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.

NOTE: see bottom of this description for correct crediting of TILT.

Within this in-depth teach-in:

PART ONE I’ll take you through real life performances.

PART TWO I’ll teach you the basic structure of the routine, including all the moves. This section alone is packed with detailed information and solid gold tips.

PART THREE and beyond will be some very, very, special effects and variations on this plot designed to make it powerfully magical. This part, will give you tools to apply to your other routines.

PART ONE: AMBITIOUS CARD - INTRO AND PERFORMANCES
I'll bring you into the world of THE AMBITIOUS CARD and share real world footage of my performances at THE MAGIC CASTLE (™) in Hollywood. Here you see the routine in action, you’ll witness the jazzy flow of the piece and see how a basic plot in card magic can be elevated and SOLD to room of more than 30 people.

PART TWO: AMBITIOUS CARD -THE ROUTINE
I take you backstage, for an incredibly detailed, in-depth teach-in on the basic routine. Easily navigated with titles for each move, learn this first and then you’ll be free to jazz the routine. I even teach cool variations on the TOP CHANGE and TILT moves. It’s all here, well almost…

PART THREE: AMBITIOUS CARD -SPECIAL EFFECTS
Now I get to the advanced stuff. Variations on the Ambitious Card designed to take it to another level. The secrets revealed in this section are not only world class, but can be applied to your other work. I’ll even tip a sequence that literally blew away magicians at the Castle.

Credits on The Tilt.

Universally acknowledged that Dai Vernon creates the ‘depth illusion’ concept but it remained unpublished and had no known applications.

Ed Marlo discovered the Tilt idea independently while experimenting with card insertions. Marlo credits Vernon as Vernon made his depth illusion known first, BUT Marlo should be credited with popularizing the move, not only due to the many fabulous applications (as found in his book TILT) but for giving the move its catchy name.

The Tilt insertion finesse mentioned is generally credited to Howie Schwarzman.