Yes!! Can 100% relate! There’s no better feeling than trying something out, expecting it to not really work, and then it happening just perfectly!

Matthew 7:21

Glad you liked it!!

Thanks so much dude! It's really been helping that I've dialed back putting out as much content, but spending more time in improving the quality of the videos that I do put out

Right?! Doing the shuffle yourself feels awesome! And I’m glad you got that collection, I’ve only gone through volumes 1-3 so far

@CardMechanic I'm halfway through volume 2. But enjoying the read so far. Looking forward to your next vid.

John 15:10

Thanks Rob!

True, but when doing the riffle shuffle, you would need a really good eye to differentiate between odd and even vs just red and black. If you can do it, you 100% should!

You are a great instruktør …. Great card trick 👍

Thanks so much for this info!

That’s a good point, but you won’t really find a marked deck available anywhere when hanging out with people (unless you bring your own). But yup, would work A LOT better if the deck is gimmicked in any way

The strength of this effect is that it isn't marked, and could be done with a borrowed deck--you could, over the course of a couple tricks, sort the cards red/black and then this trick feels impossible to reverse engineer. Marked decks are a great tool for gig magicians (from stage to parlor to walkaround), but there's something to be said for tricks you can do socially with someone else's cards.

Any help

Thanks for sharing!

Your welcome

To be fair, they see a "pick a card" trick where you can very fairly show them the deck isn't marked, you didn't force a card or peek it (when they expect you to), and they get to help lose the card with real shuffles. Much more powerful than a key card version of the effect.

You hold a break or pinky-crimp the card or jog the card above or below.

That's right! 👍

The spectator gets to shuffle, and during the part of the trick where they'd want most to (while "losing the card"). It can also be done with a borrowed deck, as long as you have enough time to get the cards sorted while doing other tricks

That’s pretty cool! I never knew that

I'm right there with you 😂😂

@CardMechanic this isn't a girl magician..I am lornas boyfriend ...I have read many of the greatest card magicians books and the old tricks are the greatest .....A young boy goes up to Dai Vernon...and says I know 200 card tricks ....The master turns around and says I know 3

Hahahaha! Dang it!

Eh there’s no fun in that

@@CardMechanic fun for who? Cleverness is overrated. It’s a cool method for sure. But to have a full deck set-up, meh just use a marked deck. You can still simulate all of the conditions. All you’re doing in this trick is a clever way to peek it. That’s it. If your peek is invisible, then any peek will suffice.

@@kyleleon85 you do you my man 👍🏽

Marked cards are a great tool for a gig magician of all levels, but not necessarily the best for impromptu or casual magic, or magic for a more skeptical audience. Laymen know marked cards exist, and are likely to suspect (even if they don't vocalize it) that it's marked cards if that's the most obvious way something impossible happened. Having them pick and return a card in a way that a traditional peek/marked deck wouldn't work (especially if you emphasize that "many people would just do x, but here I can't be doing that) can create a more powerful reveal, especially as at the end the deck is fully examinable, where marked decks aren't--the riffle test is something that I've had even kids do instinctually to see if the backs are all actually the same. Yeah, at the end of the day this trick revolves around a pretty niche way to peek, and the "effect" is just pick and find a card that can be done literally thousands of ways behind the scenes, but the strengths of this one: 1. Can be done with a borrowed deck, as long as you can get the cards sorted over the course of a couple tricks, or a really good at culling 2. It does a great job of obfuscating the method (what people mean when they say magician-fooler), because it's very hard to reverse engineer, and you can easily tailor your presentation (ala the Tamariz' magic way) to make it clear that there is no peek or force as the method, while in fact it is a peek, but an obscure one. 3. It requires no sleight of hand to perform (I'd not call the shuffle a sleight), meaning that it's a great trick for beginners to perform, as they can focus on the performance in the "visual" parts of the trick, because all the work was done as prep. Make it worth knowing, and definitely shouldn't be written off with a trite "JuSt UsE a MaRkEd DeCk"

Thank you!!

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