Casual (Looking) Magic

In this book, you'll find instructions for original sleights built around looking as innocuous as possible. Including a one-handed palm from the center of the deck, a one-handed turnover pass, a method to attach a palmed card to another, and the freest force I've ever seen.

Also included are various tricks of my own creation, including multiple transpositions (one of which involves burning a free selection and transferring the burn to another free selection), a highly visual oil and water, two of the cleanest ACAANs in existence (one of which they shuffle and deal themselves), and a routine where you display multiple copies of the same card within the deck.

Still more, I give my variations on false deals and shuffles, as well as my take on known tricks, sleights, and more. This includes a complex ACR concept, a method to palm any number of cards off the top of the deck while shuffling, one handed transitions from one type of palm to another, double lifts, and a twist on the famous Top Shot.

Beyond this, are even more new ideas, methods, and handlings on extremely well-known and time-tested routines, stack work, marked cards, and even down to the basics such as double convincers and more. Plus a whole host of other tricks and ideas tucked away and taught where you may not expect them.

These are powerful ideas that can just as easily destroy minds at a high end show as at a bar to someone who asked why you have a deck of cards. They are modular by design, and can be used individually, or inserted into any existing routine as a single phase or moment.

These aren't easy, but I've had fun with them,

Despite this book being called "Casual Magic" the contents of it are anything but. This is not meant to be an introduction to magic. Casual refers to the fact that no pre-setup or plans are required for nearly everything in here. Much of it requires pre-existing knowledge and skills. Some is quite knuckle-busting. Some of the tricks are based around sleights or ideas not taught in this book and while I point the reader towards a source, what they will learn are sleights that have magicians hurling cards at the wall in frustration.

But that said, there's not too much at that level and if you're willing to practice, you have nothing to worry about.

And just to give a once over, here's as much of the table of contents I can fit:

Pg. 7 One Handed Swivel Shift (A center palm)

Pg. 20 Bottom Feeder (A force)

Pg. 27 One Handed Turnover Pass

Pg. 37 Ring Clip Attachment (Attach a palmed card to another)

Pg. 47 Awa Switch (Steal a card while throwing it)

Pg. 51 Faro Top Palm

Pg. 56 Brute Force (Oil and water)

Pg. 61 Open Palm ACAAN (They shuffle and deal to their own card)

Pg. 71 True Transpo

Pg. 78 Burn Transfer

Pg. 82 Half Transpo (A transpo that never happened)

Pg. 87 It was yours all along (A set aside card is theirs)

Pg. 91 Cloning Machine (Multiple copies of a card in the deck)

Pg. 95 In Your Face (A card reversal)

Pg. 103 Evaporation ACAAN

Pg. 105 Five to Four (Mis-find their card, but change it)

Pg. 107 Cards Across

Pg. 110 Ambitious Card

Pg. 113 Push Through False Shuffle

Pg. 119 False deals (In general)

Pg. 123 Second Dealing

Pg. 126 False deals: Bottoms

Pg. 128 False deals: Centers

Pg. 133 The Reformation

Pg. 138 Half Restored (A twist on TNR to mess with people)

Pg. 142 Double Lift

Pg. 146 Double Convincers

Pg. 150 Herrmann Pas

Pg. 151 Palm Shifts (Transition between palms)

Pg. 157 Palm Generation (Top shot, from an empty hand)

Pg. 159 Stack work

Pg. 164 Marked Cards

Pg. 166 Wash Shuffle Control

Pg. 168 Overhand Shuffle Control

Pg. 171 One Handed False Deal (a convincing control)

Pg. 172 Gilbreath (They cut and shuffle, you deal a perfect hand)

Pg. 174 The Swiss Army Stack (A stack for non-stack users)

Pg. 177 The Snap Deal (A Multiple card control)