Magic Tricks

First of all, let me state that I have a tremendous amount of respect for Oz's skills and knowledge. After having watched Born to Perform and Triumph, my expectations were pretty high for this project. This DVD was a letdown. I bought it at a magic sale and I still felt like I wasted my money.

Admittedly, I am not a fan of story tricks. I also didn't care for the back story of screwing up a dating arrangement to where some females know the other females. Oops! A repeated change/transposition type effect doesn't need a story in my opinion as Oz handled the cards smoothly.

Also I did not care for the king storyline used on another trick. I felt like that was wasted on what could have been a strong series of revelations.

As far as the pirate trick is concerned, I thought the patter was a little more interesting--bizarre, but the audience dug it. It's card to impossible location with "mistakes" prior to the revelation. The methods and structure are neat and could be modified to suit your character if a pirate getup doesn't work for you. There are plenty of card to impossible locations out there. I think the card to Snapple bottle Oz did was better actually.

The only piece I felt was truly good was Emerge Triumphant, which you can download or get as part of the Triumph DVD (which is a good value and you learn about triumph variations besides this one). If you've been doing card magic for a while, I would suggest you give this pass and maybe check out some of Oz's other work. I would not suggest this.