Signed Card to Sealed Deck
by Professor Spellbinder
Ordinarily, I hate card tricks. I haven't let that stop me
from creating a few, but to get me interested enough in working
on it, it has to be really special. This one, that I published in
1999, is.
You have a spectator select a card from a brand new,
sealed-in-cellophane, red-backed deck. The spectator signs across
the face of the card. You do a couple of Ambitious Card bits,
where the card is lost in the shuffled deck and finds its way
back up to the top. I'll leave that up to you... that's the part
I find boring, but I'll suggest some routines from the old magic
books as usual.
The kicker comes when the card completely disappears from the
deck and can't be found at all. You drop onto the table a
blue-backed deck sealed in cellophane. The deck is opened by the
spectator and spread out, backs up. In the middle of the spread
is one red backed card.
You do a fancy flourish to flip all the cards over, trying
not to lose them on the floor as always happens to me. I really
should practice that move more often, but as I say, I hate card
tricks. Anyway, you somehow flip the spread over and point out
that the deck is still in order, since it was a brand new sealed
deck. The spectator goes down the cards and locates what should
be the duplicate blue-backed version of her card, but it just
happens to be the red-backed signed card that was missing from
the other deck and in the exact order it should be within a brand
new deck. As an optional after thought, you may now find the
blue-backed duplicate unsigned card in the red deck. If you have
to do a card trick, do a real knockout, I always say.
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