Price$34.95
Media TypeTrick, DVD
CategoryGeneral, Close Up
Date AddedApr 23, 2015
Print Card
Chatelain, Mickael
Gi'Mick Magic
(Based on 1 review)
The skill needed to present the classic Chameleon Cards is not easily acquired, so Mickael Chatelain put himself to the task of simplifying the method.
Well known for his simple and visual effects, today he offers you a new version manageable by anyone!
Here's a detailed description of Print Card his new trick!
Effect: Take four Bicycle cards from your pocket. Show first the backs then the faces.
The spectators will immediately notice that the cards have no faces, in fact, they are completely blank. Four blank cards, nothing else.
Place one of the four cards on the table as you explain that you are going to show how the cards are printed at the factory.
Take out your deck and invite a spectator to choose a card and place it next to your blank-faced card on the table.
Let's say the King of Spades is chosen.
Show the three other blank cards that you hold one last time. Show them one at a time so there can be no doubt.
Explain the following to your spectator:
Every time that a blank card touches your card, the King of Spades, it will immediately be printed.
No sooner said than done! You slowly take a blank card and touch the King of Spades lying on the table. Immediately show that your once-blank card is now mysteriously printed! Another King of Spades!
It's completely impossible! A second before the card was blank and now it's completely printed - a perfect copy of your spectator's card!
Offer to repeat this curious experiment with a second blank card. I don't have to tell you that your spectator's eyes will be riveted on your hands and the cards!
You slowly show that you have two blank cards left in hand. Bring one towards the King of Spades still on the table...
And now, with no false moves, show that the magic has happened again!
You now have another King of Spades! How is this possible? You manipulate NOTHING! You simply touch one card to another, nothing more.
The last card will undergo the same fate. In a fraction of a second it too will become a King of Spades!
Now you have three Kings of Spades in hand.
Explain that if by mistake a printed card should touch the blank card that's been on the table since the beginning, everything will be erased!
You don't believe me? Bring the Kings of Spades towards the blank card on the table and the second they touch the blank card, they too immediately become blank once again!
You have to see it to believe it. You have printed cards and with no false moves, at the moment of contact with the blank card, they become blank!
Pure magic under the nose of your spectator.
The procedure is repeated three times and each time a miracle takes place. At the end, you find yourself exactly as you were at the beginning of the routine: Four blank cards in hand and the spectator's King of Spades on the table.
Don't forget:
NO manipulation! The cards really seem to be printed and erased in full view. You use only the four cards that you receive, no others. No glue or magnets. The gimmick takes care of everything and the DVD will explain the workings of the routine in detail. Instant reset. A great classic doable by everyone.
A trick bearing the hallmark of Mickael Chatelain and Gi'Mick Magic!
Reviews
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PROS
This is an excellent effect. It is visually stunning. The gimmicks are very good quality. Somebody needs to give Monsieur Chatelain a few pointers on English pronunciation, but other than that, the instruction is good.
In this powerful routine where four blank cards are shown. One of those blank cards is placed on the table. A spectator selects a card from a deck of cards. That card is placed face up next to the blank face card. The performer shows all three cards in their hand to be blank. Then, one at a time, All three cards in the hands change to the selected card when they are touched to it. Four blank cards become the selected cards card when touched to the selection card.
The method is very clever and the gimmick is well made. The method requires a bit of sleight, but nothing particularly difficult. The effect can be done completely surrounded. He does the effect on a table, but it could also be done in a spectator’s hands. The moves he uses throughout the routine are very good and very smooth.
The method of handling this custom gimmick is very good.
There is a separate explanation for the Elmsley count, or as Mickael calls it, the Elmsley Coont. It is a brief but good explanation.
This is really best as a close-up routine.
The effect performs exactly as it does in the trailer. Well, the only difference ifs you will need to provide your own sound effect when the magic happens. If you like what you see in the trailer, you will like performing this effect.
The effect is not terribly difficult, but it does involve a few sleights like double lift and Elmsley count.
CONS
The explanation was a bit difficult to follow. Perhaps because of language issues, it took me a few times watching it and going back to watch the performance to really understand how to do this. You will need to play close attention to both the performance video and the explanation video to work through each move and the location of the various cards.
He doesn’t cover how to make a replacement gimmick. The gimmick is well made, but it will wear out as any normal card would with use.
VERDICT
Really great effect and very well thought out routine. It could have been explained more clearly, but by watching the performance video and the explanation video, you should be able to get it down. It does involve a few sleights, but nothing too difficult.
This is an excellent effect. It is visually stunning. The gimmicks are very good quality. Somebody needs to give Monsieur Chatelain a few pointers on English pronunciation, but other than that, the instruction is good.
In this powerful routine where four blank cards are shown. One of those blank cards is placed on the table. A spectator selects a card from a deck of cards. That card is placed face up next to the blank face card. The performer shows all three cards in their hand to be blank. Then, one at a time, All three cards in the hands change to the selected card when they are touched to it. Four blank cards become the selected cards card when touched to the selection card.
The method is very clever and the gimmick is well made. The method requires a bit of sleight, but nothing particularly difficult. The effect can be done completely surrounded. He does the effect on a table, but it could also be done in a spectator’s hands. The moves he uses throughout the routine are very good and very smooth.
The method of handling this custom gimmick is very good.
There is a separate explanation for the Elmsley count, or as Mickael calls it, the Elmsley Coont. It is a brief but good explanation.
This is really best as a close-up routine.
The effect performs exactly as it does in the trailer. Well, the only difference ifs you will need to provide your own sound effect when the magic happens. If you like what you see in the trailer, you will like performing this effect.
The effect is not terribly difficult, but it does involve a few sleights like double lift and Elmsley count.
CONS
The explanation was a bit difficult to follow. Perhaps because of language issues, it took me a few times watching it and going back to watch the performance to really understand how to do this. You will need to play close attention to both the performance video and the explanation video to work through each move and the location of the various cards.
He doesn’t cover how to make a replacement gimmick. The gimmick is well made, but it will wear out as any normal card would with use.
VERDICT
Really great effect and very well thought out routine. It could have been explained more clearly, but by watching the performance video and the explanation video, you should be able to get it down. It does involve a few sleights, but nothing too difficult.