Top five effects by YOUR standards.

[MADERA]

I would like to see everyones input in their opinion towards what the top five effects are by your standards. This can range from coin to card magic and from impromptu to gimmick.

This should be completely opinionated and individualized.

In my opinion, though some may disagree, for me and by MY standards, the Superman Coin Bend is the number one effect--that's just by my style and approach.

Peace,

M.

 

[ZacEckstein]

1.) "The Big Tiny" By: Paul Harris & Bro Gilbert
2.) "Watermark" By: Mathew Bich
3.) "Tagged" By: Richard Ferguson
4.) "Water Trap" By: Paul Harris
5.) "Pressure" By: Daniel Garcia & Dan White

In my opinion, these are my favorites that I perform.

 

[Justin.Morris]

Not sure about five, but Invisible Deck is going to be in there.

 

[D ICE R]

Sneak Thief (my method).
Billion Monkeys Book Test / Thought Chunneling.
Prevaricator and which hand games.
Hypnosis
Contact Mind Reading

and as an extra one pretty much the whole Thought Dial Act.

 

[LuseifHo]

Best by my performable standards, meaning things I have performed, or I could have just said stage illusions: (no specific order
-Psychokinetic touches ( any variation)
-Invisible Deck (with presentation)
-Split Decision
-Diplopia
-Smoke (Derren Brown)

 

[JDENredden]

Deo- A way of ditching a coin with deodorant
L1NKED- Linking rubber bands with ONE rubber band.
Time- A prediction using the computer.
Hot- A completely clean blister effect.
Sharpie- Instant re-cap of a Sharpie Marker.
Stuck- A stupidly simple coin vanish.

from Ideas Vol. 1.

Nuh besides my shameless self promotion. I would probably say. I dont really know. I cant decide.

J.

 

[Reapx]

This is going to be in a random order
Blood marking system-Daniel Madison
Pariah-Daniel Madison
Pressure- Daniel Garcia and Dan White
Slink-Daniel Garcia
PK coin bend- By me. (trying to think of a better name for it)

 

[AlfieWhattamMagic]

Invisible Deck
Distortion
Tanantulla
Raven/M5 coin through table
In a flash

Have the best reactions in my opinion...

 

[DannyT]

-Invisible Deck (with presentation)

Opposed to without presentation??

-Brainwave
-Ring Flight
-Hundy 500
-Spellbound
-Match tricks

 

[descartes]

My list is given below. Honestly, you could ask me this question a few weeks later and I might give a totally different answer. There is a lot of good magic out there. All the tricks I have listed are from old sources, but I feel they are timeless and classic.

BTW I don't perform all of these. I don't even know how some of them work.


1) Topsy Turvy Aces by Ed Marlo.
2) Cylinder and Coins (originally by John Ramsay, but I love John Carney's version).
3) Tommy Wonder's Cups and Balls.
4) Miraskill by Stewart James
5) Slow motion aces by Dai Vernon.

 

[Huruey]

Not including my own effects (which I probably have a considerable bias toward)...

Wow by Masuda
Triumph (Either Dai Vernon's, Kostya Kimlat's Culligula or Sid Lorraine's Sloppy Shuffle)
The Muscle Pass as a levitation
Tripple Coincidence by Juan Tamariz
Galaxy by Paul Harris



Joe

 

[timsilva]

1.) Two Card Transposition
2.) Two Card Monte
3.) Ambitious Card Routines
4.) Invisible Deck
5.) Angle Zero

 

[Justin.Morris]

Opposed to without presentation??

Even without presentation it's impressive.

Magician: "Name a card."
Spec: "Six of clubs."
Magician: "Look it's the only card upside down."
Spec: "WHAT?!???"

 

[Sir FansAlot]

- Triumph is the best card effect in my opinion.
- ACR
- Linking bands/separating bands/ring on band/rubber bands melting etc.
- Retention vanish.
- One-coin production.

 

[DannyT]

Even without presentation it's impressive.

Magician: "Name a card."
Spec: "Six of clubs."
Magician: "Look it's the only card upside down."
Spec: "WHAT?!???"

Yeah but it deserves to be so much more than impressive. Using it that way is almost a waste in my opinion.
With proper presentation, that trick will get 50x the original reaction.
I've literally made girls(my age) go to tears using brainwave. Try doing that with no presentation.

 

[James Smith]

1) Redline
2) The Biddle Trick
3) Pressure
4) Invisible Deck
5) Arm Twist

 

[Steerpike]

This should be completely opinionated and individualized.

Well, most people already have the first part down.

1. Key card
2. Richard Webster's pendulum intro
3. Spirit writing
4. Out of This World
5. Equivoque

 

[ZacEckstein]

Well, most people already have the first part down.

1. Key card
2. Richard Webster's pendulum intro
3. Spirit writing
4. Out of This World
5. Equivoque

You know, there are a lot of cool things you can do using equivoque when you think about it.

I.E. http://vimeo.com/4332629 ( I used this for an SNC a while back) btw, show this to some spectators, they'll love it!

 

[descartes]

1. Key card
2. Richard Webster's pendulum intro
3. Spirit writing
4. Out of This World
5. Equivoque

The key card and equivoque are principles, not effects by themselves. However, it is true that these principles can give rise to some stunning magic.

Steerpike, just out of interest, which specific effects would you choose using key cards and equivoque respectively?

 

[Steerpike]

The key card and equivoque are principles, not effects by themselves.

I know. I just don't care.

Steerpike, just out of interest, which specific effects would you choose using key cards and equivoque respectively?

About two or three a piece. I rotate them depending on venue, audience, season, that sort of thing. If I had to pick a favorite, it's a variant on Docc Hilford's Self Help from the Monster Mentalism series. I was doing something similar for about a year prior, I just added a couple of Docc's performance tips. I like it because it takes the focus off of me for a moment.