Straight Talk Magic reviews

Whenever I am in a store or walking down the street, and I catch a glimpse of a deck of cards, I stop and look, usually for just a second. When I first saw the Vintage 1800 Series, I was transfixed. These cards, manufactured by the United States Playing Card Company, and sold by Ellusionist.com,… Continue Reading Vintage Series 1800 Playing Cards by Ellusionist

Split Second is one of three of Nicholas Lawrence’s new releases by Sans Mind Magic. It is a great opener for a card trick. In Split Second, the performer takes out his wallet and removes a dollar bill. With a quick top-to-bottom turn of the bill, it instantly morphs into a normal deck of Bicycle… Continue Reading Split Second by Nicholas Lawrence and SansMinds Magic Production

Marcus Eddie presents a stable full of great magic, in two-and-a-half hours and clearly explains almost everything he performs. He has high energy, is likeable, and this is a worthy download by a great magician, close-up performer and creator. I have already watched this lecture twice and will likely watch it again, soon. After a… Continue Reading At The Table Lecture With Marcus Eddie by Murphy’s Magic Supplies

A Forced Thought by Steven Himmel is as good as the instructional video is short. At 6 minutes this download is direct, clear and impressively concise ��“ and that is a good thing so you can get going sooner. In A Forced Thought, the performer asks the spectator to pick a card from a deck… Continue Reading A Forced Thought by Steven Himmel and Murphy’s Magic Supplies

Random is a fantastic creation from Peter Nardi and Alakazam Magic. In Random, the performer displays an entire deck of Bicycle playing card and cuts them in half. The spectator takes half and the performer the other half. After writing three concealed predictions across the face of three cards (one prediction per card), the performer… Continue Reading Random by Peter Nardi and Alakazam Magic

Sparks is an hour and fifteen minute DVD narrated and taught by French Magician, JC James. James is a very talented sleight of hand and card magician who shows off his skills with 13 impromptu tricks of varying degrees of difficulty. James indicates that the tricks took years of refinement and practice, which is obvious… Continue Reading Sparks by JC James and Murphy’s Magic Supplies

I am a fan of World Magic Shop and David Penn’s Tie Shell (The Colour Changing Tie). The title to this trick says it all. One moment you are wearing a tie of one color and a moment later, you are wearing a completely different tie. This trick comes with a DVD that is about… Continue Reading Tie Shell by David Penn and World Magic Shop

Alakazam presents Adrian Sullivan’s Eliminator, now in version 2.0 with a DVD. In a word, this gimmicked deck and accompanying routines taught on the DVD are awesome. This effect is so simple and incredibly easy to perform that it will quickly become a favorite. The performer dribbles a deck of cards face so the spectators… Continue Reading Eliminator 2.0 by Adrian Sullivan and Alakazam Magic

In Decode a spectator selects a card from a deck of bicycle playing cards. The performer then apparently writes a “code” on the back of another card in the very small white margin. The code can be a foreign language, a string of random numbers, weird shapes or symbols or whatever you imagine. As the… Continue Reading Decode by Rizki Nanda and The World Magic Shop

The Magic Estate claims that Cody’s Comedy Book Test is advertised as “The Funniest Book Test you Will Ever Do!” It is quite a claim and as far as I can tell it is spot on. This trick is so easy to perform, funny, impressive and enjoyable for an audience that it is a must… Continue Reading Cody’s Comedy Book Test by Cody Fisher and The Magic Estate