Best Card Tricks Ever! 

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There must be a reason why The Rising Cards is a classic; surely that's one of the best card tricks ever?

Awesome post! Yeah your top 5 are right on!Totally agree that the presentation is so important.No one should say “ Pick a card!” It’s just not imaginative enough.Those are words that totally put people off card tricks and magic in general.Joshua Jay does a card trick on RU-vid with his special deck and the trick is amazing but more importantly his patter and story line is utterly absorbing,now that’s how a card trick is done!John Bannon has great self working card trick videos ( I think his books are tough to get hold of).Great presentation,really enjoyed it.Nice one Jeff 👏👏👏👏

I used to go to Hank Lee's Magic Shop almost every week before it closed permanently. I would by the "latest and greatest" tricks. The guys behind the counter would always show me a card trick using nothing more than an ordinary deck. After I picked my jaw up from the floor, I would ask them where they learned it from. They would usually point to a Marlo or Dai Vernon book. I started to buy more magic books instead of the latest and greatest trick decks. I love the magic books. So much value in books.

Another great post sir. Got things for me to research, re - look at again and perhaps work on :) Kudos !!!

I love this topic. Your top five can’t be argued with even if someone has a different list. I’m going to dig out my Williamson book when I get home. Thank you!

Hi. I really liked your video. I can’t argue with this list at all. But, I have an affinity for the MacDonald’s Aces/The Exclusive Coterie. Thanks for posting these videos!

Really enjoyed this video. Excellent points and tips about each effect. But it could almost be called 5 Best Card Plots. When I think of effects, I think of my favorite version of that plot. (For example, Triumph could be considered a “Pick a Card”, but it is my favorite version of pick a card).

Whenever a layman asks me what my “favorite,” or even my “most difficult” trick is, I perform Dai Vernon’s Triumph. When I’m done, they usually agree with me, saying something along the lines of, “yeah, that must take a lot of work.” I smile, knowing that this classic of magic is still as good as the days when it hit the magic scene. My second favorite is Card Warp. When a spectator gets asked to fold and crease one of the cards, they always react just like you mentioned about T&R, in a “you REALLY want me to bend it?” It’s a simple routine, very visual, and leaves them with the pieces to examine to their heart’s content. Great topic, Jeff.

A very nice compendium of some of the most stellar tricks/plots of card magic. Out of This World and Triumph can be quite powerful showstoppers. Also - that Mac King Cards Across is great!

Great list Jeff- great to see Red Hot mamá it chicago opener, it was one of my first learned card effect followed by Triumph. These two are in my top list. As a magician you can personalized it and make it related to the audience without the standard request “pick a card”. Torn and restore is eye catching and unique and shocking for the audience to see a card ripped. I have out of he world as #5 in my list because is long. Prophecy is my number 3. Thank you for a great video.

In Eberhard Reiss's book 'Foundations: The Art of Stage Magic', he writes about asking magicians the ten greatest stage routines. He also asked the public their favorites (magic is much more popular in Europe than the States). The two lists weren't even close. The image you first showed at the beginning of your video illustrated that disconnect perfectly. While I agree with much of what you said, it's my opinion that it really doesn't matter. You should pick a routine that fits you and you really enjoy performing it. Make it part of you and involve the spectator. (Darwin Ortiz's book, 'Strong Magic' will do wonders in improving you as a performer. As for my pick, the Chicago Opener has been a staple of my strolling routine for decades. In addition, Card Warp has been a favorite since 1972. I have a few others by Cervon, Le Paul, Harris, and, of course, Lorayne. Thanks for sharing your thoughts. Much appreciated, as always.

I love Triumph and OOTW (I perform a shuffled deck version where about half the cards end up sorted and the other half are left to prove it was shuffled). I can't get excited about Cards Across because I love Coins Across, and you can't beat that visual/audible effect you get with coins. Things not on your top 5 that I love: a good Oil & Water, and a Mystery Card plot (Sankey's "Paperclipped", Guastsferro's "Mr E Goes for a Stroll" or one of the many other iterations where a previously isolated/enclosed card becomes their signed selection) and a nice Card to Impossible Location (e.g. wallet, card box). And - nearly forgot - I have a thing for "Your card turns invisible" plots (see Rafael Benatar, J K Hartman and Mike Powers for ideas)!

Loved this topic and presentation! Only version of OOTW I have ever done (and I have performed it many many times) is Harry Loraine’s Impromptu OOTW. It is FASIDU and ends with the participant completely handling the choices. Honorable mention is John Kennedy’s wonderful Intuition in Card College Light. The clever routining does the setup for you. On Cards Across, once I was brave enough to try Bill Malone’s version (on the L&L tapes)I never looked back.

Other's for consideration but not mentioned: Wild Card, Poker Deal(s), Card Warp (maybe you did mention it, if so, I forgot), Card in Lemon / wallet/other impossible location, Oil & Water. I'm not a big fan of OOTW, but is the trick most lay people show me as one they were taught (I've never had any lay person mention/show the infamous 21 card trick).

Mac's Cards across is one of my favorite routines for Cards Across...the best method and routine I've ever seen was by Denny Haney!

My favorite and go to trick, and yes it’s a gaff…The invisible deck. Probably one of the first things I bought at a magic shop as a kid. Still carry a deck with me all the time. When somebody asks me to do a card trick, that’s what I do. I always start with…..” this is not a card trick, it’s an experiment, I had a dream last night and you where in it….”. It kills every time

Great content, great list! I would have changed one of the pieces (triumph due to personal taste) for "Be Honest, what is it?". My reason? It is one of the few pieces of magic that is not a pick a card trick, can last 1 minute or 3, and has a major surprise at the end. Also totally customisable (see "remember me" by Colin mcleod) :)

Honorable mention for cards across is Simon Aronson’s Red Sea Passover, a thought of cards Across that is a favorite of Michael Close. I think the gimmick set may be available from the folks at Card-Shark.

I first learned Out of This World from Paul Curry's book, "Magician's Magic," when I was in elementary school. I must have checked it out of the public library. I showed it first to my younger sister, and made all the choices. I guess she must have been about four or five at the time. I did the final reveal and she was totally convinced that she had in fact made all the correct guesses. My mom was looking on and laughed and said, "No, it's just a clever trick." After all these years, I still do that trick, but with a lot of refinements.

I think the best card trick for spectator is trick that can do in their own hand ❤.

Fun and enjoyable topic! I enjoy most of these effects. I don't have particular favorite versions for each one. There is one exception. I love John Bannon's Play It Straight Triumph. One of my favorite card effects doesn't even have a formal name, although I call it Synchronicity in the various versions I do for various groups. This is the effect that is is in the Introduction to Woody Aragon's wonderful book, A Book in English. He presents it as an effect for a couple. One the first card effects I learned when I returned to magic in the 1990s was Dai Vernon's Twisting the Aces from Michael Ammar's series of videotape, Easy to Master Card Miracle. In the version I eventually created (the moves are pretty much the same) which I call the Order of Operations, instead of the Aces, I used four blank-faced cards, each with a mathematical operation on them: addition (+), subtraction (-). multiplication (x), and division. I then tell a story about the order in which we learn these basic operations, revealing each symbol as I go.

I actually don’t consider Back In Time as a Triumph effect - presented as intended more of a time travel effect - but great list. Dani Ortiz Open Triumph as well as Playing It Straight are my favorites. Aaronson’s Red Sea Passover and Daryl’s Crossed Thoughts are favorite Card across.

Thank you Jeff. Another wonderfully insightful video! So much to take in, and all beneficial to considering what to consider when selecting card effects to perform!

Red Hot Mama and OOTW were both on my list. As great as ACAAN is in the hands of Berglas, I've never seen a published routine (aside from the Mem Deck stuff) that I found satisfying. Ambitious Card and Ten Card Poker Deal are both on my list. I think we tend to overlook AC because it's so well known among magicians but it still staggers lay audiences. I've also got a very strong affection for Sam the Bellhop (though I think it'd be my special mention rather than in my actual five.) I'm not a fan of Torn and Restored Card. It always seemed underwhelming to me as a spectator. When it's great, it always seems to me to be great because of the personality of the performer (ie, Wiilliamson, etc.) Finally, I think I'd probably have a Monte in my top five -- because I love gambling routines. Even a classic monte would work for me.

What? Who came up with this list? I couldn’t disagree more! Well, maybe that’s an gross overstatement. When I first saw the subject for this edition, I actually came up with my own list before I watched (those I thought would make the top five, not necessarily my favorites). I predicted three correctly. Torn and Restored and Cards Across were not on my predicted list. Instead, I had Ambitious Card and Dr. Daily’s Last Trick. I still think Ambitious Card should be included but I could easily be talked out of Dr. Daily’s. You asked what version of OOTW we use. My favorite is Out of this World, Blah, Blah, Blah by Jon Armstrong. I use it with face up jokers that separate into red and blue backs. I think it makes the separation more visible and impactful.

Some great tricks here. Perhaps because they involve g&@mm**ks, but I do like Mac Aces and Wild Card. Can be some great concepts behind these two. Love the way you reference the relevant books and where performances can be seen and of course the Conjuring Archive which is a great source of reference. Really insightful and helpful. Thank you