Gaffed cards come in all shapes and varieties from comedic gaffs of misprinted faces and backs, to sleight-enhancing modifications such as stripper decks, and sometimes mechanical wonders that can change and transform. Some of the most common supplies for these mechanical wonders are invisible thread, either of the regular or elastic kind, double sided tape, magnets of different shapes and sizes, and plenty of playing cards to cut up and or glue together.
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The Stripper Deck: Miracle Methods No. 1Jean Hugard & Fred Braue![]() The Stripper Deck has nothing to do with a girl shedding off her clothes, but rather is a specially gaffed deck. However, the gaff or preparation is not noticeable with the naked eye. It can even be handed out to spectators for shuffling and cutting. This manuscript outlines various moves as well as tricks with the Stripper Deck. Practically all effects can be achieved with pure sleight of hand using an unprepared deck. But the Stripper Deck simplifies the handling and makes miracles possible without difficult moves, leaving you time to focus on the presentation. Paul Fleming wrote: This is not one... | ★★★★★ $2 to wish list | |
Boris Wild's LectureBoris Wild![]() Boris is probably best known for his 'Boris Wild Marked Deck', which he describes here in detail. (For the right material to prepare your Boris Wild Marked Deck please see here.) He also teaches his version of a memorized deck, which you can learn in 6 minutes, because there is a system, a formula if you will, to it. And particularly the combination of his marked deck and his memorized deck allow you to fulfill your Wild-est effects. If that is not enough then you will also learn the Kiss Count. The Kiss Count is a new move in cardmagic. Thanks to it, you will be able to pretend you have four... | ★★★★★ $12 to wish list | |
The Gaff Factory: A comprehensive dry-mounting tutorialCraig Matsuoka![]() Making dry-mounted gaffs just got a whole lot easier! This new 80 page ebook introduces you to the wonders of dry mounting tissue (a.k.a. "DMT"). What's DMT? It's an adhesive that lets you make gaffs that look, feel, and snap like a normal card. If all you've ever known are rubber cement, sprays, and glue sticks, then you've been missing out big-time. This book will open your eyes. On the other hand, perhaps you heard of DMT, but never bothered to try it because the equipment costs turned you off. Or maybe you gave up on it after getting horrible results with a clothes iron. Well, it's... | ★★★★★ $20 to wish list | |
Tricks with a One Way DeckUlysses Frederick Grant | ★★★★★ $5 to wish list | |
BloodDaniel Madison![]() Learn how to mark your cards with a professional card cheating system. Daniel has been a professional card cheat. He has the injuries to proof a near fatal beating due to an exposed sleight. If you want the real stuff, then here is the manuscript to read. Bicycle Rider Back; Bicycle League Back; Tally-Ho Fan Back; Tally-Ho Circle Back + The first ever marking system for the David Blaine Split Spades. Blood is a system for applying secret markings to the back of playing cards that can only be distinguished by the performer and are invisible to the naked eye of the spectator. The system... | ★★★★★ $5 to wish list | |
NUD - Numen's Utility Deck: And other Mental Card MysteriesDavid Numen![]() Imagine a deck that secretly tells you both the identity of a thought-of card and that card's numeric location, either in that deck or in another deck. Think of all the memorized deck applications this would simplify. No memory work. No tricky calculations to arrive at the card’s location. Think of the myriad mentalism applications. A spectator peeks at any card in the deck and you instantly know what the card is and at what number it resides from the top or bottom of that deck or another deck. What's more, you obviously never see the back of the peeked card, which eliminates the... | ★★★★★ $19 to wish list | |
36 Tricks With Fa-Ko CardsRonald Haines![]() Ronald Haines, through his business Haines House of Cards, sold a deck of gaffed cards called 'Fa-Ko' cards. This deck is not anymore available but perhaps you can find it second-hand. However, now that it is very easy to make your own playing cards (see DIY Playing Cards) this collection has gained in value. From the foreword The gimmicked cards required are listed at the beginning of each effect. The regular cards needed must be removed from a regular matching pack. This FA-KO Pack is not a toy for children, nor is it a collection of "self-working" tricks. It is a collection of professional secrets,... | ★★★★★ $5 to wish list | |
Ted Lesley's Working Performer's Marked Deck (refill)Ted Lesley![]() This is a sheet of custom made white rub-on transfer numbers, characters and symbols. This is exactly what you need to make several Ted Lesley Working Performer's Marked Decks - or other similar decks like the Boris Wild Marked Deck. (The cards you have to supply yourself.) Please note that you do NOT acquire the right to make and sell Ted Lesley marked decks with these transfers. They are for personal use only. This marking system is considered the very best by many professionals. It combines super easy and reliable reading of the markings - which is crucial for real world under pressure performances - with... | ★★★★★ $10 to wish list | |
Marked for DeathScott F. Guinn![]() Scott has been holding this close to the vest for more than a decade. A small part of his do-it-yourself marked deck system was published in his long out of print book "Never Miss a Trick," but in this manuscript Scott gives you the full meal deal, explaining the entire system. Along with instructions on how to make up your own decks (in just minutes!), Scott gives you memory hooks to make learning the system as quick and painless as possible. Then he gets into the routines--and what routines they are! Killer routines that will slaughter your audience! Stuff that seems absolutely impossible... | ★★★★★ $20 to wish list | |
The Score: playing card marking systemDaniel Madison![]() The Score is an ebook that teaches a special playing card marking system inspired by a concept probably as old as playing cards. The system has been re-thought and re-mastered by Daniel Madison with help from sleight of hand junkie Randall Freeman and a retired card cheat who wishes to remain anonymous. The Score markings system teaches you how to mark any deck of cards that has a white border, such as standard Bicycle Rider backs, Mandolines and Bee Stingers - we'd list all of those decks here but there are far too many to mention! The Score is a minimalistic system; two simple tiny marks... | ★★★★★ $15 to wish list | |
Toony AngelMichael Maxwell![]() The most successful effect of this kind was Dan Harlan's CardToon where a deck of cards doubled as a flip book. Riffling through the cards one would see a cartoon magician drawn on the backs find and reveal a chosen card. This effect was a huge success, potentially it was the most successful magic trick of all times (my guess, I don't really know). Toony Angel builds on the basic idea to use a deck of cards as a flip book, but rather than animate a cartoon character on the back, the angel on the bicycle, from the Bicycle back design, starts to cycle towards you, zips around on the back of the card and... | $9.95 to wish list | |
ESP Cards with Bicycle Back MarkedLybrary.com![]() You will receive four sets of 5 ESP cards (circle, cross, three wavy lines, square, star), a total of 20 cards. Two sets have a red Bicycle back and the other two sets have a blue Bicycle back. These cards were manufactured by USPCC on their standard air-cushion cardboard. All cards are marked on the back in an easy to read way. A short glimpse is all you need to know which symbol it is. However the Bicycle back design wonderfully camouflages the markings if you do not know where to look. Wonderfully matches regular Bicycle cards allowing combinations of effects with ESP symbols and standard... | ★★★★★ $8.50 to wish list | |
Various Gaffed CardsLybrary.com![]() This set consists of 52 gaffed cards with Bicycle backs. The cards are listed below and can also be seen in the image to the right. They come in a white tuck box that has a small window on one side.
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The Svengali Pitch: The Real WorkDon Driver![]() The Comprehensive Guide to Making Money Pitching Svengali Decks Hundreds of thousands of dollars have been made on selling the humble Svengali Deck and yet few people ever learned the inner secrets of how to pitch the deck successfully. This DVD fills that shortage. Don Driver pitched for twenty-five years all over the country. He learned his pitch from S. David Walker, the Grand old Man of Svengali pitching who has been at it since the early 1940s. Mr. Walker learned from Mickey MacDougall, the creator of the Svengali pitch. Explained in detail is a pitch that has been polished and... | ★★★★★ $25 more than onetype to choose from MP4 (video) DVD | |
The Svengali Pitchman's HandbookSeth Briliant![]() Twenty-five pages of previously unpublished information on successful pitching – tips, ideas, and insights from highly experienced pitchmen. What to wear, details on the joint, and more. A valuable addition to the Don Driver Svengali DVD on pitching the Svengali and the Don Driver Interview. 1st edition 2009, PDF 25 pages. | ★★★★★ $20 to wish list | |
Magic with a Marked DeckSam Dalal![]() From the introduction: Most magicians have at some time or the other resorted to faked or trick decks to bring about some miracle or the other. And yet these same performers, who will pull out a Stripper or a Svengali deck at the drop of a pin shy away from a marked deck, presumably under the impression that everybody knows a Marked Deck. That is, of course, a ridiculous notion. The truth of the matter is that not one spectator in a thousand can detect a good marked deck, and most of them are unaware of their very existence. For that matter, a number of demonstrations in our studios have... | ★★★★★ $4 to wish list | |
The Boris Wild Marked Deck Lecture NotesBoris Wild![]() Explanation of the Boris Wild Marked Deck + Explanation of the BW Memorized Deck + 5 incredible routines including "Miracle!" and "Pure Telepathy" as seen on French National television. "The Boris Wild System is a marked deck for the 21st century. It's intelligent, unsuspecting, and it fooled me sooo bad! I love it!" - Joshua Jay | ★★★★★ $12 to wish list | |
Beyond Svengali: applying the svengali principle to mentalismChris Wardle & Paul Hallas![]() Here, Chris Wardle explores the use of long and short cards (Svengali Deck style) for mental magic presentations. Whilst initially he gives some background to the Svengali deck and how to make and handle one, some routines use variants on the deck and several don't use playing cards at all. There are thirteen routines from Chris plus some additional commentary and a bonus routine from publisher Paul Hallas. Chances are after reading this you'll not think of the Svengali deck in the same way again. Since the appearance of this booklet (his third) Chris authored Magic For Everyone (2006) and... | ★★★★★ $12 to wish list | |
Ted Lesley's Working Performer's Marked Deck ManualTed Lesley & Eric Mason & David Britland![]() "I must congratulate you on producing the most readable 'Reader' deck I have ever seen." - Billy McCombTed Lesley of Germany devised the Working... | ★★★★★ $10 to wish listPDF & EPUB | |
Mark of the Devil: Six Slick Routines with a Marked DeckPaul Voodini![]() This manuscript features six routines from Paul Voodini, all utilizing a marked deck. As well as fully explaining the routines, Paul also discusses many subtleties that allow the performer to use a marked deck with confidence and the 'tricks of the trade' that mean the spectators never suspect for a moment that there is anything 'funny' about the cards. The routines included are: The Keeper of Secrets. The performer is able to correctly divine a chosen card despite the spectator desperately trying to keep its identity a secret. Thought Transfer. Performer and spectator work together... | ★★★★★ $6.50 to wish list | |
The Best 200 Tricks With A Svengali DeckJim McKeague![]() This exclusive book has now been republished as an ebook. Encyclopaedic in scope, with notes on making, handling, pitching, and performing in a variety of situations. Contents
1st edition 1999, 181 pages. | $10 to wish list | |
SEIS: Bizarre Mentalism with Marked CardsMystic Alexandre![]() NO sleight of hand - NO complicated tactics! In this PDF Alexandre shares techniques and six bizarre mentalism effects with marked cards (plus a strong bonus routine), audience tested material he's been performing for many years such as ... PAGANINI - The violin virtuoso fuels rumors of a pact with the Devil by demonstrating his amazing relationship with velocity using a deck of cards. STALKER - A female participant chooses her actions, and a card, but in the end she can't avoid the "stalker's" confrontation. SPIRITUAL TRACE - With an old deck of cards used for fortune telling, a... | ★★★★★ $12 to wish list | |
Advantage Card Playing and Draw PokerF. R. Ritter![]() The first part and majority of this book deals with marked cards. It shows numerous examples of how and where to mark various back designs popular during the early 20th century in the United States. The second part briefly describes sleight-of-hand for the card cheater such as second dealing, bottom dealing, shuffling, false cuts, and mechanical hold outs. Each technique is illustrated with a photo, which is quite remarkable for a book from that time. The third and final part deals with the mathematical odds of draw poker. Some people believe that F. R. Ritter might be S. W. Erdnase, the unknown author... | $45 to wish listPDF_facsimile | |
Advantage Card PlayingF. R. Ritter![]() This was the advertisement booklet for Ritter's book Advantage Card Playing and Draw Poker. It describes the motivation of the book and shows some excerpts including four illustrations. 1st edition 1905, 9 pages; digital edition colorized. | $4 to wish listPDF_facsimile | |
Low Vision Marking SystemDr. Hans-Christian Solka![]() A marked deck for people who have less than perfect vision or need glasses. A blockout system for marking cards has been developed based on the widespread Bicycle Rider Back 808 deck. The development focused on good discernibility of the system for magicians with impaired vision. The marked deck can be prepared in less than one hour.
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Pigment and PixelAbhinav Bothra | $5 to wish list | |
110 Tricks with a Svengali DeckMagic Ian![]() The Svengali Deck is an ingenious magic deck of cards. You can learn over 110 amazing tricks and routines. Some of the tricks you will be able to do:
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110 Tricks with a Stripper DeckMagic Ian![]() The stripper deck is one of the most ingenious magic decks of cards ever invented. You can learn up to 110 amazing magic tricks using this apparatus.
1st edition 1998, 40 pages; 1st digital edition 2016, 39 pages. | ★★★★★ $2 to wish list |