Salted 2.0
Rubén Villagrand’s salt pour gimmick brings a great deal of R&D to a classic stage and platform effect.
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Published routines with detailed instruction, performance tips, and insights into effects.
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Scotch and Whiskey
This is a classic Scotch and Soda set, but made with keys. There have been many other nesting key effects in the last few years, including some released after Scotch and Whiskey, but Hanson Chien really seems to have produced the most realistic-looking key.
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Zooming Box
This is a well-made gag which uses yet another property of the cell phone (zooming into a portion of a photograph) to create a visual surprise on a box of playing cards.
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Missing Finger
You may well wonder what sort of enhancement to “watch me pull my finger off” is waiting for you inside of the neat red box from Penguin Magic. Or indeed, whether “watch me pull my finger off” has been waiting for $25 of improvement.
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Super Picks
Josh Burch has seemingly replaced several different routines, like Scotch and Soda, or the Coin through the Coaster, or even Color Changing Knives, with a set of four special plastic guitar picks.
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Razor Card to Wallet
A signed card teleports to the zipper pocket of your wallet! A minimalist Card to Wallet with a modern aesthetic.
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Notion of Motion
This groundbreaking creation from Angelo Carbone allows you to make any freely-named card rise from a deck on your command. “Notion of the Motion” is a miracle-level effect that leaves people convinced they've witnessed real magic—even seasoned magicians.
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Mortenn’s Jumbo Card Trick
It falls into that delicious category where you’ll ask yourself, “Can it really be that simple?” It can. It’s an elegant solution and after playing with it in the mirror, you will be itching to put it in your show.
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Tannen's Magic
Tannen's Magic was started in the 1920s by Louis Tannen and has been run by Adam Blumenthal since 2010. It serves as a major destination for magicians visiting New York, and as a meeting place for the city’s burgeoning magic scene.
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The Invisible Coin
Some of the best tricks can be found in the bottom of your drawer, or in the back of an old catalog, or in a recollection of a Saturday afternoon at a magic shop. They’re not forgotten. In fact, you’d be surprised that those tricks are still as good as you thought they were.
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Omni Air
A solid through solid penetration with some surprises. Everything is visible at all times, and everything is built into a regular card box and the deck inside is a normal deck.
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Liquid Spectrum
Tobias Dostal’s package of special props is a wonderful variation on his Liquify plot, for the magicians who just can’t get enough of the visual liquify phenomenon.