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Now available as a video download. For the PDF version, see Card Trail.

Five effects and one in-the-hands false cut. Jaw-dropping card magic that's big on impact and easy on the knuckles. Fun plots and novel methods abound in this compilation of pasteboard chicanery.

IMPROBABLE VS. IMPOSSIBLE -- A prediction effect and four Ace production... sounds weird but it's really cool.

OUT OF POCKET -- An insanely visual card and bill transposition.

SAVING ACE -- A Triumph/Ace location effect that makes you look like a sleight of hand master, but is pretty easy to do.

PROVIDENCE -- A sandwich effect...

Three cards are added to each of the four aces, but the aces magically get back together, besides other cards separating them.

As the name suggests, the ATFUS (Any Time Face-Up Switch) move has something to do with the method of this effect. No gaffs are needed. This is a sleight of hand routine.

1st edition 2025, video 2:55

One night at the Magic Castle, two young Germans showed this to Dai Vernon. Nine cards change to completely different cards with no hint of sleight of hand. A startling effect, it has the added plus of being in anybody's skill range, using only nine cards and no gaffs. You can customize this to illustrate whatever your imagination can devise.

The demo and tutorial videos will have you doing this in a matter of minutes.

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You can use the turn count to, for example, display several identical cards with one odd card. Upon turning over a card, the faces have all changed to the odd card, with only one left with the old face. You will need some double facers to use it in this way.

1st edition 2025, video 2:39

Mammoths used to be animals immense in size and power - and Mammoth Tear delivers exactly that and more.

This is a two-step center tear where you have the 'option' to cleanly show both the front and back of the folded paper - with absolutely nothing suspicious to see. It's bold, deceptive, and incredibly fair.

Not ready to peek right away? No problem. Mammoth Tear features a clever design that lets you steal the center with ease. It also allows you to open it with a single hand, the right side up, always - giving you complete control over the timing.

The ability to access someone's...

You start by showing one joker and several blank cards, which are blank on both sides. Adding the joker to the blank cards makes them all become jokers on their faces. Then you do the same with the backs and end up with a pack of jokers. The blank cards have changed to jokers.

1st edition 2025, video 3:27.

Predict the outcome of a gambling game with 100% accuracy.

The magician offers to play a gambling game. He brings out two envelopes and removes three coins from one of them. Two spectators (S1 and S2) select one coin each. The magician gives the other envelope – which contains a prediction – to a third spectator (S3).

Then, from a packet of blue-backed and red-backed cards, S3 chooses a Secret Card that is put onto the prediction. The remainder is dealt to make up the board on which the coins will move along to select a card (one card equals one square).

The rules are simple: The...

You show one card with a big hole cut from its center and four regular cards without any holes. When you remove one from the regular cards and add the hole card to the others, they all suddenly also have big holes. Then you reverse it back to no holes. It uses a sneaky combination of methods.

1st edition 2025, video 4:24

One of the finest and fastest card effects from the creative mind of Ed Marlo. It uses no special cards and requires only basic skills. Fast and clean. A reputation marker.

1st edition 2025, PDF + video 00:45.

You show four cards from the backs. Turning one face up, say the seven of hearts, will magically turn all cards face-up - they are all sevens. You turn them all back face-down. Suddenly they change to the four jacks.

1st edition 2025, video 5:02

I have already published an open prediction effect called Open Prediction: A New Approach to a Classic Plot. Here I am publishing a different open prediction method of mine. I call this one Open Prediction: The Simplest Approach because the method is extremely simple, yet, despite that, it produces the ideal effect from a lay person's point of view. Also, despite the simplicity of the method, it is previously unpublished as far as I'm aware.

Below you can see a full performance video by my friend:

1st edition 2025, PDF 7 pages.

The ultimate digital book test.

A mind-reading experiment like no other. Imagine peering into a spectator’s thoughts as they browse a digital book on their own device, freely selecting a word from thousands. No gimmicked books, no apparent restrictions. Yet, against all odds, you reveal the exact word they are thinking of.

Phantom Whisper redefines the classic book test, leveraging modern technology to create a seamless, direct, and utterly impossible experience. Whether you're performing live, at corporate events, or in casual settings, this effect delivers a cutting-edge demonstration...

3 new effects with a regular ESP deck.

The deck is shuffled by the mentalist and cut by two spectators.

SEVEN SEES PART I – Three packets of seven cards are dealt in a row. Spectator 1 picks any packet. Spectator 2 chooses either the top or the bottom card twice. They each look at a symbol and remember it. They replace their card into the packet and shuffle it. They concentrate on their symbol as the mentalist is looking through the packet and removes two cards. They are the two selected symbols.

SEVEN SEES PART II – The two remaining packets are piled up and the cards are dealt...

You start out with eight cards consisting of two packets of four identical cards each. The two designs are different. Peter uses two differently colored spots. This display move allows you to show eight identical cards with one design, and then eight identical cards with the other design. The spectator will think you have eight identical cards, and then suddenly they change to eight different cards.

1st edition 2025, video 2:44

Effect: Step into a world of mentalism with Final Destination, where the magician predicts the exact final destination of a virtual journey chosen by the spectator. Using a sleek and intuitive app, the spectator freely selects a departure city, and the journey unfolds with a series of destinations. As the journey progresses, the spectator's final destination is revealed — matching the magician’s prediction perfectly.

How it Works: The magician secretly writes down a prediction and hands it to a spectator. Through the app, the spectator mentally selects a departure city, not by physically...

A twisting routine that ends with a climax where all four cards have different backs, when before they all had the same backs.

1st edition 2025, video 2:32

A three-part routine with a regular E.S.P. deck.

The deck is shuffled by the mentalist and cut by two spectators.

DIVINATION
Fifteen cards are dealt in three packets. Two spectators pick one packet each. They choose a number and remember the symbol at that position. The mentalist is able to divine the thought-of symbols.

PREDICTION
Ten cards are removed from the deck. The mentalist makes a prediction into the deck. The packet is shuffled by the mentalist as many times as the spectators want. Then, the packet is dealt in two piles. The top cards of each pile are put together to make...

"Well it fooled me! I had no idea how you got the information to your assistant. I tried to solve the puzzle, but gave up and read the PDF! I would never have thought of that method!" - Marc Paul

"This is absolutely unbelievable! This is the most out-of-the-box method for this type of trick that I have ever seen!!! I have no idea how the Unnamed Magician managed to think of this method." - Tony Bianco

"If you watch the demo video while keeping all the conditions in mind, you will understand the true impossibility behind this. This looks like real telepathy." - Josh Wilson

"The Unnamed Magician...

You show seven Aces of Hearts and one odd card, the 10 of Clubs. After mixing these eight cards, you spread the packet face-up on the table, and they are now eight 10 of Clubs. A stunning and very visual immediate change.

1st edition 2025, video 3:16

You show four regular playing cards. Progressively, they change into four cards with a hole cut from the center.

1st edition 2025, video 4:35

You show four cards that have a joker printed on the front and back. Their backs magically change to red backs, and then they change again to all different backs.

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The performer shows four cards, two with regular backs and the other two with a square printed on the back. Suddenly, one card that had a square printed on its back now has a big round hole cut from its center. A moment later, two cards have a big round hole cut from their centers.

1st edition 2025, video 2:20.

EFFECT #1: Two decks of cards lay on the table. The spectator chooses one, let's say Deck #1. As the magician riffles up Deck #1, the spectator stops him at any point. The spectator is given the top six cards from where he stopped at and shuffles the packet. He deals the six cards in a row on the table and chooses a number with a dice. Let's say that the 5 shows up so he gives himself the fifth card. He turns the dice on the opposite side and sees a 2 so he gives himself the second card. Then, he picks one card from the pair and remembers the value. He picks the other card and remembers the...

You show the ace of hearts and diamonds and place them face down on the table. Then you show another set of ace of hearts and diamonds. Then these two cards transform into three cards, for a total of five cards, and they have now changed to a royal flush.

1st edition 2025, video 2:27