Cards in Magic & Mentalism: page 18

Use the same action as with the Push Off One-Handed Bottom Deal to produce the illusion of a changing card.

runtime: 37s

The bottom deal is one of the most practical moves to cheat at cards, as well as a great tool for the magician, which is not only useful for gambling demonstrations. (Also part of Move Mastery 3.)

runtime: 9min 58s

This booklet details Terri Rogers' Boromian Link an incredible linking card effect based on Paul Harris' Immaculate Connection. The Harris original is a great impromptu effect but if you are not working impromptu and can use your own cards then you'll find Terri Rogers' method even better. The linking effect looks excellent and in fact fools those familiar with the Harris original. The effect can be performed with any size cards and looks quite spectacular if done with Jumbo cards.

1st edition 1986, 1st digital edition 2013, 12 pages.

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...

This is one of David's favorite effects. Not only does it fry laymen, but it also fools magicians as well. It can be performed at any point during your act. It does not have to be an opener or a closer, but it could be used as either. It is a very powerful effect because it seems very hands-off and is extremely visual. It is also easy to do!

Effect: Two red backed jokers are freely shown, and are set aside. A spectator selects a card from a blue backed deck, and signs it (the selection must be signed, or the effect is greatly diminished). In this example let's say that the card is the three...

1st edition 2021, video 1:43.

This is a glimpse Johnny Thompson liked to do. It is a very deceptive glimpse, executed at an off-beat moment and literally undetectable.

runtime: 1min 5s

A visual penetration like no other. The preparation of the gimmicked card requires some arts and crafts but is not difficult. You will need a blank face card among other easily obtainable items. (No threads are required.)

1st edition 2021, video 18 min.

An entertaining routine on the Cannibal Card theme. Several effects tied together to create the perfect 'cannibal card' routine ever. The cannibals appear, change 'clothes', capture victims, eat victims, eat each other and reappear!

Requires a double-backed card.

Bombay is not just one card trick. It is an entire magic principle. Seven complete routines are given but you will be able to develop many more once you understand the versatile secret of Bombay. This miracle effect has stood the test of actual performance for both laymen and magicians. In case you wonder, the name derives from the place it was conceived.

1st edition 1953; PDF 11 pages

Jon explores the bluff pass and its spin-offs.

Table of Contents

• INTRODUCTION
• THE EXEMPLAR THE BLUFF PASS
• THE "BLUFF" PASS AND PALM
• SPIN-OFFS
  • TOMMY TUCKER'S BLUFF PASS
  • FAKE OR BLUFF PASS.
  • LE PAUL'S PASS
  • TRACKING ATTENTION
  • THE BLUFF FORCE / Andrew Galloway
  • BLUFF BOTTOM PLACEMENT / Edward Marlo
  • NOT FOR THE FAINT-HEARTED / Edward Marlo
  • BLUFF-BLUFF PASS / Roger Klause
  • THE MARLO-THOMPSON BLUFF PASS
  • THE BLUFF CUT / Edward Marlo
  • BLUFF CENTER DEAL
  • BLUFF SHIFT / Bob Vesser
• VERBAL BLUFFING
  • PUT / R. Paul Wilson
  • BLUFF ACE ASSEMBLY...

The bluff pass is a very nice way to get a selected card to second from top when it looks like that you are burrying the card in the center of the deck. Allan also tips a bluff Kelly replacement - something to fool your magic friends.

runtime: 1min 42s

This is something Ed Marlo liked to do, a side steal with a bluff action.

runtime: 48s

These are Daniel Garcia's 2004 - 2005 Lecture Notes. A sell out at the 2004 LVMI Convention.

"Danny Garcia's magic is the FFFF.....it Fools you, Fries you , Freaks you out, and F**ks you up." - Chris Kenner

"How much of this material can I put on my DVD?" - Paul Harris

You show five cards that have a blue dot on their faces. When you rotate the pack one dot changes to a red dot. You table the red dotted card. Another magical gesture and another red dot appears. You continue until four cards have changed to red dots. The final card with a blue dot changes to just a blue dot, no fifth card is visible anymore.

1st edition 2024, video 6:02.

A collection of four ace tricks.

• BLOOMING ACES
• COLLECTED POLLEN
• ASCANIO SELECTED
• HAVE YOU EVER HEARD OF….CONTINUED
• TWISTING THE ACE PROBLEM
• SPECTATOR CUTS ACES (TO KINGS)
• TWIN DEPARTURESQUE
• VERNON, MY ANGEL~ YOU'RE HOME
• TROIKA ACES

1st edition 1995, 3rd edition 2013, 1st digital edition 2016, 20 pages.

This is a completely new and improved implementation of the famous Al Stanger Miracle Poker Machine. It is based on Gaetan Bloom's superior routine for this miracle. The first phase of the Bloom routine is now customizable and requires zero mental work - an improvement to an already astonishingly clean and clever and easy to perform routine.

Here is a brief outline of the effect: A spectator selects 5 cards from a regular deck of cards. (The deck is not gimmicked in any way and can be a borrowed one.) Four of these cards are entered by the spectator into the Miracle Poker Machine. A fifth...

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...

A block transfer is to move one or several cards from one half of the deck to the other half, leaving everything else unchanged. The transfer can happen on the top or on the bottom. This is a riffle shuffle technique very useful for riffle stacking.

runtime: 4min 35s

Palm several cards from the center of the packet. (Also part of Move Mastery 1.)

runtime: 5min 41s

Blistr is a new card punch with two important differences to more traditional card punches. First, it is built like a pair of small pliers and therefore very easy to use. The pliers are a flexure design 3D printed from durable plastic. (Starting design was created by BYU Compliant Mechanisms Research which I modified to fit my needs.) Second, this punch creates a bigger smoother blister than needle-based punches. The tip is not sharp and therefore does not punch through the playing card. For many, this will be easier to feel than a fine needle prick. The blister is a half-dome about 1 mm in diameter. The...

A color change of the bottom card of the deck. (Also part of Move Mastery 1.)

runtime: 2min 16s

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.

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...