The 3 Card Tricks Every Magician Should Learn

2876 magicians were asked to recommend just 3 magic card tricks

they thought every magician should learn.

Choosing magic card tricks can be very confusing. These are so many card tricks to choose from and they all have different results and levels of ability. The good news is that a few card tricks stand out above all the others to be the core tricks almost every beginner and expert should own. We polled 2876 magicians and asked them to recommend just 3 magic card tricks they thought every magician should learn.

THE BEST BUY CARD TRICK WINNERS

The Invisible Deck

The Svengali Deck

The Stripper Deck

The results were pretty much to be expected. Each of the most popular choices for magic card tricks turned out to be solid, easy to learn magic playing card decks that do the hard work for you. The special playing card decks are all specially gimmicked to give the owner the ability to perform a wide range of magic tricks, rather than being ‘one trick ponies’.

The most popular first choice was the Invisible Deck, getting over 61% of the votes.

Starting with self working magic card tricks is a great idea. The deck performs the technical part of the magic trick itself, which allows the performer to focus on his presentation and timing. It’s a great way to build confidence in your magic.

The decks are also the preferred starting magic tricks for kids. The instructions are easy to follow, and kids can do easy to follow tricks at first, then work up to more advanced tricks as they develop. Picking magic card tricks that grow with a kids’ abilities makes real sense.

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How to Script and Construct a Magic Show

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Here’s one of the most common questions the magicians at the magic shop get asked:

‘How do I make a magic act,

that flows well and is correctly scripted?’

The magic shop is full of card tricks, coin tricks, big tricks, small tricks. There’s more tricks than any magician could ever hope to perform! Picking awesome tricks is the easy part. The hard part is building them together to create a professional act.

When you order a new trick, it usually comes with an instructional DVD or book, teaching you how to do it, but there’s usually something left out. The real secrets to improving your magic tricks:

How you perform your tricks.
What you say when you perform.
How you act and present yourself.
The way tricks fit together.

This knowledge is why you can watch two different magicians, both performing the same magic trick, and both doing the moves really well, but one will seem much more polished and entertaining than the other. The secret is in the scripting and the performers routine construction.

If you find you lack confidence performing your tricks, or freeze, when it comes to doing your tricks in front of people, you need to study how to present your magic, more than you need new tricks to perform.

The following books are core texts on the subject of making a script for a magic trick and how to improve your performance as a magician. They are required reading for any of the MoM magicians.

Strong Magic by Darwin Ortiz

Maximum Entertainment by Ken Weber

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Luke Dancy Talks to Woody Aragon About Magic and Memorandum

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Woody Q&A

Luck Dancy chats with Woody Aragón about his new book Memorandum.

Woody is regarded to be one of the most important creators of card magic alive today. His first book, A Book in English, was a bestseller that influenced top magicians. Names such as Penn & Teller, Eric Jones and Pit Hartling choose Woody’s tricks for their shows. The reason? Woody’s magic is perfectly constructed, it’s justified, it works…

MEMORANDUM teaches magicians a revolutionary work on the memorized deck.

The Memorandum stack: A memorized deck that has all the benefits of Tamariz’s Mnemonica and Aronson’s stack, plus extra dimensions that make it one of the most powerful stacks created.

Learn more about Memorandum