Impossible Location Trick with Senegal Deck

Series Summary

As we mentioned in the summary for the previous series on the svengali deck, Svengali is most commonly known as the evil hypnotist character in the novel Trilby by George Du Maurier. However, several experts on the literature of the Middle East contend that this character first appeared in the infamous story which Scheherazade told the Persian king on the 1002nd night of their marriage. Unlike the tales told on the previous 1001 nights, the Svengali story failed to impress the King and he cut off the head of his new bride. Yet most versions conclude the previous night with a much happier ending for Scheherazade.

In the Arabian tale, the Persian prince Svengali is cornered in a small town by an opposing army. Instead of giving up, he convinces all of the townspeople that they are reincarnations of the great dead warrior Esperanto. With his force of local peasants and farmers in a bloodthirsty trance, Svengali routes his enemies. The prince's legacy lives on in the deck which retains his name and honors his makeshift army with multiple copies of the same card.

With this series of free card trick video clips, our expert magician Malik Haddadi wraps up his lessons for using the svengali deck. By now you know enough about these trick cards to go public with your new set of skills. Malik gives you tips on how to put together your very own routine. He concludes with suggestions on how to care for your svengali deck and lets you know about more resources for tricks involving these cards.

Video Transcript

"Okay everybody so let me show you another cool Svengali trick. So let's take, the deck will have a card selected and what I'm going to do is take the deck, put the deck in the box and I'm going to close the box just like this and I'm going to put the deck in my pocket. I'm going to reach in and just by feel, pull out the very same card that you selected. Just like that. Let me run through that for you one more time. Have a card selected, put this right back in the box. I'm going to reach in my pocket, take the card right out just like that and we take the deck right out of the box, I can show you there's no more king of clubs anywhere in the deck because I pulled it out. In the minute I'm going to show you how to do that very cool trick."