Magic Tricks

Full disclosure: I received a free copy of this trick with a request to write a review. With that out of the way:

This effect is an excellent one. Very clean coincidence effect, instant reset (if you want: see below), easy to do and looks super clean (because it mostly is). This is the type of trick that gets great redactions.

However, I have a couple of complaints with this download, although neither of them are with the trick itself, but rather with the presentation of the trick.

First: the advertising demo seemed to give me the impression that there is nothing special about the deck. This isn't entirely true, there is 'something' that needs to be done with the deck in advance, and while technically you could go ahead and use the deck as a regular deck when you're done with this trick, you probably wouldn't want to (will make reset a pain). The deck is still examinable (after the trick is done), but you'll need to do a reset afterwards if you want to preform this trick again.

Second complaint I have: there is one scenario that could come up which throws the trick for a slight loop. Now, it doesn't entirely derail the trick (as a matter of fact, that scenario came up in one of the demo performances and David still completed the trick spectacularly), but should still warrant some mention in the explanation. As I was watching the explanation, I was expecting David to mention this scenario near the end, and was disappointed when it wasn't mentioned. Now, it's not too difficult to work around this issue (I thought up two possible simple workarounds while writing this review), but I feel it should have been mentioned in the explanation, since otherwise it is slightly incomplete.

Otherwise, the teaching, as David's teaching usually is, is excellent.

In summary:

Pros:
Super strong effect
Spectator has free choice
Easy reset (if you don't have the deck out for examination or use it for another trick)
Everything is examinable after the fact, if you don't want to reset.

Cons:
Requires a minimal amount of pre-work to set up the deck
Tedious reset if you don't use the easy reset method
Very slight amount of explanation is lacking
I don't like the demo video

In conclusion: the trick itself would warrant 5 stars, and the fact that the only real gripes I have are somewhat tangential can attest to the strength of the trick. However,I can't disregard my two main concerns, so that brings my score down a bit to what would probably be somewhere between 3 and 4 stars, so I'm rounding up to 4.