John Bannon's highly-engineered, yet easy-to-do brand of magic shines in this retrospective. Over forty complete routines are described in Bannon’s easy-going readable style. Here are the tricks and the clever, innovative thinking behind them. Collected from Bannon’s publications over the ten years ...
The Intercessor is a unique gimmick that makes miracles possible. Created by the inventive Gaetan Bloom and used in his professional shows for many years, it enables you to do most baffling versions of the classic card in orange. Indeed any effect in which a selected card is torn to pieces and then ...
The Red Envelope is David Sousa's award-winning silent act. This act inspired a generation of world-class manipulators and champions and led to David being appointed Honorary Professor at the Academy of Magical Arts in South Korea. In this themed act a red envelope appears, transforms and vanishes i...
After several years in development, Dave Forrest finally presents his ULTIMATE finale for the 'Ambitious Card' routine! For many years I've been trying to accomplish a visual 'sealed in the box' ambitious finale where, after the rise, EVERYTHING CAN BE EXAMINED! I wanted it to be practical and easy ...
For many years, Richard Kaufman has been a conduit, bringing amazing Japanese magic to English speaking magicians. His tricks in Genii and books Five Times Five Japan and New Magic of Japan show that many Japanese magicians think differently. The magic in these pages is not standard card and coin pl...
Now this is clever. On other sites you'll read mildly deceptive ad copy, which isn't fair. So let us try to give you a fair description of the effect, because it's really good. Although you don't get much information from the trailer, it goes like this: someone chooses a card at random. Using this c...
Rule of Three has it all: an extremely deceptive method, a great presentational hook, and a quality prop. You end clean, which is, if you think about it, REALLY impressive. Jon continues to amaze us with his creative output, and this makes for a great opener or middle effect. After naming the Queen ...
This is really, really smart. And what a great way to introduce your props during a close-up or parlor performance. People write us often asking about great visual, quick, opening effects. This is it! As far as the method goes, it's extremely smart. We can't tip too much, but we can say that one of ...
This is really, really smart. Just watch the trailer. It's Twisting the Aces routine without ANY adjustments or weird setup actions. The Aces just turn over magically. The best part? You'll be doing it within minutes. Just four normal Aces. Waving the Aces by Guy Hollingworth is one of the most famo...
In a word: fun. If you do strolling magic, restaurant work, or are just looking for something that isn't JUST another card trick, this is a great pocket miracle. The Effect: The spectator selects a moustache style from a pack of cards depicting 26 different moustache styles. The selected card is bro...