Straight Talk Magic reviews

I love the Wild Reserve playing cards designed by Bill Davis and manufactured by the United States Playing Card Company. These cards cost 15 bucks and can be found on tons of magic sites as well as at www.billdavismagic.com. These cards and the tuck box are cast in a light pink color and the design… Continue Reading Wild Reserve Playing Cards by Bill Davis Magic

Most likely, you have not seen anything similar to this before in magic. Mark Elsdon is a prolific creator and presenter of both magic and mentalism effects and this effect fits into both and neither category. The two of these products normally sell for $142, but Big Blind Media, with Elsdon’s permission is selling the… Continue Reading Peculiar Tales 1 & 2 by Marc Elsdon: eBook Bundle sale by Big Blind Media

Don’t fear the faro! Easy for you to say!! Do you shy away from full deck faro tricks? Do you know even know what it is? Can you do it almost perfectly, but always have a two-card grouping?? Well, James Went and Big Blind Media have put out a great one-hour faro downloadable project to… Continue Reading Don’t Fear The Faro with James Went and Big Blind Media

This DVD starts with an excellently produced trailer that is totally cool. Hip music, Hollywood movie quality and it seems like a spy movie. Narrated perfectly, it is the best production quality around. Noteworthy is that SansMinds tells you up front that the magic taught in the DVD is challenging to learn and not for… Continue Reading Paper Storm by Rich Li and SansMinds

With your $26 purchase you get an 11 minute DVD and half a deck of gaffed cards. The effect is simple. You fan a deck of cards in your hand and then are able to transform the deck into a different set of cards when you run your fingers across the fan.   The first… Continue Reading Windmill Change by Hyojin Kim and SansMinds

This is the first edition of the “Untitled” playing cards by photographer Adam Borderline. The card backs have a one-way multi color painted design that is described in the ad copy below. With your $15 purchase of this limited edition deck of cards you get 56 cards. The standard deck manufactured by the USPCC and… Continue Reading Limited Edition Untitled Playing Cards by Adam Borderline

Good Intuition is an unbelievably strong effect in which three spectators each pick a card and then seemingly deal down to any point in the deck and they always hit their card. This trick is totally flabbergasting! Inspired by Dani DaOrtiz’s Triple Intuition, which uses a gaffed deck, Sedlacek created an ungimmicked versin of the… Continue Reading Good Intuition by Bernardo Sedlacek

Big Blind Media has a knack for cultivating collections of superb magic from a cast of magi that we have all come to know. Francis describes this project as his greatest hits over the last many years and the collection is indeed great. Francis redesigned many moves, tricks and plots while adding his own personal… Continue Reading REVIEW: Super Mega Card Miracles by Cameron Francis and Big Blind Media

John Carey is back again with 10 tricks presented and taught in the Big Blind Media studio. The following is a brief description of the tricks included. Somewhere Over The Rainbow is a great trick using a rainbow deck. It has two very strong moments of magic. The first is when you cut to the… Continue Reading Sweet Simplicity by John Carey and Big Blind Media

The deck comes with your standard 52 playing cards and two jokers.  It also comes with a double backer and a blank faced card.  The card back design is a one-way image that looks like a two-way image.  The cards are predominantly white with a metallic gold print of two fish following each other in… Continue Reading Koi Playing Cards (V2) by Byron Leung & printed by the USPCC