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Stop Using the Same Damn Decks
Category: tipsRead more: Stop Using the Same Damn DecksA post by Jerry about why you shouldn’t stick to the same deck all the time when doing card magic.
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Read more: How To Be Suave: Jason Ladanye vs Brian Tudor
This is an odd one. We took up a request for a post from a reader, asking us to contrast Jason Ladanye and Brian Tudor. We couldn’t resist, and decided Drew would be perfect for this one. Jason Ladanye is a professional corporate magician and recent internet personality. He’s fun to watch because he’s beyond…
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An Ultra-Mental Memory
Category: tipsRead more: An Ultra-Mental MemoryDisclaimer: This is not original, just an independent discovery. This is for those of you who use a full memorized stack and an Ultra-Mental/Invisible Deck. (This is the last time I’ll be calling it the “invisible deck”.) It’s a way to organize the Ultra-Mental Deck so you don’t have to do that awful add-to-13 thing,…
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Read more: Shit, I Forgot About Craig Petty’s Evoke: A Follow-Up
I don’t want to be writing this post. The night before Like Cards In Rain was published I had an epiphany, realizing how relevant the recently released Evoke deck would be to the topic. I intended to be lazy about it, to just include a quick addendum at the end, but then I fell asleep…
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Read more: Like Cards In Rain: Why Card Tricks Are Forgettable
Editor’s note: This post sucks. It sucks so much, Jerry wrote a followup explaining himself. And although this art is so wonderful, still it is held in no honor…The reasons are various, it seems to me;first, the art is concerned with useless matters;second, it is practiced by men of low degree. Girolamo Cardano (no relation)…
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Jazz in Social Magic #5: Cloud Seven
Category: storyRead more: Jazz in Social Magic #5: Cloud SevenSurprise! Jazz in Social Magic is back! If you missed the first four posts in the series, here’s one, two, three and four. Or just click the first and use the arrows at the bottom to navigate. Once again, we’ll be putting out a series of three JISM posts. This one is a retelling of…
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Read more: Death of a Blogge (Jolly Almanac of Card Knavery Download)
On the 3rd of this month the Nu Way Magick Blogge went down, possibly for good. The NWMB was a general purpose magic blog that ran from New Year’s Eve 2017 to October 2018. It was founded by Andrew Musgrave, otherwise known as The Burnaby Kid, as a followup to his Ye Olde Magick Blogge.…
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House of the Rising Peek
Category: trickRead more: House of the Rising PeekWhat the Rising Peek looks like: You start off by having two cards freely selected from a freely shuffled deck, while the magician has their head turned. They are placed in different parts of the deck, all while the magician is still looking away. The magician shuffles the deck some more before placing it back…
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Happy Counting: Advocate Addendum
Category: tipsRead more: Happy Counting: Advocate AddendumGuest post number two comes from Spain. Dani Marko, legendarily famed and renowned for recording a performance of every Art of Astonishment trick on his YouTube channel, kindly provided an insight he gained after trying the Advocate at our recommendation. This is a little specific to Madison’s Advocate, but could be adapted to other indexes.…
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