SKYLINE 
Creator: Danny Weiser
Publisher: The Blue Crown
MSRP: $30
Skill Level: ALL
DVD Run time: 32 minutes

Type of effect: Torn and Restored Card

Manufacturer's Write Up:
Your spectator selects a card. You tear off the corner, show both sides of the remaining card, and then in the blink of an eye the card is magically restored! 

What's in the box?
You get the DVD & you get the gimmicked card - and might I add, it is very creative, in all my years doing magic, I have never seen something like this. With that said, I highly doubt you could make your own, nor does Danny give you the instructions to.

Key Points:
Super easy-to-do, hyper visual and comes with multiple routine ideas

My Thoughts:
Skyline makes impossible magic easy. This is the perfect effect for the beginner magician who wants to look bad @$$ right away!

Is it well made:
The GAFF = YES!
The DVD = YES!

Is it well taught: Very well taught, Danny gives you lots of extras and ideas

How are the production values: really well done, exactly like what you'd expect from the blue crown

Overall score: 7/10

Joined 
Creator: Dario Capuozzo
Publisher: Titanas Magic
MSRP: $30
Skill Level: ALL
DVD Run time: 34 minutes

Type of effect: Torn and Restored Card 

Manufacturer's Write Up:
Looking for the easiest, yet most visible and practical methods for a torn and restored card?  Dario Capuozzo has created an elegant solution to prior T&R's that you are going to love.

What's in the box?
Only the DVD you make everything else yourself

Key Points:
No magnets, no threads, no sticky tapes or glue.

My Thoughts:
This is the T&R you've been looking for all your career and it's the one I now do every time I perform.

Is it well made: YES! (well you make it, so its as good as you make it)

Is it well taught: It's very good, the unsigned routine is BETTER and more factual to the add copy than the signed version however, just an FYI

How are the production values: Dario is not an English speaker, so the entire DVD is silent with English subtitles, but it is filmed with excellent vantage points and is easy to follow.

Overall score: 10/10

The Classifying Deck

Effect: The Classifying Deck
Creator: Mago Granell
Publisher: Granell Magic Inc.
MSRP: $30
Skill Level: ALL
DVD Run time: 20 minutes
Type of effect: Card location

Manufacturer's Write Up:
With this deck you can cut the exact amount of cards you wish, from any fifty two positions with a zero margin of error. You can find the Aces or Kings from any place or any arrangement of the deck, it's magic. The deck can be examined by your spectators at any time and can also work as a regular deck.

What's in the box?
You get the gimmicked deck (which is true and not true, as you get a full 52 cards, but only a handful of them are gimmicked) and you get the DVD

Key Points:
Instructional DVD in Spanish and English + Well made gimmicked cards

My Thoughts
Mago has made it very simple for the most inexperienced performer to pull off these astounding effects of "card-sharkery." Although the method here is not new and a bit dissapointing.

Is it well made:
The deck = YES!
The DVD = I have to say not so much

Is it well taught: It's ok, I don't speak Spanish, so I have to go by the translation at the bottom of the screen.

How are the production values: 'Eh, not great. It's filmed like one of those old vintage VHS cassettes.

Overall score: 5/10

Decode
Creator: Rizki Nanda
Publisher: World Magic Shop
MSRP: $38
Skill Level: ALL
DVD Run time:

Type of effect: Moving ink on card 

Manufacturer's Write Up:
This is the most practical moving ink effect ever created. After the spectator has chosen a card you write down a random code, a sequence of dots, dashes or some sort of binary code onto the border of a playing card. With a simple flick or shake that code instantly morphs into the chosen card. The card is then examined by your spectator and can be kept as a souvenir.

What's in the box?
DVD and gimmick (either blue or red depending on your purchase preference)

Key Points:
This is an ingenious gimmick, you've never seen this before - guaranteed

My Thoughts:
This gimmick makes it beyond simple to perform this highly visual effect.

Is it well made: YES! But again, never seen anything like it, so I can't compare it to much.

Is it well taught: It's very well taught, although there is not much to it, it's a self-working effect that requires very little skill.

How are the production values: it's well shot and well marketed

Overall score: 7/10

Sharp This 
Creator: David Bondafini
Publisher: Vanishing Inc.
MSRP: $25
Skill Level: ALL

Type of effect: Novelty pen 

Manufacturer's Write Up:
"Sharp This" is a custom-altered Sharpie that allows you to draw a line on anything or anyone, and then magically make it vanish. Draw on your own face, across your pants, on a spectator's sleeve, on the tablecloth, or even on a car or wall. Then instantly wave your hands and make the long black streak instantly disappear. 

What's in the box?
A custom made "gaffed" black sharpie marker

Key Points:
Write on any material or surface and instantly make it disappear, no advanced set up and totally impromptu.

My thoughts:
Sharp This is very visual and brings instant shock value, like getting punched unexpectedly.

Is it well made: YES! Doesn't look "gimmicky" at all.

Overall score: 7/10

Utsukushii
Creator: Fraser Parker
Publisher: (self pubished)
MSRP: $40
Skill Level: ALL
Book length: 16 pages

Type of effect: 4 number mental reveal

Manufacturer's Write Up:
Utsukushii, the billet-less pin reveal, is a sure fire way to guess a single digit number someone is only thinking of, without anything having to be written down or props of any kind. It can then be used to work out other numbers such as pin codes, phone locks and entire phone numbers. If you would like to be able to reveal the pin numbers of strangers you meet or guess numbers which only exist as thoughts in a person's mind, using only words, then this method is for you. NO dual reality is used. NO stooges or instant stooges. It can be used close up or on stage with a 100% success rate. It's elegant, it's clean and it's direct. 

What's in the box? All you get is a soft bound thinline booklet

Key Points:
It can be used anytime, anywhere! It's a prop-less effect. No stooges are used. It's easy to perform.

My thoughts:
This is a solid routine and very well thought out.  Fans of Peter Turner will love this.

Is it well made: Yes

Is it well taught: Very well taught, but mind you this is not a long routine, it's only a variation of an old Annemann routine.

How are the production values: Here I'd have to say that you are not getting a lot of value with this. While I appreciate the effect, $40 for a booklet of a re-worked pre-released effect seems steep.

Overall score: 5/10