Favorite of all Time Magic Trick

[AznIllusion]

Okay, I don't care if this has been asked many times but there are some new people in this community who may haven't told us their favorite magic trick. Mine is either bullet or... where 2 aces turn into 2 queens (a David Blaine Trick).

So if you would like just tell everyone what your favorite magic trick of all time is...:cool:

[gigacurd]

top 5

ACR
biddle trick
IC3
Polter Deck
Angle Zero

[fusion]

I like card to ceiling and cups and balls.

[stanhimself]

Any 2 card tranpo

[magic 1]

your thinking of 2 card monte

i like tricks with big reactions like stigmata and angel zero and 2 card monte, it is kinda a good one too.

[jman2282]

Tricks I use (no particular order)

5 card merge, bizzare twist

tony slydini card trick, biddle trick, kaos, paul gordon trick

Extractor, angle zero


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[traumatised-magic]

these threads are always a waste of time. u just eend up gettin a load of post of people writing down the newest gimmicks or newest tricks that are out lol

eg extractor and angle zero.

angle zero is an amazing trick despite its simplicity

and extractor.....omg over priced pile of crap in my mind lol. 1 gimmick that cost nearly $100 that does one thing. and even then if ur hands arent big enough to palm cards its a waste of money lol

i personally really like daniel madison and there are a few of his tricks that always make it into my act

i would have to say my fav tricks right now at this moment in time is credit card fraud, memento, angle zero, wrath and 21st century phantom

[magic 1]

i would have to say my fav tricks right now at this moment in time is credit card fraud, memento, angle zero, wrath and 21st century phantom

whats credit card fraud?

[jman2282]

Traum I disagree with you 98%. The gimmick is way over priced yes, and it only does 1 thing true. But you can do some many effects with it. Card to anywhere, a better way of doing biddle trick, Varitation to jay sankeys paper clipped. ECT. It only does 1 thing but with that 1 thing you can do so many effects. Also your hands dont have to be that big to palm a card.

[magic 1]

Traum I disagree with you 98%. The gimmick is way over priced yes, and it only does 1 thing true. But you can do some many effects with it. Card to anywhere, a better way of doing biddle trick, Varitation to jay sankeys paper clipped. ECT. It only does 1 thing but with that 1 thing you can do so many effects. Also your hands dont have to be that big to palm a card.

my hands are actually to small to palm >_>
but i cut up my version to do the gamblers cop (like traum pm'd how to) :)

[jman2282]

How old are you? Magic 1

[traumatised-magic]

it is way over priced and its an ok gimmick to use but ur hands do have to b a certian size to plam cards in the way u need to for extractor. for a start ur fingers have to b wide enough to cover the width of the card and ur over all hand length has to be big enough to hide a playin card. if ur some 11/12 year old kid with small hands ur not gonna b able to do this trick. i personally think its a waste of money but thats just my opinion everyone has a trick they really hate but at the same time there are lots of people that like that same trick.

plus ur basically sayin ur replacein sleight of hand with a gimmick...sounds like somthin u'd hear over at T11 to me lol

the way i see tricks is if i can make it myself whether it works 100% the same as the original its better than buyin it. when i make a gimmick i make it so that it works perfectly for me. when u buy it in a shop the gimmick u buy will work perfectly for somone, but not everyone so then u have to adapt ur style to make up for that. a good example is panic. if u nroamly spread a deck of cards from left to right as soon as u do that trick the biggest give away is that u have to spread the deck front to back. there fore to make it look normal u have to always spread front to back just to make that trick seem like ur doin nothin out of the ordinary. and for all those that never even thought about that and just perform it then ur not ready to b a magician simple as that. its the smallest things in magic that make a big differnece.

anyway enough of me ranting on

credit card fraud is a great little gimmick wich is actually really easy to make ur self. u borrow anyones credit card. u comment on how if someone was to steal ur card they only have to get the long number to steal ur identity and use ur money, u then flip over the credit card and point to teh signature sayin that also if anyone were to copy this they could easily steal ur identity too.
and then u say that a true credit card fraudster is able to steal ur identity another way tho. all ur credit card details are kept on the magnetic strip along the card if anyone was to steal that they can do whatever they want. and with that u start to peel away the black strip of the card revealing hte white plastic under it. u can even peel it fully off. u then stick it back down and hand the card back....i nroamly end by sayin i'm no fraudster tho so i dont really know how they do that lol

[jman2282]

I have fat fingers and I can palm a card easily. My fingers cover the whole playing card with about 1 cm of extra space.

[traumatised-magic]

yeah im not sayin u cant palm a card easily. i'm just sayin not everyone can. ur the one that made the statement that ur hands dont have to be too big to plam a card, i was just sayin that they have to b over 2.5 inches wide and at least 4-5 inches long to b able to safely perform extractor

[magic 1]

credit card fraud is a great little gimmick wich is actually really easy to make ur self.

and how is that done?

also my problem with palming is simply, my fingers are to skinny

[deception]

and your fingers will become fat. no in all seriousness ll you must do is just change it up. maybe use tenkai or fit a gambler cop in there. with enough misdeirection ans subtleties it reall shouldn't be too hard to work out a solution

[magic 1]

and your fingers will become fat. no in all seriousness ll you must do is just change it up. maybe use tenkai or fit a gambler cop in there. with enough misdeirection ans subtleties it reall shouldn't be too hard to work out a solution

like i said, i changed the extractor gimmick specially for the gamblers cop :)

[cheaptrick]

there are a lot of palms out there, I can completely cover the card with room to spare in classic palm, but I never use it, tenkai, or a clip type palm works great. Also I like the palm position you get into from lennart greens snap deal, very similiar to gamblers cop but it just feels nicer

[fkace63]

can you reveal how to make the gimmick for credit card fraud? In my college, everyone has an id with a strip on it, and they would FLIP OUT if I could do that. I would greatly appreciate it.

[BlindDodo]

it is way over priced and its an ok gimmick to use but ur hands do have to b a certian size to plam cards in the way u need to for extractor. for a start ur fingers have to b wide enough to cover the width of the card and ur over all hand length has to be big enough to hide a playin card. if ur some 11/12 year old kid with small hands ur not gonna b able to do this trick. i personally think its a waste of money but thats just my opinion everyone has a trick they really hate but at the same time there are lots of people that like that same trick.

plus ur basically sayin ur replacein sleight of hand with a gimmick...sounds like somthin u'd hear over at T11 to me lol


I would normally agree with you 100%, and about most other gimmicks I would do. But not the extractor. For a start, palming a card is an extremely useful skill to have in card magic and I believe that everyone can palm a card. Obviously it helps to have big fat hands but the main skill in palming is misdirection. From the spectator's point of view it should be absolutely out of the question that you have a card concealed there, and from the performer's it should be out of the question that they should look for one.
I have skinny fingers with massive windows but I still palm cards. Yes; if someone were to look for the card in my hand they would see it but they shouldnt even be looking at my hand in the first place.
Anyway I mean that I think everyone who does card effects should learn to palm, and what better way than with the extractor? The main thing is that the palm happens entirely on the offbeat. This makes palming the card outrageously easy.
For those of you who don't believe me I thoroughly recommend picking up the DVD that comes with the extractor (a factor that I think a lot of people are disregarding, but the DVD is absolutely amazingly useful, over 2 hours of tricks and advice).
To try out this theory I performed the card to pocket on my gf but backpalming the card. So the card should have been in full view from taking it from my top pocket all the way down. And still she was amazed.
So when people say their cards are to small to palm cards, I think the real problem is their lack of skill as a magician. I mean no offense but palming is simply misdirection.

The second issue i have is the idea that the extractor is only one trick. This couldnt be further from the truth (well obviously it could be lol).
I can safely say with no exaggeration that I have performed table hopping magic at a small venue using only tricks "powered" by the extractor. And they all feel like completely different effects to an audience. And it's outrageously easy to invent new ones. For example, my favourite trick I've discovered so far is a completely clean version of the following effect (taught in some detail on the DVD):

Any card is selected and a word is chosen. It can be any card and any word.

With an empty hand you reach into your back pocket and produce a sealed envelope.

The envelope is opened (can be done by spectator) to reveal a single playing card. It matches the card the spectator selected!

As you turn the card over it is revealed that across the back is written exactly the same word the spectator was thinking of!

Now to perform that effect exactly as it sounds is a true miracle, and laymen could surely in no way suspect that it uses the same basic gimmick as a perfect card to pocket.


Wow long post...

EDIT: oh bw, to get back on topic I am not saying the extractor is my favourite trick (besides it's not a trick its more of a utility). If pushed I would say my favourite effect is probably Luke Jermay's "Touching on Hoy", or maybe "For Andruzzi", although I don't perform either more than once a fortnight, they are simply genius.

My favourite regular trick is just my souped-up ACR. sorry to be boring...

[jman2282]

I would normally agree with you 100%, and about most other gimmicks I would do. But not the extractor. For a start, palming a card is an extremely useful skill to have in card magic and I believe that everyone can palm a card. Obviously it helps to have big fat hands but the main skill in palming is misdirection. From the spectator's point of view it should be absolutely out of the question that you have a card concealed there, and from the performer's it should be out of the question that they should look for one.
I have skinny fingers with massive windows but I still palm cards. Yes; if someone were to look for the card in my hand they would see it but they shouldnt even be looking at my hand in the first place.
Anyway I mean that I think everyone who does card effects should learn to palm, and what better way than with the extractor? The main thing is that the palm happens entirely on the offbeat. This makes palming the card outrageously easy.
For those of you who don't believe me I thoroughly recommend picking up the DVD that comes with the extractor (a factor that I think a lot of people are disregarding, but the DVD is absolutely amazingly useful, over 2 hours of tricks and advice).
To try out this theory I performed the card to pocket on my gf but backpalming the card. So the card should have been in full view from taking it from my top pocket all the way down. And still she was amazed.
So when people say their cards are to small to palm cards, I think the real problem is their lack of skill as a magician. I mean no offense but palming is simply misdirection.

The second issue i have is the idea that the extractor is only one trick. This couldnt be further from the truth (well obviously it could be lol).
I can safely say with no exaggeration that I have performed table hopping magic at a small venue using only tricks "powered" by the extractor. And they all feel like completely different effects to an audience. And it's outrageously easy to invent new ones. For example, my favourite trick I've discovered so far is a completely clean version of the following effect (taught in some detail on the DVD):

Any card is selected and a word is chosen. It can be any card and any word.

With an empty hand you reach into your back pocket and produce a sealed envelope.

The envelope is opened (can be done by spectator) to reveal a single playing card. It matches the card the spectator selected!

As you turn the card over it is revealed that across the back is written exactly the same word the spectator was thinking of!

Now to perform that effect exactly as it sounds is a true miracle, and laymen could surely in no way suspect that it uses the same basic gimmick as a perfect card to pocket.


Wow long post...

EDIT: oh bw, to get back on topic I am not saying the extractor is my favourite trick (besides it's not a trick its more of a utility). If pushed I would say my favourite effect is probably Luke Jermay's "Touching on Hoy", or maybe "For Andruzzi", although I don't perform either more than once a fortnight, they are simply genius.

My favourite regular trick is just my souped-up ACR. sorry to be boring...



I agree with this statment 50%. Palming doesnt have to be about misdirection (its not stated anywhere). You can actually palm a card while the specs are focused on your hands (with a tekai palm).

Now getting into the extractor. Its a good trick in my point of view for others it may be just that trick that will be left in your drower but for me I would use it in my routine, and I only want it because it follows the theme to my routine, which is tranportation of cards.

[BlindDodo]

I agree with this statment 50%. Palming doesnt have to be about misdirection (its not stated anywhere). You can actually palm a card while the specs are focused on your hands (with a tekai palm).

Now getting into the extractor. Its a good trick in my point of view for others it may be just that trick that will be left in your drower but for me I would use it in my routine, and I only want it because it follows the theme to my routine, which is tranportation of cards.

Yeh I suppose that's true about palming...

And the extractor... again you're making the mistake that it's a "trick", it's really not, there are limitless tricks you can do with it.

[jman2282]

I know. Its basically alot of the tricks on the market but better. I'm going to purchase mine on friday. Or I might get a pk ring. Whats better pk ring or extractor?

[BlindDodo]

I know. Its basically alot of the tricks on the market but better. I'm going to purchase mine on friday. Or I might get a pk ring. Whats better pk ring or extractor?

Well it completely depends...
A pk ring doesn't personally excite me and I never use one, but it might fit what you do.

[jman2282]

come to think of it, it doesnt I only have 1 trick in my routine that goes with it but nothing else