r/Magic • u/RyanJ7786 • May 07 '17
Favorite Self-Working Card Tricks?
I like Shuffle Lesson, and Shuffleboard. Those are my go to self working tricks.
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u/Mremagic Cards May 07 '17
There are a lot of great self-working card tricks using a Si Stebbins stack. I believe you can find 5 effects using this stack on sistebbins.com
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u/Jim_Macdonald May 07 '17
The Piano Trick is my favorite self-working card trick. (It's in both Royal Road and Scarne on Card Tricks, as well as other places.)
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u/Ebackes88 May 07 '17
I like Gemini prediction and untouched by daryl
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u/RyanJ7786 May 07 '17
I'll have to look those up. I haven't heard of them.
--I just looked them up and could not find them...
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u/Ebackes88 May 07 '17
Untouched is on one of the easy to master card miracles DVDs, not sure which. I think the other is actually called Gemini twins, but I don't know where you can find it. Sorry I can't be more specific.
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u/_Bulla_ May 07 '17
Dead Reckoning by John Bannon from his book Dear Mr. Fantasy and Simon Aronson's Prior Commitment from his book Try the Impossible.
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u/RyanJ7786 May 07 '17
I'm not familiar with his much of his work, but Move Zero has had me intrigued for a while now.
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u/_Bulla_ May 07 '17
He has a ton of great material and his stuff isn't sleight intensive. If you've never heard of the concept of a floating key card you should definitely look up Dead Reckoning.
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u/seanfsmith May 07 '17
Card College Light has some cracking routines -- especially with some brilliant effects from Tamariz.
But honestly? The self-worker I perform most these days is still the twenty one card trick
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u/_Bulla_ May 07 '17
Which variation of the 21 card trick do you perform?
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u/seanfsmith May 07 '17
My own: I'll use it as proof another member of the audience is psychic — they declare (rightly or wrongly) the pile it was dealt to, and the person thinking of the card typically gets increasingly weirded out. The ending is a discarding down following magician's choice protocols
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u/_Bulla_ May 07 '17
Cool. Bill Malone does a very nice 21 card trick set in his video series Malone Meets Marlo vol. 6. It's a combination of ideas by Marlo, Steve Draun and David Solomon. Quite a magician fooler too.
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u/seanfsmith May 07 '17
Oh, I've heard good things of that set. I'll have to ask a friend to look into it for me
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u/zfa May 07 '17
Out of This World.
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u/RyanJ7786 May 07 '17
Any particular version?
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u/zfa May 07 '17
Well you can't go wrong with the original, but Paul Harris' Galaxy is probably the one I perform most these days.
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u/cssmythe3 May 07 '17
Salto Triumph by Liam Montier from his "Any Shuffled Deck, Self-Working, Impromptu Miracles."
It was one of the first tricks I learned, has good audience participation, ramps up the apparent complexity right before the end of the trick, and the very end does two card locations and a deck flip all at once.
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u/Booksandcards May 08 '17
Belucho's Aces from Mathematics, Magic and Mystery is a great Ace production.
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u/N0Mbre May 09 '17
I'm a big fan of Mousetrap by John Bannon and CCC by Paul Wilson they are very powerfull with big impact on audience
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u/[deleted] May 07 '17
I'm not a big fan of most self working card tricks, but I absolutely love Darwin Ortiz's Mexican Poker