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ive got several svengali decks including both red and blue bicycle. and i was wondering just telling the performance not the method does anyone know any routines you wouldnt normally think of using a svengali deck with and thats just ordinary svengali deck no ghost svengali or blank to normal deck.

I encourage you to grab a pocket notebook and pencil. Keep it on you at all times. Jot down your magic related ideas whenever they come to you, regardless of how silly or minor they may seem.

On page one of the notebook, start dreaming up effects that you would like to achieve that would loosely be based on the Svengali deck(s). Some like to learn a method and then come up with the effect. Others prefer to work the other way around by starting with the effect and working backwards. With this exercise you'll be combining the two. More importantly, you'll learn how to think for yourself (don't mean that rudely) and start the habit of using the pad.

Somewhere else in the notebook, start a list of items that the underlying L&S principle of the Svengali may be applied. You'll be surprised as to what you come up with and the effects that will be possible.

Card Magic USA has a nice hidden Sven effect. You might want to check out Britland's Bogus Effect, too.

Encyclopedia of card tricks-Jean Hugard & Fredrick Braue

101 tricks with a svengali deck. $3.00 US, not sure what that would be in UK, 476 billion pounds?

bmat wrote:101 tricks with a svengali deck. $3.00 US, not sure what that would be in UK, 476 billion pounds?

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