Like ACAAN, this effect is considered the Holy Grail of card magic. This version is completely impromptu, is performed with a normal deck, and the icing on the cake is that the “predicted” card is freely chosen by the spectator at the beginning of the trick! To buy a regular deck of cards click here.  

A fast-paced routine in which a chosen card disappears and reappears on numerous occasions, in places as different as they are unexpected... Each time, spectators will blink and wonder: did I see what I saw? To buy: - a regular red back deck of cards click here. - a blank face blue back deck click here.  

A card is first placed in a spectator's hand. Another spectator chooses a card, which is clearly placed back in the middle of the deck. The magician shows that a card has turned face up in the middle of the face down deck ... but it's not the spectator's chosen card... And when the first spectator turns over her card, it's now the one that was in the middle of the deck, while the latter has turned into the chosen card! To buy: - a regular deck of cards click here. - one regular card click here.  

Basic Technique: To control a card in a deck. An easy and practical alternative to the Classic Pass. To buy an ordinary deck of cards click here.  

Basic technique: how to give the illusion of shuffling a deck of cards by making a series of cuts, but in reality, the deck ends up in the same order as it started. An easy and convincing false shuffle. You can also control a card using this technique. To buy an ordinary deck of cards click here.  

Card Techniques: Dominique Duvivier explains a false cut in 3 packets ; the deck seems to be cut, but it remains in its original order at the end of the move. To buy a regular deck of cards click here.  

Basic technique: Named after its inventor Alex Elmsley, this count allows you to count 4 cards, but hide one of them. It is the most commonly used false count. To buy an ordinary deck of cards click here.  

Card technique : A must-have. This versatile technique lets you create your own effects. It allows you to show seven cards (Hamman Count), or eight cards (Double Hamman Count) when you're really only showing four. To buy a regular deck of cards click here.  

A superb routine with a succession of astonishing effects: a borrowed pack of cigarettes is transformed into a deck of cards, then four chosen cards are transformed into four Aces, which disappear one by one and reappear. Finally, one card is chosen by a spectator, and another spectator guesses it! To buy: - an ordinary deck of cards click here. - a one way forcing deck click here.  

An easy, but devilishly baffling trick. A coin placed in between the hands of the magician disappears completely. Nothing in the hands, nothing in the sleeves, the coin has vanished into thin air!  

The magician borrows a ring and makes it disappear in a flash of fire. It ends up on the stem of a wine glass! You'll also learn how to make a real rose appear! To buy: - some Flash Paper click here. - one Finger Flasher click here.

Are you interested in coin magic? Here's a move you absolutely have to master! It will require a little practice, but will allow you to perform miracles under the nose of your spectators, with regular coins. The principle: give the illusion that you are putting a coin in your hand, when it is not the case. A great classic of magic! To buy some coins click here.  

Card technique: this allows you to conceal a card while counting them. For example, you can show four reds, while a fifth black is hidden among the four reds! To buy a regular deck of cards click here.  

The magician places a small cloth purse on the table: this is his prediction. He asks a spectator to recall a trip she has taken in the past, and to choose one of the countries she visited. The purse is then opened; and it contains a coin from that country!  

John Bannon lectured at Le Double Fond on October 23, 2023. It was an unprecedented encounter with a great artist who gave us the best of his art. The Ace of Spades from a deck of cards is placed under a stem glass, and the Queen of Diamonds on top. The two cards are about to change places! Superb! To buy a regular deck of cards click here.  

The plot of "Coins through the Table" is one of the great families of effects in coin magic. Dominique Duvivier offers you his personal version to perform this wonderful routine. To buy some coins click here.