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The Thumb Fan

The Thumb Fan is a fancy way to display a deck of cards. Try to make the fan as big and consistent as possible. At the end of the video I...

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Elmsley Count

This is the most commonly used false count technique and it will help you perform a large number of powerful packet tricks. It will take ...

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Charlier Cut

The Charlier Cut is a fancy way to cut a pack of cards with just one hand.

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Overhand Shuffle

Many card tricks and effects require the ability to control cards to certain positions of the deck. Ironically, this is often achieved in...

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Spreading Cards

Learn how to smoothly spread cards in between your hands. This is the first step in a lot of card tricks where you ask the spectator to p...

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Cros Twist

The Cros Twist is a one handed variation of Paul Harris' Bizarre Twist from The Art of Astonishment volume 1. It's a strikingly visual ef...

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Design for Laughter

An old gem of a trick. It's a clever take on the classic plot where the magician appears to be failing miserably, but then recovers in a ...

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The Glide

The Glide is one of the easiest and most practical methods for secretly switching out cards. It can be cleverly used within the context o...

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Close-up Card Vanish

In this tutorial I'll cover a card vanishing technique that is ideal for close up scenarious. Most backpalming is typically done in a sta...

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How to Deal Cards like a Professional Dealer

Have you ever seen the way that professional dealers deal cards to players across the table from them? This is a dealing technique known ...

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Overhand Shuffle

The overhand shuffle is one of the easiest and most common ways to shuffle a pack of cards. Its a great shuffle for magicians to use sinc...

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Rubik's Cards

Rubik's Cards is a great card trick that imitates solving a Rubik's Cube with a pack of playing cards. Inspired by Lew Brooks' "Order fro...

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Classy False Cut

This in the hands false cut is simple and to the point. No extra moves or flash.

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Jazz Aces

A direct, clean, and ungimmicked ace assembly.

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Automatic Jog Control

The Automatic Jog Control is a great way to obtain a pinky break above a selected card to prepare for a card control.

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One Handed Revolution Cut

The Revolution Cut is a smooth way to cut a pack of cards with one hand.

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Molecule Cut

The Molecule Cut is a slick card flourish and false cut.

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Brute Force Ace Cutting

Amazing Card Trick. Cleanly cut the four aces!

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The Faro Shuffle

The Faro Shuffle is a way to "perfectly" shuffle a pack of cards by weaving the cards so that they are interlaced singly.

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The Hermann Pass

The Hermann pass is very deceptive shift that allows you to control a card, nullify a cut, do a color change, and many other feats. It ac...

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The Dribble

Learn how to do the dribble. A cool way to make the cards fall in between your hands.

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The Double Undercut

The Double Undercut is a fundamental technique for card control. It can be used to control a selected card to the top of the deck, or to ...

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False Triple Cut

The False Triple Cut is a great way to retain the order of the deck while creating the illusion that the cards are being mixed.

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Hindu Shuffle Force

The Hindu Shuffle force is the easiest method to force a card that I know of. It is also very convincing if done correctly!

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Hindu Shuffle Control

The Hindu Shuffle control is one of the most effective ways to control a card to the top of the deck.

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Twisting The Aces

Performance and Tutorial for the card trick Twisting The Aces. This trick is classic :)

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TG Murphy Deck Flip

Tutorial on the TG Murphy Deck Flip. A tricky flourish that makes the deck flip 360 degrees and fall back in your hand.

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Hot Shot Cut

The Hot Shot Cut is one of my favorite tricks to do with a deck of cards. It can be used as a stand alone card trick, or be mixed into an...

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Pirouette Spin

The Pirouette flourish is a great single card flourish that allows you spin a playing card on your fingertip. It is a knacky move that wi...

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Overhand Shuffle Control

The Overhand Shuffle Card Control is a way to maintain the top stock of the deck while shuffling the cards. Card control is an extremely ...

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False Cut to the Table

This is a simple false cut that uses a table. The cards will not have changed position at all at the end of the cut. Make sure you watch ...

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Topsy Turvy Force

The Topsy Turvy force is an easy way to force a card on someone, but it should only be used sparingly and with the right attitude. A card...

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The Acrobatic Aces

A quick and snappy way to produce the 4 aces from the deck.

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Flipity Dip False Cut

This is a neat false cut that looks really cool and flips over the deck in the process. A false cut gives the impression that you are cut...

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Benzais Spin Out

The Benzais Spin out move is a super elegant tabled card production. When done correctly, it should look like you are separating the pack...

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Up the Ladder False Shuffle

The Up the Ladder is one of my favorite tabled false shuffles. With the right speed and rhythm the shuffle looks very much like a legitim...

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Spring Set Turn Over

Spring Set is credited to John Cornelius. Its a nifty little move that lets you flip over the top card with one hand. Done properly it sh...

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The Top Shot

The Top Shot is a neat card shooting technique from Lennart Green. The card shoots out very fast, turns face up, and lands in your opposi...

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One Handed Card Fan

The One Handed Fan is a nice flourish to display the cards. It can be used to have a card selected, or to have a card returned. A lot of ...

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Pinky Count

The Pinky count is a great utility moves that allows you to get a break under a number of cards with just one hand. In my opinion, this i...

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Spectator Cuts the Aces

Spectator Cuts the Aces is an amazing easy card trick where the spectator just happens to cut to all four of the aces. This is a very eas...

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Tabled Riffle Shuffle

The Tabled Riffle Shuffle is a standard way to shuffle a pack of cards in any card game. It is also a great shuffle for magicians to lear...

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In The Hands Riffle Shuffle

The In The Hands Riffle Card Shuffle is probably the best way to shuffle a deck of cards. It does a great job of mixing the cards, and it...

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Instant Replay / Simple Switch

Instant Replay is a great card flourish that allows you to juggle a playing card in between your hands. The move is credited to Paul Harr...

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ShapeShifter Color Change

Popularized by David Blaine on his first network special, Shapeshifter is Marc DeSouza's handling for an Oscar Munoz card change.

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Bottom Retention Overhand Shuffle

A great technique to shuffle the deck while maintaining the bottom card of the pack. The best part is that it is incredibly easy to do an...

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Easy Pen Production

Instantly produce a pen or marker at your fingertips. This uses a dead simple palming technique.

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Pushover Double Lift

The Double Lift is one of the most important moves in card magic and is used in many card tricks. I have explored many different double l...

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Spread Cull Control

Culling is one of the most effective methods for controlling cards. It is quick, clean, and invisible when done correctly.

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The Giant Fan

The Giant Fan is a fancy way of displaying the cards. You will need to know how to do a faro shuffle, and a thumb fan before you can do t...

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Thumb Fan Injog Control

This move from Paul LePaul allows you to maintain control over a chosen card after it has been pushed into a card fan. It is relatively e...

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Inverting Card Warp

The Inverting Card Trick is a fascinating Optical Illusion where the direction of the card mysteriously changes underneath a dollar bill....

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Vernon Cold Deck Cut

The Vernon Cold Deck Cut is a simple looking series of cuts to the table. It has a nice and logical rhythm to it that makes it look very ...

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Cold Stacking

Cold Stacking is the process of locating high value cards and then positioning them in locations so that they will be dealt to you. It is...

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One Handed Shuffle

The One Handed Card Shuffle is probably the most difficult way to shuffle a pack of cards, and it looks very impressive. You can now rest...

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One Handed Top Palm

The One Handed Top palm is one of the best methods for getting a card in your palm.

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Aerial Card Flourish

An impressive looking card flourish that flips a packet into the air spinning it 360 degrees before it lands back in your hand.

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Anatomy of a Card Palm

Card Palming is one of the most powerful card sleights available to a magician. Learn it well!

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Erdnase Fancy Blind False Cut

Erdnase Fancy Blind False Cut that is a relatively easy cut that is done on the surface of a table.

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Card Spring

The Card Spring is an iconic card flourish where you shoot the cards from one hand to the other. Focus on a smooth and consistent flow.

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Sybil Cut

The Sybil cut is one of the coolest looking cut sequences out there. And its false too (no cards have changed position when the cut is co...

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Mousetrap

Watch the Mousetrap cardistry tutorial with Sam Wheeler.

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Kick Back Ditch

I'm pleased to feature Jeremy Griffith as a guest teacher on 52Kards this week. He teaches a great utility move known as the Kick Back Di...

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Spread n Butter

This video features guest teacher Chris Ramsay sharing his original "Spread n Butter" card effect. It uses one of the most clever card sw...

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Duck Change

The Duck Change is a hyper visual color change that occurs away from the deck. In the motion of springing a card onto the top of the deck...

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Torn and Restored Card

The Torn and Restored Card trick is one of the most powerful effects you can perform with a pack of cards. This particular method is extr...

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Striking Vanish

The Striking Vanish is an insanely visual vanishing technique that can be done without any preparation. The method is practical and is gr...

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The Hindu Shuffle

The Hindu Shuffle is one of the most standard ways of shuffling a pack of cards. It was popularized in Asia and is now commonly used thro...

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Swing Cut

The Swing Cut is a method for cutting a deck of cards without the need of a table. It is used within a lot of other more complicated cut ...

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Zarrow Shuffle

The Zarrow Shuffle is a great false shuffle that preserves the order of the whole deck. There are several versions of the Zarrow Shuffle....

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Underspread Touch Force

This Card Force is one of the cleanest and most convincing methods I know of. The spectator can truly touch any card they want, and they ...

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False In The Hands Riffle Shuffle

This is one of my favorite false shuffles. It can be done without a table and it looks exactly like an ordinary riffle shuffle.

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Alone In A Crowded Room

A fantastic effect using the Fat Deck Principle. Make half of the cards in the deck visually vanish and find the selected card.

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Fat Deck Principle

This is a neat little move you can use to create the illusion that you have more cards in your hand than you really do. In my next video ...

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Classic Pass False Cut

This is one of the most direct false cuts I know. You will need to be good at the classic pass in order to do this, but once you have tha...

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Ambitious Card Routine

The Ambitious Card trick is a classic plot in magic. The selected card repeatedly jumps to the top of the deck under more and more imposs...

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The Haunted Deck

The Haunted Deck is one of the most powerful and visual ways you can find a selected Card.

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Coin Roll

The Coin Roll is a neat coin trick where the coin rolls across your knuckles in a continuous cycle. It is one of the few coin flourishes ...

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Twisted Sonic Pen Flourish

The Twisted Sonic pen spin is an extension on pen spin number one that doubles the spinning action.

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Finger Dexterity Exercise

A little drill you can practice to make your fingers stronger and more coordinated.

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The Park Control

Ollie Mealing goes over an interesting sleight of hand technique that can be used as a card control and/or as a card force. This is a che...

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Serket

Serket is an original multi packet flourish created by Katie Morris. It's got a great rhythm and aesthetic and is sure to impress. Subscr...

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Double Dribble Control

The Double Dribble Control is an efficient method for having two different cards selected and then controlled to the top of the deck. It'...

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The Allerton Control

Guest instructor Cristian Pestritu teaches a practical and simple method for controlling a spectators card in the action of cleanly placi...

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Tenkai Palm

The Tenkai Palm is a devious card palming technique that allows you to secretly conceal a card in your hands while your fingers remain na...

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Bertram Color Change

The Bertram Color Change is an excellent method for changing a card using the Tenkai Palm technique. It allows you to visually change the...

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The Classic Pass

The Classic Pass is the move that epitomizes sleight of hand with cards. Use it as a card control, card vanish, false cut, color change, ...

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Swivel Cut

The Swivel Cut is a fancy way to give a deck a complete cut. It is also used within a lot of other more complicated cut sequences.

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Simple Pass Mahatma Control

This is one of the easiest card controls I know of, and it's really good! It combines a turnover pass and an overhand shuffle.

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Palm Spin Card Shooting

This is a fun move where you shoot out playing cards from your palm You can shoot out many card in a row with great accuracy and distance.

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PaintBrush Top Change

This is a neat card switch that can be done using the same mechanics as the Paintbrush Color Change.

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4 Ace Production Routine

The 4 Ace Production Routine is an extremely impressive display of skill that uses many card control and production techniques.

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Marlo Tilt Card Control

The Marlo Tilt (also known as the “Depth Illusion”) is a very deceptive card control that looks like you are pushing the card directly in...

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Card Sandwich Catch

This is an incredibly easy and impressive way to find someone's card. You will be able to start performing this minutes after you learn it.

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Beginner Double Lift

This is the easiest double lift method I know of. It's very reliable and the cards should never split.

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8 Card Brainwave

The 8 Card Brainwave trick is an easy way to "predict" which card a spectator is going to choose. It works every time.

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Tabled Running Cuts

This is an elegant way of mixing the cards if you have a table to work on.

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The Bluff Pass

The Bluff Pass is hands down one of my favorite card controls. It may feel risky or bold at first, but after you try it a few times you w...

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Sponge Ball Vanish

This is a classic sponge ball magic trick. It is dead simple and always amazes people.

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Crystal Clean Card Control

This is a great technique that allows you to very cleanly push the card straight into a tabled deck while still maintaining control of it...

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Instant Snappy Color Change

This is a one card pass used as a color change. It's very quick, visual, and fun to do!

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Affas-Gaffas False Cut

This is a fluid and deceptive false cut devised by Larry Jennings. The cut uses no breaks and is great for when you are at a card table.

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Vallarino's Free Card Production

This is a smooth and elegant card production from the talented French magician Jean Pierre Vallarino. It has a lot in common with the Ben...

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Waterfall

The Waterfall is an impressive card flourish where you make the cards fall in between your hands.

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LePaul Spread

The LePaul Spread is a fancy way to fan the cards out in your hands. It uses a card springing technique to spring the cards out evenly in...

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Kalushes Cut

Kalushes Cut is a smooth looking 3 packet card flourish. It feels really good in the hands and is fun to do!

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Gryphon Roll

This is a neat ring trick called the Gryphon Roll where you roll the ring between your fingers. Once you train your fingers and develop t...

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One Handed Spin Cut

The One Handed Spin Cut is a nifty way to cut the deck of cards with one hand. It is also a great way to get into the Hot Shot Cut card p...

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The Jumping Card

This is a clever move that allows you to deal a card to the table and have it magically jump back to the top of the deck. It can be used ...

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Card Shooting Technique

This is a really fun and impressive card shooting technique where you can make a card spin off the top of the deck and fly out in front o...

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The KM Move

The KM Move is a handy utility sleight that has a number of applications including cleaning up your double lift. If you ever get called o...

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The Mexican Turnover

The Mexican Turnover is a deceptive sleight of hand technique that allows you to secretly switch out a tabled card for the card in your h...

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Under The Table Card Force

The Under The Table Card force is a deceptive and easy forcing technique that can be executed when you are sitting across from your spect...

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Elegant Tabled Production

A classy and elegant method for producing a card from a tabled deck.

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How to Make a Card Flower

This is a neat way to turn your deck of cards into an aesthetic card flower.

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D'Amico Multiple Shift

The Multiple Shift is a card control technique that allows you to control multiple cards simultaneously. It sounds like a complicated mov...

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Simple Sandwich Trick

In this video I teach you a simple sandwich trick that is sure to impress. You can present this any way that you want, so be creative and...

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Tilt Throw-off Technique

This is an add-on to the Marlo Tilt to make your card control even more deceptive. You need to have a solid understanding of the basic Ma...

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Card Toon

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Downs Palm Production

This technique allows you to produce a coin in the action of closing your hand. You can clearly show your hand to be empty beforehand, an...

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Buttery Smooth False Cut

This is an elegant fully false tabled cut sequence. It has a really nice rhythm to it and makes good use of steps in the packets to retai...

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Wedge Cull

The Wedge Cull is a variation on the standard spread cull that allows you to effectively cull and control multiple cards in the process o...

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Two Handed Top Palm

Palming is a very important aspect of sleight of hand card magic. The classic palm is among one of the most popular (if not the most) pal...

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Rub a Dub

The Rub A Dub is an incredibly visual and magical card vanish that can be done anytime with a completely normal pack of cards. This move ...

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Backpalm Card Vanish

I first got intrigued with magic and playing cards after seeing a friend do some back palm card vanishes back in 8th grade. To this day t...

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Ribbon Spread and Flip

The Ribbon Spread is one of the easiest and most impressive flourishes you can do with a pack of cards.

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Card Under Box

This is a bold method for performing the Card Under Box trick. The card load happens right before the card is revealed to be under the bo...

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Quick Card Prediction

This is a quick and powerful card trick that makes good use of several moves we have already taught on the channel. It can be done improm...

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The Snap Double

This is a great extension that can be added to your current double lift to make it more convincing and to demonstrate singularity in the ...

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Dai Vernon's Triumph

A classic plot in card magic: Triumph. This is an incredibly strong effect where the deck magically straightens itself out and finds the ...

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Dream of Aces

The aces magically vanish one at a time, and then reappear moments later next to the leader ace (the ace of spades). This is a classic pl...

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Coin Matrix

The Coin Matrix is literally one of my favorite magic tricks ever. It's incredibly strong, visual, and practical. Everything I look for i...

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Deck Memorization Routine

Learn how to create the illusion of memorizing the order of an entire deck of cards.

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Flippant Color Change

This video covers an amazing visual color change technique that can be done with just one hand. It's called the Filppant move by Looy Sim...

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Tabled Bridge Riffle Shuffle

This is a Tabled Bridge Riffle Shuffle with a fancy bridge/cascade ending to square up the deck. It's a super elegant shuffing method wit...

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Infinity Cards

This is an interesting move that allows you to take two cards, and make them appear as if they are any number of cards that you want. It ...

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Double Paintbrush Color Change

This is an extremely visual method for magically changing two cards into two entirely different cards. You end clean, and you can immedia...

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One Handed Pop Out Move

This is an incredibly visual pop out method for producing a card from the deck. It is a technically difficult move to pull off, but well ...

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In Hands Riffle Shuffle

One of the more visually interesting and versatile shuffling methods available. This is a Riffle Shuffle with a fancy bridge ending that ...

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Blind Toss

This is an incredibly easy trick that makes you appear to be a master with a deck of cards.

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Deal Switch Prediction

A super easy card trick for making an extremely accurate prediction of the future... It will require just a little bit of memorization on...

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8 Card Brainwave (Variation)

An easy and powerful effect to demonstrate the power of instinct and intuition.

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Modified Top Shot

The Top Shot by Lennart Green is one of my favorite moves with a pack of cards. This is a modified handling that allows you to do the sho...

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One Way Design Principle

In this video I'll be discussing a design feature that some decks of cards have that allow you to perform incredible card magic without t...

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Clever Bar Bet Card Trick

A deviously clever bar bet style card trick that can easily make you some extra pocket change... Please use this responsibly! It's a self...

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The Apex Aces

Apex aces is a fantastic 4 Ace Trick that allows you to vanish each of the aces one at a time in an extremely fair and practical manner. ...

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Tabled 4 Ace Production Routine

A full explanation of the Tabled 4 Ace Production performance video I published last week. This routine makes use of a lot of previous mo...

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How to Tie Your Own Invisible Loops

Magician's Loops are a gimmick used to create illusions. Yigel Mesika sells pre-made loops, but in this video I will show you how to save...

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Learn a Powerful Mental Effect

In this video Daniel Fernandez and I go over an extremely powerful mentalism trick that you can do with any deck of cards. The trick is v...

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Secret peeking technique

This technique allows the magician to know what card the spectator is thinking of. This peek is quick, practical, and incredibly useful. ...

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Modified Pop Over Production

This modification on the Pop Over Production is a quick snappy way to produce a card from the pack. It's visually startling and can creat...

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Card to Pocket

Card to Pocket is a classic trick in card magic and an excellent application for card palming. You will have to be comfortable with getti...

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A Brilliant Prediction Effect with Coins

In this video Vinh Giang performs and teaches a brilliant prediction effect that ALWAYS WORKS. This routine has a lot of built in audienc...

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Clip Steal Color Change

An awesome color change that was originally published in the 1920's, but seems to have been largely forgotten since... Our instructor Vin...

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Card Mucking

In this video, Jeremy Griffith teaches a mucking technique that allows you to change a card either secretly or visually. Mucking comes fr...

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Diagonal Palm Shift

The Diagonal Palm Shift is an efficient method for secretly palming a card from the middle of the deck. It has a strong economy of emotio...

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