The Amazing Card Changing Sleeve

£10

Probably the BEST trick of the last few years… It really does get WOW! reactions.

This is without a doubt one of the most amazing close-up illusions to have appeared in recent times, working on a very novel principle. As happens with any good new magic idea, there are now several models floating around. This one is well made and comes to you at a most affordable price.

Effect: Imagine having a spectator freely select any card (no force). The card is signed and replaced back into the deck. You state that by magic you will make their card rise to the top of the deck. You snap your fingers and turn over the top card. While you are waiting for your big applause, your spectator tells you it’s not their card (of course not, there’s no signature on it, duh!). Taking this “indifferent card, it is slid into a thin clear black plastic sleeve just large enough to hold the card.

While the sleeve is held between thumb and forefinger, the card face up, with no hand movement of any kind, the indifferent card slowly and visibly changes into the signed selection! The spectator can remove the card himself. There is nothing else in the sleeve!

Your spectators will be saying “WOW” when they see this incredibly visual card change, which happens right in front of their eyes!

However, there are of course many other possibilities:

• Exchanges: Display the sleeve with the back of a card showing, stating this is a prediction of a card the spectator will select. Force a card (say the JS) on a spectator by your favorite method. Then turn over the sleeve to show a completely different card (say 6H), which is obviously wrong. Ask them to name their selected card and

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