A card is chosen by a spectator under extreme laboratory conditions. In spite of these impossible conditions, the magician finds the card without a moment's hesitation! This trick was published in Dai Vernon’s Inner Secrets of Card Magic, written by Lewis Ganson. Success guaranteed! To buy an ordinary deck of cards click here.  

A visual curiosity of the finest effect. Two cards are shown, one red-backed, the other blue-backed; one is the Jack of Diamonds, the other the 3 of Spades. These two cards are duplicated... and transformed: they are now the four Aces, which are handed out for examination! To buy: - some regular cards with red back click here. - some regular cards with blue back click here. - one double-faced card click here.  

You explain that your thumb has a special ability: it's an Ace-seeking thumb! And you prove it, because thanks to it, you make the four Aces appear one by one! To buy an ordinary deck of cards click here.  

This trick is a close-up classic. A handkerchief is threaded onto a length of sewing thread. This thread is stretched in front of the magician, one end is held by his foot, and the other by his hand. The silk, placed on top, slides along the thread, but inexplicably obeys the magician's orders: it falls or stops at will! Gaetan Bloom started from the classical process, and applied his "Bloom Touch", which allows you to hand the props out for examination!  

Card technique: Howard Hamburg explains his personal technique for secretly learning about a spectator's choice of card when he says "Stop" as you riffle the cards. To buy a “Regular Bicycle Rider Deck” click here.  

The spectator chooses a card that no one, not even him, looks at; this card is set aside. The spectator now cuts the deck where he wants, and three piles of cards are made up from the cut half. The top card of each pile is shown, these cards are for example three Kings. These cards clearly indicate that the starting card is the fourth King, which is indeed the case. It is therefore the spectator himself who has discovered his own chosen card! To buy a “Regular Bicycle Rider Deck” click here.  

From a deck, the magician takes out the four aces. A succession of breathtaking effects then occurs: - The aces are separated by color: two red, two black. The aces change position! - They turn into kings! - The aces reappear, then the packets of kings and aces are transposed. - After some card travels, the four queens appear, then the four jacks. - Finally, the deck splits into two separate packets: the red cards are on one side, and the black cards on the other! A crazy routine! A guaranteed success! To buy a “Regular Bicycle Rider Deck” click here.  

The magician shows two decks of cards in their cases: one red and one blue. The blue deck is taken out, the cards are shuffled, a card is chosen and lost in the deck by a spectator in extreme laboratory conditions. The red case is opened, it contains only a piece of paper folded in four, which is unfolded: it has "12" written on it. The spectator counts the cards from the top of the deck: the 12th card is his! To buy: - a “Regular Bicycle Rider Deck” click here. - one “Tool” click here.  

"Business Card" is one of the great classics of card magic. The pitch is as follows: The magician shows a piece of paper folded in four that he places in side view on the table: this is his prediction. A deck of cards is shuffled. The deck is ribbon spread face down on the table and a spectator places a business card where he wants it (no force). The two cards on either side of the business card are shown; the prediction is opened: both cards are written on it! A "magic" way to hand out your business card ! In this version, we do the same thing, but without the business card! To buy a “Regular Bicycle Rider Deck” click here.  

Enter the wonderful world of this expert in close-up and on gambling-related sleight-of-hand and cheating techniques (in particular: second deals, center deals, bottom deals, pass, etc.); he is Steve Forte's best student. Jason England lectured at the Double Fond on 07/11/2010, which you can enjoy in eleven parts.  

This trick is a variation of "The Mystery Card" already described on this platform. Cards are successively selected from a red-backed deck. The magician shows that in his deck, there is a special card, the "Mystery Card", which has the particularity of being the only blue-backed card. The chosen cards and the "Mystery Card" will transform, transpose and mimic each other in a diabolical ballet! To buy: - a “Regular Bicycle Rider Deck” click here. - one “Blue and Red Double Back Playing Card” click here. - one “Normal Blue Back Card” click here.  

Frank Chapman's presentation of the famous "Jiffy Coin Trick": « Metamorphosis » (or the "Substitution Trunk") close-up version! One of the coins is enclosed by a spectator in a little bag, which is itself enclosed in a small box, and the whole in a larger box; each of these elements is hermetically sealed by rubber bands. The two signed coins mysteriously change places! Success guaranteed! To buy a “Renelys Box” click here.  

The dream of every magician: to transform matter into gold! The famous “Vanishing Coin in Paper” trick revisited in the time of the alchemists.  

"Nervous Breakdown" is one of Dominique Duvivier's bestsellers: The spectator has a free choice from among the four kings, and it is shown that this king was predicted in advance. The pitch of the trick is the same, but here the choice is not just from among four cards, but from the whole deck. Yes, the spectator chooses a card freely from among the 52 cards in the deck, and this card was clearly predicted in advance! Success guaranteed!  

The "elders" thought that magic could only be divided into 3 families of effects: appearance, disappearance, transformation. In the last century, Winston Freer revolutionized magic by identifying 17 families. Dominique Duvivier developed the concept and today, his work is based on 30 families! This trick is a magnificent "mix of genres". He presents two decks linked by a golden thread, and from there, he develops a whole routine where he invites a maximum of effects, each one as incredible as the other! A fabulous saga that will leave your audience speechless!  

The magician takes out the four Kings from the deck, which he hands out for examination; he explains that these four cards are magic! Effectively, they turn successively into identical kings: Diamonds, then Hearts and Clubs... and surprise, he now has the four Aces in his hands... which instantly turn back into Kings. Finally, the faces of the cards of the rest of the deck having been shown first clearly different... all become identical! We now only have 4s of Diamonds! A festival of effects that proves that this deck really does have cards with multiple faces! To buy: - a “Regular Bicycle Rider Deck” click here. - a Set of 52 Identical Cards” click here. - some “Repositionable Adhesive Dots” click here.