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Openers – 3 Recommended Card Magic Tricks

by Dominic Reyes 1 Comment

The best magic tricks that are opners

Card magic tricks can be an excellent choice for the first trick you perform for your spectators. The first magic trick is often called an ‘opener’ by magicians.

The card magic tricks to use as openers need to have several important qualities:

  • The card magic tricks need to be fast.
  • They need to be visual and easy to understand.
  • The card magic tricks must be stunning to get peoples attention.
  • They should be easy to perform, so nothing can go wrong.
  • The card magic tricks should set a strong and consistent tone for the act.

The team at the Merchant of Magic have hand picked 6 card magic tricks that they feel would be an excellent choice for an act opener.

If you would like to find out more about using card magic tricks as openers, check out this article: How to choose Card Magic Tricks  that Make Good Openers

 Great Card Magic Trick Openers:

The Invisible Deck

A deck of bicycle playing cards that allows you to perform a wide variety of magic card tricks to your spectators.

Imagine having an invisible deck of playing cards become a visible deck and proving it by also having the freely selected invisible playing card instantly become visible as well. With the invisible deck you can get a spectator to call up a friend who somehow names the one playing card you have turned over in the bicycle deck prior to the call. There are many, many other uses.

 

The Ambitious Card

The Ambitious Card

It’s been said that the Ambitious Card may be the most magical thing you can perform with a deck of cards, and with this DVD and the classic routines and performers it offers, you’ll never be at a loss for yet another way to make the spectator’s card come to the top of the deck as if by magic.

Identity

Identity

Approach anyone complete stranger and have a card selected, marked and then shuffled fully into the deck of cards. Next, you simply make a series of random marks on the back of any indifferent playing card. Those marks VISIBLY JUMP from card to card, finally VANISHING COMPLETELY. The cards are slowly spread to show the marks on the back of one card… It’s the spectator’s signed selection. ANOTHER impossible kicker… You offer the card to the spectator to keep. But to make it unique to them… You just give the card a shake… THE MARKS ON THE BACK OF THE CARD MAGICALLY AND VISUALLY FUSE INTO THE SPECTATOR’S VERY OWN NAME!

 

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Why You Should Learn Self Working Card Tricks

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Ultimate Self Working Card TricksYou want to be working on your core skill set of sleights, but you also need some great magic effects that you can learn quickly so you can start performing right away. Building your abilities as a magician is not about mastering knuckle busting moves. We all know many magicians who can do amazing sleights and flourishes, but when asked to actually show us a trick, they just look a bit blank and lost. You should perform as much as possible right from the start, so you learn stage craft, timing, audience control and showmanship skills. Adding some self working tricks, is a perfect way to balance both your practice and performance training.

THE PROBLEM:

There are a huge range of magic books and DVD’s available that teach self working tricks, but if you already own a few, you will understand how disappointing many of them can be. Stuffed full of boring mechanical procedures and complicated story plots. There is a massive gap in the market for a good teaching guide that gives professional quality tricks, suitable for magicians wanting to do magic without any knuckle busting moves and sleights.

ONE  ANSWER AND HOW YOU CAN TRY IT FOR FREE:

All the team are very impressed with a magic training DVD for total beginners, and also working pro’s. I think it is a perfect solution to this problem. The guiding principles that started the project is excellent. To put together a set of very strong professional tricks, that are self working, and strip away all the complicated plots and abstract nonsense found in most collections of this nature. The project fits perfectly with the teaching principles MoM uses with magicians that come for personal tuition to the shop, and we now recommend this DVD to all our students doing training with us. In fact, we love it so much, we would like to invite you to try the tricks for free.

Ultimate Self Working Card tricks

You probably already have some DVDs or magic books on the subject of self working tricks already. However, these tend to be full of terrible mathematical procedures and magic tricks so well known you could have found them on the back of a box of cereal! 

This DVD is COMPLETELY DIFFERENT.

You will learn eleven of the best card magic tricks ever invented.

Magic tricks that will simply freak out your audiences. The best part.. Every single magic trick taught to you HAPPENS to be self working. That’s the secret. These magic tricks are easy enough for a beginner, but POWERFUL ENOUGH FOR A WORKING PROFESSIONAL MAGICIAN. Even better, most of this material is very little known. 

There are magic tricks you can perform when a mate gives you half a dog-eared deck… and there are magic tricks that you can do for a large group that will blow their minds.

A team of some of the very best magicians has contributed material.

Presented by James Went (host of CBBC’s ‘Help, My Supply Teacher Is Magic’), Liam Montier, Iain Moran and Owen Packard, the DVD is full of tips & ideas on how to present these tricks. You also get a special bonus section featuring a range of false cuts if you want to develop your magic technique further. (You don’t have to use these. These magic tricks are all 110% sleight of hand free!).

 

You will be able to perform:

Contact Colors (Aldo Colombini)
Impossible (Mike Austin)
Shuffling Lesson (Chad Long)
Henry Sugar (Liam Montier)
Pre-Prefiguration (Larry Jennings / Mark Elsdon)
Your Aces Are Marked (Terry Lagerould)
Shufflebored (Simon Aronson)
The 7/16 Club (Alex Elmsley)
Impossible (Larry Jennings)
4,5,6 (Al Thatcher)
Unbelievable (By Shields, F. Michael And Bascom Jones, Jr)

Ultimate Self Working Card Tricks is an essential collection for anyone wanting to add some strong useable card magic to their magic.

NO SKILL!!

NO MOVES

NO DIFFICULT SLEIGHT OF HAND

NOTHING.

Just you, your own deck of playing cards and some of the most stunning magic ever taught.

With material from the likes of Simon Aronson, Chad Long, Aldo Colombini and Alex Elmsley you get a total insight into some of the most respected magical thinkers alive today.

 

Download a sample here

 

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Best Valentines Day Magic Tricks for Couples

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Valentines Day Magic Tricks

These are the magic tricks well recommend to perform for Valentines Day. When selecting these tricks, we consulted a wide range of professional magicians, and asked them which magic tricks they used for couples. A wide range of magic tricks were suggested, but all with the theme of romance, love and people connecting. The magic tricks are also a perfect choice for wedding magicians.

As well as the top 6 Valentines Day tricks, we have also listed 6 tricks that are perfect to impress someone special on Valentines Day.

Valentines Day Magic Tricks for Couples

Anniversary Waltz

Anniversary Waltz

Michael Ammar once wrote that one of the principles key to making a magic effect memorable to an audience is to alter an object magically and then give it away in its altered state. A souvenir of this kind will be treasured forever and there’s been perhaps no better example of this kind of effect than one in which two playing cards, signed by the spectators, are magically fused into a single card. Not glued or fasted in any way; they actually become one single card.

Linking Hearts

Linking Hearts

Paul Romhany has created one of the most commercial routines for magicians who perform close-up, walk-about or street magic. These rings are specially designed and crafted using high quality 5″ metal, and plated three times to make them durable enough for the toughest working conditions. They are the perfect size to fit in your pocket making them one of the most commercial routines for magicians today – the performance possibilities are endless.

One Card Link

One Card Link

“OCL is not a pipe dream. This is the real deal. Destined to go straight into the working repertoire of every magician. Destined to become a classic.” – Richard Sanders

From one playing card you tear two rings, each of these rings is signed. The two rings are held together, one behind the other. With one smooth motion you visually link them. No magnets, no tape, no illusions. They are actually linked.

The best part is, you can immediately hand it out for inspection. Nothing to find and perhaps the most impossible souvenir you could give out.

 

Twilight Angles

Twilight Angels

Twilight Angels is Paul Harris’ all time favorite effect from TA. This classic PH Astonishment is finally available with a full deck of 52 different refills…so you can give away a different value card every time you do Twilight Angels!

That's Amore

That’s Amore

Now you will be ready to perform close up magic with a romantic touch that is perfect for such an occasion. Here is a collection of special tricks from Reed McClintock, Sean-Dylan Reidweg, Keven Williams, Michael Sibbernson, Tomas Blomberg, Marcelo Contento, Matt Williams, Luke Dancy, Steve Mayhew, Greg Wilson, and of course Nathan Kranzo.

These are the things that will make them remember you for a long time since it all seems so special just for them. Believe me, when the occasion arises and you do one or more of these effects, you can’t miss!!!

Folding Money Fooling

Folding Money Fooling

From Robert E. Neale’s Preface: “This book contains twenty new and novel models that perform in these amusingly unexpected ways; all are folded from dollar bills. They are created for adults, but many will entertain children-especially the finger puppets in Puppet Poetry and the tale illustrated with many different shapes in A Boy’s Modest Adventure. A rabbit pops out of a top hat in Bunny Bill, a model popular among magicians.”

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