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.  

A Three Card Monte trick with only two cards: one card wins, the other loses... and the spectator always loses! To buy: - a regular deck of cards click here. - one regular card click here. - some repositionable adhesive dots click here.  

A card is chosen, and lost in the deck. The pack is wrapped with a rubber band... and still, the chosen card pops out of the deck! 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.  

The magician sets one card aside, saying that “this card doesn't exist... or almost doesn't”. Then he displays two small packets, saying that he has foreseen in advance what the spectator will choose; the spectator points to one packet, and the magician shows that it is made up of a four of a kind in sevens... but the other packet is made up of 7 cards! He reunites the packets, and there are now only 8 cards: the four sevens... and four Aces! He then adds the card that doesn't exist... and indeed, it disappears! Everything is handed out for examination. To buy a regular deck of cards 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.  

The magician shows four blank cards on each side. Four cards are chosen at random from a deck, and then placed back into the deck. The blank cards are dispayed again: they now each have a back. Then the faces are printed one by one... and we now have four cards with backs and faces, which are the chosen cards! To buy: - a regular deck of cards click here. - some blank cards click here.  

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.  

Basically, “Hand Mucking” is a gambler's technique for secretly exchanging one or more cards during a card game. Applied to card magic, these techniques allow you to magically transform one card (or several) into another (or several others). To buy a regular deck of cards click here.  

Four kings are placed face down on the table; four Aces are in the magician's hand. Instantly, the cards change places! A real killer! To buy an ordinary deck of cards click here.  

JeanLuc Bertrand shares his version of the “Card in the Cigarette”, an extremely powerful finale to your close-up performance. He explains his very personal way of setting up the trick, the simple techniques he uses, and his presentation. To buy an ordinary deck of cards click here.  

A red card is set aside. In a blue-backed deck, a card is chosen by a spectator under laboratory conditions... and when the prediction card is shown... it's the same card! A real killer! To buy: - a regular deck of cards click here. - a regular single card click here. - some repositionable Adhesive Dots click here.  

Here's a nice simultaneous production of the four Aces from the deck. To buy an ordinary 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.  

The magician shows two blank cards, on which are handwritten the names of two cards: 5 of Diamonds and 6 of Clubs; this constitutes a kind of "Open Prediction" with two cards. One card from the deck is chosen by the spectator. It's face down, and nobody knows it yet. The magician gives himself 4 possibilities of having predicted the chosen card with his two prediction cards: it could therefore be a 5 or a 6 for value, and Diamonds or Clubs for suit. The chosen card is turned over: nothing to see, since it's the 4 of Hearts! The magician is dismayed, and turns over the two written cards on the table: they are both 4 de Hearts! Everything is handed out for examination. To buy: - a regular deck of cards click here. - some single blank back card click here.