Magic Tricks

The beauty of this effect lies in its simplicity. A single, ungimmicked playing card stands upright on any table, and can be immediately picked up and examined by the spectator. What you see is what you get, and it's awesome. Gaetan Bloom is also as endearingly entertaining as he is brilliant.

This video is a clip of about 20 minutes of his 3+ hour live lecture, so do yourself a favor and spend the extra $15 to get the whole thing here: http://www.penguinmagic.com/p/3657 . The full lecture even qualifies for the 5 for $99 deal (http://www.penguinmagic.com/p/1902), in which case it's only $5 more than the individual Amazing Standing Card video!

The only catch is that if you get the individual effect you'll receive the special something in the mail, which you don't get with the full lecture. If you're an experienced magician you already have it, and even if you don't it's something you'd do well to buy in a second purchase anyway. You'll still get to learn the method immediately with the video -- you might just not be able to perform it immediately. It will be cheaper to buy the special something separately than the extra cost of the full lecture on top of the individual effect.