Magic Tricks

I love The Crusade. It takes a while to get to the conclusion but when you do it is sudden, unexpected and impossible to explain. The Crusade really comes across as total mental control of a situation. It has some elements of ACAAN as well, all rolled into one sensational effect.

It takes time to get into because of the 'padding' that is added which gives time separation from the way this works. That is a good thing, especially since the 'padding' is carefully constructed to build up the idea of either mind control or reading body language much as the police, the CIA or a good poker player or mother might do to detect information that the observed person wants to keep secret.

This is delightful as it can be done with a borrowed and totally shuffled deck and it can all happen in the hands of the spectators. It is at its best when there are two spectators. The magician reveals a secretly thought of number from one spectator and also arranges for a secretly though of card by the second spectator to be at the precise secret number location of the first spectator.

The Crusade is ideal when you are handed a deck of cards and asked to "Do a trick!" Borrowed cards, shuffled by the spectator, followed by not one but two revelations! Who could ask for anything more......, and it is easy to do.