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Decked Out

Postby Johnny Bravo » Oct 4th, '06, 02:50



The Effect

The blurb from http://www.alakazam.co.uk/

A deck of cards are shown to be all red backed and all in a mixed order! One card is selected from the pack. The cards are respread to show that the backs have now all turned blue! The cards are now spread face up to show that they have unshuffled themselves and are in new deck order!

You run your finger along the deck until you find there is one card missing and it's your spectators selected card!

Very easy to do, the specially printed deck does all the work for you! No r&s and no short and long!


Cost
£12.00

Difficulty
(1=easy to do, 2=No sleights, but not so easy, 3=Some sleights used,
4=Advanced sleights used, 5=Suitable for experienced magicians only)
1-2

Review
I just liked the sound of this deck when I was browing around alakazam so I bought it, pretty sure how it worked but wanted to give it a try. So the workings are fairly obvious to us guys & gals.

I want to like this deck but I can't get to grips with some aspects of it.

1. Your handling has to be very careful when spreading through the cards as a flash can easily occur, yes this can be avoided by fanning instead of spreading.
2. The force used in this is not a force I generally use & not a force I want to use. Because your wrist killing at the same time due to the deck it makes the force appear more er forced to my mind. Instructions say you can also do a riffle force but this has to be a very closed riffle which again is followed by a wrist kill..
3. Keeping track of the deck rotation.

The cards by the way are printed on similar stock to bicycle, with a similar back pattern.

This is the only colour change deck I own so I can't compare it to anything else. I like the effect this can create but the niggles above lead me to laying this deck to one side for now. Not in the lets sell pile but the I'll come back to it maybe pile.

Overall
Hard to review, the deck does as it says on the tin, if the above niggles doesn't bother you then great but for a one effect deck it needs to much attention for my liking. I like to chatter away not worry to much about what my cards are doing...

5/10
:) :) :) :) :)

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Postby magictaffy » Oct 4th, '06, 21:07

Hi Johnny,

You might be interested in a video demo at JBTV.co.uk Mark Mason shows his handling which might help.
Regards,
Paul.

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