Knock'em Dead II
Nardi, Peter
Alakazam UK
It's not very often a card effect hits the market that is 100% commercial, easy for your spectator to follow, entertaining & has a killer reveal. Well Peter Nardi's Classic Knock'em Dead is just that. Now for the first time Peter is releasing his updated version. This is the version Peter and a few of his close magical friends have been performing commercially for the past few years.
How about this for an impossible routine... You start by showing a card with the printed trick instructions on it. The card is placed away just incase you need to refer back to it later.
Now hand your spectator a deck of cards and have THEM deal the cards into a FACE UP pile. They may stop dealing whenever they like. You show a card with the printed trick instructions on it. Have your spectator read the instructions aloud and just sit back and watch the look on their face as they turn the card over and read the Reveal!!
It's an effect that happens in the spectators hands. It has an easy to follow plot, a mind blowing reveal and to top it all it's almost self working!
Knock'Em Dead II will be your go to effect when you want to impress.
Direct, easy, mind-blowing magic from one of the most creative minds in the business!!
Reviews
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For $28 bucks you get a Koran Deck, a well made DVD and a set of specially printed prediction cards
Watch the demo. The effect is solid. It's a Koran deck. The spectator can deal down and stop whenever they would like. You can show the few cards before and the few cards after the point they truly freely stopped at. It will be clear that had they gone one further or one less they would have chosen a different card, yet your prediction is still dead on.
If you know the Koran deck, then you know this method. What you're really getting is the prediction cards that make for a novel presentation. If you don't already have a Koran deck, then this is a no-brainer. Get this effect. For only $28 bucks you get the prediction cards and the deck. It's worth it for sure.
The Koran deck is one of the best gaffed decks around. Of course, the disadvantage is that it's pretty much a one trick pony, so you have to switch the deck in and out of play. But that's a small price to pay for such a powerful effect.
Ad copy and product quality are dead on. I've found that to be the case with all of Peter Nardi's (Alakazam) stuff. Like or hate the effect or the product, the ad copy is always honest.
There's not much else to say here folks. It's a killer trick. It's pretty much self-working, and the impact is hard to beat. And finally, the price is right.
Final Verdict:
5 Stars with a Stone Status of Total GEM!
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The premise is that the performer is just learning the piece and quickly checks and shows a small instruction card. She tells her assistant to deal cards face-up into her hand, stopping anywhere he chooses. When the dealing stops, the instruction card is brought out again and the remaining instructions are read aloud. In the instructions,the name of the selected card is revealed.
The package includes a pack of Bicycle cards, a set of instruction cards for the reveal and an instructional DVD. Following a performance demonstration, the instructions are provided by Peter Nardi and fellow magician, David Loosley. First they explain how to step up the deck which is based on the 101 or Koran deck. It's not preassembled because purchasers of the earlier version would get the deck out of order and not know how to reassemble it. This surprised me as the 101 is not difficult set-up to grasp and confirmed for me that this was aimed at the beginner. Nardi and Loosley then explain how to use the instruction cards. I found Loosley’s use of small envelopes to be the cleanest reveal. It's the one I used in my performance test.
I found that it played well, triggering smiles rather than astonishment. All in all, if you are seeking a fairly easy-to-perform bit of comedy mental magic, then Knock ’Em Dead II might fit your needs.