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The thumb fan is not just a nice display of cards but it also allows you to hide a block of cards. It is therefore not simply a flourish but an actual move that achieves something. Allan talks a bit about the philosophy of flourishes. Should you do them or not?

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The pressure fan is harder to learn than the Thumb Fan, but it also works with less than stellar cards. And the reverse pressure fan allows all kinds of cool effects, either to show a regular deck as having all blank faces or a deck with backs on the front and back sides of all cards.

runtime: 3min 23s

Show three cards as four while actually having three cards.

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Count three cards as five while actually holding four cards.

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Count two cards as many cards as you like.

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Count two cards as four while holding four cards.

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The rumba count is designed to apparently show all cards from the front and back, but in reality one hides the backs of all cards but one.

runtime: 1min 23s

Use the basic Biddle action to count more than the number of cards you have or less than the number of cards you hold in your hands.

runtime: 1min 54s

This is a fun routine that first appeared in Allan's Magic Mafia book. It is based on a Dai Vernon plot from the 60s. However, a typical 'all backs' routine requires many moves - half passes and double lifts. Here Allan has engineered a routine with a lot less moves. You could even do this routine while maintaining a stacked deck.

You show a deck that consists of cards that have backs printed on the front and back. This changes then to faces on both sides of the cards until everything goes back to normal.

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This is an all time classic routine first published in Stars of Magic developed by Dai Vernon. A card is selected, lost in the deck, and then cards are shuffled together face-up and face-down mixing them into a big mess. Magically all cards turn back face-down except the one chosen by the spectator which is found to be face-up in the center of the deck.

runtime: 5min 5s

You deal four hands of cards. The first card for each hand is an ace followed by four indifferent cards. However, magically all the aces assemble in the performer's packet.

You will need to be familiar with the Veeser Concept to perform this effect.

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• ... String
• Spirit Knots
• The Mysterious Cord
• Cigarette To String
• Silken Dollars
• Inflated Money
• Waterproof Greenback
• Waterproof Variation
• Burning A Dollar
• Spots That Pass
• Bill In Nested Envelopes
• Solid Sugar
• Silk Switch
• Quick Change
• Hen Fetsch's Bank Night
• Annemann Move
• The Vanishing Card
• The Vanishing Cigarette
• Full-Sized Cigarette Vanish
• Flash Tip
• Silk Production
• Confetti To Silk
• Allen's Tie Trick
• A Tannen Tip
• Knots Untied
• The Cut Restored
• Bill In Purse
• Amazing Prediction
• Thumb Stretching
• Bill In Shot Glass
• Bill In Egg
• Sealed Envelope Reading
• Inflated Money ...

A deceiving card control + an intrepid card move = An audacious card at any number

AMBIENCE CONTROL : A single card control from the middle of the deck to the top. Originally put out in The Blind Faith Collection (2015). It can also be used as a phase in an Ambitious Card Routine.

SAY STOP : A Selected Card At Any Number where you don't really need to know the number before hand. Originally put out in Audacious (2013) and as a bonus in C.I.A (2015).

Notes and Credits: Do not confuse Ambience Control to be same as Bizau Christian's Blind Square. They both are different. Say Stop was inspired from Paul Wilson's Yamfacaan. However...

BONUS - Learn an extremely deceptive switch and/or production of a card from a fan of cards. This easy-to-do principle is so deceptive, that no one will even "blink". Many of the uses of this principle are discussed within, but with your own imagination, new ideas and effects will spring forth from your own mind. You're going to say to yourself..."Why didn't I think...

If you need to palm several cards at once, this is an effective method. Originally this move appeared in The Royal Road to Card Magic.

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This is another technique to palm several cards at once from the top of the deck. Here a special little finger break enables the move.

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Learn how to hold out a gambler's cop and how to perform the add-on to get the cards back to the deck.

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Developed by Ed Marlo, it is a well-covered method to palm one or several cards from the bottom into a left-hand magician's palm.

runtime: 1min 53s

While you perform a double cut you palm off the bottom cards. This move was developed by Art Altman.

runtime: 1min 15s

AB stands for Ackerman-Barnhard. It is a way to palm the bottom cards from an overhand shuffle.

runtime: 2min 15s

Palm the bottom cards during a swing cut. This move was developed by Allan Ackerman.

runtime: 2min 1s

This is a move to Tenkai palm a card or several cards while dealing. A beautiful and practically undetectable move.

runtime: 1min 30s

This is a great move by Tony Slydini. The four aces are put back into the deck, letting them stick out by about half. Despite the fact that the aces protrude, the clever Tony steals them into a Tenkai Palm leaving four other cards protruding. How he does that you will learn in this video.

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While scooping up a deck from the table replace palmed cards on the top. Allan gives an important tip how to make this look even better.

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