected card from within a shuffled deck inside a closed card box in the spectators jacket pocket! In less of a second! Detailed Effect: The spectator selects a card and shows it to the audience and memorizes it, the spectator puts it back anywhere in the deck and then shuffles the cards, then the spectator slides the complete deck into the card case, closes the flap. The spectator puts the card case with the deck in his own outer/external pocket on his jacket. The magician shows his hands empty (the magician can roll up his sleeves, more convincing) and he pulls the correct card... | $5 to wish list | |
Card IdeasMatt du HeaumeFive 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... | ★★★★★ $7 to wish list | |
Homing CardMatteo FilippiniMatteo Filippini presents his personal study on the Francis Carlyle Homing Card. Starting from the splendid Carlyle version, which appeared on the historical Stars Of Magic, through Roberto Giobbi's Homing Card Plus, from the second volume of Card College, Matteo offers his vision on this great card magic effect. The Homing Card is certainly one of the few effects with playing cards that are well suited to different situations: close-up, parlour, TV, theatre... The routine has been divided into several phases and analyzed down to the smallest detail. In addition some historical notes and a rich bibliography. 1st edition 2019,... | ★★★★★ $10 to wish list | |
Mind FuseMatthew DarwinThe performer places a blue deck and a red deck on the table. The blue deck is given to the spectator to hold for the entire performance. The assisstant is invited to select any card from the red deck (without looking at it). Next, the playing card is inserted face-down in the face-up deck. Neither the performer nor the spectator knows the identity of the card. The magician then invites the spectator to open the blue deck which was given to him at the beginning of the effect and instructs him to spread the cards face-up on the table. When the cards are spread face-up, it is seen that there... | ★★★★★ $2 to wish list | |
Sticky TripMatthew LeatherbarrowEffect: 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... | ★★★★★ $0 to wish list | |
Sixteen Card Index GemsMax AndrewsClassic text on effects that can be performed with a card index. This ebook does not describe how to make a card index. It describes sixteen effects achieved with the use of a card index. Many of these effects are original creations of Max Andrews. Paul Fleming wrote: A good many years ago, we witnessed a fine vaudeville act by Herbert Brooks, in which he presented, among other effects, his celebrated feat of producing from his pocket any card called for by the audience, after the pack had been shuffled, divided into two approximately equal parts, and the halves deposited in his side trousers-pockets.... | ★★★★★ $7 to wish list | |
Semi-Automatic Card MiraclesMaximiliano YedidHere is a small collection of automatic and semi-automatic out-of-hand card effects, empowered by the "chaos" philosophy brought forward by Lennart Green and Dani DaOrtiz. The effects are easy to do and they don't require you to be another "David Wiliamson" or "Dani DaOrtiz" in order to perform them. Just a regular, normal magician. More important than the routines you will see and learn how the chaos handling is applied to this type of effects - you will be able to apply those ideas later in many of your effects to make them more fooling and fun. The effects included are: Mr. Green Goes Red:... | ★★★★★ $12 to wish list | |
Clever Card TricksMaxwellA little booklet with 12 great card tricks. And the price - a steal! 1st edition, 1934, Max Holden; 12 pages.
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The Expert at the Cod TableMichael Breggar"I do enjoy reading good writing and I enjoy reading your books. You sure are one heck of a funny guy! Started chuckling almost immediately and really laughed out loud at '...confused with a hat-rack'! Well done!" - Harry Lorayne(E)-books like this do not come along too often. That's a good thing because voluntary illiteracy would increase. Michael Breggar, author of such litter box liners as Influence-Enza, Dancing with the Cards, and... | ★★★★★ $20 to wish list | |
Dancing with the CardsMichael BreggarAward-winning columnist Michael Breggar is back with his signature quirky, yet amazing and professional almost-self-working effects. This time, it's all cards. As always, it's not just the tricks you learn, but the subtleties, tips and nuances to make your magic easy, astonishing and engaging. "Michael provides recognizable forms for the simplicity and cleverness of the methods to secretly nourish the engaging and amusing themes he has chosen to anecdotally share - not as tricks per se but as congenial curiosities...which is a difference that truly makes a difference!" - Jon Racherbaumer | ★★★★★ $15 to wish list |