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The Stuff
Lecture video; contains eight effects.

Cost
$18 by Office Magic Fantasia

Difficulty
1 Teaches you some of the most basic sleights in close detail; (Se**et A**ition, B**ak, Gl**e, D***** L***, controling the cards to the top/bottom, E****** C****.)

Review
"Gathering Aces"
A magician displays four Aces which is dealt respectively onto the table. Having placed three indifferent cards on top of each Aces, the spec chooses one pile. It is under that pile the Aces are gathered.

"Dissappearing Aces"
A magician places four aces face-up on the table. Three indifferent cards are placed on each card. The magi waves his hand over the piles and the aces have dissapeared from each pile.

"Stop Card"
The specator picks a card which is then lost in the middle of the deck. The magi starts dealing from the bottom, and the spec calls stop whenever she wants. The next card she stopped at is the card she has chosen.

"Elevator Card"
The magi shows Ace, 2 and 3 which are dealt on the table. The rest of the deck is placed on the 3, and it rises to the top! The 2 is then placed on top of the deck, and it magically descends to the bottom of the deck. The A is then lost in the middle of the deck, but it jumps on the top.

"Changing Card"
A spectator picks a card, and the magi attempts to call it but it turns out to be a wrong card. The spec holds on to the wrong card but it magically changes to her selection!

"Ambitious Card"
Classic made simple. The spectator's selection, even though it is lost in the middle of the deck, jumps on top. This is repeated several times but the card still rises to the top.

"Oil and Water"
Three black cards and three red cards are displayed. Each card is placed on top of each other on the table, thoroughly mixing the colour. But when the magi shakes the packet, the colour of the packet has seperated into black and red.

"Oil and Queen"
My favourite in this video. The magi displays four red cards and four black cards. Two reds and two blacks are placed on the table, but when the packet held in the magi's hand is looked at they are all reds! This seems to mean that the cards on the table are all blacks, but they are Queens!

Overall
First instructional video I've ever bought! All effects is taught by Keita Shibuya, and this video is the second one in the series. I'm still a beginner to card magic and am glad that he teaches how to do the sleights, especially a d***** **** properly (I did come up with my own, but wasn't sure how a "normal" D* was done). None of the tricks featured require extra cards, gimmicked cards or more than one deck of cards; i.e. all the effects can be achieved using only one deck, so I guess that's a plus for me.