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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Published routines with detailed instruction, performance tips, and insights into effects.
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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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Aerostatic Milk Bottle
Based on the Stewart James Tip-See Milk Bottle, Hocus-Pocus offers a well-made new version of this wonderful effect. It’s perfect for stand-up or stage, but a close-up audience may be too close.
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The Clown’s Nightmare
Should you really be tempted to buy four unprepared sponge balls for $35? Well, if anyone asks it like that, it sounds crazy. But these neat sponge balls are perfectly suited for Mario Lopez’s great routine, The Clown’s Nightmare.
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The Predator Pack
Predict any freely named card with 100% accuracy and no sleight of hand. A neat way of upping your “Invisible Deck” game.
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Cheater’s Chips
A set of casino-quality poker chips that give the magician an inside edge; a secret hidden in plain sight.