Cards - Do they matter? - Poll

[Morgan B]

THIS ISN'T AN OPINION POLL - IT IS A FACTUAL POLL - If you haven't experience any of this - don't vote.

I don't want to divert the conversation to here - although it might, however:

I HAVE been asked, "is that a trick deck" a few times in my 13 years with Bikes...but after asking why they asked that - people would say, "I have a friend that had a deck that did" - then they would describe a Svengali or a Tappered deck...sometimes an ID - but nobody has asked me that before I did magic, and nobody has asked me if they had NO knowledge of other marketed trick decks.

HOWEVER - in just carrying around a novelty deck...and doing nothing with it - I have had MANY people ask me, before they have seen anything - are those cards trick cards.



SO I ask - have you had people ask you if your cards are trick cards?

Yes - but only when I use novelty cards

Yes - but more so with novelty cards, than with bikes or recognized brands

Yes - but the same amount regardless of using Bikes or Novelty cards

No - it is a non-issue, I have never been asked either way

I don't have enough experience performing to judge either way

 

[Steerpike]

I got the same results no matter the brand or color because at the time I was acting suspicious. I had the same problems doing copper/silver transpositions for the same reasons.

 

[Jack Webster]

I find it cool when people are asking if im using a trick deck when Im not. (in bill cosby voice) It makes me feel really good with the sleight of hand and the palming and the color changes. (back to normal voice) If the only local answer is im using a trick deck and im not it must mean that I fooled them.

 

[nexusmagic]

Yeah I have been asked many a times if I was using a trick deck, the answer is always no. Even if it is a trick deck and I tell them it isn't they never have questioned further.

 

[KojiAtsuma]

I been asked a few times, but thats about it.

 

[slieghtlyimpossible]

sometimes a friend will ask me to do a trick and then they'll pause and say "ohhh yeah you need trick card to do that don't you"...I love the look on their face when i say i don't...They normally run and grab their own deck of cards and are really shocked that i can do something amazing with regular cards...

 

[tally-ho]

I used to be asked, regardless of the deck, but now it's not a problem.

 

[Sir FansAlot]

When you say "novelty" deck are you basically meaning anything that doesn't look like a standard red/blue back? Would ghost, viper, guardians etc. fit into that category?

Thanks,

 

[tally-ho]

When you say "novelty" deck are you basically meaning anything that doesn't look like a standard red/blue back? Would ghost, viper, guardians etc. fit into that category?

Thanks,

yes, any custom deck.

 

[Sir FansAlot]

yes, any custom deck.

Then I had to go with moreso with novelty cards. I have been asked quite a few times times about "trick deck" just because they don't look like normal cards to the specs. Mostly right when they are introduced/come out of the box. Usually the simple answer "no" suffices but sometimes just letting them look through the deck is more than enough to set them at ease. Only once or twice have I been asked while using bikes.

 

[visualartist]

Never had that problem of being asked if I had a trick deck even when using a novelty one.
Probably because I let the spectators hold the cards most of the time.
Makes the magic seem alot less like a "card trick".

 

[Morgan B]

I would like to see a few more posters before we discuss this beat to death topic....yep, weak post for a bump.

 

[praetoritevong]

Interesting that only 1 in 5 people actually get asked more with custom decks than normal bikes.

With the amount of whinging of that popular argument "People think it's a trick deck", you'd think there'd be more. Which for me reinforces what I've always said about it being about how you handle a deck.

 

[RikAllen]

I didn't vote. I have never been asked about a trick deck. I only perform with blue or red bikes or tally-ho's.

I have novelty or custom decks often and people never mention it.


-Rik