The performer offers to demonstrate an effect that is part mentalism and part magic. For the mentalism part, he slides a blue-backed prediction card from a pay envelope, displaying that the envelope is otherwise empty before returning the card and leaving the envelope in view.
A red-backed deck is shown to be well mixed, and a spectator genuinely freely (no force) touches the back of any face-down card. This selection is left reversed in the centre of the deck.
The blue-backed prediction card is now removed from the envelope and its face displayed - let's say it is the QC. When the red deck is ribbon spread, the chosen card reversed in the centre is also the QC! A successful prediction!
Now for the magic. The selected card is returned face up to the deck, which is squared. The blue-backed prediction card is slipped back into the envelope. Touching the envelope against the deck causes a magical switch to take place, the red-backed chosen QC now being found inside the envelope, and the blue-backed prediction is reversed in the deck's centre.
1st edition 2026, video 10:18.
