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Mr Salk Special user Tied to 547 Posts 
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Jesus drank wine from a grail formed from playing-cards at the Last Supper.
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AceOfShades New user 30 Posts
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I might say something gambling related, as it may be more relatable to spectators than ACAAN or something like that. Maybe take a shuffled, borrowed deck and deal out a winning poker hand or all the aces or whatnot. Doesn't have to have a million methods to fool a layman hard, although gambling sleights tend to emphasize quality over quantity anyways from what I have seen.
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shaunluttin Special user 739 Posts
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Spectator shuffles the cards, and they turn into a duck. The difficulty identifying the subject in the second phrase causes the audience to melt into puddles of cheese. Someone realizes it's edam. The magician says, "made", and the cheese morphs back into the audience, which collectively names a card. The duck quacks, chokes out a card, and it turns into the spectator. The cool feel of a breeze creates goose bumps despite the sealed room.
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AceOfShades New user 30 Posts
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Listen, strange ducks laying in ponds distributing cards is no basis for a system of magic. Supreme magical effect derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.
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JoshDude849 New user 65 Posts
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I don't think there is really a holy grail in terms of slight of hand. What matters more, is whether or not you performed it in a way that makes it a MIRACLE!
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Jonathan Townsend Eternal Order Ossining, NY 27087 Posts
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Quote: Have you seen Chad Nelson's clipshift? That's useful.
On Aug 28, 2019, JoshDude849 wrote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4kxNx3PA1E
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JoshDude849 New user 65 Posts
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I actually haven't seen that before. I must admit that is pretty ingenious.
But of course, some dummy decided to reveal it on YouTube. Josh |
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Mr Salk Special user Tied to 547 Posts
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Clipshift is such a monkey knuckle buster.
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Pop Haydn Inner circle Los Angeles 3374 Posts
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My idea of a Holy Grail for card magic would be that the face down card in the spectator's hand changes to whatever card they freely name.
Or, the spectator signs a card and puts it in the middle of the pack which he is holding. When he taps the top of the deck, his card comes to the top. |
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jaschris Regular user 185 Posts
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On Jul 20, 2019, Gerald Deutsch wrote: After 15 years in magic, I couldn't agree more! |
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JoshDude849 New user 65 Posts
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That's pretty much the entire idea.
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Pop Haydn Inner circle Los Angeles 3374 Posts
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Entertaining the audience is not the grail. It is just the first step.
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Tortuga Special user Ballwin, MO 665 Posts
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On Aug 30, 2019, Pop Haydn wrote: I agree. Astonishment needs to be part of the result. But I'd love to hear a pro's take on it. Please tell us more! |
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ryanshaw9572 New user 79 Posts
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If there is a holy grail, I don’t want to know what it is.
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vinsmagic Eternal Order sleeping with the fishes... 10720 Posts
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Think of any card now deal down to any number and that card is the thought of card
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ryanshaw9572 New user 79 Posts
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You could just hope it works and then film until it does. Anything goes in magic nowadays, right? (Sarcasm)
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Mr Salk Special user Tied to 547 Posts
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There is an interesting split of folks that interpret The Answer as a Mental or Physical grail.
Does the grail defy the Mind, or Nature?
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Pop Haydn Inner circle Los Angeles 3374 Posts
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On Aug 30, 2019, vinsmagic wrote: Think of any card, turn over the top card. It is the thought of card. |
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Tortuga Special user Ballwin, MO 665 Posts
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On Aug 30, 2019, Pop Haydn wrote: OK, work with me here! Since the routine is generally billed as ANY card at ANY number, then there is certainly no reason why the spectator couldn't choose 1 as their number, right? So that would be the exact effect you describe. |
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The Burnaby Kid Inner circle St. John's, Canada 3054 Posts
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Mathematically it's the same, but conceptually it's a bit different. The rationalization for how the magician could have gotten a thought-of card to the top of the deck isn't going to be the same for how the magician could have gotten a thought-of card to the 19th position (or whatever).
Not that I think ACAAN is necessarily the better trick.
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