Magic Tricks

It's great to see Spin Doctor available again. This was the first of his "Fractal" packet tricks, but the original had been out of print for quite a while.

In the interim, he brought it back as an extra trick included in the Fractalicious set that he did with Liam Montier (available through Penguin), and it was featured in his first Penguin Live lecture (not the Live Act one). Keep those in mind when choosing your purchases, as you might prefer to get Spin Doctor as part of one of those sets rather than on its own.

As for the trick itself, you can see from the promo video that it's Vernon's classic Twisting The Aces with a couple of kickers.

There's really just one true move involved (the one you'd expect to do in Twisting The Aces). The rest is all in the presentation.

I love that the clean-up is turned into one of the effects. You actually show off the "dirty" card rather than trying to ditch it. That's the brilliance of Bannon.

There are two BIG discrepancy moments that aren't shown in the promo video. Bannon points them both out when walking through the trick with Cameron Francis in the Fractalicious video. He emphasizes that no one ever notices.

I'm finding that's true if you have the patter down. But it means you really do need to practice your presentation, because you're vulnerable in a couple of places if you rush things.

(If you're a beginner, don't worry, you can do this. Just know that you need to practice the TALKING part of it as much as you practice handling the cards.)

Great trick. Fun to perform. Recommended, though I'd get it as part of the Penguin Live lecture or Fractalicious rather than on its own.