Decked Out

There are a fairly large number of great card magicians creating original magic. But the man whose card magic has resonated most with magicians in the last thirty years is John Bannon. Why?
We think it's because John Bannon has just the right cocktail of ingredients: his magic is DIFFERENT than what others are doing. The plots are funky twists on the classics, and they are almost always short. Bannon's effects are also within the realm of nearly every magician. We guarantee you already know all the sleights you'll need to perform Bannon's effects.
That is why we're extremely excited to present "John Bannon: The Vanishing Inc. Download." It features four outstanding items (one unpublished and three very well-hidden routines) that you will love, and then you will learn. They are:
Question Zero: A thought-of card is produced from a shuffled pack.
Buf'd: A two-phase transposition routine that will knock yours socks off.
Misdirection Aces: This is John's original four-Ace production.
The Esteemed: John's fantastic take on the Ace Assembly plot.
Sold separately these four effects would fetch a total of more than $40, but we have kept them together for the Bannon fans, so that they have one go-to download with four terrific, new routines.
Customer reviews for Decked Out
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This was my first contact to Bannons’s magic and it was great, his books are now on my wish list.
Question zero is a devious way to divine an (almost--but really feels like it's a) freely selected card. Buf'd uses a variation of Marlo's Buffalo'd transposition. Even being familiar with the moves, I have to admit that I was fooled by the entire sequence. The ace of spades and queen switch takes place three times and then the kicker--the ace of spades turns up inside the deck, face down among all the 4 aces. Misdirection aces is a quickee where the 4 aces are produced and a good prelude to The Esteemed, which is a Bannonized/stremlined version of Peter Kane's Jazz Aces. The kicker ending is that not only do the aces disappear, they end up together, reversed, in the middle of the pack of cards.
Sleights you will learn include the Bannon modified Elias shift (really quite excellent), lift shuffle, a simplified substitute for a Stewart Gordon double lift, Bannon's bullet catcher production, and a couple of unclassified Biddle-type switches. Nothing knuckle busting but all good to learn.
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