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Typically, only decks marketed to magicians have double backed cards. For mass market decks, such as Bicycle and Tally-Ho, you need to separately purchase the double backed cards from a magic shop (online or in-person). You may be able to get single cards, complete decks of double backed card...

I'm going to go a bit more broad and say that the goal of a magic or mentalism show is to give someone a desirable experience which is different than what they can get anywhere else (including in someone else's show). One type of experience is to see someone who can do impossible things that...

Chapter 12 of Encyclopedia of Card Magic covers prearranged packs (there are some effects that use Si Stebbins and Eight Kings stacks but I don't think the stacks are explained) and Chapter 20 covers the Nikola Card System which is a stack. This is a great e-book introduction to memorized...

You've heard correctly. My list: Scarne on Card Tricks (has the best tricks for the least price) Card College Light, Lighter and Lightest (Most powerful and already routined) Encyclopedia of Card Tricks (has some really good self-working material but its best use is a resource on gaffed...

Jim Steinmeyer said it best: "Magicians guard an empty safe. There are few secrets that they possess which are beyond a grade school science class, little technology more complex than a rubber band, a square of black fabric or a length of thread. There are no real principles worth of being...

Check out Dan Watkin's webstite for some great free material that should help you with palming: http://www.coinvanish.com/foundations.html So, all the really good coin magic books are out of print: David Roth's Expert Coin Technique, Richard Kauffman's Coin Magic and Chris Kenner's Totally Out...

@Littlemagicdude Welcome to the forums. That is a great performance. One quick comment -- try to avoid saying that the rest of the deck (or anything else in magic) is examinable. If you performed well, the audience won't suspect anything. The idea that something is examinable is...

Please refrain from being rude.

For an ACAAN, it is better to use a method that allows a free choice rather than forcing a choice. As I said above, the only methods are the use of equivoque or relying on percentages of what people pick with multiple outs.

That really requires answering a more general question... how (or why) does your magic happen? Magic words, snapping, the shadow of your hand, etc. all are expressions of how magic happens. BUT, they have just become so meaningless they are done automatically without any significance. So...

There are none that are 100% effective or that look good. Banachek talks about the top thought of cards and I suspect there is a lot of lists you can find through some research. If you focus on those cards, you could develop something with multiple outs using the invisible deck as the last...

Aaron Fisher has a line in his Search and Destroy where he asks the spectator "Do you have a magic word you use in an instance like this?" I'll admit to stealing that line to use in kids shows. That's pretty much the only time I've seen a magic word used well. I've heard of kids performers...

I'm sure it does but typically only to people who aren't ready to work for it.

I haven't seen one. Most likely, you will have to make your own. The least expensive way is to use cardstock and your computer printer. Check your printer for how thick cardstock it can handle. You should be able to align the printing so that you can print on both sides. Make sure you don't...

Counterfeit Hollingsworth.

@The Top Change Man sent a link. If anyone else needs it, send me a PM and I'll forward it if you are active on the forums.

All social media is an attempt to draw attention to yourself. I don't think some of the factors we use are necessarily arbitrary but rather they serve as a proxy. Knowledge about magic, including names of magicians and names of moves, and learning from sources beyond YouTube show a level of...

Rick: I sent you a link. I'm not sure if I'm allowed to share it publicly (and the stuff is too good just to post on a forum).

It was a great lecture with Marc teaching his sponge ball, egg bag, linking ring and his ambidextrous travelers as well as a great routine with "rubber" duckies. His handling of the dye tube and hank ball was just amazing. Great lecture.

@010rusty - who's counting (other than you)? Marc is an amazing magician and a wonderful person. He is a tremendous supporter of magic -- everything from hosting lectures at the small theatre in his house to loaning magic books out of his library. Marc is one of the people that I go to when I...