Magic Tricks

Muldoon match is honestly a great trick. There's a lot going for it. I've worked with many variations with this in the past and honestly, the switch here is one of the cleanest.

The ad copy states that this can be done with any deck, and while this is technically true, and Paul spends a long time trying to make it true, that doesn't mean anything near what you think it means. I doubt that all too many people will end up ever doing it with that random deck of casino cards they found at the bar.

The teaching on this is really high caliber. Everything is taught really slowly and clearly from multiple angles. There is a good chance that you are familiar with the primary "move" (if you can even call it that), in which case you'll want to skip about five minutes of the introduction.
Paul also does a really great job teaching how to make the gimmick if you can't find one professionally made. I've been in magic about 15 years and I learned a few new things there.

I do want to also point out that although the switch is very clean, among the cleanest solutions for this problem, the plot shares an issue many variations of this plot have. The fact remains that anything you do between when they name their card for the first time and you flip it over is somwewhat suspicious. Yes, you don't touch their card, until you're almost ready to flip it over, but until you flip that card over, they're bugging out, and want to know whether they got it and will be highly suspicious of every little thing you do. They may even flip over the card themself. I understand that with audience management you can stop them from flipping it over but the fact is, its still uncomfortable and awkward. that's why I stopped performing other versions of this plot about seven years ago. If Paul has been doing this trick at every gig for the last 25 years he must have a really good reason he's telling them why he isn't flipping the first card over immediately and for him not to tell it to us is downright irresponsible. Yes, I probably shouldn't be so lazy and should come up with a justification myself, the fact remains that for advanced magicians the most important thing they could possibly get out of this trick is the justification so I wish it would have been taught. With that, this would have been 5 stars easily.

I do just want to point out that you can do this trick with two or four people as well, and when you do this trick with the number of people that you have at the table and you make it clear at the beginning that you are going to do this on everybody the justification issue is not so much of a problem so this becomes a five star trick again as it rightly should have been all along.