Evoke







Powerful, easy-to-do effects that leave a deep, emotional impact on your audience and ensure they won’t forget you long after you leave.
"If I had to sum it up in one word... WOW." Mark Elsdon
Despite what some mentalism purists might have you believe, there are actually many great mentalism style effects you can do with playing cards. The problem though is that, while they might amaze an audience, they often fail to leave a lasting impression. This is typically because playing cards simply don’t offer anything tangible to forge an emotional connection with.
Craig Petty solves this issue with “Evoke”, your master key to connecting with every audience.
While the “Evoke” deck handles like a deck of cards, it doesn’t look like one. The standard values have been changed into emotional phrases and quotes. Basic card peeks and reveals are supercharged into compelling, inspriational moments that are impossible to forget.
"I genuinely believe that Craig has solved the problem of Playing cards in mentalism…if you use the ‘Evoke’ deck you can basically do any card trick, any sleight of hand and it will have a mentalism edge to it that will totally transform the trick. This is an amazing achievement!" Marc Paul
Designed in collaboration with Phill Smith, the main secret to “Evoke” lies in the devious peek system woven into the back design. These secret markings are glaringly obvious to you, yet are completely invisible to your audience.
You can get all of this information in just one quick glance at the back of a card:
- The emotion word
- The MOAB word
- The image
- Whether it’s black & white or color
- The next emotion card in the stack
- The author of the quote
This special deck of cards is so much more than just a peek system for basic information though. Craig has intertwined a variety of clever principles, both old and new, to build a powerful, practical, and versatile tool that you can use to convince your audience that you are genuinely tapping into their thoughts and reading their minds
The “Evoke” deck is very easy to use. The ingenious design handles essentially all of the hard work for you. As with all Craig Petty releases, no stone was left unturned in the tutorial either. You get hours of teaching, ensuring you walk away knowing everything you possibly need to get the most out of “Evoke”.
The Power of The Peters
It wouldn’t be a Craig Petty release without enlisting the help of some of the best magicians and mentalists in the world. So, Craig welcomed in Peter Turner and Peter Nardi to share their favorite effects with “Evoke”, as well as invaluable insight on performing effective mentalism as a whole. The nearly 2-hour Peter Turner interview contains a wealth of general mentalism wisdom and expertise from one of the best mentalists in the world. It’s worth more than the price of “Evoke” on its own.
Perfect for Beginners and Pros Alike
While “Evoke” is clearly a new favorite secret weapon for pros, it’s also the perfect way for any beginner to start their journey into mind-reading and mentalism. As you’ll quickly learn, peeking information is just one part of the puzzle. If you want to make authentic connections with your audience, then you need to know how to most effectively use that information once you have it.
Cold reading is one of the most important tools in an mentalist's arsenal. However, it’s also something that can seem daunting for some. Which is why Craig enlisted the help of Ian Rowland, the man who literally wrote the book on cold reading. The duo teamed up to create an hour+ masterclass on both cold and warm reading, specifically in regards to how it can be applied to the “Evoke” deck. You are guaranteed to walk away with a totally new perspective and understanding of this potent skill.
Transform every audience into your secret weapon by tuning directly into their emotions with “Evoke” by Craig Petty.
"People might not always remember what you did, but they remember how you made them feel." Marc Spelmann
"I generally think this is one of the best products for the mentalist that I've seen in years" David Jonathan
"When you leave people with an emotion, it changed everything... this is the mentalism that people will remember." Luca Volpe
"If you have a layperson think of a card and you reveal it - it's mind-blowing. But if you're attaching emotion to that, then that's proper powerful stuff" Roddy Mcghie
Customer reviews for Evoke
The teaching provided in this course is suitable for newcomers to mentalism and covers a range of good mentalism routines and tricks. It's a crash course that teaches many effects and some psychological subtleties quickly.
Pros: A solid tool for those who are new to mentalism and a good source of inspiration and reminders for seasoned pros. The cards alone enhance some mentaliam effects.
Cons: I wish they had discussed more of the cold reading system, but they did provide a good reference to find the information.
Like others have said, it would have been nice if the stack wasn't alphabetical, but as I haven't received it yet, I don't know for sure if that will be an issue. It probably will not be an issue as I don't think people will notice or pay attention to that. I get that Craig designed this to make it as easy as possible to remember the stack, with as little memorization as possible.
If there is another version in the future with a non-alphabetical stack, here is my idea for a mneumonic:
CRAIGPETYSVOKDXHUMNZWLJQBF
"Craig Petty's 'voke Decks. Humanz will just quickly be floored."
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I’ve only had it for a couple of days and I can use them very smoothly. The materiel discussed in the Peter Turner segment is worth the price of admission ! So many ideas. I agree with another review that mentions one could really use something like this to practice developing a mentalist persona.
Highly recommended????????
The tutorials are masterfully produced, providing over 12 hours of instruction. My favorite was video #9 in which Cold Reading master and guru Ian Rowland performs several routines for Craig, leaving his speechless and blowing him away. Thank you Vanishing Inc for carrying this wonderful piece of magic!
You get the prop plus several Master Classes.
Can also be adapted to many other card effects including Pit Hartling’s CHAOS.
I love this purchase.
I think it's a really easy purchase, you have so many effects you can do. It makes effects more meaningful than your standard card effect. 9 hours of tutorial is insane and I know some don't like that but I love it because I know it's almost a guarantee that I'll get atleast 3 effects that I'm going to want to perform.
I'm actually writing this review only halfway through the tutorial videos but I'm already at 6 effects that I want to perform, and even if that's the final number. 6 new effects for £35 sounds like a deal to me.
This is pretty fantastic. Essentially you can take almost any card trick you do and put a twist on it to make it about emotions and feelings. The project goes over several routines that are basically card routines that are presented to an emotional level. Out of this world, ambitious card, biddle trick, 21 card trick, they can all be adapted to this. It really opens up to mentalists who do not feel that cards fit the act as well, or a magician who wants to get into mentalism, they will feel comfortable.
Tons of material and I have still not gotten through it all. The cards are quality and they have so much built into it, it is crazy.
I would recommend getting two or three decks just because.
The marking system is genius.
High quality card stock too, just let down slightly by the box that they're in.
They should last a long time but still it's a shame that there's no refills so you didn't have to pay so much again should you need to, it's worth the money but you don't need to pay for the explanations again.
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I did a few routines for my wife (spouse test!) and she was stunned by the MOAB quote reveal. She was absolutely certain she had a free choice of any card and any word from the quotes on the cards, but I was able to hit it immediately.
Being able to hint at emotions and reveal memories instead of just "oh, it's a black card, a spade, high card, Jack of Spades!". It's more of a "you're thinking of a memory, but more than that, you get a certain feeling when thinking of this memory. This is a good memory, one of joy?" It just hits the spectator emotionally.
There's an absurd amount of teaching on Evoke. Like, 9+ hours of teaching. Honestly I think it's a bit overkill and it's one of my pet peeves, getting instructions so long I'll likely never get through them all, but I understand that there's tons of potential and Craig wants to touch on everything.
The two negatives for Evoke I see immediately:
A: For the price, I would have liked two decks. There's no refill option available, so having to re-buy the whole thing for 26 cards is expensive.
B: The tuck case is like, folded laminated paper. It's flimsy and just doesn't feel very professional. I get that they couldn't use a normal tuck case because there's only 30 cards but again, double up the cards so we get a full deck worth and you can include a normal tuck case. On the other hand, it's very well disguised as a normal object case.
Community questions about Evoke
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Guy asks: Is there a version available without the cheesy quotes from philosophical titans like Brad Pitt or Jonny Depp?
- 1. Vanishing Inc. Magic responds:Sadly there isn't. But they can be removed.
Zack asks: Has anybody with colourblindness complained of not being able to see the marking system? Thanks.
- 1. Vanishing Inc. Magic responds:Hey! I have seen this performed a lot and haven’t come across this yet!
Todd asks: I purchased 2 of them and I'm wondering if there is a way to get the syllabus for the videos. As already stated lots of great stuff, like so much trying to find one thing is pretty difficult.
- 1. Jim responds:I watched a review by Magicorthodoxy. In the review he suggests to watch Chapter 1 and then Chapter 5, before the rest of the chapters.
Alexander asks: Does it come in other languages, or just English?
- 1. Vanishing Inc. Magic responds:Just English at the moment
Billy asks: Any chance (maybe on a reprint) we can just buy a bundle such as a 3 pack of the deck or something along those lines? I may have to just buy a second if I like it as much as I think I will!
- 1. Vanishing Inc. Magic responds:There is nothing confirmed yet about refills
Matthew asks: Are there gaffs and dupes included for different effects? Along these lines are all the cards usable in the “amnesia” style effect or just one or two?
- 1. Vanishing Inc. Magic responds:There are some extra cards with this
Claire asks: Why are there others who are buying 2 sets of these? Are there any particular effect that uses 2 of these?
- 1. Craig responds:I’m not sure. If I really like something I always buy a spare. The product has been popular and will sell out at some point. Then it will be a waiting game till it’s reprinted So that might be why!
Nick asks: How easy is it to navigate through the tutorials? I am interested in the effect but don’t have the capacity to watch a 5hr download
- 1. Craig responds:They are broken down into 9 separate videos. The first one explains the system and then the other offer different routines. Two are with Pete Turner, 1 with Pete Nardi, 1 with Ian Rowland and the rest with me. It’s cruel easy to navigate Thanks
Ged asks: Ged asks: When will I be able to access the video instructions, as I ordered Evoke this morning? Will there be a link available? Thanks, Ged
- 1. Terry responds:It should be in your product instructions, mine was
- 2. Ged responds:It was not.
Marc asks: I would love to have it. Unfortunately a lot of people at my place are not so familiar with the english language. Any chance that it will be available in german and french some day?
- 1. Vanishing Inc. Magic responds:Not at this time sadly.
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