Price$12.50
Media TypeTrick
CategoryClose Up
Date AddedNov 17, 2003
Proton Deck
Boucher, Jean and Reymond, Patrick
Camirand Academy of Magic
(Based on 1 review)
WIDE OPEN: Gary Ouellet’s version of the Curry Open Prediction features an amazing handling of a classic effect! The magician makes an open prediction, say the 9 of Clubs. The spectator takes the deck, deals cards face up onto the table, and whenever he chooses, deals one card face down. He then continues to deal through the entire deck, never finding the 9 of Clubs. Naturally, the card he reversed turns out to match the prediction! This is very powerful!
TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE: A spectator is asked to hide a deck of cards from view, then take any card out, turn it upside down, and reinsert it into the deck wherever he chooses. The magician then accurately predicts the outcome! Note that the deck is a true 52 card deck, the spectator can select any card from anywhere in the deck, and the spectator spreads the cards to reveal the ending!
DO-WAH AS I DO-WAH: A spectator cuts the deck in half, keeping one of the two portions for himself and giving the other to the magician. Each shuffle their respective halves, and exchange two cards (for a total of four). These four cards turn out to be the four kings!
All three routines are completely self-working, making your performance worry-free! Comes with the Proton Deck and instruction booklet, written by Gary Ouellet. When Jean, Patrick or Gary demo these at lectures, it is always a sell-out!.
Reviews
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For decades, the Svengali Deck, Stripper Deck, Invisible Pack, Brainwave Deck and Mental Photography Deck have outsold any and all upstart trick decks by the thousands, maybe tens of thousands.
In the eighties, Nick Trost made a run at the same kind of numbers with his hit deck, Oscar. In the nineties, Dan Harlan bloated his bank account with the success of Card-Toon. Other decks have done well too - Trost's Rainbow Miracle, Gary Ouellet's Top Of The Heap, David Regal's Prophecy Pack, etc. - but few, if any, have achieved the kind of "staple item" status of the Big Five mentioned above.
Jean Boucher and Patrick Reymond tossed their trick deck into the mix around 1995. Called The Proton Deck, the pack is versatile enough to accomplish more than one trick, but it was initially conceived as a method for Paul Curry's Open Prediction.
A spectator deals cards face up to the table, turning them over one by one from a face-down deck. On a whim, he deals one card face down onto the pile, without looking at its identity. The remaining cards are placed face up on the pile, whereupon the deck is turned over and spread face down. The spectator's card (the only one face up in the deck) matches a prediction the magician placed on the table at the outset of the trick!
This is a cunning approach to a classic plot, and two other fine routines using the deck are also included in the instruction booklet, written by Gary Ouellet.
David Acer
In the eighties, Nick Trost made a run at the same kind of numbers with his hit deck, Oscar. In the nineties, Dan Harlan bloated his bank account with the success of Card-Toon. Other decks have done well too - Trost's Rainbow Miracle, Gary Ouellet's Top Of The Heap, David Regal's Prophecy Pack, etc. - but few, if any, have achieved the kind of "staple item" status of the Big Five mentioned above.
Jean Boucher and Patrick Reymond tossed their trick deck into the mix around 1995. Called The Proton Deck, the pack is versatile enough to accomplish more than one trick, but it was initially conceived as a method for Paul Curry's Open Prediction.
A spectator deals cards face up to the table, turning them over one by one from a face-down deck. On a whim, he deals one card face down onto the pile, without looking at its identity. The remaining cards are placed face up on the pile, whereupon the deck is turned over and spread face down. The spectator's card (the only one face up in the deck) matches a prediction the magician placed on the table at the outset of the trick!
This is a cunning approach to a classic plot, and two other fine routines using the deck are also included in the instruction booklet, written by Gary Ouellet.
David Acer