Cards in Magic & Mentalism

You feign a centre deal with basic moves. You openly cut the four Kings into the deck and deal them to the spectator. But the four cards you get are the four Aces. Easy and magical! You get a bonus tutorial of Imperial Bicycles.

1st edition 2025, video 10:05.

Snow Drift Deck: A stunning card routine where all the cards in a deck become blank!

Origami Card Discovery: A strip of folded paper displays a prediction of a card which a spectator will select. It's wrong! The image magically changes and the prediction is 100% correct.

Simplicity Card to Wallet: No special wallets used, yet the same effect is accomplished using a very simple method.

Peek-A-Boo!: A joker card which has a corner missing is used to locate a chosen card within a shuffled deck.

Split Down the Middle: Ian's version of the classic 'Split Deck'. Deck has already been...

This is a trick for quickly locating four selections.

During an overhand shuffle, four cards are freely chosen, with no control involved. The spectators clearly see the cards lost in four different positions. Yet in the end, the magician can still locate all four selections with precision. For the full routine and effect, see the video demonstration.

• No force
• No gimmick
• No memory work
• No peeking

1st edition 2025, video 6:42.

Four, say, duplicate Queen of Clubs magically change to four Ace of Spades. These then change to the four Aces. It's a beauty to perform and watch.

1st edition 2025, video 8:44

Jon Racherbaumer lectured around the globe. These are the lecture notes for a lecture he gave in Italy in 2008.

• Rules of the Game / Max Maven
• Snap-Slap Transpo / Marc Serin
• Supra-Gemini / John Guastaferro
• Mathematician - Psychic - Magician
• Suit Yourself / Henry Evans
• Unambiguous Discernment / Edward Marlo
• Humma-Humma-Hummer / Lewis Jones and Jack Avis
• In the Nick of Time / John Gustaferro
• The Last Game / David Britland
• Dunbury Lie Speller

1st edition 2008, PDF 28 pages.

Includes a comprehensive description of the continuous front and back hand palm with cards, and the sensational new rising card trick.

• CHAPTER I. A Few Incidents in the Life of Howard Thurston
• CHAPTER II. Indispensable Sleights
  • THE PASS
  • THE FORCE
  • THE CHANGE
  • THE ORDINARY PALM
• CHAPTER III. The Continuous Front and Back Hand-Palm and Tricks in Connection Therewith
  • THE DISAPPEARANCE OF FIVE CARDS ONE AT A TIME
  • THE PRODUCTION OF CARDS ONE AT A TIME AT THE FINGER-TIPS FROM THE BACK-HAND PALM
  • THE PRODUCTION OF CARDS AT THE FINGER-TIPS FROM THE ORDINARY PALM
  • PASSING A CARD THROUGH...

This double sandwich is based on Dragnet by Jack Birnman. I added two moves that replace ATFUS with a better move. I would even say that it only works on this sandwich. It's just my imagination. I've never seen anyone do what I do. The last move is even better, and so I distribute the aces with the spectator's cards to be in certain places, so that they are different places not next to each other. And at the beginning, if you notice, I don't arrange the cards red-black-black-red, like in every version.

Inspired from Dragnet by Jack Birnman, Tengard by Paul Gordon, New jack...

Effect: After the spectator shuffles and cuts about 13 cards, he tries to guess the color of each card. The magician reveals how many cards were correctly guessed by the spectator, the identity of the bottom card of the red packet, and finally the bottom three cards of the other packet.

Do you have a marked deck that you don't use or are afraid to use? This effect is for you. It was constructed so that the spectator never suspects a marked deck. If you are asked to do a trick, this is a fun go-to effect you can do. There's no setup, no sleight of hand, and multiple reveals.

• No setup ...

A powerful new stacked deck utilizing the brand new suit weighted cycle system.

Designed for real-world workers. The BTM Stack offers built-in balance, hidden structure, and performer-friendly flow that unlocks effects with the merging of a cyclical and memorized order. With BTM, you'll be able to achieve rapid divinations, stunning coincidences, and clean, direct miracles - without the heavy mental strain. Easy to learn, flexible in performance, and deceptive enough to fool the sharpest eyes, BTM is a system you'll return to again and again.

1st edition 2025, PDF 13 pages.

You try to show a Four-Ace trick, but the same indifferent card keeps appearing. The kicker ending is a shocker, and it's both funny and magical.

1st edition 2025, video 12:59

The magician begins by taking out four Aces. The spectator selects one red card and one black card, which are then returned to the deck and shuffled. The spectator is asked to cut the deck randomly into four packets. The four Aces are placed on top of each packet. The packets are reassembled. When the deck is spread, the four Aces not only gather together, but the red Aces sandwich the spectator’s red selection, and the black Aces sandwich the spectator’s black selection.

• No force
• No gimmick
• Impromptu performance

1st edition 2025, video 5:08

Effect: The spectator uses their intuition to produce multiple matching card pairs from two seemingly mixed decks. The magician barely touches the cards, making the effect seem even more impossible.

Imagine this: Your spectator freely cuts both decks, chooses one, and deals cards face down, stopping when they want (no force). You do the same with the other deck. Initially, the cards don't match – but this is by design! Then, through an astounding twist, the spectator's intuition takes over. They try again, and miraculously, not only do the cards match, but two more pairs match as well. ...

The effect is pretty standard, but the sneaky method isn't. Four Aces vanish, and one is located by spelling to it. What's more, the other three magically appear. Standard sleights.

1st edition 2025, video 13:38

In this PDF, I am publishing one of my most treasured secrets. Like The Exception and The Gift, this effect was originally released as a competition here, where the first person to figure out the method (within a one-month time frame) was to be rewarded prize money. However, no one who entered the competition managed to figure it out.

I call this effect The Gift 2.0 because effect-wise it's very similar to The Gift, even though the method is different.

I won't expose the method of The Gift here but I will speak in 'code' and say this: for those of you who own...

This effect is a professional routine strong enough to close your show. It ingeniously hides one of the most powerful secrets in card magic: the Stacked Deck. The magician never touches the deck, eliminating all possible solutions. The spectator shuffles the deck twice or three times, eliminating the possibility of a stacked deck. When the magician reveals the identity of a card at a position freely selected by the spectator, it eliminates marked cards. During the routine, the spectator unknowingly gives the magician all the information they need!

The "Out of Chaos Comes Order" effect is...

John Northern Hilliard, in his classic text Greater Magic, made this poignant observation: "Stewart Judah looms extravagantly in the field of magic. I would rather see him do a card trick than go to a convention."

Another famous identity, Jay Marshall, editor of The New Phoenix and one of the twentieth century's most celebrated magic dealers, was equally laudatory: "Stewart Judah is the world's greatest magician!"

Similar tributes about Judah have flowed continuously over the years - perhaps helped along by his astonishing book [lp=758790 The Magic...

A deck of cards is shuffled and turned over several times, responding to various "Stop!" commands given by a spectator, to determine a number and the thought of a card which is magically found in the deck. But the miracle will happen a second time, when everything will be interpreted in reverse!

The title refers to a semi-automatic effect with cards, in which the magician invites a spectator to say three different stops at three different points in the deck. For each of them, turn the deck over at the exact point of the 'Stop' and, at the end, turn the whole deck over to extract the first...

The psychological Card at Any Number that makes you a master of chaos.

"Red Chaos fooled me every single time." - Markobi

"What I love in Red Chaos is that the spectator believes everything is free, everything is chaos... and yet, at the end, there is only astonishment." - Dani DaOrtiz

Imagine this ... A spectator freely chooses a card that is lost in a shuffled deck. They name random numbers. They decide if the cards are taken from the top, the middle, or the bottom. Everything is in their hands. The chaos seems total. And yet ... at the end, their card appears exactly at the number...

A classic routine for producing the four Aces: the magician shuffles the deck and has the spectator cut the cards. The cards at the cut are shown to be indifferent, but with just a few throws of the two packets in the magician's hands, the four Aces are easily found.

1st edition 2025, video 1:57.

Introducing The Ultimate Forcing Method - a groundbreaking method for card magic that combines a floating key card with the unique properties of shuffling face-up and face-down cards. It's a "hands-off miracle" where the magician never touches the cards.

Here's why you will want to add this to your act:

• Spectator Involvement: The spectator does everything. They shuffle face-up into face-down cards, cut the deck multiple times, and ultimately remove the forced cards themselves. This creates an illusory sense of complete randomness, making it seem impossible for you to have any knowledge...

In the early days of the Phoenix, issue number 12 to be exact, Lu Brent had an intriguing idea in an Ace effect titled "Together Again." In the effect, he was able to show each and every Ace being replaced into the deck, except for a chosen packet that contained, of course, the chosen Ace. At the finish, the four Aces were in the chosen pile. It used duplicate Aces. Marlo eliminated the need for duplicate aces.

• Together Again / Lu Brent
• Hindu Aces / Arthur Buckley
• Methods of Apparently Losing the Aces
• Sudden Aces
• Convincing Aces

1st edition 2025, PDF...

A card conceit based on a scientific principle never before used with a complete deck of 52 cards.

That statement above was true in 1921 when Adamathica was first released in a very limited run of 100 copies. Bertram Adams expanded the 27-card trick to a pack of 52 cards. The mathematics are based on Gergonne's Pile Problem.

EFFECT: The spectator is asked to make a free mental selection of any card in a deck of 52. This selection is made purely mentally without reference to any deck, hence it is not forced in any way. The same spectator or another, if there be more than one,...

4 Brand New Effects. I have not published these effects anywhere.

• Structured Procedure and Setup: Each effect is meticulously detailed with specific setups and methods. Most setups are minimal.
• Audience Management & Psychological Play: The magician's actions, patter, and even the "illogical" elements are designed to manage spectator perception and prevent suspicion.
• Apparent Fairness: Despite the deception, the goal is often to make the trick appear as if "magic was real," minimizing suspicious movements.
• Building Impossibility: Effects are structured to eliminate perceived solutions,...

We have all heard of double-facers. They seem odd and dangerous. This eBook provides an in-depth analysis of double-facers (DF) and how they can enhance the success and deception of your routines.

This eBook is a comprehensive guide explaining DF principles, how to safely handle DFs, strategies, and 7 specific magical effects. This is the secret weapon that hides in plain sight. Double-facers are not known to the public. Discover how double-facers combine with double-backers to create miracles.

7 Effects:

• A Monte Effect
• A Mysterious Open Prediction
• A Great Indicator Card
• A Wild...

The Spectator thinks of a card. Only he knows its identity. Cards are mixed together face-up and face-down. Now - in rapid succession - there are three shocking climaxes:

• Instantly, all of the cards turn face-up - with the exception of the thought card. It is the only card still face-down!
• Suddenly, the thought card vanishes and turns into the Hand O' Doom.
• The Spectator reaches into his pocket and finds among some other cards he placed there previously - the missing thought card.

FEATURES

• Entirely mechanical and self-working: requires no skill, no memorization, no sleights. ...

We have all heard of double backers. They seem odd and not very useful. This eBook offers a comprehensive perspective on the power of double backers (DB), and how they can elevate the impact and deception of your routines.

• This secret weapon hides in plain sight
• Double backers are generally not known by the public
• Simplify complex effects using a double backer
• Double lifts are more deceptive and look more natural
• Hands off Forces – The magician never touches the deck! And you can force more than one card
• Seamless Transitions: Utilize the DB to create the illusion that a spectator's...

"Fantastic force, the combination of methods is very fooling." - Kevin Aust

"The best card force I have ever seen." - Alexander Javier

"Beyond perfect, not just perfect." - Tony Bianco

There are many card forces out there. Too many, actually. But, in my opinion, none of them are 'perfect' from an effect standpoint. Some come close - however, I have yet to see one that fully gets there.

From an effect standpoint, what ingredients must a force have in order for it to be considered 'perfect'? I think these 6 ingredients are the answer:

• The magician must never touch the cards...

From a deck of cards, shuffled at will by a spectator, a card is taken at random and scattered in the deck, then found by the spectator himself at the number he thought of!

This is a semi-automatic card effect, in which a spectator freely shuffles a deck. Then he thinks of a number and removes that same number of cards from both the top and bottom of the deck; he memorizes the card now on top of the deck and places all the cards he just removed on top of it, after shuffling them together.

The magician, who had been facing away the whole time, now turns around and, taking the deck, cuts...

Master's ACAAN looks exactly like described below:

You place a pack of cards in full view. The audience decides on a card and names a number. You remove the cards from the box, deal down to that number, and there it is — their card at their number. But wait, that's not the end...

You reveal that it had to be that exact card at that exact number — any change would have resulted in complete failure. Because, apart from their card at their number, all the other cards are blank.

No switches. No sleights. Just one pack of 52 cards.

1st edition 2025, PDF 5 pages, video 6:18.