Like ACAAN, this effect is considered the Holy Grail of card magic. Dominique Duvivier offers us here a quite impromptu version, and the icing on the cake is, the predicted card is freely chosen by a spectator at the beginning of the trick! To buy a “Regular Bicycle Rider Deck” click here.  

The magician explains that in a deck, each card has a precise role! One card is freely determined, and the magician announces that it is the only “Balancing Card” in the deck! And he proves it in a most unusual... and magical way! To buy: - a “Regular Bicycle Rider Deck” click here. - a “Thumb Tip” click here.  

Dominique Duvivier's version of Steve Freeman's “Time Machine”. How to “stop time”, and make it “go backwards”... with a deck of cards! A guaranteed hit! To buy a regular deck of cards click here.  

One card is freely chosen, and can even be signed. This card is visibly inserted into the middle of the deck... and mysteriously rises to the top! The effect is repeated several times, under more and more impossible conditions, ending with a quite visual and incomprehensible rise to the top! The routine featured here was perfected by the “Professor” Dai Vernon. A great classic of card magic. Guaranteed effect! To buy a regular deck of cards click here.  

This trick is a kind of “testimony” to the evolution of magic in the context of the revelation of a chosen card; we move from ancient Egypt to the Middle Ages... to the present day! To buy a regular deck of cards click here.  

The spectator chooses a card from a shuffled deck. The magician draws two cards from the deck: one represents the value of the chosen card, and the other its suit! John Bannon developed the trick based on a Rick Aviles principle, and Dominique Duvivier shares one of his personal versions. Success guaranteed! To buy a regular 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.  

The spectator chooses a card from a shuffled deck. The magician draws two cards from the deck: one represents the value of the chosen card, and the other its suit! John Bannon developed the trick based on a Rick Aviles principle, and Dominique Duvivier shares another one of his personal versions, with which you will repeat the effect a second time in a row! Success guaranteed! To buy: - a regular deck of cards click here. - a Mini Duvivier Wallet click here.  

The spectator chooses a card from a shuffled deck. The magician draws two cards from the deck: one represents the value of the chosen card, and the other its suit! John Bannon developed the trick based on a Rick Aviles principle, and Dominique Duvivier shares yet another of his personal versions. To buy a regular deck of cards click here.  

Jacob Daley's method for performing a "Triumph". Simple, effective and convincing. To buy a regular deck of cards click here.  

The spectator chooses a card from a shuffled deck. The magician draws two cards from the deck: one represents the value of the chosen card, and the other its suit! John Bannon developed the trick based on a Rick Aviles principle, and Dominique Duvivier shares his latest personal version. To buy a regular deck of cards click here. >  

The spectator shuffles the deck. The magician draws a card at random. The spectator freely names a card... and it's the card that had been set aside! A true miracle!! To buy a regular deck of cards click here.  

The magician draws the following five cards from the deck: Ace, 2, 3, 4 and 5 of Spades. He then performs an Ambitious Card routine successively with each of these cards, ending with a stunning climax! A true miracle! Credits of the trick : This is Larry Jennings' "Ambitious Classic" routine, described in "Epilogue" Special #3, part 2, and later, in a reworked version, in The Classic Magic of Larry Jennings, published in 1986 by L&L Publishing. To buy a regular deck click here.  

Card technique: how to secretly fold a card into quarters. This versatile card fold is used in a variety of card tricks, particularly those where a signed playing card ends up in an impossible location such as "Card to Mouth", the various “Mystery Boxes”... To buy a regular deck of cards click here.  

The spectator chooses a card, which is lost in the deck. A magic pass, and a card mysteriously turns up face up in the center of the deck; but against all odds, it is not the one chosen by the spectator: it is the 5 of Hearts. The magician then counts the cards one by one from the 5, and the fifth one turns out to be... the chosen card. The four cards that were counted to get to the 5 of Hearts are turned face up... they're the four Aces! And as the icing on the cake, the magician shows that he couldn't have done it any other way, since the other cards in the deck are shown: they're all blank! A completely automatic trick, but devilishly effective! To buy: - a regular deck of cards click here. - a blank face deck of cards click here.  

An essential technique to deal with many situations: for example, you will be able to control a card to the bottom of the deck! To buy an ordinary deck of cards click here.