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I noticed that if you fan bicycle deck the opposite way to normal that you get the appearance of one normal card and many blank cards.

By having a couple of two's, three's or ace's at the bottom and a blank card on the top the fan can be quite a spread especially the last two or three cards re-enforcing the blank deck feel.

I though of adapting this to a ambitious card trick, controlling the ace to the top a couple of times, pointing out that as they are all blanks (or leaving them to work that out) then we need to mark it to prove it is the same card each time. Finishing off by vanishing the blank signed card to display a normal deck. Could even dispose of the blank card by giving it as a souvenier before disclosing the normal deck. It cuts out some of the ambitious moves, but leaves at least five without disclosing the rest of the deck.

Anyone tried this, any comments on how to make this effective.

I have always fanned my cards backward. My back hand fan is much better than my forward fan. I normally do an effect with the blank deck. Seems to have gone down quite well, plays on the comedy of it too.

Several commercially available effects use this apparent blank deck as part of their routines. It can be very convincing if done right!