Double Lift Magic Card Trick

Video Transcript

"My name is Wayne Phelps. I am a professional magician and this is Expert village.com. What I have for you is a technique called the double lift. This is a very slight technique the magicians use to show you a card that really isn’t the card you want. To give you an example let me show you. If I take the cards and give it a nice good riffle, I can pull up the top card which is the queen of spades. They peel it off and put it down on the table and now just give a simple little rub and change visibly takes place. No not on that, the change happens on the face of the cards as the queen visibly turns into the joker. Did you see how it works, let me show you. The joker is the top card on the deck. When I riffled down through what I am doing is feeling for two cards and I get a two card break back here on my pinkie, right there they are. When I have a two card break, I come back pick up the two cards and show them as one. I bow the cards backwards so you do not see the two cards; it gives an illusion there is only one there. I take it, put it back on the face of the deck and peel off the real top card and lay it down. Now I just give a speech, a little bit of rub, say it changes, lift the card and voilà, instant joker. It is a beautiful color change, it a beautiful switch maneuver and it is really going to do you well. That is double lift."