Straight Talk Magic reviews

I really had mixed emotions about this one and had a hard time ending up on a rating.  I started much lower, then went much higher and then settled on the 6.5 out of 10 for reasons explained herein.   First, this is a great trick.  It is truly amazing and the gaffed deck is… Continue Reading Skymember Presents Isolated by Mr. Xuan

Bannon…BBM…yeah, you got MY attention… AGAIN!  What a great download from our favorite self-working card trick deity and it really kills over ZOOM, or FaceTime, or on the phone or even in person.  The magician never touches or sees the cards and the spectator does all the dealing and picking and moving of the cards… Continue Reading John Bannon’s Bandwidth: Zoombaya by Big Blind Media

This is a sick deck of cards.  Not a single value on any card, but the most intense neon colors that function as a strobe animation when you riffle through the deck.  There is something superbly special about this deck and you realize it the second they slide out of the box. There are 49… Continue Reading XQ Forty Nine Cards by Magic Encarta

The Birthday Deck is a wonderful gift and you don’t have to wait for your birthday to pick this up.  Inspired by Cameron Francis’s Red Hot Prediction (also a totally awesome trick), this trick will knock the pants of any spectator. Your pectator tells you their birthday and you deal down cards from a blue… Continue Reading The Birthday Deck by Liam Montier and Big Blind Media

Cameron Francis and Big Blind Media hit another double Grand Slam with LONER. LONER is a trick that can be performed virtually or in person and it is amazingly astonishing.  Here is what the spectator sees:  The performer takes out a red backed deck of Bikes and everything looks good and normal until the faces… Continue Reading LONER by Cameron Francis and Big Blind Media

UP is a gimmick that allows you to place any selected card on top of the deck and have it levitate on command about an inch off the deck under your spectator’s finger.  For reasons described below, this trick gets a poor rating. With your $29.95 purchase, you get the pre-made gimmick on a Bicycle… Continue Reading UP by Steve Marchello

Cartamundi has hit it out of the park with the Warrior decks roaring with black and white backs.  The Midnight Edition are black backed cards and the Full Moon Edition are white backed.  The graphics are set in inverse colors, but they are identical. Let’s start with the Midnight Edition:  You get your standard 52… Continue Reading Warrior Playing Cards by RJ (Midnight Edition and Full Moon Edition)

The Vanille playing cards have a colorful art deco feel to them with squiggly lines in a turquoise.   green, black and white.  Printed by the USPCC company, you get the standard 52 cards with two jokers a double facer (with different faces) and an ad card with the url paperclubs.com. The tuckbox is a cardboard… Continue Reading Vanille Playing Cards by Paul Robaia

The Incantation Midnight Edition deck of playing cards is the sister deck to the Incantation Ritual Edition. Printed by Cartamundi in Belgium, it comes with your standard 52 playing cards plus an extra Ace of Spaces, a blank-faced card and two cool Jokers. One joker depicts a tuxedo donned magician (it invokes a classic Thurston… Continue Reading Incantation Midnight Edition Playing Cards

Mortalis Playing Cards are marked cards with a sophisticated (as in Snazzy) black-tie looking design.  The marking system is something that I have never seen before and it is impossible to detect, except for the few people that will buy this limited edition deck. First, the back design has a thin white border and is… Continue Reading Mortalis Playing Cards by Area 52