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Hmmm...

Well, it's nice to make the ambitious card as varied as YOU want it to be.

Personally, one of my favourite openers is to do a 4-way (or less) ambitious card routine. (i.e. 4 cards are selected by 4 spectators, and the cards dance around the deck in unexplained ways)

In this scenario, snapping the fingers is not enough.

I have all sorts of 'revelations' which appeal to me... top 10...

1: Snap the fingers
2: Sneak a peek - "No, not there yet!!!" Then, Erdnase colour change - "Ahh, there it is!!!"
3: DL - show top card indifferent. Turn card, hand selection to speccy - they think it's indifferent, it's really their choice. Snap fingers - show top card - same indifferent as before? How can this be? They look at their card - WOW!
4: Ambitious card vanishes from deck. Appears somewhere TOTALLY obscure (requires a dupe card/force)
5: Ambitious card appears on BOTTOM of deck
6: The spectators EXPECT the card to be on top... NO! It's reversed, and in the centre of the deck.
7: Ambitious card is separated from deck, and put in envelope. Mysteriously, after 'snap', the card in envelope is indifferent, Ambitious card is in centre of deck (see No. 3)
8: Let SPECCY put card in deck, then get them to shuffle. You take back the deck, snap fingers, card rises to top once more (Get Taper-End Cut deck!!!)
9: Ambitious card is signed - to prove only 1 card of it's kind in deck. Placed FAIRLY in centre of deck. Deck is squared and rubber-banded. Envelope which has been in full view all the time is shown, with ambitious SIGNED card inside (see Bob Kohler's Black Envelope!!!)
10: Ambitious card's back changes colour - blue back card in red deck??? How??? Easy!!!

There is always the one where you let the spectator shuffle your ordinary deck then take it back and show the top card to be the ambitious one (no, large hands aren't needed!).