It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas. Of course, you’ll need to let your loved ones and friends know exactly what you need to spark-up your magic for 2007. Here’s what we want to find under our tree this holiday season.
Santa, are you listening? Can you truly read our minds without a thought transmitter or center tear
Tricks
If you’re looking for tricks to perform after the Christmas dinner or on New Year’s eve, here are some to definitely consider that will serve you well and can gain a permanent place in your show.
It’s almost like “invisible deck” but with your hands. In “Third Degree Burn,” you ask a spectator to name a card. You then bring out a lighter and light it. After reaching into the flame, you show that your thumb and first finger have blisters in the shape of the freely named card. Click here to read our review.
If you’re a card person, David Regal’s “Sudden Deck II” provides a stunning way to magically produce a deck of cards. You show a couple of pieces of white cardboard which instantly “prints” into a Bicycle-brand card case. You fold the cardboard into the shape of a box and then remove a regular deck of cards. Click here to read our review.
A new take on classic “Out of This World,” Dean Dill and Michael Weber’s “A New World” is an amazing card trick that allows spectators to seemingly sort out black cards from red ones without looking at them. The handling is cleaner and there’s no “switch” courtesy of Dill and Weber’s innovations. Click here to read our review.
For something different, Ellusionist’s “Scorpion Pro UV Kit” makes chosen cards, as well as messages, personal dates and serial numbers, reveal themselves in an eery glowing light. Illuminated UV ink and light form the basis of the system. You’ll have fun with this one. We have. Click here to read our review.
Taking classic “ring flight” and making the magic happen on the cap of a sharpie marker, “Sharp-Ring” uses an object that spectators recognize and know. Using "Sharp-Ring," you can cause a spectator's ring to vanish out of your hand and appear on the clip of a Sharpie pen that is in your back pocket. Click here to read our review.
I’ve seen Asi perform his “Time is Money” and it’s killer. You borrow a signed bill from a spectator and fold it with a second bill that you provide. When the bills are unfolded, the spectator’s bill has vanished. To return the money, the signed bill is found under the spectator’s watch. Click here to read our review.
Stocking Stuffers
Don’t forget to ask for stocking stuffers. And for this, Ellusionist offers an entire line of excellent decks.
The ultimate in cards is the “Bicycle Masters Edition,” a high-end Bicycle deck that’s printed on the best card stock. And its stunning, redesigned Ace of Spades adds icing to the cake. Click here to read our review. And the accompanying “Bicycle Red Gaff Deck” offers an intriguing and comprehensive collection of gaffed playing cards that you can use with a normal red Bicycle deck. Click here to read our review.
Finally, the decks that started it all, Ellusionist.com’s gorgeous Ghost Deck offers a surreal black & white Bicycle-style deck that makes spectators sit up and notice. And the Black Tiger Deck reverses the white and dark areas of a traditional Bicycle playing card to stunning effect.
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