Cards in Magic & Mentalism: page 17
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Blind Flap
PH & Mario Tarasini
There is nothing new when a card visually changes color. The market is flooded with hundreds of visual color changes variations base on a few dozen methods. But what if you can do a visual color change with a coin on top. The same coin on top of a card before and after the card color change. Crazy right? Give yourself a chance and watch the trailer.
[Please note that the video is in Korean with English subtitles. Everything is clearly described visually as well.]
1st edition 2020, video length 29 min.
Blind Date
David Devlin
Effect: The performer introduces a deck of cards that has swimsuit models on the cards. It is explained to a male spectator that he is going to go on a date with one of these 52 girls. All he has to do is psychically determine her phone number.
You bring out 5 cards, which are numbered 1 through 10. All of the odd numbers are on one side of the cards, and all of the even numbers are on the other side of the cards. In other words, the card marked with a 1 on one side is marked with a 2 on the other side. The others are, of course, 3/4, 5/6, 7/8, and 9/10. You tell the spectator that you will...
Blind Aces
Darwin Ortiz
A deck is borrowed from one spectator and shuffled by another spectator. Darwin finds the four aces while his eyes are covered by the hands of a third spectator. He even discerns the suit of one of the aces by touch alone.
To pull this effect off you will need a bit of pre-show work.
runtime: 18min 28s
Blank Thought Deck
Allan Ackerman
The performer fans a deck of cards which are all blank. Spectator merely thinks of a card. Performer removes the thought of card, which is naturally again a blank card. Magically the blank card turns into the thought of card and as a climax the whole blank deck turns into a regular deck.
runtime: 3min 31s
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Blank Playing Card Cardboard (40 Sheets)
Lybrary.com
This is highest quality blank playing card cardboard that has a smooth surface. This cardboard has the same thickness, snap, look and feel as cardboard used for casino grade playing cards.
We are the only retailer in the world that is offering this type of cardboard in small quantities. It is the perfect material to print your own gaffed cards, marked cards, game cards or branded cards. Now even the individual magician, game designer or playing card designer can print his own deck of cards.
The size of each sheet is A4 (210 mm x 297 mm) - a tiny bit longer and narrower than the US letter...
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Blank Playing Card Cardboard (20 Sheets)
Lybrary.com
This is highest quality blank playing card cardboard that has a smooth surface. This cardboard has the same thickness, snap, look and feel as cardboard used for casino grade playing cards.
We are the only retailer in the world that is offering this type of cardboard in small quantities. It is the perfect material to print your own gaffed cards, marked cards, game cards or branded cards. Now even the individual magician, game designer or playing card designer can print his own deck of cards.
The size of each sheet is A4 (210 mm x 297 mm) - a tiny bit longer and narrower than the US letter...
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Blank Playing Card Cardboard (10 Sheets)
Lybrary.com
This is highest quality blank playing card cardboard that has a smooth surface. This cardboard has the same thickness, snap, look and feel as cardboard used for casino grade playing cards.
We are the only retailer in the world that is offering this type of cardboard in small quantities. It is the perfect material to print your own gaffed cards, marked cards, game cards or branded cards. Now even the individual magician, game designer or playing card designer can print his own deck of cards.
The size of each sheet is A4 (210 mm x 297 mm) - a tiny bit longer and narrower than the US letter...
Blank Imagination
Aldo Colombini
You show five cards completely blank on both sides. A card is selected from a regular deck (say the QH). The same card appears on the face of every blank card. Then all the cards are blank again including the spectator’s selection; this card now re-appears face up in the middle of the deck!
Requires four cards blank on both sides, a blank-backed card and a blank-faced card.
Blank Card Surprise
Wolfgang Riebe
Wacky, incredibly visual and totally impossible. Only a few words can describe this reputation maker. Ever wondered what to do with those double blank cards you've collected over the years? Here's the ultimate trick for you.
A spectator can chose any 4 double blank cards from a deck, or you can hand out 4 cards for inspection. Any one card is signed and placed aside. The remaining 3 cards all change to the spectator's signed card and can be clearly shown one at a time. In the end, they all become blank again and the spectator keeps his original signed card as a souvenir.
A packet card...
Blackjack Double Deception
Dustin Marks
The two black aces visually change places with the two red aces and then instantly change into two Blackjacks.
- Great Opener: A lot of visual magic happens in 30 seconds
- Simplicity: Only four cards are used; easy to do; no table is needed; packs very small
- Impact: Surprise ending
- Practicality: 2-second reset; perfect for table hopping
- Spectator Engagement: The spectator just watches, no picking a card, no remembering anything; just visual magic
- One Simple Move: The Flustration Count
1st edition 2025, PDF 11 pages.
Blackbeard's Treasure
Biagio Fasano & Laura Chips
It is an amazing automatic card magic effect that uses an ordinary deck of 54 cards (complete with the two jokers) and a pair of dice (which can also just be imagined by the spectators).
It tells the story of a pirate, the map of his island, and the magic dice he used to find his legendary treasure, in a crescendo of suspense, until the unexpected final surprise.
Completely self-working but with a surprising ending that will fool magicians too!
1st edition 2024, PDF 7 pages.
Black Mark
Alan Rorrison
A black mark drawn on the back of an incorrect card transforms it into the correct card which was selected earlier by the spectator.
For example, the spectator selects the 3 of Hearts. The magician finds a card but it is the 3 of Diamonds. He draws a black mark on the back of the card. The mark penetrates the card and shows up on the front with the correct suit: Hearts.
runtime: 13min 12s
Black Jackery
Jon Racherbaumer
Tricks that allude to the game of BlackJack.
- Black Jack Kicker / Paul Gertner
- Blackjacked! / Don Alan & Eddie Fields
- Duck or Deal Blackjack / Nick Trost
- Black Magic / Ron Ferris
- Black Jack Versus Poker / Edward Marlo
- The Almost Perfect Blackjack Hand / Dan Block
1st edition 2023, PDF 30 pages.
Black Jack Hole Card Switch
Brick Tilley
This is an improvement in the handling of the Curry Turnover that makes this move easier to accomplish and more deceptive. A simple get-ready makes the exchange faster and infinitely more rewarding. It was perfected during hundreds of hours behind a Black Jack table without ever once being detected.
It can be used for magical purposes as well. Add this subtle weapon to your card arsenal.
1st edition 2021, PDF 4 pages, video 30 s.
Birthday Card Surprise
Wolfgang Riebe
Another killer close-up packet card trick from the creative mind of Wolfgang Riebe. 3 blank cards are shown and a spectator is asked to write their name and a picture on one of the cards. Suddenly the freely drawn name/picture duplicates onto all 3 cards. Now the surprise ... suddenly all cards have HAPPY BIRTHDAY written on them!
A completely unexpected surprise and incredibly personal magical birthday greeting. Of course you can have any message written on all 3 cards at the end too - it’s all up to you.
Use any normal blank cards. Ideal for table hopping. Incredibly visual with an...
Bingo Divination
Marc de Milo & Ken de Courcy
Card tricks suitable for stage presentation are rare. Bingo Divination can be performed successfully on a stage or in a cocktail-lounge. It is the logical, up to date version of the classic Nap Hand, without the necessary memory work or sleight-of-hand. Rehearse it carefully, paying attention to presentation, and you'll have a reputation-maker.
EFFECT: The magician introduces a pack of cards. The cards are genuinely shuffled and then dealt into two piles, one containing Clubs and Hearts, the other Spades and Diamonds. The Clubs-Hearts pile is again dealt into three face-down piles, one to...
Binary Bucket List
Richard Southall
A binary method with a twist that makes it incomprehensible.
EFFECT: Three spectators select an item off your Bucket List. You show them four short lists and for each list, they are asked if they see their chosen item. Spectator one is asked to answer truthfully and spectator two is told they can either lie or tell the truth but they are not to tell you which they choose. Spectator three is told to only answer silently in their mind. Despite these increasingly more difficult conditions you are able to reveal all three selections.
I have been creating binary effects for a couple of years...
Big Easy Card Cunning
Jon Racherbaumer
These are all self-working or very easy to perform effects.
One item that I would like to highlight is the Klutz Force, because it is on the same skill level as the popular Criss-Cross force, which is frequently used in self-working effects. With the Klutz Force you have an alternative that has a different feel and procedure.
- Simplex Physical & Mental
- Telephenomenal
- 21 And Then Some
- Guesstimation City
- Marked Calculation
- What Is the Question?
- Easy Prefiguration
- Klutzy Forces
- Hobson Chooses Again
- Punch-Line Division
- Simple Sync
- Is Your Pants On Fire?
- Made In the Shade
- No-Clue ...
Biddle Juice
Raphaël Czaja
Two cards are selected by Topper and Ramada and lost into the deck. The magician removes five cards from it. Topper confirms that one of them is his selection and the packet is placed between his palms. Ramada selects an indifferent card that is placed between her palms. After a magical gesture, Topper's card disappears from his packet. The magician says that playing cards like to switch places and that Topper's card should be reversed in the middle of the deck whereas Ramada's card should have switched places with her random card. One card is found reversed in the middle of the deck... but...




