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I'm probably just echoing what everyone else has said in that I perform a
few effects with cards using a duplicate (normal) deck, put that away and perform something completely different and when I announce that I am about to do some more work with cards, I bring out the ID which is a identical looking pack of blue Bikes.
No one has ever asked to inspect the deck and neither had they reason to. The earlier tricks are often ones where the SPECTATOR handles the cards a lot which in their mind reinforces the suggestion they are normal cards as if they were a 'trick' deck, they wouldn't have been able to handle them so freely.
A great effect for this is Miraskill in Hugard's ENCYCLOPEDIA OF CARD TRICKS. Not only is it a fantastic routine, it is also one where the deck is completely out of your hands throughout which (1) makes the end result more amazing and (2) sets them up nicely for the ID and suchlike.

As has been said before, if you present the trick well enough noone will ask to see the cards as the thought of it somehow being a trick deck will never enter their heads (especially if you've done a whole routine with an identical deck and swap them, or give them a magicians choice of multiple decks or whatever).

Personally I like to present the ID when doing a mentalism routine. Once they've picked their card I talk about NLP and suggestion, to plant the idea that they didn't have a free choice at all. Then when I show them one face down card they assume it's been face down all along because they think the trick is getting them to say a particular card rather than reversing whatever card they do say. But that only really works if you do magic with the kind of patter based around psychology and suggestion and the such.

Basically if I don't want someone to pry into how a trick is done, I give them an explanation. Just not the CORRECT explanation.

As the magician commonly known as Daryl once said "If you finish clean everything can be examined". Now if you don't know who Daryl is, then just remember the quote.

Crowd control can worker, but hecklers (people who like to try and bust you) can be difficult.

Always let the audience believe it's a fair deck, even if it isn't. As said before, deck switches aren't always ideal since it can be caught if you're not good at it. As seige said, build up using a fair deck to a rigged deck. They saw it before and saw the whole thing after, so there's no reason why they'd like to inspect it.

Also, avoid putting hands in pockets or fumbling. Spectators might ask to see pockets and all. If you're holding another deck for something else and they catch it, well too bad. Keep your body, especially hands in full view. Show them the deck of cards, coin, hankerchief, rope, whatever it may be to be inspected BEFORE doing the trick. If done properly, they'll be convinced that they saw it and have no idea how it's done.

If they ask how'd you do that or are amazed, you know you've done well.

i always make sure all my decks have the same bottom card...so you can leave a normal one face up for a little while as you chat, switch, chat some more, then leave them face up again until i begin the next thing i do..

Worldofreality wrote:

As the magician commonly known as Daryl once said

As the magician commonly known as Euguene Berger once said - you need to break every trick down into parts and then ensure that every one of those parts is presented to the audience so that they believe that what they have seen to be totally fair. If they see something suspicious, even though they may not know what they have seen, then they will not believe things to be fair and therefore the magic is weakened, perhaps ruined. If you present everything fairly then in principle, the spec should not ask to inspect the deck as it is already beyond suspicion.

Berger ends by saying that most magicians kid themselves that things are presented fairly when in fact they are not.