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The Unreal Work 2: Cheaters on a Train reveals more powerful methods for cheating at cards. Learn thirteen professional routines guaranteed to fool and fascinate your audience. Paul and Jason share secrets from their personal repertoires, drawing from decades of study into the world of crooked gambling. From devastating false shuffles, slug controls and false deals to baffling feats of skill and fascinating exposes, The Unreal Work 2 is an unmissable toolbox filled with material for anyone interested in gambling sleight of hand or card magic.

Culling cards is an essential technique for the serious card expert and there are many methods available. Of these, David's Cull is one of the very best. David's cull is a work of beautiful simplicity. He has engineered a technique that is as certain as it is ingenious. Spread through the deck once and you can instantly produce any cards desired. We've watched David perform it many times. If you're serious about sleight of hand with cards, this is an essential addition to your arsenal.

Expert magician and sleight of hand artist Paul Wilson walks you through seven different methods for the Double Lift, an essential move in card magic. Learn refined technique on classic double lifts as well as a never before published method.

A collection of original sleight of hand techniques and routines by New York magician, Eric Goldfarb.

Derek DelGaudio's Truffle Shuffle has been described as "the most deceptive false shuffle to date." It happens in the hands and resembles a standard Riffle Shuffle exactly, so there's nothing to suspect. Learn the shuffle and all the subtleties from one of the best card magicians today.

Within our library of books we’ve read countless variations of Triumph, many of which we feel are superior to Vernon’s original handling published in The Stars of Magic. However, Open Triumph by Dani DaOrtiz is as open, fair and visual as we have ever seen. Witness the ingenious thinking this spanish master of sleight of hand puts into all his magic with this amazing effect. Don’t close your eyes.

A three-phase sandwich routine that progresses in both visual impossibility and appeal, leaving your spectators with an inexplicable climax of sheer magic. Learn each phase in detail, along with an additional sandwich effect by Jeff Semel.

Along the way, you'll gain valuable knowledge with Bill's encyclopedic knowledge of card magic.

Discover the real work on one of the basic building blocks of card magic, the Top Change. Master magician David Williamson reveals 33 years of refined technique as well as invaluable tips on motivation, timing and misdirection. In addition, he also teaches two of his favorite card tricks using the Top Change and a neat little one-card production.

Instead of single cards switching places, like TiVo 2.0 for example, Chris has come up with a diabolical way to make a pair of cards change places with a single card! Even better, right? It looks like trick photography so don't blink or you'll miss the magic.

Within the explanation Chris teaches two variations, one of which is 100% angle-proof so you can use it in any situation! You’ll also learn two extremely useful sleights that can be applied to countless other routines.

A new take on the classic Paint Brush Change by Roy Walton that allows for multiple color changes of a single playing card.

On this tutorial Alex Pandrea teaches you the method in detail along with several neat applications.

In honor of the 10 year anniversary of The Penumbra magazine, we're privileged to present this effect published in the first issue. For a decade now, King Brand has been a favorite trick of ours. Visually dynamic, the effect couldn't be simpler: The deck is removed and only four cards are presented, the two red Kings and and the two black fours. With one pair sandwiched between the other, they visually trade places under impossible conditions. The plot builds in three phases with the final trasposition happening in a spectators own hand.

Imagine a color change in which the card is never fully covered and seems to visually morph into a spectators selection, like a camera trick. Done completely at the fingertips with no suspicious actions, and right in front of their nose, literally. Cartier is the most visual color change we've ever come across.

Alex Pandrea brings new light to an old move in card magic, something that should have been done ages ago. T.O.P. allows you to control a selected card to the top or bottom of the deck with little sleight of hand required. It can be used to force any card onto a spectator among other useful applications.

Detailed explanation with 3 full effects included.

Svengali Control is an ingenious multiple shift that allows any number of cards to be controlled to the bottom of the deck in the casual manner of a dribble. It's so deceptive, it can even be done at a snails pace with nothing to suspect.

A bold new approach to Marlo's Convincing Control, a classic sleight in card magic. Devised by Alex Pandrea, the AP Spread Control is a universal tool for controlling a card to the top or bottom of the deck while out-jogged from a spread.

Three techniques are explained, including a one-handed method that just might become your new favorite.

Several years ago we introduced you to Pixel, the visual masterpiece from David Jade that has since become one of our best selling tricks. Then came Trigger and now Valdemar Gestur is back at it with Trixel. In hindsight, Trixel is the reverse effect to Pixel. Instead of causing a selected card to leap to the top, free from the rubber band, you trap the selection with the rubber band after wrapping it around the entire deck moments before. The effect must be seen to believe!

Learn one of the most talked about card controls circulating the magic scene. For years this technique for controlling a selected card to the top has been a favorite among professional card magicians. The actions are entirely motivated and there is nothing for your audience to suspect.

Spencer Peterson is a young magician from New York City with a plethora of good ideas. One of those ideas is a variation of the Miller Cascade Control done under the guise of a table spread.

Check out some of the sweet applications and tricks!

Leap of Faith is a beautifully constructed piece of visual card magic by David Regal. It has all the elements that make for a good card trick including presentation, misdirection, and sleight of hand. The effect is straightforward; a card magically travels from one place to another. If you didn't get that, David makes it even more clear in the video. We love how both the effect and method take use of the kings. Check out Kevin Ho's Fourgasm for a great way to start the trick off.

In this trick, the performer introduces two decks of cards, one red and one blue. After shuffling his deck, a spectator is asked to name any card. The performer takes the two red kings from his pack and drops them on top of the spectators deck. Instantly and without the performer even touching the spectator’s cards the freely named selection appears in between the kings! The performer offers to do it again, only this time the spectator removes their red kings and drops them on top of the performer’s deck. Miraculously a card appears in between them! For a kicker finale, the spectator’s selection disappears from the performer’s deck and appears in the middle of the deck they have been in control of the entire time!

A selected card is cleanly pushed into the deck and immediately controlled to the bottom with no apparent sleight of hand. Learn two version of this control along with a handful of applications including our version of The General Card, a Multiple Shift, a Switch, and a card at any number solution.

A visual teleportation of a selected card from one hand to the other. The effect combines a rhythmic display of cardistry and magic.

Napkin Trilogy consists of three different effects: Predictable Surprise, Straggler and Final Trace. In this tutorial, master close-up magician John Carney walks you through all the necessary steps with a strong emphasis on misdirection and presentation.

A nice remix of the classic Hofzinser Ace trick. Your spectators will swear you have some sort of supernatural powers. You literally set up the ending of the trick before you really even start.

The magic really does happen in their hands.

After having a card peeked, the magician is unsure of its whereabouts so he proceeds to magically remove cards from the deck only to appear between two Jokers. The end results in a surprising climax that reveals the magician knew all along and is more clever then you thought.

A sublime combination of the classic Hofzinser Ace Problem & Twisting the Aces into a single multi-phased routine to bring forth a modern approach to these otherwise antiquated card tricks.

Two face-up Kings are inserted at right angles into the center of the deck. As they pass through, one mysteriously turns face down. The effect is repeated, however, this time the face of the King disappears right before your eyes. For the third demonstration, a selected card having been lost into the deck appears face down between the Kings as they pass through the deck.

Full of wonderful and useful sleight of hand techniques, Mercurial Cards is a beautifully constructed routine. It's upbeat, visual and full of surprises.

Expertly explained by master close-up magician John Carney. This is one effect you will get more out of than you bargained for.

A surprisingly easy method for accomplishing an age-old card problem where 4 cards are inserted face-down into the deck and instantly transpose with 4 different cards which are now evenly distributed face-down in the deck. A seemingly impossible feat realized by Irving Quant and with "dare we say" no sleight of hand... almost.

This beautifully constructed handling of Mr. Goodwin's "Slap Exchange" (At the Expense of Grey Matter, 1989) allows four cards to be lodged face-up in the deck before they are made to transpose with four others. Agatha eliminates the many sleight-heavy maneuvers needed to accomplish previous methods and provides a direct solutions to a classic card problem among the community.

Completely impromptu using only sleight of hand and the ingenious thinking of Irving Quant.

A quick and easy to perform walk-around approach to the classic "Oil & Water" plot first presented by Edward Marlo in the 1950s. Watch as both red and black cards mix and un-mix like oil and water.

One of 12 original effects featured on Reflection, an instructional DVD on the card magic of Bill Goodwin. In Mistaken Sandwich, a card is produced between two others. Realizing that it is not the selection, the magician causes it to change into the correct card. The three cards can be examined.

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One of 12 original effects featured on Reflection, an instructional DVD on the card magic of Bill Goodwin. In Hold the Mayo the four Aces are produced one at a time from between two Jokers.

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A visual color change performed under impossible conditions. A face-up card is secured to the top of the deck under a rubber band wrapped tightly around the cards. With a snap of the band down onto the card, it instantly changes. Not only can you see it, you can hear it change too! Click is extremely visual with nothing to suspect. Use it as a color change, revelation or ending to an ambitious card routine. The possibilities are up to you.

One of 7 original effects featured on Simply Sydney, an instructional DVD on the card magic of Syd Segal. In Collectors Edition, the Kings successfully locate and trap three selections, the feat is then repeated by the magician under test conditions. Not only do the selections reappear a second time in the magicians hands, but the King packet cleanly vanishes as well!

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