Encyclopedia of Card Tricks by Dover Publications - Book David Ginn You get lots of mileage

You get lots of mileage out of a basic yet subtle method

apparently

The Barrier Shift

Next you ask them to remove the blue deck from their pocket

which is then wrapped in a napkin

Encyclopedia of Card Tricks by Dover Publications - Book David Ginn You get lots of mileageIn the first decades of the twentieth century magicians filled the magic journals with articles on card tricks, giving improvements on classic tricks and inventing new ones. If you could put together a collection of these magazines you would almost have a complete course on card tricks, by some of the world's greatest magicians. But where could you find these journals now that they are collector's items? And even if you could find them, how much would