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Tell you what Alex, I'm gonna go experiment with setting cards on fire in my garden now, i'll try differnt methods.

[Edit] Well After Burning Myself twice with a stupid zippo because of freak winds, i gave up. Even with a card soaked in lighter fluid it doesn't damn catch very well. Just having the lighter near it dried the damn thing out! And tissue paper didn't work with me either.[/Edit]

yeah i didnt get very far either besides setting part of my deck on fire...it dries to quick and then it doesnt light

real problem is is the coating on the card are kid of water resistant so try getting a very fine needle and syringe and injecting a small bubble of lighter fluid from the edge of the of the card down to the middle (but be gentle ) and remember you dont need tonnes a very small amout will do as ones the lighter burns thru the coating the fluid will burn in to ther card in a few seconds

I used a stunt where a card selected ends up in an envelope covered in "tissue paper" (flash paper) for protection. Explaining how the card now possesed super-natural qualities, I would demonstrate this by setting fire to the "tissue".

"And that's just from touching the card for a few moments!" I would explain to the stunned punter.

I used this stunt until Sunday night when the flash paper set off the restaurant's fire alarm and the place had to be evacuated. Who said magic wasn't a dangerous profession!

...if you used a card with high amounts of negative space/white on it, say a two and cut yourself a template out of flash paper and then attach it to the card - couldn't you then set-fire to the card (well, in fact the flash-paper part) and then show the card unharmed?

obviously you'd use a duplicate for the force itself...