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I was at a bar last night, hanging out with some people on the porch. I always like to arrange the four queens in easy to get to places in the deck and then ask female spectators what their favorite card is. 50% or more will name a Queen. I can usually even predict if she will name either a red...

Brad Christian teaches a method in one of his old videos that I have always liked. I think it was Crash Course in Cards. It is direct, simple, too the point. It can be used an an emergency backup trick if something else goes wrong. You simply have the card on the bottom of the deck and you are...

I bought another five Penguin Lives for $99. One is Daniel Garcia. About 10-11 years ago I bought a set of three "Guerilla Guide to Loops" videos used on ebay. Each of the three DVDs was a different person. Volume 2 was Garcia and pretty cool. The other two were shitty. So when I was looking...

I see now that Ellusionist is billing the E7 stock as only two years old. I hope they made some new gaff decks in E7 like their old Army of 52. The red cohorts gaff deck seems like Instagram Magic that is not going to be practical to perform close up in front of a real person. I watched some of...

I Googled Harapon Ong and I do not recognize that guy. I don't know anything about him. Kittens was a deck that Daniel Madison was involved in making when he worked for Ellusionist. I have two of the newer Blue decks. The original was a Pink deck that was discretely marked and came with cool...

I got several of the Ellusionist June Mystery decks after seeing people posting pictures on Reddit. My original reason for liking them was the graphics. As soon as I felt the cards it was instantly my new favorite deck. The feel of the cards is incredible. It is supposed to be Cartamundi E7...

Could the moderator please delete the rough draft of my message above? Thanks. I just do card tricks for friends in bars and there are people that like everything and even if I half screw it up, they still like it. Then there are other people who will actively try to sabotage a trick and want...

Banachek goes over all his famous moves on the Banachek Penguin Live. Also shows his PK routine and a huge amount of other stuff. Much of what he does is surprisingly simplistic.

I got the Mark Calabrese and Woody Aragon At The Table Live Lectures. They were around $9 each. The Calabrese one is awesome. It's three hours. The first half is a method he calls DVS. Then it has Grab and Traction. All three of these are methods he sells as individual videos. All are great...

Thanks for the tip. I figured out how to get a bunch of them to come up on the Penguin website. You have to type "At The Table Live Lecture DOWNLOAD" using capital letters. Looks like they have over one hundred of them. I see a lot of Youtubers. Looks like they are all $9.95 or less.

I recently bought five of the Penguin Live videos for the five for $99 deal. Individually they are $30 to $40 each. I'll post a quick review of the ones I bought. I stuck with the bigger names that I was familiar with. There are like 100 other ones, however I don't know anything about the vast...

I know some people will think of effects that they would like to perform and then try to engineer a way to make it happen. Another route is to take effects you like and try to improve them or use the same method but make it look like an entirely different trick. I have two effects I'm...

Yeah, the Copyright on the Bicycle Rider Backs is considered a highly valuable asset for the company, and their legal team decided that if they print altered versions of it, then it weakens their copyright claims. The Chic Gaff, which Penguin still has, contains no cards with altered backs...

The are people selling old Ellutionist Gaff decks on Ebay, but some of them you need decks that you can't get any more. There are some Tiger Gaff decks on Ebay for $30.

Are there any vendors who still have the bicycle weapons gaff deck? It is on the Murphy's Magic website. I found it listed on multiple websites, but all say Out of Stock.

That super Gaff Deck has a lot of the exact same cards as the Chic Deck, but it cost way more. Only difference is that Chic Deck has no cards where the back design is modified (I assume it was printed more recently). Unfortunately, a lot of the Gaff decks you can find now go with decks that are...

Last night I went to see some local bands at a bar near my house. I took a deck of cards and the lips gaff in it. There is a woman that I've been doing card tricks for for a while as a sort of running joke. I always say, "hey I got a new card trick for that you that you'll actually like this...

So I got this three pack of different black decks from Magic Makers off of Amazon. As far as I can tell, they are a Chinese Magic trick company with an office in the USA. They are selling both USPCC cards and non-USPCC that are probably Chinese made. The whole reason I found these was because I...

I recently bought a hardback copy of Discovery of Witchcraft. I had been looking for one for a long time. It looks like a facsimile of the original first edition, however it does contained minor tweaks originally made in a reprint in the early 1800s. It is still in the original Middle English...