Magic Tricks

I can only echo what others have stated here, fantastic.

You are supplied with not 1, not 2, not 3, but in fact 4 gimmicks. And, three different ways to present it by 3 superb magicians and their take on it. I don't bother with the entire pack just the two cards.

I use Matt Johnsons presentation but I use Ricks handling on peeling the cards apart. For me, I really like Matt's take on it as it's the perfect story line to get somebody emotionally invested in the trick and it just so happens to go hand in hand with the trick itself. Way to go Matthew!

I haven't done this yet but I have often wondered if it would be better to reverse engineer the sequence of events on Matt's handling. Instead, introduce the cards and let the spectators even handle them, hypnotize them making the queen and the five change places.

Put them away for a very brief lightening fast moment while looking for another trick in your pocket, put the cards on a table or somewhere in sight, do the other trick you were searching for, then say something along the lines of you still look hypnotized or blah, blah, blah whatever and then go into the vortex/hypnotize phase of Matt's handling.

It seems to me doing it this way it completely sells the trick that there is no funny business going on. After all, they were just handling the cards a moment ago. Also, if you like, keep in mind you actually only need one spare 5 and not a queen and a 5 if you know what I mean.