- Yo, what's going on, guys?
Welcome back.
Today, I'm gonna share with you my top five
playing card reveals.
As a magician, we find different
and creative ways to reveal a selected
or thought of playing card to the audience
and I thought I'd share with you
five of my favorite and most impossible reveals.
You've probably seen a lot of them in movies
or in your favorite TV shows or magic specials
or even theater, stage performances.
Some of them were incredible.
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Some of them lackluster.
Something fascinating about revealing a playing card
in a magical way that just gets the audience going nuts.
Before starting this video,
I would also like to give just a quick shout out
to a few of my friends on the platform.
I say this a lot, a rising tide raises all ships.
The more good magicians we can get on YouTube,
the better it is for the whole community.
Special thanks to Alex Pandrea, Shin Lim, and Xavier Spade.
Go check out their channels if you're interested
in learning and just watching some dope magic,
but also, guys, I wanna do something special
for this video because this video right now
is also a reveal.
Basically, what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna have you
look through a deck of cards that I'm gonna riffle through
and I want you to just think of one card.
Not the first card and not the last card,
but one of those cards.
All right, are you ready?
Here we go.
Got one?
Okay, so now that you've got a card in mind,
you can either watch this video all the way through
to see the reveals and to see everything,
or you can just straight up skip to those time stamps,
grab the first word from each of those time stamps
and that should reveal the card that you're thinking of
or you can do that at the end of the video.
Whatever it is, I hope you enjoy and let's get into it.
Number five, disintegration by Spidey.
- [Man] Everywhere, everywhere.
Everywhere, everywhere.
- Oh, shit!
(crowd cheering)
- [Man] No set up and no difficult slight of hand.
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- Disintegration is a very, very cool effect
where the playing card gets revealed on either yours
or the spectator's arm using ashes.
Basically, the spectator either thinks or picks a card.
It is then revealed when burning a piece of paper,
burning something, rubbing it on your own arm
or rubbing it on the spectator's arm
to reveal the card or the word or whatever it is
that they thought of.
Now, the reason I like this so much
is because there's like this sort of eerie,
sort of voodoo-esque approach to revealing a playing card,
which I think is really cool.
There's just something interesting to be said
about a playing card being revealed on your arm.
I don't know, something impossible about that,
rather than having it happening to the magician
it happens to the spectator.
I kinda like it a lot.
Mind you, most spectators probably won't be super grateful
for having their arm doused in ash,
but it is a cool little reveal that you can do
with a willing spectator or you can do it on yourself
and just rub it on your chest, you know.
And, I'll leave the link below if you guys are interested.
Number four, one of my favorites
and that I've performed in the past,
is tagged by Richard Sanders.
Well, this was released by Richard Sanders
and it's an incredible impossible souvenir
that you can leave the spectator with, if you wish
and this is what it looks like.
All right, so this is tagged.
Basically, they've chosen the five of spades,
it's been lost back into the deck,
and if I just sort of wave the deck around this,
as you can see,
I've got that five of spades linked onto here
and that is not an optical illusion, ladies and gentlemen.
That is honestly linked all the way through
with no seams or cuts, no glue,
and you can hand that out for inspection.
That is tagged.
Pretty strong stuff.
Just a great souvenir.
Something to leave them with, even tough it's just a card,
I definitely think it has some value
because it's attached to that chain,
if you want to give it out.
You know, you can always keep it as well,
but I think it's just a cool souvenir to leave them with.
Link below if you're interested.
And that was number four.
Number three is watermark by Mathieu Bich.
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Watermark is really cool.
You've probably seen this in the Davie Blaine special
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and a lot of TV specials, actually.
You pour water or some type of liquid on a material
and the liquid sort of goes around the shape of the reveal,
which is really, really interesting.
This could be done on the curb, on the sidewalk,
it could be done on a wall.
It's sort of magical in itself in the scientific properties
of it, which makes the magic sort of enhanced.
Number two, the card through window.
Card through window is an absolutely strong effect
and I've seen this done by performing magicians
in their stage shows, I've seen it done on TV,
you've seen it done on movies.
It's one of those iconic playing card reveals
that we've all seen in the first David Blaine special
where he just chucks the deck against the window
and the card sticks there.
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But, since then, there's been a lot of evolution
to this effect because you've had people reveal the card,
bam, it's on the window, and then wipe it down
and change it to another card.
I think there's something really impossible
about using glass because it is transparent
and there's nothing to hide
and I think that's what really makes it impossible
is that you're using this substance that's clearly no seams,
you can't get through it,
and you see everything in front of you.
So, the levels of impossibility are extremely high
with card through window.
One of my new favorite card through window effects
is actually by a friend of mine, Cody Nottingham.
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Basically, what he does is, as you choose a card,
spreads the cards on the window,
asks the spectator to hold them there,
and he goes on the other side and, with his hands
behind his back, puts his face to the window
and, bam, pulls out the card with his mouth.
Great idea, ingenious method, if I might add.
It's very, very clever.
I'll leave the link to that below if you're interested.
And my number one favorite playing card reveal
is definitely not the most practical of the reveals.
It's probably one of the most complicated to set up,
but, in my opinion, just such a cool effect.
It is riser, by Eric Ross.
It should be noted that I performed riser
maybe five times in my entire life.
I got it once on video and, since then,
I've not performed it because I was like,
you know what, I've immortalized it on video,
I don't need to go through this again.
It was incredible, so have a look at the video,
pre-tattooed and bearded Ramsay,
performing for a few friends on a vertical--
You know what?
Just roll the crappy clip.
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That is riser.
Riser is incredible.
It's reminiscent of that reveal with the big pad of paper.
I think is was Martin Lewis that put that out.
I could be mistaken, but where you have the rows
rise out of the box or out of the vase,
or a card rise out of the box on paper
and you hand that piece of paper out
and it sort of takes that principle
and puts it on your skin.
Now, obviously, I can't perform this anymore
because I'm all inked up,
which I'm not super bummed about
because, like I said, this is the most practical thing
you've ever performed,
but if you're looking for something on camera
or even in person, like a one-off thing,
my advice to you would be film it so you immortalize it,
you don't have to do it again.
However, the visual of it fools yourself.
You can do this to yourself in the mirror
and it looks incredible.
It looks so crazy and the method is great.
I just really love the effect.
The effect is incredible and it's just something
that people talked about after I've done it
for years and years.
Remember when you made that card rise out of your arm?
You know what I mean?
It's just one of those things that's completely impossible.
It's going to be embedded in their minds forever.
If riser's something you want to attempt to learn,
I'll leave you the link below as well to that.
As a bonus, I also think that tattoo reveals
are very, very strong.
These are some of my favorite reveals.
In my videos, you've probably seen me use this one here.
I've used this one, here.
I've used this one.
There's just something about tattoo reveals
that makes it really impossible.
It's within your skin and the spectator just can't
wrap their heads around.
Well, that was a freely chosen card,
that was a free selection,
how do you have that tattooed on your skin?
Is that just for me?
Did you just have that done for this trick?
There's so many questions in their mind,
they can't get around how, first of all,
they chose that card, so it all comes down to that.
You know, if the force is clean,
the rest will blow their minds.
So, I've always been fascinated with tattoo reveals
and as a magician, I'm sort of jaded.
I'm like, it's a tattoo reveal.
It's like, oh, wow, look, the ace of spades.
But, at the end of the day, people love it
and there's something about that being permanently
within your skin that just makes it incredible.
As a bonus, one of my favorites is tattoo reveals as well.
All right, ladies and gentlemen,
I hope you enjoyed that video today
and I hope you enjoyed that little magic trick reveal
I put together.
I was a little bit of work,
but I thought it would be really cool
to use the platform as a way to reveal something.
So, hopefully you enjoyed that.
I hope you enjoyed those reveals
and let me know below if you have any other reveals
that you prefer.
Maybe I missed some.
I probably missed some.
There are tons out there,
but let me know which is your favorite,
maybe out of these five or in general.
I would love to see them and maybe
you would teach me something new.
As always, links are in the description.
Thank you so much.
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Peace.
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