Cards in Magic & Mentalism

You show five Jokers, arrange them into a face-up and face-down pattern, and suddenly they are a royal flush.

1st edition 2026, video 3:17.

A brand-new impromptu card magic effect in which two cards, chosen at random by the audience, are inexplicably captured!

This is an automatic card magic trick that can be improvised in any situation, even if you simply borrow a deck of cards (it could be also an incomplete one) and let the audience inspect it first.

The magician hands the deck to a pair of spectators so they can shuffle it as they please. Then the first spectator begins stacking a few cards face down on the table; he stops at one of them, discreetly notes it, and memorizes its value. He places it, face down, on top of...

The Al Baker Diminishing Cards are grandious. But for many years, magicians have performed it, as Al Baker described it 40 years ago. They grab 5 times into the tophat...

Here, Peki shows a more elegant and mysterious way to perform them.

1st edition 2026, video 2:58.

The spectator selects four cards. The magician then performs a face-up/face-down Slop Shuffle, thoroughly mixing the deck. Despite the chaotic condition, the deck instantly rights itself - returning to face-down - except for the four selections, which remain face-up at four different positions in the deck.

1st edition 2026, video 7:32.

Although transpositions involving cards are commonplace, not too many are genuine eye-poppers. This one fits that description to a tee, a totally baffling flight of a card from one place to another, in the usual tight-knit setting of close-up magic at the table.

Four aces are removed from a deck with spectator being offered the choice of reds or blacks, the chosen aces being slipped into an envelope and dropped to the table. The two remaining aces, black for example, are lost in the deck which is then placed aside. On command, the red ace chosen by spectator instantly vanishes from the...

Effect: The spectator names their favorite ace. The magician hands them the remaining three aces, which the spectator freely inserts into different parts of the deck. The deck is spread face down across the table, and the magician instantly removes the three inserted aces by pulling them out with his fingers.

The spectator then deals cards face down from the deck, stopping at any point. The card they stop on is turned face up - it's not an ace, but an indicator card. Using the value of that card, the spectator counts down to a new position in the deck, where they discover the named...

An unusual and inexplicable version of "ACAAN" using a borrowed deck shuffled by any spectator.

Impromptu "Any random Card At Any Number" Mystery is an ACAAN themed effect that can always be performed impromptu, also if you borrow a deck of cards (perhaps even an incomplete one) and let any spectator shuffles it freely! The magician asks the spectator to rise a small pack of cards, count them in secret, and remember that number. Before losing those cards into the rest of the deck, he asks the spectator to shuffle them and then choose one. He puts everything back into the deck, which he...

This is an experiment to see whether the performer can identify a spectator's fingerprints. A spectator selects 5 cards from a deck, the faces of which are shown to be a random selection. The cards are dealt face down onto the table and the performer turns his back.

The helper now mixes the tabled cards by moving them around on the surface and then turns any one face up and presses his fingertips onto the card face. The card is then turned face down again and the cards mixed on the table again.

Turning back, the performer picks up the cards one at a time and amazingly manages to identify...

Two jokers and two kings change places multiple times. You end with just four kings.

1st edition 2026, video 2:35.

The spectator freely selects a card and it is returned to the deck. The cards are shuffled together. The magician says he will need three chances to locate the selection. He cuts to a 3, deals three cards, and reveals a 7. Then he deals seven cards and reveals a J. Finally, he deals eleven cards and arrives at the spectator's card.

Three cards used to find one card? Not exactly. Those three cards didn't just locate the selection - they also revealed the other three cards of the same value.

1st edition 2026, video 6:49.

While the demo video covers most of it, here are a few important details it doesn't clearly point out.

• The choice of card, number, and their combination is completely free.
• The deck stays in full view the entire time. It is never hidden or taken out of sight.
• Everything is examinable.

Honest Note: There's a hidden move that takes place as the performer asks for the card and number. It's seamlessly built into the flow of conversation and presentation, making it completely unnoticeable. From the audience's point of view, the effect hasn't even started yet, moreover the deck stays in...

When the spectator controls everything... and you control the impossible.

The Effect

Imagine a routine where every decision belongs to your spectator - how to cut, where to stop, and even the exact order the cards are gathered. Yet in the end, the deck is perfectly separated into reds and blacks.

And just when they think they've witnessed the impossible, you reveal your kicker: a written prediction proving you knew the outcome all along - including the fact that their chosen Queen of Hearts would be the only red card in the black half of the deck.

Why Magicians Love It

• Mathematical...

A quest to discover one's true purpose, traveling through time and space, undertaken with a simple deck of cards, in which each person's destiny will be revealed through four truly special cards.

A Series of Fortunate Events is an exciting quadruple coincidence magic trick in which the magician, using a simple deck of cards, helps the spectator with an important task that combines philosophy and mysticism: the journey through time and space in search of life's most meaningful goals.

After showing and shuffling the cards, he has a spectator cut the deck, and that is where his search begins,...

At the beginning of the experiment, a deck of cards is placed on the table in full view. The performer makes a clear statement: from that moment on, the deck will never be touched again.

A card is freely chosen. A number is freely determined. The performer does not approach the deck again. Instead, the deck is picked up and the cards are dealt one by one, counting aloud until the selected number is reached.

The card at that exact position is turned over. It is precisely the card that was previously chosen.

This routine is specifically designed for large audience settings and is not...

You are asked to perform magic. But you are alone and deckless. Meaning you do not have anything on you. Except just one single card.

You take out this card, face down and propose to do an interesting experiment. You place this card on the palm of a participant or on a table, face down and start your experiment. You ask the participant to think of a card and a number in a very fair manner. After this you ask the participant to turn over that single card. On the other side of the card is a grid of cards with the positions numbered. You say that you had randomly shuffled a deck of playing...

The spectator can create any card, yet the performer is still able to predict it.

A packet of thirteen playing cards, containing every value and every suit, is shown to the spectator. By combining the value of one card with the suit of another, any card can be created.

The spectator rolls two dice and obtains a total that serves as a starting number - for example, 9. The performer deals nine cards and arrives at a first card - for example, the 2 of Hearts - whose suit the spectator remembers. The performer then deals two cards (the value of the first card) and arrives at a second card...