I am somebody who does almost all card magic FASDIU and heavily relies on slight-of-hand. But I
decided to try out this deck of cards. They are amazing. They make it possible to do effects which
are simply not possible to do otherwise.
My favorite trick is to do C.A.A.N. You can watch
"The Grail" demo, which is that effect, but the magician has to touch the cards at some point. With
Mirage deck you can shuffle them, even let the spectators shuffle the cards if you are careful (for
example, let each shuffle two halves and you faro them together). Let the spectator give a final cut
and put it back into the card box. Then ask another spectator to name a number from 1 to 52, ask
them to take it out of the box, and ask them to deal down to the card. It works every time. There is
no miss. This is by far the cleanest most amazing C.A.A.N. effect, and you can do it with just $5,
it is better than all attempts people tried at C.A.A.N., as this is truly the near-miss hands-off
method.
Here is some advice. Never, ever, never, ever, show the cards to be the same.
Otherwise it kills this powerful utility deck. The spectators will instantly know that something is
not normal about the cards.
I happen to strongly believe (and I am sure many will disagree
with me) that forcing is lame. Especially the rifle force. I cannot imagine how magicians convinced
themselves that the rifle force is any good. It looks awful, nobody actually believes it was a free
choice. If you gonna force at least use the classic force. But with the Mirage deck you can do the
most convincing force while being able to show the cards to be all different. This is as fair as it
gets.
(Any magician who actually thinks the rifle force is any good. Here is a challenge.
Do "any card at any stop". Rifle and ask a spectator to say stop. Then reveal your prediction
matches the card they stopped at. I can assure you nobody will find that to be a good trick, and no
magician will pay for such a lousy effect. So please stop using forcing, especially the rifle force.
Get this instead and find ways to incorporate this deck into your magic. )
Use it for forcing
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