Quantum leap is a Gavin James’s and Saturn Magic’s card trick in which the spectator picks a card and in an instant the deck is spread and the card has disappeared. It can reappear in a variety of places and it is miraculous!
What you get with your $28 purchase is a small cardboard box that looks like it contains a DVD. In fact it contains a few gaffed and gimmicked rider backed cards that make the magic happen. The cards come in either red or blue. You get a password protected link to a streaming instructional video that is hosted on the Saturn magic website and a YouTube link to the video that can be downloaded. The instructional video is 33 minutes long.
The effect credits Spidey and his trick Phantom as well as many other magicians for his inspiration. The trick is very strong, well thought out and very fooling. The trick can be repeated with a different choice of card and the instantly vanished card can appear inside a lemon, the card box outside the window or your back pocket. The selected card can also appear in the half of the deck that the spectator is holding during the entire trick and at a specific number that is seemingly impossible for the performer to know, but he does.
You will have to do some minor arts and crafts with the cards that will take less than a minute. You will also need to prepare the deck ahead of time because there is a stack, although not a mem deck type of stack.
The promotional video shows the card coming out of a lemon and a routine in which it ends up on the other side of a window, but the instructional video does not teach those routines. It is not hard to figure it out, but it is something that should have been included if it was in the promo video.
The instructional video itself is amateurish and seems as if it was shot on a camcorder mounted on a tripod. The creator performs the routine to a friend, sitting next to him at a table. I would have preferred seeing a performance to a real audience instead of a fellow magi. This same friends sits with James during the explanatory segment and they discuss various issues with the trick that can possibly arise. The instructions are well-detailed and the trick is easy to learn and perform. James also teaches several other routines using his special cards.
Overall, with the stacked deck and gimmicked cards, you can perform some really strong and mind-blowing magic.