Hi everybody, Malik the magic guy with expertvillage.com and welcome to card magic. First I’m going to teach you some things about the kind of cards that you want to get and kind of cards that you want to use. As you can see from our setup here, there’s lots and lots and lots of different kinds of cards. The ones you’re going to see the most often and the ones most professionals use are basic Bicycle cards; these are the easiest to get, these are available at any corner store. There are some other ones you can use, some of the major drug stores like these Stud cards are the Walgreens brand, the Brooks chain of pharmacies carry Streamlines, they’re just in a slightly different box. These are both pretty good, you can use these, these are Aviators, obviously well used. One of the cool things is Bicycle cards now are coming all different colors so you can add a little novelty to your act, these are some cards called Black Tigers made by one of the magic suppliers. If you just want to practice, some of the discount stores will carry cancelled casino cards and these will either have the corners shaved off like on these or they’ll hole punched through them somewhere. These are probably only going to be good for practice, this is also an example of what’s called an all over back design cause it doesn’t have a white border, and these are going to make it a little harder if you’re doing a trick with a reverse card in the deck, so these are probably only good to practice, practice some stuff. Now this is another example of a card with an all over back design, and these are called Steam Boats and that’s what they look like, there’s another one called Bee’s that have all over designs. Cards come in all different sizes as well. These are an example of some little ones here they make these in red and blue and bunch of other different colors. They have some big ones, and they have some giant ones: I actually got these at the toy section of a discount store, and they make Bicycle cards in this size as well. This is an example of something you don’t want to use: these are playing cards that are clear plastic. They actually they look pretty cool but they’re a little hard to handle. This is however a good example of what’s called a bridge sized playing card, and I’ll show you the difference. A bridge sized card is a little bit narrower than a poker size card by about, you know, a little less than a quarter of an inch. And if you got smaller hands you want to get yourself some bridge sized cards, they make them in Bicycle and all that stuff. So there’s some examples of some cards to use we’re going to use, basic Bicycles, but the important thing is you want to get plastic coated regular plastic coated playing cards, poker cards and that’s going to be perfect for almost every use.
joker7
Mar 03, 2009
