The Use of Short Cards in Magical Effects

To an audience there is no visible effect here; this is the foundation behind countless locations.

A chosen card vanishes from the deck on command and reappears somewhere impossible across the room.

A freely chosen card is lost in a shuffled deck, yet it rises back to the top on command.

You claim to see through the deck and announce the exact position of a freely chosen, buried card.

A freely chosen card is buried, found under impossible conditions, then revealed to be the only card with a different colored back.

A spectator cuts the deck wherever they please, yet always lands on exactly the card you intended them to find.

Three different spectators each freely name a number and count to it, yet every one of them arrives at the very same card.

A spectator names any number and their freely chosen card appears at exactly that position in the deck.

A spectator counts to the card matching their own birth month and finds a personalized card waiting just for them.

A spectator merely thinks of one of four cards, and spelling its name aloud deals straight to their mental choice.

A chosen card is returned, the deck is shuffled by the spectator, and you still cut straight to the selection.

A spectator privately chooses and buries a card while your back is turned, yet you find it.

Two spectators each remember a freely chosen card, and both cards turn up clinging to a single mysteriously reversed card in the deck.

A freely chosen card is buried by the spectator, yet moments later it is found mysteriously turned face up inside the deck.

A spectator stops you at a card, looks at it, and loses it in the deck, yet it vanishes from the pack and then returns on command.