Magic Product Reviews

Justin Miller’s First Hand AKA Freedom Change is a bill change effect that happens in the palm of your spectator’s hand. This stunning money magic trick gives your spectators the unique experience of having the bills change while in their possession.

The Naked promotional video shows a smooth and quick card transposition, however, during performance testing the gimmick was found to be awkward, making for inconsistent results as it relates to the timing of the change.

Peter Nardi’s Infinity Wallet is not only a card to wallet, but is a stockpile of magical and mental effects, making it a powerful ally for both the magician and the mentalist.

Brian Caswell’s Inevitable is a captivating card magic and mentalism effect, in which you predict your spectator’s behavior in three individual occurrences. Inevitable gives your spectators the experience of having complete control over where cards are placed in the deck. 

The idea of a coin to an impossible location is an exciting one. The angles and the handling of the coin magic in Solitary are not optimal. The signiture effect may set your expectation to high.

Fiber Optics by Richard Sanders is exciting and visual rope magic. Unlike other rope routines of this caliber, you can do amazing magic with just your hands and three pieces of rope. There are no magnets, scissors or other special gimmicks.

Big Reaction is a magic card trick that will create energy with your audience. When performing table hopping or strolling magic, onlookers will see and hear the reactions, cheers and standing ovations, and they will look forward to your arrival.

Shared Dreams is mentalism that uses envelopes to reveal a prediction. The plot of the story is not relevant in today's world, making the justification of the props used to create the magic, difficult.

Warlock is mentalism that combines the power of mind reading, with the ability to predict outcomes. The method is ingenious. It’s subtle, simple and flexible. You can perform Andy Nyman’s routine right out of the box or compose routines originating from your own creative style.

The Unknown is an outstanding collection of 13 close up and strolling effects using cards, coins, business cards, watches and tic tacs. Lee Smith and Gary Jones perform each effect in a real world setting, and the magic is just as brilliant as their work on iCandy. The magic from The Unknown doesn't require any knuckle busting moves.

The Fifth Card promotional video over dramatizes the impact of the effect, and doesn’t give you the opportunity to visualize the routine. The result of the magic is anti climatic. The Fifth Card doesn’t have enough emotional hook to be great.

Sankey’s Best Magic With Ordinary Objects, by Jay Sankey, is a collection of 20 effects that stand the test of time. There are no card or coin routines, just great magic with “things”, such as rings, straws, rubberbands, ping pong balls, keys, lighters, crayons and more.

Pointless, By Gregory Wilson, is an effect where you pull a Bic pen out of your pocket, take off the cap, and ask your friends or spectators to keep an eye on the point. No matter how hard they try, the point of the pen is never on the side of the pen they think it is.

Signed Card to box is a familiar plot in card magic. The drawback to this version is that the moves and the method are not streamlined. 

More Power to You, by David Acer, is a book that contains 29 of David’s best magical effects, using coins, cards, paper money, rings, cell phones, business cards and more. More Power to You only includes real world effects that David has performed in live venues.

Sudden Deck II by David Regal, is an effect where an unfolded, plain white card box, magically prints itself, and then produces a full deck of cards. Sudden Deck II is a great opener for your card routine.

Jim Tyler brings his years of experience to the table, and teaches you multiple methods of penetrating a ring through a string, and the vanish and re-appearance of a borrowed ring in an impossible location.

Without touching the cards you cause two thought of cards to trade places in a very fair and magical manner. Then, you reveal a kicker ending that will leave your spectators stunned.

The Safety Hole Lite promotional video seems intriguing, however, there are performance requirements not shown in the trailer which makes the magic not as seamless as portrayed.

Empty is an effect that produces cards from an empty card case. The effect is not difficult to perform and contains a clever gimmick, however, the angle and handling requirements should be considered before performing Empty.