I am an absolute move monkey (or 'sleight whore', if you'd prefer to use Dee's description of me!), so i cannot advocate learning a good half pass more, you really should have it at your disposal.
However, that said, I do perform a modified EGO change to revers my card at the bottom, and have found that it is indeed my favored way of completing the action.
It is, for my purposes, far more clean and alot smoother than performing a half pass.
However, for the sake of being complete, my favored half pass is the christ twist.
CL