Magic Tricks

After putting in an hour's worth of craft work to create the deck gimmick, I sat stunned at how utterly useless the entire thing was. I created the breathable gimmick so the deck can be freely handled and shuffled, and when just using the gimmick itself, it works. However, once you add the remainder of the deck, you get little or no response from the gimmick (and I am using the Enlightenment PK magnet it suggested). Basically, you can only use about 35 cards (including the 17 in the block gimmick) and still get a reasonable response from the levitation. This is noticeably not a full deck and severely limits the cards you can allow the spectator to choose.

The book that comes with the device is not very useful for performance. Almost half the book is filled with the history of the device, which you'll skip. Next you get about 15 pages detailing the creation of the gimmick for a deck of cards. Performance is limited to a few rushed paragraphs for the card levitation and one dollar bill levitation. The stuff you see in the video demo? No idea how any of that works since he never gives any suggestions for magnet placement other than one that he never uses in the video.

If you want more details on how to use the device, you can purchase an e-book. How wonderful. After spending almost a hundred bucks on this, having to craft my own gimmick, and having to purchase the PK magnet separately, I am given the option of spending more money to learn the cool ways to use it. No thanks.

The price on this isn't worth the effect. If you were given the finished gimmick, a DVD with training, and the PK magnet, it would be worth about half the price. As it stands, spend your money on something else.