What is svengali deck

Great deck. Good price too. This is a great, easy trick to learn and perform - i amazed an audience recently at a dinner party. The only thing is that its a '1 trick' deck, so you can't repeat it as you can with, say, the Invisible Deck. But maybe you shouldnt do a trick more than once anyway! UK Ltd is a company registered in England and Wales with company number Privacy policy. New magic. Magic downloads. Card magic downloads Over 1, of the best card magic sleights and routines.

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Although the method is straightforward, many different effects are possible with the deck. It allows the performer to appear to be demonstrating considerable sleight of hand, whilst in fact, the deck does almost all of the work itself. You can have a selected card lost in the deck, a quick tap and it comes to the top. The spectator can cut the deck into several packets, select one and turn over the top card and there is their selected card again. A card is shown, then miraculously changes into the selection.

You can even riffle through the cards to show them to be all different and with a magical gesture, riffle again and they all turn into the selected card. Often included in magic sets, and hugely popularised in the 60s and 70s when it was sold as TV Magic cards by Marshall Brodien. Burling Hull is credited with its creation. He was just fifteen when he created it.

The principle behind the cards was first recorded in the s in the Asti Manuscript c. The dictionary says a Svengali is "a person who exercises a controlling or mesmeric influence on another, especially for a sinister purpose. Well, again, no one is really sure.

Although there was a novel in the s that featured a character called Svengali who was a magician.