Title: Snitch
Creator: Peter Eggink
Publisher: Magic from Holland
MSRP: $ 35
Skill Level: all
DVD Run time: 37:51

Type of effect:  Card to Wallet / Envelope

Manufacturer's Write Up:
 
SNITCH is a super-fast, no-palming Signed Card to Envelope effect! 

Perfect for the beginner, a worker for the pro. 

Effect: A card is freely selected and signed by the spectator. All the cards are placed back in the box, and the spectator causes her signed card to completely vanish from the pack. 

From your pocket, you produce a small, SEALED envelope that was mailed to you. When the envelope is opened, the spectator's signed card is found INSIDE! 

Peter Eggink's SNITCH is a beautiful, powerful Signed Card to Envelope for the real worker and yet perfect for a beginner. 

Comes complete with custom-made SNITCH gimmick, special printed Tyvek envelope, and online instructions. Performance tips and bonus handling are also included! 

Remember, SNITCH is:
EASY to do
NO Palming
NO force or duplicates are used
Resets in seconds
Perfect as a standalone effect or ending for any ACR-type (Ambitious Card Routine) effect

​My video review: ​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slxcT1izKQU

Title: Sharpie Quickie
Publisher: Platt Magic
MSRP: $ 30
Skill Level: All
Video download Run time: 26 minutes

Type of effect:  Broken and restored Sharpie Marker

Manufacturer's Write Up:

​Sharpies are everywhere today. Offices, schools, bars, restaurants, checkout counters, Starbucks and most homes. At any moment, you borrow a Sharpie (or use your own) and with otherwise totally empty hands, right in front of your spectator's eyes, you break off the clip and instantly restore it! With no switches or any funny business, you immediately hand it back out. You're clean and the spectator can walk away with their own marker, which is now an impossible object! And if you use a Sharpie for your own magic, Sharpie Quickie is the perfect follow up effect. There's nothing else to carry. As long as you've got your Sharpie, you're always ready to go. Comes with precision-crafted gimmick and a link to a video explanation where Brian takes you through four of his favorite handlings. 
 
My review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Qfs9r5HJvU

Title: Scripting Magic
Creator: Pete McCabe
Publisher: Vanishing Inc
MSRP: $ 50

Manufacturer's Write Up:
 
When Scripting Magic was first released in 2007, it was an immediate, surprise sensation. Magicians around the world, hungry for ways to improve their magic, were thrilled to have a volume dedicated to the vital question: what do you say when you perform? Written by Pete McCabe and including contributions from 26 of magic's best thinkers and most experienced performers, Scripting Magic zipped through three printings and has been unavailable for years. 

Vanishing Inc. is proud to publish the definitive edition of Scripting Magic. This new version, expanded with illustrations, contains fantastic magic from luminaries like John Lovick, Jon Armstrong, Max Maven, and David Regal, and covers the process for creating memorable presentations. You'll learn how to write, edit, and perform compelling magic in this one-of-a-kind exploration into the presentation of magic.

• 462 Pages
• 43 Scripts
• 30 Tricks
• Fully illustrated

Contributors: Michael Ammar, Jon Armstrong, Bruce Barnett, Rafael Benatar, Eugene Burger, Michael Close, Bob Farmer, Paul Green, Eric Henning, Guy Hollingworth, Larry Jennings, Mark Joerger, Kenton Knepper, Jonathan Levit, John Lovick, Max Maven, Eric Mead, Séan O'Néill, Gary Ouellet, David Regal, Jim Steinmeyer, Vic Sussman, Jamy Ian Swiss, Teller, Joe M. Turner, and Larry White.

Video review: ​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2IGtbvpkh0

Title: Quidnunc
Creator: Paul Gordon
Publisher: Alakazam
MSRP: $ 30
Skill Level: Intermediate 
DVD Run time: roughly 3 hours

Type of effect:  Card Magic DVDs

Manufacturer's Write Up:
 
Quidnunc Plus! 2-DVD set will have you performing card miracles like you've never seen! 

It is beautifully produced. 22 killer routines taken from Paul's bestselling book, Quidnunc. Watch Paul entertain and fool a bunch of magicians and then thoroughly teach everything! Items include the blockbuster Worker Supreme, The Ultimate Transposition and Ace In The Hole. 

The skill level of these gems ranges from self-working (easy) to semi-advanced. And, there is an amazing variety of tricks to suit all types of performances. There are strollers, table tricks, packet tricks, cabaret tricks, unusual tricks... and all are strong tricks. Quidnunc Plus! was filmed in front of an enthusiastic magician audience and includes a very insightful Q&A session hosted by Dave Loosley. 
 
Video review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrGvrpq78tE

Title: Perplex
Creator: Criss Smith
Publisher: Magic On Demand & Flatcap Production
MSRP: $ 25
Skill Level: Intermediate
DVD Run time: 51 minutes

Type of effect:  Color change

Manufacturer's Write Up: Criss Smith is an underground magician who regularly performs at the Bristol Illusions Bar UK, where he has honed his craft and creates real world effects, moves, controls, switches, forces and much more. This DVD contains his proven and tested effects, that kill in his working environment. 

"Beautiful application, the card punks will love this." 
- John Carey 

What is on the DVD ????

PERPLEX v1

• A visual color change that can be seen to happen right under the spectator's nose.
• You can use this effect in any setting or condition.
• Your spectators will see the card visually change right before their very eyes.

PERPLEX v2

• This version of PERPLEX can be used in a different way to create an invisible switch between 2 playing cards. This lends itself to some great applications and killer effects!
• A very powerful and convincing switch to add to your magic arsenal.

Desirous

• A single playing card is chosen and then placed back into the center of the deck. Once the top card is shown being a different selection and left face up protruding away from the deck, you give your spectator half a second to visually see their card change into their first selection.
• 'Eye Popping Magic at Its Best' and a very worthy 'Ambitious Card Routine' to add to your set.

Chameleon

• A selected red card can be shown, signed and placed face down into a red face-down deck. Whilst you leave the red deck tabled and never touch it, the spectator can fan the cards out to discover that their signed selection has turned face up! You add an extra kicker by showing the signed selection has changed to having a blue back color. Sit back and take your applause.

Will to Gleason

• A really nice Sandwich routine. Two red Jacks are produced, which you leave to one side. The spectator then chooses a card and leaves it lost in the middle of the deck, which could then be shuffled as much as they want. Now the two red face-up Jacks, from the table, are placed back into a face-down deck. With only a few words, you elegantly spread the deck and the spectator's selection is caught between the two red Jacks.

Deliverance

• This effect is a really nice Ace Assembly, where four Aces can be seen tabled and one card is then selected. This card can be left face down in a face-up pack of cards fanned out on a table in full view. The four Aces are then shown face up, and one of the Aces turns face down. The suit of the Ace matches the suit of the selected card. After a short pause, the two cards instantly change places with each other!

Octopus Force

• With a few really cool shuffles and cuts, a card is seemingly freely chosen. This force can be applied to any effect and looks awesome.

video review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3ixPuFgee4

Title: Neo Mix
Creator: Jim Krenz
Publisher: Vanishing Inc
MSRP: $ 20
Skill Level: All
DVD Run time: 17:04

Type of effect:  Oil and Water Kicker Ending

Manufacturer's Write Up:
 
Jim Krenz won the coveted Fechter's MVP award the year he debuted NeoMix. For those who don't know, this means that Jim (and NeoMix) were voted the MVP by 300 of the top sleight-of-hand artists in the world. So, what is NeoMix? 

NeoMix is a three-phase Oil and Water unlike any you have ever seen before. The first two phases are astonishing and clean (and, happily, moveless!). But it's the third phase that will knock your audiences for a loop. After demonstrating how red and black cards separate by magic, you shake the packet of cards between your hands and reveal that ALL THE PIPS HAVE NOW MIXED ACROSS THE CARDS! You create, through magic, a packet of misprinted, bizarre, and visually arresting "impossible" cards that your spectators will never forget. 

This is one of those tricks that can't be done justice through description. Do yourself a favor and watch the trailer to the end... it fooled some of the top magicians in the world. Did it fool you? 

Review link: ​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0rI9QpVVFU 

Title: Kayfabe
Creator: Max Maven
Publisher: Essential Magic Collection
MSRP: $ 150
Skill Level: Intermediate
DVD Run time: 4 discs / 9 hours 17 minutes
Subtitled in 4 languages: English, French, Spanish, Japanese.

Manufacturer's Write Up: BREAKING KAYFABE 
'Kayfabe' means secret, and the latest DVD album from the Essential Magic Collection contains many. Some of these secrets have been kept by Max Maven for forty years. They are incredibly powerful professional routines with entertaining narratives, slick staging and a devious approach to method. Let's take a look at the contents of the 4 DVDs: 

In COGNOMEN, Max divines the name of a celebrity thought-of by a spectator. We cannot stress how wonderful and practical this routine is. It requires the simplest of props. There is no pre-show. It can be played to the largest audience. And has all the drama and interaction that makes it an enthralling piece. A fabulously practical routine described in full detail. 

SPY STORY, in which a spectator joins you in an adventure in espionage as a location, time, an amount of money and a shape are chosen. All four have been predicted in the mission instructions given to your spy. You'll love the finesse that Max brings to this item. 

RORRIM is a stunning coincidence effect, a stage routine in which you become the spectator's doppelganger. Under test conditions, he chooses two cards and places each in one of his pockets. Despite the utter freedom of the procedure, you reveal not only the cards but also which pockets he placed them in. 

ABOUT FACE is an applause-pulling psychometry routine in which you correctly guess which spectators made which drawings. A direct method, entertaining premise and smart staging have made it a strong item in Max's repertoire for many years. 

Max Maven is renowned for impossible card locations. In Kayfabe he offers an array of methods in which cards merely thought-of are revealed. Mind-bending routines that will leave your audiences staggering. These include ZEN POKER, OUT OF MINE, TERRITORY, and SINGULARITY, in which one spectator reads the mind of another. And ROUND ABOUT, a triple card revelation that seems absolutely unfathomable. 

POCKET NIGHTMARE and NIGHT FLIGHT are two riffs on an impossibility. A thought-of card disappears from the deck while it is in the spectator's hands and reappears in your pocket. Unbelievably direct. A secret Max has held back for forty years. 

CAESAREAN SECTION is a miracle of a card stab. The spectator selects a card with the deck in her own hands. Loses it in the deck. Wraps the deck in a napkin and then hands the package to you. You stab a knife into the wrapped deck and right next to the freely selected and lost card. 

SCRUTABILITY is Max Maven's take on Dai Vernon's The Card Trick That Cannot Be Explained. You place a prediction card face down on the table. The spectator shuffles and cuts a deck and selects a playing card. It matches your prediction. Max has devised a simple but methodical approach ensuring that your prediction, and there is only one prediction, is always correct. The system is taught in minute detail and the routine is repeated with different spectators and always the same outcome. It's a legendary effect made 100% practical. 

A favorite feature of the Essential Magic Collection is the extensive interview with the performers. Here Max discusses his life, his career, and his writing. A new feature debuting in Kayfabe is a special presentation about the guest performer's views on magic. In The Fragility of Mystery, Max reveals not only why magic is important to life, but why it is essential. It's a philosophical journey of thought. Uplifting and inspiring. 

We also have an awesome bonus. Through the kindness of Donna and Daniel Zuckerbrot we bring you Fabulous Monster, the acclaimed documentary about Max Maven. It's a revealing insight into the mind of the mystery artist featuring performance extracts from Max's one-man show and interviews with many leading experts on mentalism. 

KEEPING KAYFABE 

Finally, Max performs an effect he has used as an opening piece in 90% of his shows. You'll see it praised by his peers in Fabulous Monster and it's the one secret Max is still keeping. Enjoy. 

Video review: ​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcZC_EBqvOc

Title: Pantheon
Creator: Chris Philpott
Publisher: Magic Online
MSRP: $ 75
Skill Level: all
DVD Run time: 3 and a half hours

24 Effects, 3 DVDs, 12 Postcards, 9 full performances, over 500 Jpegs and a 220-page eBook! Effects for close-up and stage performance - most are easy-to-perform miracles! 

Effects include: 

Mental Epic 
12 different versions featuring classic plots like Let's Make a Movie, Dream Vacation, and Dream Date. But in these versions, there is no need for suspicious-looking boards - the predictions are written on ungimmicked paper or white boards and covered with clearly-labeled cards. Once you place them down, you never touch them again - a spectator handles them after that - the cards switch themselves! 

Drawing Duplication 
5 different, super-clean versions of this classic mentalist effect. In one, you show them a poster with 44 different objects to draw and they think of any one - and yet you know exactly what they will draw! 

Bank Night 
You display envelopes clearly labeled 1 through 5 - and yet you can force each of five spectators to choose any envelope you want! An invaluable utility that can be used for many other effects. 

The Chair Test 
3 separate 100th Monkey gimmicks that can be used in any Chair Test you do now, plus a full show-stopping routine (which solves the sight-line issues with the effect). 

Billets 
After a spectator secretly writes down a first name, you not only name the person they are thinking of, but reveal detailed information about who they are! 

Tricks from Max Maven, Finn Jon, Luke Jermay and Millard Longman! Learn Touching on Hoy, the Celebrity Baby Gag, Book Tests, Billet tricks and so much more!

Magic Castle performances from Steve Valentine, Aiden Sinclair, Rob Gould, Christine Barger, Michael Rangel, Joe Skilton and Leeman Parker.

​Video review:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCFPh1mUX3E

​Title: Aiden
Creator: Ryuhei Nakamura 
Publisher: Sans Minds
MSRP: $ 30
Skill Level: All
DVD Run time: 37 minutes

Type of effect:  Haunted Pen

Manufacturer's Write Up:
 
Here's something your audience has never before seen, and it will blow them away! Mind reading? Spirit communication? Telekinesis? Wow! 

Being able to read your spectator's thoughts by picking their chosen card is quite an amazing feat in itself. Imagine if you could take it a step further though, and incorporate a visually stunning presentation into your mind reading routine. 

Making its debut in Japan last year, SansMinds has collaborated with Ryuhei Nakamura to bring this special effect to the English-speaking community. Introducing Aiden. A flexible routine where your spectator will WATCH A SHARPIE COME TO LIFE, and draw the symbol or shape that was on their mind, all hands-free! 

Whether you present it as telekinetic powers, or the ability to communicate with spirits, this one-two punch will be the combo you need to knock your audience off their feet! 

A reveal with a killer presentation. 

What you receive: 

- 1 instructional DVD 
- 1 gimmick supply pack
 
Review Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONcVhApU9bo

Title: Invisible Triumph
Creator: Jim Krenz
Publisher: Vanishing Inc.
MSRP: $ 30
Skill Level: All
Video download Run time: 16 min

Type of effect:  Triumph Effect

Manufacturer's Write Up: What Jim Krenz has created is not only a Triumph effect, but a Triumph of method. Its ingenuity and craftiness will astound not only spectators, but you as well when you see it in action. 

You will see cards intentionally and fairly mixed face up and face down. The spectator can square the mixed cards. Yet, as you suspect, the deck rights itself to all face down save for one selected card. The amazing thing is that it really looks that clean! In fact, you'll be able to perform this right out of the box without sleight of hand! 

Even better, Jim teaches two incredible handlings: one with a selected card and one with a thought-of card. Yes, we said "thought-of card." 

It's pure, it's simple, it's elegantly magical, and it's time to elevate your routine to a Triumph and get your copy of Invisible Triumph today!

online review: ​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zV91ChFI4tY