False deals are techniques which appear to deliver cards fairly, when actually the cards delivered are predetermined or known to the performer.
In sleight of hand, a "double lift" can be made to extract two cards from the deck, but held together to appear as one card.ĭealing cards (for example at the start of a traditional card game) is considered a fair means of distributing cards.
The produced card(s) are normally known to the audience, for example having previously been selected or identified as part of the illusion. Lifts are techniques which extract one or more cards from a deck. It is the intention of the performer that such sleights are performed in a manner which is undetectable to the audience-however, that result takes practice and a thorough understanding of method. Illusions performed with playing cards are constructed using basic card manipulation techniques (or sleights). Erdnase's 1902 treatise on card manipulation Artifice, Ruse and Subterfuge at the Card Table: A Treatise on the Science and Art of Manipulating Cards "the most famous, the most carefully studied book ever published on the art of manipulating cards at gaming tables". However, due to its versatility as a prop it has become popular amongst modern magicians. Compared to sleight of hand magic in general and to cups and balls, it is a new form of magic. These range from complex mathematics like those used by Persi Diaconis, the use of psychological techniques like those taught by Banachek, to extremely difficult sleight of hand like that of Ed Marlo and Dai Vernon.Ĭard magic, in one form or another, likely dates from the time playing cards became commonly known, towards the second half of the fourteenth century, but its history in this period is largely undocumented. Card magic has blossomed into one of the most popular branches of magic, accumulating thousands of techniques and ideas. Playing cards became popular with magicians in the 15th century as they were props which were inexpensive, versatile, and easily available. Orson Welles performs a card trick for Carl Sandburg (August 1942)
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