Tricks: Card Tricks

by Steve Shufton

It's new! It's refreshing! It's Colorful! It's IMPOSSIBLE!

Shufton's 3D Paradox sends their minds on holiday! Just imagine:

Effect The spectator holds a sealed envelope. A card, freely selected, is signed and shuffled back into the pack. The envelope is opened...

A card is selected and the deck is held by the spectator. The magician ignites the flame on a lighter, then causes the lighter to completely vanish! When the deck is spread, one card is found in the deck with a severe burn mark on its back. It is the selected card! Next, the lighter is popped out of the card into the spectator's cupped...

From the creator of 'Light' and other best sellers comes the 'CTM' (Card To Mouth) gimmick.

The CTM gimmick is an embedded utility device, using a sharpie, with inbuilt misdirection. Magicians carry a Sharpie with them all the time, so why not have one that can be used as part of a routine.

Chris sits down with Gary Jones and teaches you three different routines using the CTM gimmick. Many people find the are unable to perform card to mouth routines due to not being confident with the misdirection involved. Not anymore. CTM takes all the wo...

TWO CARDS, 8 CORNERS - EIGHT REVEALS This LIMITED EDITION set reduces a deck to just 2 physical cards within the Crossroads framework. DETAILED INSTRUCTIONS, LIMITED EDITION SET. Printed by USPCC.

So, WHAT IS THE Devil's Peek Set?

Designed by BEN HARRIS for his own personal routine, "Devil at The Crossroads"...

Chris Ramsay's latest heart-stopper has been flooring spectators with an incredibly open and fair card reversal. His newest creation, Darkslide, gives you the ability to visually reverse the spectator's selection, in an open display of a fully fanned deck, right in front of their eyes, with nothing more than the flick of your...

Finally, one of the best tricks of all time gets a MASSIVE upgrade. Top Pro, Francis Menotti stunned all of us when he slowly and visually made us rethink everything we know about Triumph.

If you aren't aware, the Triumph plot has been hailed as one of the most powerful card tricks of all time. Dissolve takes the most striking...

The four tens are removed from the deck and tabled face-up. Three cards are then selected, memorized and lost in the pack. The tens are placed on top of the deck. The magician snaps his fingers and then spreads the tens. Three face-down cards are now interlaced between them! When the cards are removed and turned over, they are the three...

Enlighten showcases a stunning effect from the uniquely talented mind of Ravi Mayar (who has also created 'Real Counterfeit Money' and other celebrated tricks).

A spectator selects a card. The performer tears off the card's corner, then withdraws a lighter and instructs the spectator to burn the corner, which vanishes...

by Mickael Chatelain

VISUAL - CLEAN - AMAZING

A spectator picks a card in your deck. The playing card is replaced in the deck and the deck inside the case.

Just put a handkerchief or your hand in front of the deck. The chosen card appears under the cellophane. And now, The spectator can pick the playing...

"Imagine that the little card printed on the back of the deck box is the spectators!"

This effect simply put is perfectly described by the title.

You allow the spectator to select a card and then you have them sign it...
Then you place the card back in the deck or box, and ask your spectator to pay close attention...

FLOAT CARD is a system that allows you to magically levitate a card in front of your spectators' eyes.

This system allows the spectator to select a card, and that very selected card begins to levitate in the air.

NOTE: For the card to be chosen, it is important that the magician has a very simple ability in terms...

From the creative mind of Dutch magician John Anders comes Features. A quick, quirky, fun and powerful routine. Features is perfect as an opening effect for both strolling and close-up magic and it has an instant reset and it's totally examinable.

Three cards are shown and it's down to your spectator to make...

Instantly Re-seal your deck of cards!

Right in front of your spectator's eyes and with NO COVER or whatsoever, VISUALLY and MAGICIALLY RE-SEAL your deck of cards! With NO SWITCHES hand over the freshly wrapped deck to your spectator, only for her to confirm it is indeed factory sealed again!

You can...

Predicted Card at PREDICTED NUMBER - a self working miracle! Comes with Bicycle Deck!

The magician hands a blue-backed deck to a spectator, who is then asked to name a random number - let's say they say, 15.

The spectator is asked to turn the deck face up and slowly deal down 15 cards. Every card is clearly different...

Welcome to Flash Gum, a creation of Joao Miranda and Julio Montoro.

This is a visual trick that will leave your spectators totally speechless.

In this effect, three cards are chosen and lost in the deck.

After a magical pass, the cards vanish from the deck and travel into a pack of gum. The first card appears...

A spectator selects a card and examines it front and back before signing and isolating it, in their very own hands.

Another card is selected and a marked sticker is placed on the back of this card.

The sticker, with no cover, very slowly disappears right before your spectator's eyes.

But the reactions really kick...

WHEN SUPERSTAR ENTERTAINERS WANT TO BE ENTERTAINED, THEY CALL BRIAN GILLIS. AND WHEN BRIAN NEEDS TO LOOK LIKE A SUPERSTAR, HE PULLS OUT THE PEEK PACK.

This multiple-selection mental miracle is perfect for close-up or stand-up to manipulate the minds of the audience without manipulating the cards!

Brian has used...

Cause a spectator's signature to transfer from one card to another whilst it is held in their own hands!

One of Ireland's leading creators - Brian Kennedy has finally released the work on his signature routine - HACKED The spectator clearly signs a playing card before their signature visually jumps onto a totally different...

You love card to wallet... but you don't wear a jacket that often? Then you should try shooting from the hip. Introducing the Hip Shot! A bi-fold hip pocket wallet made of high quality calf-skin, built from the ground up to function as your everyday wallet. Contains two zippered compartments that can produce your selected cards......

David Solomon has created the poker deal to beat all poker deals! Hocus Poker is an ingenious "contest" staged at world famous "Cheater's Convention." In the finals, Chicago Eddie and Detroid Fats are each dealt a hand of aces and eights, the "Dead Man's Hand"! Each player then gets a shot at cheating. Eddie secretly steals two aces...

Imagine being able to move a permanent ink with your finger tips.

A freely selected card is signed and the performer draw a dot on the card with a permanent marker.

The card can be signed both size! The performer take the dot and start to move it across the spectator's signature. The spectator clearly see that the permanent...

"When Peter performs Invasion of the Body Snatchers, I always get goosebumps! No other "Packet Trick" in the entire world of magic has done that. And I've seen a lot of packet tricks in the world of magic. This is the perfect piece of Close-up Magic Theatre!"
- Bill Abbott

Invasion of the Bodysnatchers...

What Jim Krenz has created is not only a Triumph effect, but a Triumph of method. Its ingenuity and craftiness will astound not only spectators, but you as well when you see it in action.

You will see cards intentionally and fairly mixed face up and face down. The spectator can square the mixed cards. Yet, as you suspect, the deck...

From Asia, Lyndon Jugalbot and Finix Chan has come up with the most visual deck through card case effect that you ever saw, Jailbreak!

For those are searching the perfect opener for a card routine. Jailbreak is for you! It's insanely visual, simple to do and no sleight of hand required.

With the DVD you will get a precision...

How do you reveal a card onstage? It has to be something dynamic, physical, and memorable. Cue Kung Fu Foot! Created and honed to perfection by FISM Grand Champion Hector Mancha, this hilarious card revelation allows you to stab a card from midair... with your foot!

Kung Fu Foot works with any pair of socks and pants...