Magic Tricks

Well folks, Adrian has done it again. I've writen some pretty harsh reviews on here, but so far I've been all cheers for this guy.

I am hoping you'll read this because I'm mad. I'm mad that I read other reviews elsewhere online that caused me to hold off for so long on buying this. We need to do some debunking.

"You can only do it on Zoom."

Ok, the exact trick as presented can be done only on Zoom or FaceTime or whatever. That's true. But the biggest, most important concept you learn on this can be done in other ways on stage. I have been playing around already with different colors (this will make sense after you buy it) and can't wait to come up with some stuff.

"You have to be in portrait mode, so it's not good for Zoom shows."

What the heck?!?! This is the rumor that caused me to wait so long to get this. It's not only totally false, it's complete nonsense. I suppose it's arguably easier to do that way, but I really do mean arguably. It hardly even makes a difference. I've been doing both. You just have to do it right, and then it makes no difference which way your phone is facing.

"You really need an accomplice to do this."

What? No. It would probably be even harder that way.

"It requires too much arts and crafts."

No it doesn't. This one for me too. I didn't want to have to print out screenshots of my apartment and create a fake background, and I really didn't even understand what else this possibly could have referred to. Anyway, you don't have to do any of that. You can use a single gaffe card that comes in any normal gaffe deck, or you can if you choose make an even better version the way he shows. I hate a lot of the arts and crafts stuff out there, yet even I opted to create the better version just because of how much I like this effect.

Overall: This is a true winner, just like everything else Adrian has been putting out during quarantine. I don't know him, never met, not even online friends, but I already love the guy. You should too.

I like to try to include at least one "con" in reviews, so here goes. As presented, the trick doesn't really have a plot of any sort. It's just "watch me do a cool thing." Now, that's not such a bad con because sometimes it's ok to just do a cool thing. Esp when it's really cool, like this is. But I would encourage folks to try to think of other ways to enhance this trick further -- to add in a cognitive element or storyline -- perhaps using the same principles but without a deck of cards at all. That's the biggest con I can offer on this one (even though it's not that big of a con), though, because like I said, it's a true winner!