The Effect
The magician displays a BLUE BACK deck and shows that ALL the cards have DIFFERENT FACES!! Now the spectator stops the magician as he genuinely and slowly riffles through the cards. YOU STOP EXACTLY WHERE THE SPECTATOR CALLS STOP! The spectator peeks at the chosen card.
NOW with your magic jokers, you now cause the following to happen:
ALL the cards change to the freely selected card.
The complete deck now has a RED BACK!!
Cost
£12.50
Difficulty
2 - No sleights required but care must be taken in the handling of the pack
Available From
http://www.emagictricks.co.uk/product_i ... ts_id=4643
Review
I've received my pack this morning and I have already been able to test this out on 2 laymen to good effect.
Lets start with the good points. The good points are that the effect is very visual. You clearly appear to hold a blue backed deck of cards in your hand and when you spread thru them they are all clearly different cards. After they have "sneeked a peek" at their chosen card the manoeuvre to change the entire deck to the selected card is a very simple one and is HIGHLY EFFECTIVE as is the punchline when the entire deck changes to red backed.
On the good side then it is very easy to perform and learn and so long as you take care when handling the cards you shouldnt get busted. It is also highly effective visually.
On the bad side. The instructions are.........reversed! I have had to switch nearly every instruction to do something with the RIGHT to actually doing it with the LEFT simply because to follow the instructions to the letter feels like a very un-natural way to handle the deck and is very cack handed. I also found that by following the directions explicitly I was prone to exposing the secret due to my fumbling (more a case of me not being too card proficient). So rights and lefts reversed it became easier to handle the pack and perform the effect. (I'm naturally right-handed)
Another gripe is the fact that these cards cannot be shuffled or changed from the order they are currently in the deck. Not being able to shuffle them before a routine always indicates that they are staged to me. But then having said that it is only a personal gripe and not a slate on the quality of the effect.
One final gripe, they are not Bicycle backed cards which makes a deck switch (so spectator can look at cards after, something I'm always asked for after performing anything like this effect, Svengali for instance) that much more difficult.
Getting back to the good stuff. Whether you have to reverse the instructions rights and lefts OR whether you manage to handle the pack exactly as described the actual effect here is fantastic & easy to perform and as I have found out from my 2 laymen this morning has a very definite WOW factor.
Overall
A fantastic, full on visual experience with 2 unexpected punches. Anyone familiar with seeing Svengali routines (as my friends have become) will be blown away when the second punch hits home as you reveal the backs to be RED. I received the comment "Oh, I see, you've bought another one of those packs of cards again" only to watch those words completely fall out of his mouth 5 seconds later when I revealed the colour change also.
My gripes are minor really, the instructions could've been better thought out and presented more clearly but then even in my relatively short magical life this is something I have found to be quite common.
This is definitely worth getting. Emagictricks are the ONLY ones in the UK to supply this trick and when they're gone, they're gone. Whether amateur or professional you will stun with this and providing you have a good "OUT" for not showing them the deck to examine you will walk away leaving somone feeling like they have truly witnessed the impossible happen.
8/10 - the instructions prevent this from getting a 10.
PS: Any tips on OUTS for non-examination of deck would be greatly appreciated.