This is literally a one-trick pony. You can "vanish" a card box and have the deck appear, then have
the box reappear if you'd like. Unfortunately, the deck cannot be used for a trick itself as the
sides are marked too much for use. Garrett does a good job of showing how to ditch the deck for one
you can move into with your act, but you'll need to be wearing a jacket in order for this to be
effective (deck switch only as he shows it...you can do the disappearance of the box without it). It
seems a little limiting for a card trick like this.
The follow up using the other included
deck isn't much more impressive, though in its defense it is an effect you can slip into your
routine as a closer (since the entire deck has the card box's face on it). You could use the deck
for any other trick after the "transformation" though, because the backs are identical even if they
are different from what the spectator is used to seeing.
There are two things I don't like
about this. First, the price is far too steep for something like this. While you do get two decks
and a DVD, I feel this could easily have gone for $20-$25 and been more in line. Second, the
performance on the DVD is less than impressive. At one point he's going to vanish the deck into a
hat and have it switch places with the box. Unfortunately, while he's holding the box and deck in
the same hand he's got it positioned so it plainly shows the marks of the deck parallel with the box
(making it painfully obvious to the spectator and us what's going on). Likewise, his performance
with the other deck is unimpressive. He does the effects with two different audiences, and the two
ladies he chose to use in the pool hall are completely under-whelmed at everything. They look like
they know they're supposed to be acting impressed, but are either too nervous to act natural or just
aren't impressed with what's going on. I'm not asking for some Criss Angel crowd screaming and
fainting here, but he might have done better using a more enthusiastic pair.
This isn't the
worst effect I've bought this year, but it's definitely not one I'd feel comfortable performing.
Opener or closer perhaps
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