I was looking at the new Triumph DVD called "Modern Triumph", and one thing caught my eye in the comments section on YouTube. This is what a guy said, I quote: "Anyone foolish enough to carry around a gimmicked deck that can't be examined in any way just for one effect should seriously walk away from magic. Dai Vernon is turning in his grave! " And no, the guy is not a kid/teenager (at least according to his profile picture).
His comment is pretty harsh and I could not disagree more. I'm talking as a working restaurant magician, and a huge lover of Invisible Deck. First of all, believe it or not, NOT ONCE did anyone asked to inspect the deck, ever. It doesn't matter if I use a regular or a gimmicked deck, no one ever asked to examine it. The only exception is when I performed "Cataclysm" by Alakazam, because of the nature of the deck since it has numbers written on the back of every card, and you predict the numbers on a photograph. It's actually a common sense that audience wants to inspect the deck to make sure that all numbers are different, but through experience I found a way to avoid that.
Second of all, at one point in time, more of an experiment, I had 4 (four) different gimmicked decks on me at the same time, plus one regular deck. Talk about pocked management huh. I had Invisible Deck, Cataclysm, Prism Deck and Jurassic Deck. None of those are examinable, except Prism Deck at the very end. And I got great reactions with all of them, and it didn't bother me to carry them all on me at the same time.
So in my opinion, it's not foolish to carry a deck that only does one trick and that cannot be examined, if you know how to manage audience. I think what he was trying to say is that if you can only carry ONE deck, it may not be the best idea to carry a deck that can only do one trick. But I don't know, I don't read minds.....yet.
So what are your thoughts on the subject?
His comment is pretty harsh and I could not disagree more. I'm talking as a working restaurant magician, and a huge lover of Invisible Deck. First of all, believe it or not, NOT ONCE did anyone asked to inspect the deck, ever. It doesn't matter if I use a regular or a gimmicked deck, no one ever asked to examine it. The only exception is when I performed "Cataclysm" by Alakazam, because of the nature of the deck since it has numbers written on the back of every card, and you predict the numbers on a photograph. It's actually a common sense that audience wants to inspect the deck to make sure that all numbers are different, but through experience I found a way to avoid that.
Second of all, at one point in time, more of an experiment, I had 4 (four) different gimmicked decks on me at the same time, plus one regular deck. Talk about pocked management huh. I had Invisible Deck, Cataclysm, Prism Deck and Jurassic Deck. None of those are examinable, except Prism Deck at the very end. And I got great reactions with all of them, and it didn't bother me to carry them all on me at the same time.
So in my opinion, it's not foolish to carry a deck that only does one trick and that cannot be examined, if you know how to manage audience. I think what he was trying to say is that if you can only carry ONE deck, it may not be the best idea to carry a deck that can only do one trick. But I don't know, I don't read minds.....yet.
So what are your thoughts on the subject?