With just a deck of cards, you have lots of magic options. Among the many card tricks that we have explained in our library of easy tricks, here are our favorites.
1. The Color Card Prediction
Here's an easy magic trick with playing cards. A spectator chooses a card from several that you display in your hand. Afterwards, you show the spectator that the card that they chose was the only one that was different - in this case, the only red-backed card in a bunch of blue-backed cards.This one is quite sneaky and the secret lies in the calculated way that you display the cards.
2. Easy Magic Trick: "Do As I Do"
"Do As I Do" is a great easy card trick that offers lots of audience interaction, can be performed at any time that you have two decks of cards, has lots of opportunities for comedy and the ending is surprising with an inherent build-up. And once the trick is over, the secret is long gone. There is nothing for spectators to find.
3. Easy Magic Trick: Aces From Your Pocket
In this easy card trick, you mysteriously locate four aces from a shuffled deck. This one is easy to perform. All you need is a deck of cards and a jacket that has an inner pocket.
4. Easy Trick: Teleporting Cards
Two effects in our library of easy tricks: "The Good Guess" and "Simple Monte" are "gotcha" effects. You show a spectator some cards and remove one, and the spectator tries to guess what's left and is always wrong. This trick uses the secret from either "The Good Guess" or "Simple Monte" to make a card appear to travel from one place to another.
5. Easy Trick: Cutting to the Aces
A classic in magic, this easy trick requires no difficult moves-you just have to keep track of where things are going. The spectator separates a deck of cards into four piles, mixes them a bit, and at the end, discovers that there's an ace on top of each pile. All you need is a deck of cards, an easy setup and the secret, and you’re ready to go.
6. Easy Card Trick: With the Grain
In this easy card trick, you quickly find a card that a spectator has cut to. The spectator can mix the cards and freely cuts the deck to a selected card. The deck is not a trick one and you do not touch the deck until the revelation at the end.
7. Easy Magic: The Nine- or 21-Card Trick
This well known sequence allows a person to discover a spectator’s card simply by dealing cards. Simply follow the instructions. If you like, you may adapt this sequence to work with a pack of 21-cards.
8. Easy Magic Trick: The Reversed Card
The spectator selects a card and places it back into the deck. After placing the deck behind your back and bringing it out again, the selected card is shown to have reversed itself in the deck.
9. Beginners Magic Demo: Svengali Deck
A Svengali deck is a trick card deck that allows you to perform some seemingly amazing feats and it's a great trick for beginners of almost any age. We take you on a virtual demo of what the deck can do. You can purchase such a deck for under $10 from any magic dealer and even some hobby and toy shops.
10. Easy Magic Trick: Incredible Spelling
In this trick, you take a packet of cards that contains the ace through king of a single suit, and by simply spelling the name of each card (ace, two, three...etc), you reveal each card in order. The kicker is that you are placing the in-between cards back underneath the pile. It’s not really a magic trick, but a fairly impressive mathematical stunt. Give this one a try. You’ll have fun with it.
11. Easy Trick: Mind Reader
A spectator shuffles a deck of cards and memorizes the card at the bottom of the deck. So you can't see the selected card, the deck is slipped back into its box. After a bit of mumbo-jumbo, psycho-babble, you’re able to tell the spectator the exact card that he is thinking of. The secret to this one is simple and diabolical.
