So this trick is easy to do and so highly visual that I filmed myself doing it for my kids' school
talent show during the pandemic so it was cut into a bigger show and it became a highlight that
everyone reached out to tell me they loved. It films really well - so for that reason it's great to
do over zoom as just a starter that can lead into any trick with a deck.
What really did
it though was the double whopper of pairing a mental photography deck with the trick - so you start
off with David's blank card box only to construct it into a real card box and produce from it a
*blank deck* that then becomes a real deck and people's minds are really blown!
Obviously
if this were a live performance and you then wanted to do a card trick you can do a deck switch and
move on.
David was nice enough to recently show you his own easy version of how to give the
appearance of a blank deck and that's included in the video you get. I just went for a mental
photography deck so that I could let the audience see a lot of blank cards on both sides and spread,
etc as his version is a bit different - both work great though.
It's a really well
constructed gimmick and because of how visual it is - and since my video was quite easy to do it
also would play really well on Zoom too.
Possibly the only part you have to think about it
for a second is deciding where do you produce the blank box from at the beginning of the trick as
it's kind of delicate. I didn't want to get much wear/tear so I chose to just take it out of a nice
little wooden box on the table to start off the trick rather than take it out of my pocket as I
didn't want to jam it in there.
David also gives you instructions for ways you can keep
the card box together after you transform it for the crowd - because as you saw in the demo it's all
loose at the outset so his instructions were easy - but really once I transformed the box and took
the deck out, I just put the transformed box back into the wooden box I had on the table so didn't
have to worry about that.
Obviously when we get to all go back in person - this is a great
in person trick too. I think I'd do it the same way of taking it out of another box for the start.
Angles to consider for in person are basically just for people in front of you and not
crowding around too much to your side.
It's a really well thought out trick, easy to do
with a minimal amount of practice (really just to get your patter and flow right for one
non-complicated-slight-of-hand moment that should be easy for all skill levels) there's great
instruction as usual from David and it completely wows your audience - don't think twice about
getting it!