Magic With a Svengali Pack of Cards

Audiences see what looks like an ordinary, thoroughly mixed deck, every card clearly different as it riffles past.

Audiences watch you shuffle and riffle a deck that plainly shows every card different, then freely choose a card by stopping you or inserting a knife.

A set of beginner-friendly routines for the special deck, from mind-reading a chosen card to a free 'Stop' location.

After a string of impossible-looking effects, the deck is handed out for free examination and found to be perfectly ordinary, leaving no trace of how anything was done.

A chosen card vanishes from one pile and chases across three heaps before finally turning up on top of the deck.

A knife is pushed blindly into a riffled deck, and the card it stops at proves to be the very one chosen.

A chosen card is sealed inside a paper-wrapped deck, yet a knife stabbed through the wrapper finds it instantly.

A spectator freely picks one of several heaps, and their chosen card is found sitting beneath a coin on top of it.

A chosen card vanishes from the deck, then suddenly reappears turned face-up among all the face-down cards.

Two cards trade places: one buried in the deck and one a spectator has been holding in their pocket all along.

One spectator selects and returns a card.

Blindfolded, you stab a knife into a chosen heap of cards and impale the spectator's selection.

You write a prediction, a spectator freely cuts and pockets a card, and your sealed forecast names it exactly.

A sealed message names both a freely chosen card and the exact position it ends up at after shuffling and dealing.

A chosen card is located by two completely random throws of a borrowed die, with no apparent help from you.

A blindfolded assistant calls stop at the exact moment a freely chosen card is dealt face down.

A prediction names a card that vanishes from one deck and then appears, impossibly, inside a borrowed hat.

An improved trick deck looks and handles like a perfectly ordinary, freely examinable pack of cards.

A selected card multiplies until every card in the pack appears identical, then instantly returns to a normal mixed deck.

A freely chosen card repeatedly leaps to the top of the pack no matter how often it is buried.

You predict, in writing, the card a spectator will freely grab from one of several piles without ever looking at it.

A specially built deck lets you fan, shuffle, and handle freely, yet any card riffled to instantly appears on top.

Several packets are stood on an easel, and whichever heap a spectator picks delivers the same predetermined card.