Hot Card Tricks How-Tos

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 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 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 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.