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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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How to Throw Cards Like Gambit Tutorial
Card throwing is a real, learnable skill and good news, you do not need mutant powers to do this...
You take a card, rub it against the table, and it vanishes. The Rub a Dub Vanish is one of those rare moves that looks like pure magic but...
Despite their being a countless number of different magic tricks out there, there are usually only considered to be 13 different...