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Cameron Francis V.I.P. 7025 Posts |
What a great list!
I'll mention two that I didn't see on the list (although I could have missed them): Stephen Tucker's "Ken's Repeat Wild Card". I believe this was (is?) a marketed item sold by Stephen in which six red backed jokers change into six blue backed jokers and then change into a completely different back design. Completely examinable at the end. There's a YouTube clip of this. Also, Peter Duffie has an effect called "Wildlife" which can be found in his book "Subtle Miracles". A set of Kings and Queens are printed on eight blank cards.
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Medifro Inner circle Miami 1258 Posts |
Speaking of Peter Duffie, he has an EXCELLENT version in Inspirations ( later complied in Card Zones ).
Duffie, Peter. "Born to be Wild", Inspirations ( complied in Card Zones, page 100 ). Setup is 3 court cards on top, 3rd is reversed. No gimmicks. Spot cards change into courts, GREAT visuals. I haven't seen lots of wild cards, but the above is really good. Not easy, but certainly a hidden gem. -Feras |
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Paul Inner circle A good lecturer at your service! 4409 Posts |
And another I didn't see listed is Terry LaGerauld's "Wild Mona" . You have empty picture frames on cards and a Mona Lisa picture, from which you create forgeries. A cute 5 card variant that again is suitable for doing for those rare people that don't like card tricks.
And there's my other one, Water To Wine, commercially available since 2008. Paul. |
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Cameron Francis V.I.P. 7025 Posts |
Ooh, forgot about Born to Be Wild. That one is excellent!
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FeiFongWong New user 75 Posts |
I apologise if this has already been brought up, but is there a source for Fred Kaps' routine with business cards. I think it's a wonderful hook, and gives Wild Card a 'real' aspect.
Although I still don't think it rivals Tommy Wonder's presentation; probably my favourite plot in any trick, ever. |
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Paul Inner circle A good lecturer at your service! 4409 Posts |
Anyone who has Small But Deadly will find a few more listed in there that have not been mentioned yet, if they care to look in the Peter Kane chapter I do discuss various wild card effects. I suddenly feel uncomfortable plundering my own research which has been readily available for years, lol.
It simply makes sense for anyone truly wanting to study wild card routines rather than look at lists to obtain the books written on it by Racherbaumer and Garcia, the chapter in "Small But Deadly" and actually buy some of the most popular marketed versions. Cervon's "Really Wild" mentioned earlier as appearing in Genii also appears in the book "The Cervon File". As with some of the other routines mentioned the title is a little misleading in that the effect is NOT really a wild card effect. There is no wild card. Eight aces taken from two decks change into eight kings. an odd card is used, a joker, to turn cards over in the routine, buy the cards do not change into the odd card, so it is not a wild card effect. You have to draw a line as to what is and isn't a wild card effect or you could simply include any packet effect where cards change as a wild card routine which is simply not the case. For it to be a wild card effect then cards have to change to match an odd card. Just because a routine contains moves that may be used/useful in a wild card routine does not mean it should be listed in a collection of wild card routines. Paul. |
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ghageman Regular user 112 Posts |
Tommy WOnder's Tamed Card for me is the winner!
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Tom Dobrowolski Special user 655 Posts |
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On 2009-01-23 22:36, dinger136 wrote: Thanks Scott (and Curtis) for the mention and kind words. I've goten a lot out of the routine over the years and hope others will as well. |
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trainwing New user Hendersonville, TN 44 Posts |
I must add "JINKS" by Gordon Bean to this list. It is a wonderful Wild Card type effect; also a in-the-hands type trick. Dobrowski's version is wonderful, but that's a very tough move for many people. It looks easy on the DVD, but I don't know too many folks that have mastered it. Jinks is still available at Bean's website, but hard to find elsewhere, but worth checking out.
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Magnalucius Loyal user Ecuador 210 Posts |
Another for the list:
Mythos, by Diamond Jim Tyler. In this efect, the cards transform into mirrors. I really love, is a moment of astonishment for the public.
Lux In Tenebris
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Lawrence O Inner circle French Riviera 6811 Posts |
Gordon Bean is a nice catch but Mythos was already there (you don't lose anything because we don't get anything when we find one)
I also fetched Stiff, Rob: Underground Magic DVD Underground Wild Cards
Magic is the art of emotionally sharing live impossible situations
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Tom Dobrowolski Special user 655 Posts |
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On 2009-01-26 16:45, trainwing wrote: Thanks for the nice comment trainwing. I'm not sure which move you're talking about in the routine but if you contact me maybe I can assist. There's nothing too difficult in it or I wouldn't be able to do it. Lawrence O GREAT list. I appreciate your efforts ! Thanks. |
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trainwing New user Hendersonville, TN 44 Posts |
I never even heard of Mythos until I read it above. So I looked up the video demo online and it IS a real surprise effect! I'll have to get me one.
Just one little personal issue with Mythos, and others that use the table - you have to have a table! Often this isn't practical. I personally like stuff I can do in my hands, or at least use spectator's hands to place cards in. I don't believe you can practically use spectator's hands doing table Wild Card effects like Mythos. (At least I'd feel uncomfortable trying to pull that off.) The packet effects I carry with me all of the time are Kane's original Gypsy Curse (using Queens and Nines)and Jinks. It has nothing to do with this topic, but incidentally I also carry Goldstein's Pointer, Bannon's Royal Scam (which I need a table for - so much for the above objection - har har), Martin Lewis's Rabbit Test, El Duco's Card Rings Plus, and either a standard or jumbo Sidewalk Shuffle. (I've gone through a zillion Monte effect, but ol' Sidewalk Shuffle is simply the greatest there ever was or ever will be.) Snuff said. |
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Magnalucius Loyal user Ecuador 210 Posts |
I think Mythos is not for table hopping. It is a kind of effect for somehting like Close Up Theater. I tell the story of Yao, the Chaos monters and the mirrors, then I do Mythos with a poem of Borges. I arrange the scene: a skulls mirror, a pair of candles, may be some incense. The result? A little piece of theater, with a deep moment of amazing magic.
Lux In Tenebris
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natmagic Veteran user USA 301 Posts |
I've had a lot of fun with Romhany's Bunnies Gone Wild. In this version (basic wild card plot and moves) you show photos of rabbits out of a hat and one 'playboy bunny'. The bunny rabbits all turn to playboy bunnies. It's a fun routine with a cute plot.
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Rpascual Special user USA 667 Posts |
I liked a wild card I saw in apocalypse but soon forgot:S hope some1 can help me oout.
it's basically a wild card routine with jokers and changing backs with a lot of elmsley counts really awesome! |
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sohaib Special user San Ramon, CA 577 Posts |
This is a GREAT thread!
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TAJ Regular user 197 Posts |
Fred Kaps version of wild card on youtube is perfection. I love that man.
-Taj |
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Lawrence O Inner circle French Riviera 6811 Posts |
Stand in the line of admirers.
I was lucky enough that he accepted teaching me a few things (cups and balls, purse frame routine, Spellbound, paper to bills and a few other things always with an accent on presenting effects) when, at the very end of the 1970s, I was trading oil in Monaco and he was working at the Loewes there: I'm still not over it and I'm also in the line of admirers. The man was a genius with a heart as big as his hands (which were pretty big) It was real generous on his part for at the time (even though I didn't know it) he was already critically ill.
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Jonathan Townsend Eternal Order Ossining, NY 27297 Posts |
Did we get Hans Trixer's Wild Man Wild into this list - where the backs of Jokers change color? Was a nice trick from Ken Brooke's long ago and Hans himself may still be with us.
...to all the coins I've dropped here
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