talkmagic.co.uk

The Effect Cassandra deck/Fem fatal



Cost £22 for cassandra £29 fem fatal both from alakazam.co.uk



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)

would suggest maybe between 2-4



Review according to the stuff on alakazam..."In 1999 magic history was made. Less than 50 professional mentalists were invited to own a new special deck and for this honor they each paid $100! After the 50 decks were gone, many pros tried to get one of these wonderful decks, but were turned away. The secret was to be kept exclusive for four years. Now that time is up and you can own the same deck for much, much less!


The Cassandra Deck is unlike anything you've seen before. Here are just two of the many effects possible:


You write a prediction on a slip of paper and place it aside. The deck is slowly shown to a spectator. She sees that every card is different. It is riffled toward her again and this time she silently remembers any card she sees. You're able to tell her exactly which card she mentally chose! And better yet, written on the slip of paper is the name of the same card!

A deck of cards is shown to contain all different cards, then wrapped with a rubberband and tossed into the audience. Any number of people can peek at cards and you identify each person's card! Not all the cards at once, but each card one at a time!

Important Features


The deck can be ribbon spread on a table to show all 52 different cards.

There are no specially printed cards, nothing added or taken away.

Each card can be chosen by hand or examined by the spectator.

You know exactly where any thought-of card is in the deck.

The deck can be cut and shuffled repeatedly.

The spectator never has to write anything.

The effects can be repeated with different cards mentally chosen each time.

Very easy to do! No memorization or difficult sleight-of-hand required. "

Overall the deck is a variation on a well known principle and although it will fool people there are certain "giveaways" to the technique. the accompanying book also has 64 "original" tricks except the first 3 which you get with the cassandra deck.
If you are handy enough yourself you could just buy the "fem fatal" as it explains how to make your own deck

would give this a 6/10