Sure a deck fell out of his pants, But Gautam Nag & Shep Shape were both FOOLED 

My favorite part is that one deck that got thrown about 4 seconds after the rest

So if he’s a magic technician, does that make him a spell checker?

I love how it's not just a trick, it's a trick that has MANY potential points where the cards could be manipulated, switched, removed, added, etc. It heightens our awareness and makes us supposedly wise to what's going on. And for us to STILL miss when the actual switch happens, it's fantastic. So much fun!

The card pack that was thrown at 1:24 is like InternetExplorer.

I like the fact that all the magicians who fooled or didn't fool Penn and teller have their own RU-vid channel. Like all of em.

Recently, I had the pleasure of being fooled in person by Brent with this trick. When I learned the secret, I gave him a big THANK YOU, although I may have mispronounced THANK to something that rhymes with DUCK due to a speech impediment that only surfaces when I’ve been tricked. He’s a great instructor, BTW.

"Slight of foot" - implies he had planted the deck next to his right foot that he wanted. OK. But what about the rest of the trick? How does the card wind up at the right number?

Who the heck are Gautam Nag and Shep Shape?

I believe he gave himself away when he justified what deck he was using.

'A deck fell out of his pants' - definitely did not misread that.

Brent is a professional through and through . I think most of what he does is behind the scenes, but when you do get this guy in the spotlight, you get an amazing performance. Thank you sir!

0:46 I love how you can clearly hear Penn’s laugh in the background in response to Allison’s humour 😁

Penn & Teller have seen magicians from all corners of the world, but Brent Braun's corner was special. He created an amazing method to a classic effect that for once felt fair. I felt like he fooled them. They missed a key part that separates this trick from all the others. Great work Brent.

Ok, we all understood what Penn's "sleight of foot" meant. The packet needed to be unique & easily recognisable in that snowstorm. The sequence of the cards was known & unchanged until the cut & riffle (precise interleaving, not shuffle). The sequence is still known. To get an accurate cut in the middle, use slightly tapered cards with both halves oriented opposite. The full deck of 52 (I counted them) was in open view before Nicholas chose his number. Question: How did Nicholas "know" it was card 41?

idk why 1:23 was so funny to me 😆 that last deck smacking the ground after the rest landed so rhythmically just got me haha

4 years later and the guy is still hearing comments and replying

Wonderful trick and representation, and I was just reading the youtube comments and I love how patiently you explain the show rules to people who blame you for weird things.

1:13 toss the cards at me! Janitor: Oh noes........

I love the way Penn snuck the word "index" in to "We think the secret is in decks."

Hottest assistant pick yet, well done sir.

1:22 on bottom, almost right corner. deck right to the face.

Imagine if he dropped the deck and it managed to get lost amongst the others.

This was absolutely fabulous. Incredible patience while remaining focused on counting out the cards with a whole audience staring at you. I thought you had them fooled. You gave them a lot of leniency in deciding they were not fooled. Just because it was your deck wasn’t the whole trick.

Penn's explanation gave the whole trick. Either that or I learned too much magic lingo recently.

This guy is the exact type of magician I like. The perfect mix of "business" and "casual". Keeps it serious but lighthearted and funny at the same time. Keeps the trick moving along but still throws in some dialogue. 10/10

"If you ask a mathmatician of what the odds are, they'll tell you it's one in 52." "But right here, right now, it's once in a lifetime." What a magnificent bit of performing.

This is probably the greatest presentation I’ve ever seen. The comedic timing throughout was beautiful!

GUYS I FIGURED THIS TRICK OUT!!! ok guys, so i think this one is actual magic and that this guy is a wizard. pen and teller had no idea, they bluffed and then the wizard (not wanting to be found out) admitted it was a trick. it's the only scientific and logical conclusion i can think of.

The real magic is that the Karen didn’t ask to see his manager.

As soon as he picked the pack at his foot, and did not select a pack randomly from the floor it was obvious he needed to do the trick with his pre-prepared pack. From then on it was baffling real magic!

0:01 "hi I'm brent braun?" *raises eyebrow questioningly*

This was a fine performance. When I was a small boy, about 55 or 60 years ago, I discovered a trick deck of cards in my fathers dresser. He had me pick a "random" card and then showed it to me. I don't remember any details after all these years, but I remember how the deck was "tricked," and I can tell you your trick deck is a slight upgrade from his. I also picked up some clues from your hiding a part of a card. I believe I could recreate this deck of cards, but I could never master using them. I could "get them to work," but it would be clumsy and obvious. All in all, a very nice performance. Congratulations on a job well done.

Great trick, but he failed one important role in magic: Don’t over-justify.

What a brilliant opener. So simple, yet pulls all the focus.

7:20 A change at the end … did he change the chosen card? 7:36 You absolutely held it … held the card (in his hand/sleeve)? 7:56 The secret is in decks … index?

This is one of my favorite tricks to perform, it always gives my audience this sense of “how in the ever living hell” for hours after the trick. Really a great opener that keeps them wondering throughout the whole show.

to be honest brent, no bullshit, as soon as they threw the cards up on the stage i immediately went back twice, once to look at your hands to see if you dropped anything and then i looked to see if you kicked anything out from your pant leg by your shoe. i could see the slightest little twitch from your knee down. and then continued to watch the trick. i figured it came from your leg. but as i'm watching i was captivated, i will admit. i know how you got your deck but i sure as hell don't know how you got nick to name karen's card. that being said, i thought your performance was one of the better one's i seen. *note: i am not a magician- i just love watching the stuff. good job my man.

Shook his foot acting like he was afraid to get hit. Then in the confusion he stepped next to the deck he had in his pants

Think I know how it was done, word play is just as important as sleight of hand. Penn & Teller point out the deck of cards he used came from him so he knows the order beforehand. After the girl picks a card he splits it so that card is number 41. he then tells the man your choice won't be "1 before or 1 after" he also reiterates its a 52 card deck. In the man's head are all the numbers he said. 52, 1, 1. When he had to pick a card his mind quickly went 52 - 1,1 so 52-11 which is 41.

Taking a wild guess. Deck falls out of his pants while decks are being thrown at his head. He grabs the manipulated deck and riffle forces the three of hearts. He then either does a fake riffle shuffle or a perfect rifle shuffleto align the cards just the way he wants. The cards are exactly where he wants them. The man then picks a number. While counting the "stuck together" card isn't an accident. It allows him to manipulate odd or even. Every other card is the three of hearts in that deck. He knows the count so when he's pulling examples out he knows the different cards. When he shows the whole deck I'm not quite sure but I assume he does some sort of switch. Hard to say. Even if this isn't how he does the trick I feel like it could be done this way maybe I'm wrong. :) Fun act to watch though

Beautiful combination of effects. All beginner level on their own, master level combined.

1:21 - Exactly there, when he turns to the right he pulls his pants up a little and you can see a deck of cards falling out his right leg. He just observes where it stops and places his foot next to it and that's how he knows! Pretty clever, but didn't fool them.

Fooled me. Figured out the sleight of foot, but couldn't figure out the rest. Well done.

I was a bit confused about the code that Penn used for a second. Then I went, "oooooohhh! I get it."

5:51 wasn't expecting to get a look from that lady in the crowd lmao

Haha, "In decks". That was smooth.

It only took RU-vid four years to realize this video was awesome and show it to everyone.

We highly recommend watching this video at .25 or .5 playback speed, not to catch any tricks, but simply because the guys voice is much more entertaining

When my deck falls out of my pants it fools no one

how I think it was done: Obviously at the beginning, the sleight of foot. He also walked around a tiny bit to guarantee he was close enough to his deck. After that, a pretty standard card force. The main thing about this specific desk is that most of the cards are the 3 of hearts (this could help with the forcing). One of the corners says 3 of hearts and the others say their actual value in a standard deck. If a number was chosen that would hit a non-3-of-hearts, start from the other direction. The 20, 41, and 5 or 6 (I don't remember and I can't watch the video while leaving a comment on mobile) were probably pushed up or down or marked in some way so that he'd know a safe card to show to the camera. while showing the cards to the lady on the left, he only showed the corners while picking up cards from the table, he looked at them first, then held it by the corner that had the 3 of hearts to conceal it

So great to see you on TV... long way from Jeffersonville. Congrats!

Very very fair. May the magic stay with Brent Braun!

Extraordinary trick!

Nice trick. I have a deck that could do all of it except the fanning the unchosen cards out to prove it's not amongst them - that's the part that really makes this illusion something special!

This trick was so impressive it almost makes me want to self destruct.

Penn and teller were absolutely correct, that strong comedic and engaging open was just enough to keep me interested. I WANTED to see what happens next. It was also short and sweet enough to the point that I wanted more. just excellent.

Hi Braun, I met you in Blackpool when you were demonstrating this marvellous trick. We chatted about your brilliant interpretation of 'torn and restored'. You come across as such a genuine, modest guy and your tricks have a unique signature - robust, entertaining and really smart. You can tell you've worked and worked to make this baby beautiful!

The guy he selected second was nick from l4d2 lol

I was foolish. I thought the trick was fun. One of the better presentations. We know all magic is either a trick or some extreme skill, like the guy who could count the cards and snatch the right one out of the air, so it's the presentation that makes the real entertainment. This was presented well.

The energy in this studio is so tense

the woman who helped you out on stage was amazingly beautiful! I enjoyed the act, it fooled me completely and I was very much engaged.

Gave them a lot of leeway with figuring it out, sure they got the first part but how you did the rest of the trick they didn't mention. Great trick, very entertaining!

He looked right down at the deck falling out of his pants. LOL You could see it a mile away.

I feel like a lot of the acts on Fool Us are just performing to Penn and Teller but this guy really performed for the whole audience

Brent is my favorite part of magifest every year! He is an oracle of magic, an endless resource of techniques.

2:36 Im guessing he forced the card because if you watch, the card he held up for her to memorize was neither the last one to fall, nor the one that would've been about to fall and at 3:34 there's only 51 cards on the table.. looks like when he got to 12 and said they were "stuck" he moved two around a little bit so that when he got to say... 41 they wouldnt be like "there's only 10 cards" rather than seeing 11 cards after it

What kind of legend keeps replying and liking comments after 4 years? Great performance, hope you the best!

From one Hoosier to another, I’m proud of you. Great job!

I knew how this trick was done miles and miles before I could ever actually see it being done. Holy moly it's so clean! Amazing performance.

Brent your magic is amazing. Your versions of torn and restored and many Vernon's tricks are just amazing. Hi from Germany and hopefully I meet you someday in a magic convention.

Me: eagerly Waits for the line in the title. Everyone in the video: 'meh'

I found this very entertaining. Thank you for sharing!

I've learned to watch for awkward hands. When hands look awkward there is shenanigans afoot. (whoops, no pun intended). I really enjoy trying to figure out the tricks!

I really enjoyed your show. I knew that the deck came out of your pants, especially, because you told us with your video title but I still don't get my head around how the rest of this trick worked. This was really cool. :)

Well done, start to finish.

Love it! Met you a few years back at a magic conference and purchased several things from you that I use to this day!!!

1:23 Deck fells out

My favorite part of this is how the dude didn't want to be picked.

Damn so he just gave away what they saw in the title? Mad props to the guy.

Nice work, and a good use of fancy footwork to dodge all those decks. ;)

'is this your card?' 'I don't remember'

I love the amount of “he palmed it” comments... P&T literally tell you it’s a gimmick deck and everyone ignores it! #facepalm

2:35 - "Are you happy with that card?" Karen: "NO! Get me your manager!"

*How I think this trick works* - He drops a memorized deck during the storm of thrown decks. (David Berglas, the inventor of this genre of trick, memorized six orders himself.) - Because he's memorized the deck, he knows which card Karen has chosen - or, more relevantly, which position in the deck she chose. He now only needs to remember where this one card is, not all 52. - He performs a single in shuffle. In shuffles are not random, and if you know the order of cards before, you also know the order of cards after. In fact, every 52 in shuffles, the deck returns to the same order. - The count is clean. The "two stuck together" are legitimate. He dutifully and slowly counts to 41. - He makes a show of revealing a few other cards, and then the rest of the deck supposedly not having the card. At some point during this pedantry, he palms the correct card (unless, of course, the card counted to is already the right one, which is very unlikely.) Because the deck was shown to Karen from the bottom, and Karen chose her card quite quickly, and Nicholas just had to give us 41 as the damn count, the proper card this time was in the lower 40 cards, 39 of which were shown to Karen. She wasn't about to notice the discrepancy. - If applicable (as it usually will be), he swaps the palmed card with the isolated card before revealing.

All the people that got drilled with decks lol

Great job, Brent! Loved it! Love “Decks and Deceptions” a lot as well. Cheers!

At the start during the introduction interview he said he had been rehearsing his trick in his hotel room. I could just imagine his family and friends throwing packs of cards at him in his room. Him yelling: "Not the face!"

What a great act. I think there are a few key things that make this work, one of which I'm really confident about, am really confident when it happens, can see the opportunity, but for the life of me cannot see it actually happen. Wow. The other part(s) I'm still working on, and think if I stick with it and rewatch a few hundred more times, I'll get it. Penn is such a clever guy with his code. A gift to the craft!

Aaaaaagh got the answer to the trick and it's so.. something you can miss! Something I did miss for days. I do think it's worth figuring out magic tricks because it's also kind of a life skill, to become more attentive to important details. Chess does that, but these magic tricks are also a fantastic way to test how thorough you really are in your observations. I won't spoil it for others, only to say that to find answers like this you must be able to state to yourself the observations you've made in the most complete way possible, and only then do your natural assumptions not negate the real answer. Great illusion!

I almost feel insulted when they go through all that hassle just to use a planted deck.

excellent effect, lovely performance!

people: get selected randomly also people: have microphones edit: they are selected randomly before by production so they can be mic'd and ready for the performance so it doesn't have to stop.

Its kinda funny to see all these magicians in my reccomend writing there titles in the third person when they were on fool us lol

I love the way Penn speaks in code. Those who know it, know it. Those who notice it, may still not understand it. For those who are completely oblivious to it, it's magic. And I love it.

I know this is an older video, but I wanted you to know that I was torn between position impossible and spectrum, and you've absolutely sold me on this. Hands down, can't wait to get it!

This routine (and Karen) were a pleasure to see

Glad he didn't give the audience rocks instead of a deck of cards.

Sleight of foot.

I'd totally be that guy saying "Oh yeah, there it is" when you showed her the cards she didn't have. Followed up with a "Got yaaaaa" 😀

Well, it fooled me, but then again I don't watch the tricks to figure them out, just for the entertainment value. That was a very entertaining trick, well done and thank you!