Getting a little more ambitious :) here with our visuals in this section. You can see how we’re building to something very special..

The Ambitious Card, a classic effect, one that has inspired a million variations, and a pure example of JAZZ magic. It’s an effect I always used in walk around and to close my award winning Magic Castle Close Up.

PART ONE: AMBITIOUS CARD - INTRO AND PERFORMANCES
I'll bring you into the world ...

Along the way I come across really fun pieces of antique magic apparatus that are in danger of being lost to history… this is such a piece.

Sensation Coins is a prop that does come up every now and then on the auction sites and e-bay.

The method is cool and visual and I think wouldn’t be too h...

I wanted to repeat the effect...

because everyone asks...

but I think it's too dangerous to do the same method.

So, I created this.

You seem to perform the same effect, even offering incredible freedom of choice.

And yet...

This repeat has fooled some of the best minds in magic...

I'm...

A brilliant signed card to cigarette case from way back.

This trick, invented by Lee Noble, is a lesson in misdirection and how to use the above move.

Plus Steve’s usual additions and a story about Dick Turpin.

The Coil - is an idea that I know is used by a friend of mine, who is also a top pro.

Even though the idea goes way back to a Magigram issue, (that’s where I found it) we discovered that he had independently come up with the idea.

I’m happy to say that he was kind enough to not have a proble...

7 - Stevie’s Card Read:

This is my addition to Billy's Card Read, from the brilliant Billy O'Connor card act.

The ‘card reading’ effect is a classic plot that you rarely see performed today, not sure why, but to me the idea of reading cards off the face of a continually shuffled deck, while bli...

Inventor of the Dollhouse illusion and so much more, Fred Culpitt created a six cards to pocket routines that was way ahead of its time. One of my all time favorite discoveries.

Ok let’s look at some variations on the BOOKED gaff, some of these will be used in future routines so study well, and let your imagination flow.

POKER FACE.
AL BAKER, who’s gave so much to magicians over his life time, and who’s works continue to do so, published an effect called POKER FACE. It was so simple that pretty much one everyone skipped past it. BUT here’s the thing, POKER FACE is one of the most entertaining, commercial and ...

Completely self working and amazing, this is an updated version of an (almost) impromptu effect invented many many years ago by the great Kolar. So old it’s new!

Having the cards signed increases the impossibility of the effect, and allows for some cool additions that we will be getting into.

Here I take you through my process for getting the cards signed, how to make cool sig dupes and how it applies to my previous, # 16 VALENTINE 10 CARDS TO POCKET.

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This is killer material... imagine following Cards To Pocket, with an INSTANT REPEAT.

Except the 10 cards shatter to many different pockets.

It's very visual, doable and powerful, also included here in my secret version where 10 SIGNED cards vanish and instantly appear in half a dozen differen...

I love Rink's snazzy, flourishy handling of card through box AND hanky, truly disarming!

So how about a little Valentine finesse to give you a killer ending to the Collins jumbo aces?

Really, this is strong, just give it a shot!