Hot Card Tricks How-Tos
How To: Do the ace card
Watch this video and see how to do the ace card trick.
How To: Do card spinning
Learn how to do the card spin trick. It is a fun thing to learn to go with the rest of your tricks.
How To: Levitate a card
This video will show you how to do the hummer levitation and what props are needed to do this trick.
How To: How to spin a card
Nice trick for spicing up you magic act. Watch as the demonstrator shows you the spin and then how to do it.
How To: Do a David Blaine card trick
In this video you will learn how to one of David Blaine's card tricks. The demonstrator admits he is not very good at it.
How To: Do the card fan
How to do a cool spreading cards move with your hand. The card fan is spreading the cards out equally. You can do this one handed or two handed, which ever you prefer.
How To: Do the card jump trick
How to do simple card trick that David Blaine did in his TV show "Street Magic".
How To: Do the basic pass card trick
An easy card tutorial on how to do the pass trick.
How To: Do the second deal card trick
This video shows you a great method for performing the second deal trick.
How To: Do the Vegas card cheat
This is a good tutorial. Have a look at this video and learn how to do the Vegas card cheat.
How To: Levitate a card
Watch this video and learn how to levitate a card.
How To: Make a card vanish
A cool backplam card trick that is easy to do.
How To: Do an easy card trick
With a fake shuffle. Pretty cool. You can do it anywhere, at anytime, with any deck.
How To: Make a card disappear
Step by Step video on how to make a card disappear in your palm
How to Do magic card tricks: full deck arrangements
In this online video series, learn how to do full deck setups and arrangements, creating opportunities to do card tricks specifically tailored to a prearranged order of cards.
How To: Perform card magic tricks that work by themselves
In this video series, Malik the magic guy explains how to do the 21 card trick then enhance it, how to do the clock trick, the paired court cards magic trick, the two pile separation card trick, the 4 Apartment card trick and the Speller trick.
How to Do magic card tricks: full deck arrangements
Whether you are a budding magician, or just a card game enthusiast looking to bone up on his skills, impress your friends and learn some of the many ways to perform card flourishes. Our expert magician will demonstrate each flourish, with step-by-step instructions and tips for properly performing them.
How To: Know what cards to use in magic tricks
In this online video series learn from expert magician Brandon Nowasky as he teaches magic tricks, fundamentals, and techniques such as the two detectives, trick break, glide technique, the rising card, envelope prediction, the double lift, and how to control a card for a trick.
How To: Do card forcing tricks
Card tricks are among some of the most popular and infamous illusions used by magicians. In this free online video series, learn about card forcing. Our expert illusionist will reveal the secret to this magical technique with tips on how to use force cards and how to perform magic tricks based on forcing.
How To: Predict the future with cards
In this series of online video magic lessons you’ll learn how to predict the future using a variety of methods. Expert magician Joe Marshall reveals his secrets and demonstrates several cool and easy card tricks and number tricks, including three digit number prediction, odd number mind reading, and predicting a roll of the dice.
How To: Use a stripper deck for basic tricks
Following the Dalton incident, the stripper deck rapidly fell out of favor with poker cheats, but remains popular to this day with magicians. The deck looks perfectly normal but has tapered edges on all the cards. The goal of the magician in using a stripped deck is to have a person choose a card, then replace it in the deck facing the opposite direction, so that the tapered or stripped edge of the card stands out from the smooth edge of all the other cards.
How To: Use a Stripper Deck for Advanced Tricks
In this second part of our series on stripper or taper decks of trick cards, learn more advanced tricks involving two and even four cards. Our expert reviews how to locate cards within the stripper deck, then demonstrates how you can take your card magic to the next level.
How To: Use Svengali magic cards for pro tricks
With this series of 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.
How To: Use Svengali magic cards for advanced tricks
In this second installment of our series on the Svengali deck, our expert magician Malik Haddadi demonstrates more great tricks. Learn how to perform the grand maneuver known as the all alike trick, which transforms what appears to the audience as a normal deck of cards into a deck of cards which are all the same.
How To: Use Svengali magic cards for basic tricks
Our popular Expert Village card trick professional Malik Haddadi tells you all you need to know about the Svengali deck in this series of magic videos. He begins with prepping the cards and quickly jumps to tricks sure to impress your audience. Pick a card, any card from one pile, even two or three piles and Malik will always go right to the card, or rather one of twenty six cards the same as the one you picked out.
How To: Do the card springing flourish
A card manipulation tutorial on card springing. This is an impressive beginner's flourish that can be used in a card trick routine.
How To: Do double and triple lifts for card tricks
Being able to double or triple lift is key to performing a wide range of card tricks. This tutorial will teach you how to do it.
How To: Perform a basic card teleport trick
A tutorial for a beginner's magic trick - the basic card teleport, in which you appear to make a card placed in the middle of a deck magically reappear at the top.
How To: Perform the Erdnase color change trick.
A tutorial for a beginner's magic trick - the Erdnase color change - in which you appear to change the color of a card with a simple hand gesture.
How To: Perform the 18 Cards trick
A tutorial for a beginner's magic trick, the 18 Cards trick. In this card trick you appear to guess someone's card out of a stack of 18.
How To: Perform the changing card trick
This is a variation on the flip change card trick and uses some of the same technique. In this magic trick you appear to choose the wrong card out of a deck and flick it to turn it into the right card.
How To: Do the Hindu shuffle
Learn how to do the Hindu shuffle. This card shuffling technique can be used to actually shuffle cards with flare or just as a false shuffle to force cards.
How To: Do a 10-20 card force
Dave J. Castle teaches you the 10-20 card force. Using this math-based technique you can choose what card you want your audience to pick and appear to magically guess it.
How To: Do the double shock card trick
Watch this instructional video to learn how to do the double shock card trick in which you appear to make four random cards turn into four kings and then four aces. All you need is a standard deck of cards and a double sided card. This video has no audio, but it does have subtitles.
How To: Perform the magic jumping Gemini card trick
Watch this instructional video to learn how to perform the jumping Gemini. With four cards, make it appear as if one card jumps from place to place. This video has no audio instructions.
How To: Do an impressive card trick
Learn how to make a simple but impressive magic trick. You can impress anyone with this card trick without setting up anything. Amaze your friends with this easy trick. Like a David Copperfield card trick.
How To: Perform the ink pass card trick
A magic trick in which you appear to make the ink of a card chosen from anywhere in the deck transfer onto a piece of paper. Perform the ink pass card trick.
How To: Do the one card twirl flourish
A simple one card flourish to add finesse to your card magic routine.
How To: Perform the Bible card trick
Martyn Coleman reveals the Bible card trick. In this complicated card trick you appear to make a chosen card reappear face up in the middle of the deck.
How To: Perform the waving aces card trick
Martyn Coleman teaches his variation of the waving aces trick, also called the two aces card routine, a card trick in which you appear to make any card picked from the deck reappear between two aces held in your hand.