Jokers and special cards

Aug 19, 2009
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What do you do with jokers and special cards like double backs, blank face, etc that come with your decks? I've seen some flourishing videos that tell you to get rid of them and only use 52 cards. For magic, however, I think that if you don't use these special cards as you use the deck, over time they will stand out because that are cleaner, newer and stiffer. This has brought me to decide to use different decks for cardistry and magic. Thoughts?
 
Sep 2, 2007
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If you have a deck where the jokers are identical, you can use them as impromptu duplicates by forcing one of them. I think this has to be handled carefully, though, as most laypeople know that there are two jokers in a deck, so the trick has to be constructed in such a way that duplicates aren't the most obvious method.

I've played around with it a bit, and I find that a good idea is to set up the fact that there's only one joker in the deck a couple of tricks before you're actually going to use it. So, at the beginning of your act, you might say something like, "I'm using a normal deck of fifty-two cards...oh, no sorry, fifty-three, there's a joker in there too...they're not all the same or any nonsense like that," while casually displaying the faces of the cards. Ostensibly, you're just showing that it's a normal deck, and in them accepting that as a fact, they're implicitly accepting the idea that there's only one joker.
 
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