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Asi Wind's incredible ACAAN is a superb example of what can be accomplished with the Mnemonica stack. It's not an easy routine, however!

Here's an article I wrote comparing USPCC playing cards with cards from another industry leader, including coverage the key elements that affect quality and handling: http://www.playingcardforum.com/index.php?topic=10265 If you're looking for advice and help on creating a custom deck, I'd...

Nice one Antonio! :)

The ACAAN (Any Card At Any Number) routine is one of the holy grails of close-up card magic. It's a killer and seemingly impossible routine the way Chris Ramsay performs it. Here's Asi Wind's ACAAN routine, which is a masterpiece of modern magic, and is extremely difficult to perform well as...

Jay is still producing tutorials on his youtube channel on a regular basis, so I figured this thread was worth coming back to. Firstly, I agree that Jay Sankey is a brilliant creator and teacher. The quality of his youtube videos is only improving with time, and it is good to see some quality...

Someone else messaged me to say that besides the 5x Bullet Party cards you described earlier you also get the following: 3x red-backed Jokers, 1x blue-backed blank-face card, 4x blue-backed Jacks (four-of-a-kind) So it sounds like it's the cards for Bullet Party and for Mega Wave, plus...

I don't think either Short Attention Scam or Royal Scam is on the Bullet Party DVD though.

Thanks David, great post and very helpful. From what you describe, it sounds like the cards required for Short Attention Scam are identical to the ones used for Bannon's Royal Scam, right?

Excellent, I REALLY appreciate that David, that's very kind of you. Many thanks for taking the time to helpfully share that, and I look forward to your follow up in due time.

This is a great routine. You can see John Bannon perform it in this video clip here (performance starts at 0:54): John Bannon's Bullet Party video is available as a digital download from Penguin Magic, which I'm considering ordering. The physical DVD of Bullet Party comes with 13 cards...

It's still a helpful contribution, Antonio, I'm sure there may be others wondering what the names of the effects are. So you still got a "Like" from me!

Yes, I'm well aware of what the tricks are - I've been doing card magic for 30 years. I wasn't asking about *what* he learned but *how* he learned it, and the teaching materials used to learn it. I'm guessing one of the Ellusionist videos?

Once again, for a relative newbie this is good work, and all the best with your YouTube channel. Out of curiosity, what teaching materials did you use to learn those routines?

The Virts do sell video tutorials for some cardistry flourishes, at least they did at the time of their SS16 deck. I haven't checked to see if these are all currently available, but at the time of their SS16 deck, they had six packages making up a "Summer Special Cardistry Collection", each of...

I highly recommend Garcia and Schindler's Magic with Cards: 113 Easy-to-Perform Miracles. It's an older book that you can pick up for very cheap on amazon and ebay. All the tricks are very easy to perform, minimal or no sleights, and ideal for beginners. Yet there is some very solid material...

Darwin Ortiz has some very helpful things to say about this in his excellent book Designing Miracles, which is all about the design of magic effects. In his view, magic is about creating the illusion of something impossible. I think that's a great way of looking at it. When you present your...

I just watched all three videos, congrats CardMagicNJ, smooth work, and great reactions! It's reactions like this that make it worth all the hard work! Keep it up!

I once made a list of favourites from Mark Wilson's book, as suggested by various magicians. Here's that list: p.89 Color Changing Aces No. 1: Four Aces shown. Two reds dealt to table, transpose with blacks Comment: A classic - a simple version of Dr. Daley's last trick, gets good reactions...

The Royal Road to Card Magic book is best when used in conjunction with a video, like the DVD sets with Rudy Hunter (review link) or R. Paul Wilson.

You might look at the Nouveau series of decks produced by Bona Fide Playing Cards. It's more of the French Art Nouveau style, but could be what you are looking for. Here's what the card backs and some sample cards look like: For more info on these, check out my more detailed review here...