Magic Tricks

First of all, let me say that I love John Bannon. My first magic set was his Move Zero DVD set and I still do some tricks from that. That was, in fact, a big motivating factor for me buying this trick. After playing with it, it's a fine trick I suppose but it has a discrepancy that I just can't get past.

At the beginning, you ostensibly have 3 cards. At the end, you have 4. Even disregarding the ones you put in your pocket, it is still obvious that there were always more than 3 cards in play, because, that's just the way it's presented, it's needed to get the "kicker ending".

Even if the audience is unaware of what an EC is, they still must intuitively know that the method boils down to hiding extra cards. The fourth card had to come from somewhere. In the tutorial they say that some might find working with that many cards is "distasteful", and I guess I'm one of them. So I'm deducting one point for that.

I'm deducting another point because I felt that the instructions just kind of assumed you were already familiar with magic, it was clear it was not produced to rote beginners, which kind of shocked me due to my previous experience with Bannon. The instructions just didn't seem top notch. This doesn't affect me, but I can see how it might others.

Anyway I hope everyone enjoys their purchases, but I already know enough tricks in this vein that I think it's going to go in the drawer.