What do you do with ad cards?

Jul 22, 2013
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I use them to practice palms and color changes, because if it is an expensive deck, I don't want to accidentally bend the regular cards before I learn the moves.
 

Alix B.(1)

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Jun 13, 2013
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I keep them to use them as 'training cards'. I do a lot of trips in cars and sometimes I have 10 hours of trips, I use them as training cards to practise 1 card twirls, 2 card twirls and some flourishes that requieres only a few cards. When the cards become to be old after an hour straight of training I replace them with others add cards. This way I don't use great cards to learn a twirl where I sure to let the cards fall.
Here I gave the exemple of a car trips but you can do the same in your room knowing that the cards will also fall on the ground.
 
Sep 2, 2007
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What do you do with the cards that are in a deck?

I personally don't throw them away - but I never use them.

What do you do?

Recently, I've started using them to practice routines that require a card to be crimped. That allows me to practice them while still maintaining a full deck of uncrimped cards.
 
Sep 9, 2011
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David Regal has a routine with a full deck of add cards in Approaching Magic. So, while you save up for the book, you can also save up those ad cards to do the routine ;)
 
Dec 18, 2007
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HINT: get yourself some really fine grade sandpaper or a course draftsman's eraser and use this to remove the front printing from the card so you have a blank that can be used in a given routine. . .

Practice in how to split cards using these extras, so you can learn to make your own double-facers or double-backs, etc.

Use them to wind your IT lines after you've stripped them out, for storage (halved cards work wonders).

Use them to keep pre-cut daubs of sticky (magician's) wax so you have a quick "index" form of access.

If you want to be a Magician you must think more about the "tricks of the trade vs. the trade of tricks". . .
 
Apr 17, 2013
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rubber cement was a fluke. I was making cards got some on the face and pulled off the ink
 

Josh Burch

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Aug 11, 2011
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I like Paul Harris's Cincinati Blues effect. It uses an advertisement card. I've heard of routines with the calendar cards in Bee's as well.
 
Dec 18, 2007
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I like Paul Harris's Cincinati Blues effect. It uses an advertisement card. I've heard of routines with the calendar cards in Bee's as well.

I think the old Scarne books on cards, actually had a routine or two that used these "extra" cards as well as jokers (which many do not count as being part of a deck). It might be worth looking at.
 
Sep 23, 2012
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paul harris' Cincinati Blues is worth checking out in art of astonishment book 2
it is something i do whenever i use a borrowed deck that has ad cards
 
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