Literally hundreds if not thousands of card moves have been developed over time. You won't need to learn all of them, but any card man of name has in each basic move category (palm, control, false shuffle, false cut, false deal, glimpse, flourish, force, ...) one or two strong moves ready to use.
Once you have a solid grounding in the basic moves pretty much any card trick is accessible to you.
Practicing moves can have a zen like quality to it. Some achieve a naturalness similar to a musician, dancer or juggler. It looks effortless, but it can take thousands of hours of practice.
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Fake Center DealAllan AckermanUse the Minus One Bottom Deal as a fake center deal. (You will need the description of the Minus One Bottom Deal to perform this move.)
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Fan GlimpseAllan AckermanOnce you have mastered the Maintain Break With Fan technique you can use this idea to rather glimpse a card than keep the break.
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Little Noise for Double LiftAllan Ackerman | ★★★★★ $1.50 to wish listMP4 (video) | |
Vernon Top PalmAllan Ackerman | $2 to wish listMP4 (video) | |
Multiple Top PalmAllan AckermanIf you need to palm several cards at once, this is an effective method. Originally this move appeared in The Royal Road to Card Magic.
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Berg PalmAllan AckermanThis is Larry Jennings' version of Joe Berg's palm, originally published in Classic Magic of Larry Jennings. It is a multiple-top palm.
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Covering Palming AnglesAllan Ackerman | ★★★★★ $2 to wish listMP4 (video) | |
Slydini Fan StealAllan AckermanTony Slydini used this move for his famous helicopter card trick. A card is stolen into a Tenkai palm while it is inserted into a fan.
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Gambler's Cop: Holding & ReplacingAllan Ackerman | $2 to wish listMP4 (video) | |
Gambler's Cop From TiltAllan AckermanThis is a very efficient and deceptive move by Steve Draun. A card that is inserted into the deck automatically ends up in the gambler's cop. Chris Wasshuber independently developed this move in 1993 during his stay in Japan including an important visual convincer. If you want to learn this improved variation email him. He might be talked into releasing it. If you can't get Chris to talk then check out the Huot/Duperre control from Magic Menu volume 10. It is very similar to what Chris is doing.
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Gambler's Cop: StandardAllan Ackerman | $2 to wish listMP4 (video) | |
Gen PalmAllan AckermanThis is a palm from Gen Magazine where the top card from a pressure fan ends up in the gambler's cop after the fan has been closed.
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Bluff ControlAllan Ackerman | $2 to wish listMP4 (video) | |
Side Steal To BottomAllan Ackerman | ★★★★★ $2 to wish listMP4 (video) | |
Side Steal To TenkaiAllan Ackerman | ★★★★★ $2 to wish listMP4 (video) | |
Turnover Palm ReplacementAllan Ackerman | $2 to wish listMP4 (video) | |
Marlo's Tenkai ReplacementAllan Ackerman | $2 to wish listMP4 (video) | |
Tenkai Fan ReplacementAllan Ackerman | $2 to wish listMP4 (video) | |
Scoop ReplacementAllan Ackerman | $2 to wish listMP4 (video) | |
Vernon Tenkai ReplacementAllan Ackerman | $2 to wish listMP4 (video) | |
Push Off Second Deal VariationAllan Ackerman | ★★★★★ $2 to wish listMP4 (video) | |
Push Off Second As ChangeAllan Ackerman | $2 to wish listMP4 (video) | |
Second Deal CountAllan Ackerman | $2 to wish listMP4 (video) | |
Movie Second DealAllan Ackerman | ★★★★★ $2 to wish listMP4 (video) | |
Bottom Deal ChangeAllan AckermanUse the same action as with the Push Off One-Handed Bottom Deal to produce the illusion of a changing card.
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Bottom Deal Snap ChangeAllan AckermanThis is essentially a Heirophant Change but using a bottom deal instead of a second deal. runtime: 59s | $2 to wish listMP4 (video) | |
Bottom Deal CountAllan Ackerman | $2 to wish listMP4 (video) | |
Open Double DealAllan AckermanThe double deal is taking the top and bottom card at the same time. The open double deal is an idea by Marlo which eliminates the card alignment issue.
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One-Handed Open Double DealAllan Ackerman | $2 to wish listMP4 (video) | |
PIP Center DealAllan Ackerman | $2 to wish listMP4 (video) | |
Top, Second, Center, BottomAllan Ackerman | $2 to wish listMP4 (video) | |
Marlo BreakAllan AckermanOnce you have a break you want to handle and display the deck such that it appears to be impossible to hold a break. Here is one sequence of bends and riffles developed by Ed Marlo and published in his Card Control Series from the 1950s.
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Klaus Breakout DisplayAllan AckermanThis is a wonderful Roger Klause idea to openly display a deck merely resting on your fingers while maintaining a break. runtime: 59s | $2 to wish listMP4 (video) | |
All Around Square Up GlimpseAllan Ackerman | $2 to wish listMP4 (video) | |
Kick Count To CrimpAllan Ackerman | $2 to wish listMP4 (video) | |
Automatic JogAllan AckermanThis is a Paul LePaul control, one of the classic, easy, but wonderfully deceptive techniques to get a break above a selected card.
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Keep Jog While DribblingAllan Ackerman | $2 to wish listMP4 (video) | |
Hofzinser Control To TopAllan AckermanUse a Hofzinser Card Control type action to control a card to the top.
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