Magic Tricks

A well made versatile product with several great mentalism functions built in. The SUC is fantastic and very deceptive looking. You can not tell it's there by looking at it. Anyway, the PROS: The DVD is excellent, with many routines with even a recommended list of routines you can do for a table hopping act. Nardi and Spellman are fun to watch, with the consistent humor and detailed explanations. I could watch this dvd again and again. Some good routines, particularly shortlist, Hollywood or Bust, and Cash Cabaret. My first wallet was the F1 Nitro, which, on the outside looks similar to the Assassin. F1 Nitro has most of the Assassin's mentalism features, but it was lacking the SUC, so I got the Assassin for SUC in hopes of switching between wallets for different tricks. But here are some issues I have. CONS: It's very hard to use this as an everyday wallet. You can probably put money and some cards in there but that's about it. The F1 Nitro is a more practical everyday wallet because there is a pocket behind the billet index as well as another pocket right in front of where the SUC would be, so there's much more room for everything you need to put in a wallet and then some. I was able to carry also Powerball 60, Extreme Burn and some blank cards in my F1 Nitro. In the Assassin, that's much more difficult; I was disappointed in that I was hoping it would at least have these extra pockets in there as well, and it doesn't so it barely holds just the bare essentials, and otherwise gets really tight. I also like to use Kolossal Killer as well, and in the Assassin, it's really hard to put in there unless you use several Magician's forces with that routine. So currently I use the out to lunch function and use it as a business card wallet. I find the Espionage Wallet more practical as a regular wallet with all the mentalism features and then some. On the plus side, if I needed to use SUC for a trick, the Assassin would be much quicker and convenient for that, as it is smaller and less stuff, whereas with the Espionage SUC, I have to be more careful how I handle it and make sure nothing falls out of the Shogun function. But overall, many people love the Assassin and it's a good mentalism investment; I just don't feel it's worth $180!! That's quite a bit!