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What and how many cards deck should I buy?(red, blank,etc...) Im a beginner.

For a total beginner? Just get yourself some regular Bicycle cards, about four decks of them to start with, and a good book on card tricks to learn from!

Hi meskis1995. If you're a total beginner a good place to start would be Royal Road to Card Magic. This is where most of us started and it is considered required reading. If you use the search function you will find plenty of information on this and many other books. A couple of red decks and a couple of blue decks is all you'll need, id stay away from blank cards and such for now. If you want to try other areas besides cards, Mark Wilsons Complete course in Magic covers a wide range of effects, and will introduce you to coins, cups and balls, ropes, sponge balls etc. Again, if you use the search function you'll find all the information you need on this book, including a full list of contents. jim

Here's a tip: avoid the expensive decks of 'gaff' cards. They look fantastic in the adverts but are next to useless in real life. The only gaff cards you'll likely need (later) are double-faced, double-backed or mis-indexed. Usually these are cheap. There are probably a few types I've neglected to mention, but you get the idea I hope.

For a beginner, I would recommend a couple of normal decks and a good book. Royal Road is good but if you can afford it, I would get Card College as I think it's easier to get into. I think there are five volumes; you can just get the first one to begin with. It's got enough in it to keep you busy for a long time. While you're at it, get the Mark Wilson book, too.

I'll second Mark Wilson's book, the card section is very good and proabaly the easiest to follow that I've come across. As well as cards, it'll teach you other areas of magic too.

It's always worth nipping in to your local library - whilst the slection on Magic is usually vey poor, the three local libraries I can get to all have Mark Wilson's book on the shelf and they can probably order RRTCM and other books for you, that way you can check them out before buying. For some daft reason, all thee libraries refered to seem to have far more magic books in the Junior Section - I noticed that Nick Einhorn's books are shelved there even though they apply to all ages, not just the youngsters.