Mmmm... anything with flash paper.
It always helps bringing all the eyes in the room to where you are performing.

Thread by Wayne Houchin gets the best reactions out of anything I have ever used.
Tagged by Richard Sanders is also very good.
I would also recommend Branded by Tim Trono.

One word: "Wow" by Masuda.

I second Branded.

Posted: Jan 14, 2010 1:30am
Or, try Healed and Sealed by Anders Moden. Can be messy, but when you can pull it off, it is a great illusion.

Got to be EXTREME BURN, available from just about everywhere.

I love Jay Sankey's effect In a Flash.

Liquid Metal by Morgan Strebler

Scorpion by Outlaw Effects
Doing a coin Matrix with or without cards with real Morgans or Walking Libs,
and I kinda want to say Rising Deck, and I guess lump it with Haunted Deck and Invisible Deck.
And using Inviso Torch when reading a menu at a Mexican restaurant or Thai place is so killer, and you say, "I've heard their food is really spicy!"

WOW by Masuda!!

WOW!
Moving Pips
Misled
Pen Thru Bill
Twenty One

Appearing Pearl Necklace. It is more of a stage/parlor illusion, but it is so beautiful when performed, and the thing I like about it the most is that the appearance happens right in front of the audience's face.

Not only the most stunning in its effect, but it is a ton of fun for me, and it really gets the most amazing reactions - it is the Solstice note pad.
It all takes place in the spec's hand. I never touch the pad or even glimpse at it until the effect is over, and the spec holds it too, and keeps the paper. They can keep all the paper, since it is so easy to do. I have all the time I need to throw in a ton of comedy stints or, in some cases, I have done some spooky routines using a living dead test, but mostly I use the comedy fun angle.

Another vote here for Extreme Burn, but I don't have very much.

Try Jay Sankey's "Hyper Visual" DVD. Everything on there is geared to be visual to the max.

The first time I watched FRAUD by Daniel Garcia on the computer, my heart went into my stomach.
I also like Prohibition.

Mr. Crebar,

Yes, FRAUD by DG is visually powerful!

Regards,
Mike

Reconstruction by Jay Sankey. You visibly peal the pip off of a card. (www.sankeymagic.com)
Smashed by Jay Sankey
WOW by Masuda (www.elmwoodmagic.com)

Before it became popular, the "bite" coin was best. Now I'd probably have to give it to Masuda's WOW, or perhaps the good ole' fashion Raven.

I like the bottle production Michael Ammar teaches in his notes.

I really like Healed and Sealed soda because it seems so impromptu, and I always get great responses. I've also recently been using Self Tying Shoelaces, too...

Posted: Aug 8, 2010 5:14am
I don't own Wow by Masuda, but it looks really cool!

Posted: Aug 8, 2010 5:15am
Can you actually hand the clear plastic card to a spectator?