$10(1 review, 2 customer ratings) ★★★★★
This product is also part of: A powerful new stacked deck utilizing the brand new suit weighted cycle system.
Designed for real-world workers. The BTM Stack offers built-in balance, hidden structure, and performer-friendly flow that unlocks effects with the merging of a cyclical and memorized order. With BTM, you'll be able to achieve rapid divinations, stunning coincidences, and clean, direct miracles - without the heavy mental strain. Easy to learn, flexible in performance, and deceptive enough to fool the sharpest eyes, BTM is a system you'll return to again and again.
1st edition 2025, PDF 13 pages.
word count: 2141 which is equivalent to 8 standard pages of text
Reviewed by laurent kubaski (confirmed purchase)
★★★★★ Date Added: Sunday 08 February, 2026The author claims that the BTM Stack is a "Unique innovation with no precedent in historical stacks" even though this stack is almost the same as Patrick Dessi's CPAP stack published in 2009 (BTM uses the CHaSeD order and CPAP uses the SHoCkeD order) which itself is a variation of Richard Osterlind's Breakthrough Card System published in 1983.
Not only that, but the "brief summary of other stacks" section - which doesn't even mention the well-known Breakthrough Card System - is riddled with errors:
- The first printed record of a deterministic stack is not 1786 but 1593 (in "Giochi di Carte Bellissimi di Regola, et di Memoria").
- The first printed reference of the eight king stack is not 1888: for example, the earliest English reference is 1805 (in "The Expositor").
- The Nikola card system does not require "rote memorization" since the author provides a mnemonic system to learn the associations.
- The Bart Harding stack is not "Similar to Stebbins": the concepts are completely different.
- the Spanish edition of Mnemonica was not published in 1990 but in 2000.
- etc...
Because of all those reasons, I don't recommend this product: readers interested in an alternative to the Si Stebbins stack that's easier to learn than the Breakthrough Card System should have a look at Patrick Dessi's CPAP stack (2009) or Doug Dyment's DAO stack (2010).
