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You would do fine with any of David Regal's books. You can get more information here by clicking on the link for each book:https://davidregal.com/category/products/books/ You would also do very well with Eugene Burger's Performance of Close Up Magic, Experience of Magic or Mastering the Art of...

This is very good advice. This is not something to learn from a book or a video.

Welcome Chief. Glad you are here!

It's from Woody's "A Book in English" - first effect. It is a great effect.

Shuffle it. Look at it. Smile.

Encyclopedia of Card Tricks. Table of Contents here: https://magicref.net/magicbooks/books/hugardjeanencyclopedia.htm

Which one? The deck tear, the Blaine effect with the half decks or the Aragon routine?

I've actually been looking to pick up a copy of the book. Thanks for the link.

It is a nice application of some basic principles and might be worth learning how to tear the deck to do it. However, Woody Aragon's Find Your Other Half is a much better routine (using different principles and not requiring you to tear the entire deck at once).

First off, you don't need to break in a deck of cards other than a couple of shuffles. A video of you shuffling would help as would a link to where you are learning from. If you don't want to post a video in the forums, just send a link to me in a "conversation."

I see you've visited the Green Monster. :D Agreed. When I was reading Fitzke's Showmanship for Magicians he seemed to be apologizing for magic by saying you needed scantily clad women in sequined outfits and music to make magic interesting. Every time I see a bad stage show, I blame him...

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I know. I forgot to put the smilie after the post to show I was feigning being insulted. :)

Completely agree. Most efforts at evoking feeling or emotion are exactly what you are describing and is why magic that evokes emotion gets a really bad rap. My experience is different. People have come up to me after shows and their recollection is a merger of presentation and effect. It...

So let me get something out there that we might both agree on -- telling a story with a deck of cards ruins the story and the card trick. Honestly, I don't care about the building being on fire and having to save one of the cards. To quote Game of Thrones, "Burn them All." More seriously...

So the issue is with justification. Is your reading it justified? Is the use of the slip justified? If you joke about how difficult it is to remember what you did the day before, you could use that as the justification for having the spectator writing it down, "Now, I'm going to ask you to...

Agreed, most attempts at emotion do fall flat - "I want you to think of this card as someone you love..." My test for a good presentation is whether the presentation could keep the audience's attention / interest without the magic trick. Often, many magic tricks do not have sufficient substance...

That. Is. It. At a certain point, we've all become Steerpike. I'd say the only important thing is what they felt. People remember things that happen when it is associated with a feeling. True Astonishment (pun intended) is something very different than what most magicians shoot for which is...

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