The reason why I am typing this is because I know I cant just do a "gig" with card magic, I need to mix it up from time to time.
All the best
-Mike
Why not? Paul Gordon is a working pro who only does card magic. Guy Hollingworth also does little else. So in my mind you could easily do a gig with just card magic. Bear in mind you will only be at table in a restaurant for a few minutes, so a couple of card trciks should be fine.
The point of view that just doing card tricks is bad is such a magician centered point of view. I think it al stems from the fact that as magic enthusiasts we see A LOT of card magic and as a result do get quite bored at seeing it (especially with the amount of sh*t that is on youtube). But most lay audience have never seen any really good card magic, and will appreciate it if you do it well.
By all means, don't let me discourage you from learning other types of magic (if you want a good suggestion, go with sponge balls, people love 'em!), but don't feel you have to if your passion lies with cards. I myself quite recently made the conscious decision to focus only on cards. The reason being that over the years I have bought so much stuff in an effort to 'branch out', only to find that anytime I feel like doing some magic all I ever use is a regular deck of cards! So I decided to stop wasting my time with the other stuff and just work on my sleight of hand card magic. Plenty of people past and present have been (pretty much) exclusively card magicians: Paul Gordon, Ed Marlo, Harry Lorayne (mostly), Nick Trost, John Bannon (my magical hero!), Guy Hollingworth, Ricky Jay (mostly), Lennart Green and I'm sure there are others but you get the point. Even Harry Houdini focussed on card tricks at the start of his career.
So don't let anyone discourage you from focussing on cards. Any magician out there who tells you 'card tricks are boring' is either a dullard themselves or is just trying to look cool because they 'don't do cards'.
Rev