Magic Tricks

With all due respect although the title is 'The Tamed Card presented by Dan Harlan' The graphic shows The Tamed Card - Tommy Wonder.

Dan has the chops so why not show both Tommy Wonder's version along with his version of the effect.

The version I prefer is Ultimate Wild Card by Jean-Pierre Vallarino, but the heat is on the cards to be sure. It has to be situated within the act at a time when the audience have yielded to the suspension of belief. By the time I get to it they have seen the equivalent of a borrowed deck do the impossible and have pretty much conceded to the pointless affair of examining the cards any longer.

Dan's version lends itself more to an impromptu performance, and it can be done as an opener where as I would not perform Ultimate Wild Card by Jean-Pierre Vallarino as an opener. I need to establish a true ability to do the impossible before doing something that impossible. Although just as impossible The Tamed Card removes dismisses much suspicion because the spectator holding cards that have visibly changed faces during the routine.


Still Dan talks about how complicated it is to get through some of Tommy Wonder's moves from the book. So again why not show them? What are those difficult moves?

This is after all Dan's tribute to his work. I am by no means a purest. All ideas can be improved upon, but this is review is more about the expectation learning Tommy Wonder's routine and handing style and then maybe the bonus handling by Dan Harlan and Dan gets a 5 out of 5

4 out 5 because I learned some additional spectator management aspects from this tutorial.