MIRACLE CARD

MAGIC... MADE EASY!

ESSENTIAL TRICKS,
TECHNIQUES &
TACTICS FOR
MAGICIANS
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 Your Miracle Card Magic Handbook

Do you want to do card tricks that blow your friends

away, but at the same time, don’t take hours of practice?

If you’ve ever tried to do a few tricks before, you may

already know that it’s one thing to do a trick without
exposing the secret, but quite another to make a trick truly
amazing to anyone who sees it.

Aaron Fisher has been performing, giving magic lessons,

and inventing unique illusions for over twenty years.

For those of you haven’t heard of Aaron, or his proven

methods of helping magicians make fast progress in
developing their Amazement Potential, our team at
Conjuror Community compiled this short, easy-to-read
handbook.

In it, we’ll arm you with many astonishing routines and

easy to master techniques that Aaron’s coaching clients
and our CC Club Members have found to be extremely
helpful.
This guide will also give you many secret tips and tactics
that you can use to make every trick you perform more
astounding, and give you more confidence in your own
magic…right away.

Best of all, we packed this handbook with short video

tutorials filled with great magic you can use immediately
to amaze your audiences with an ordinary deck of cards.

In the first half of this book, you’ll discover 5 amazing

tricks that are very easy to do. We’ve also included some
of Aaron’s key performance tips to help you maximize
the wow factor of every trick you perform.

In the second part of the book, we share 3 of Aaron’s

favorite powerful, yet easy-to-master secret moves (we
call them ‘sleights’), designed to empower anyone who
wants to make miracles with cards.

The internet is filled with free videos that promise to

teach you easy tricks. But here, you’ll find something
different…
 Aaron Fisher has spent the last 20 years helping
magicians find the fastest ways to develop real skill and
confidence.

That experience taught him something that’s very

important to EVERY member of our Conjuror
Community team. It’s something we suggest you keep in
mind anytime you decide to learn new magic…

If you want to experience real success and avoid

frustration, it’s important to choose your sleights,
tricks and teachers with great care.

If you do, every new trick you learn, and every secret
move you discover, will lead to amazed audiences - and
add to YOUR confidence at the same time.

Every knockout trick, easy sleight and valuable tip we

include here was chosen because it’s helped Aaron’s
coaching clients experience more fun and success every
time they perform.
One Last Thing…
As you begin watching the videos embedded throughout
this book, you’ll be excited to start performing your new
magic right away.

However, we suggest you take a few moments along the

way to check out Aaron’s Pro Practice and
Performance Tips.

Aaron’s coaching clients and our CC Club Members have

found them to be extremely helpful.

And if you remember to keep them in mind as you

practice and perform your new magic, we can guarantee
you’ll experience immediate success - and have a great
time doing it.

Sound good?

GREAT.

Now let’s get going. It’s time to meet your new card
magic miracles!
 5 Easy Card Miracles

No Such Thing As Luck!

In this incredibly powerful trick, you’ll prove to even the
most skeptical audience that luck doesn’t exist; with the
right secret powers, a magician can control the actions of
others… even when the actions seem truly random.

Grab a deck now and follow along with this complete

video lesson.
 Classic Color Changing Deck!

Use this trick, and you’ll create a miracle than can

astound any audience…using ordinary cards!

First, a red-backed card turns blue. The, it happens again.

Finally the entire deck transforms. To see the surprise

ending, you’ll have to watch for yourself!
 Flying Card to Pocket!

Traditionally, this amazing trick can only be performed

by experienced magicians, because requires palming.

[That’s the secret art of ‘stealing’ a card - or cards - from

the deck without anyone suspecting a thing.]

Aaron built the version you’re about to see so you can

start using this trick to astonish right away… without
palming - or any difficult sleight-of-hand.

SPECIAL OFFER!
 The Famous Three Card Catch
The amazement you’ll unleash with this quick,
shocking effect far outweighs the few minutes of practice
you’ll spend to master it.
 Miracle Mind Reading!

After 20 years in magic, this remains one of Aaron’s

favorite tricks, because it shows how a few simple moves
can be combined with a creative presentation to make a
miracle that’s worth much more than the sum of it’s parts.

In this training, you’ll also be introduced to one of the

simplest, most effective ‘card forces’ in magic.

What’s a ‘card force?’

We’re VERY glad you asked.

A ‘force’ allows you to have a card freely selected - or so

your audience thinks. In reality, a force allows you to
make sure your spectator takes the card that YOU want
them to take.

The force is one of the most important concepts in magic

and you can use it to create an infinite number of tricks.

The possibilities are truly endless.

Watch this video and then practice the force for a few
minutes. In return, you’ll have one of the most powerful
weapons in card magic at your disposal.
 9 Pro Performance Tips

Performing your first card tricks can be a lot like jumping

into a lake. You can either enter the water timidly and
experience the shock of cold wanter twenty times…

…or you can do it in one shot. Dive in and start enjoying

yourself.

Many of Aaron’s coaching clients are excited to perform,

and at the same time, a bit terrified at the prospect.
Many tricks require advanced sleight-of-hand skills that
take months of serious practice before you can even think
about using them.

Aaron helps people master some VERY advanced sleight-

of-hand. However he’s observed many times over that
magicians make faster progress when they give
themselves permission to perform powerful tricks that are
also easy to do.

Easy to do tricks allow you to start performing

immediately - and build real confidence fast. You get to
quickly develop a ‘taste’ for sharing your magic with
audiences.

No magic happens unless you show it to someone!

That’s why we think the best way to get comfortable as a

magician is to keep things simple and get going. Find an
easy trick, like the ones we’ve already shared, practice it
ten or twenty times.

Then start doing it for people!

Don’t worry about slip-ups, stumbles and mistakes!
They’re part of the process for EVERY magician.

In fact, it’s totally normal for even the most experienced

magicians to ‘mess-up’ when they’re performing a new
trick.

After a handful of performances, you’ll feel less nervous

and more confident. Your performances will begin to go
more smoothly.

That’s the perfect time to re-read this guide. After a few

performances, you’ll discover powerful information in the
Video Tutorials and Pro Tips that you didn’t notice the
first time around.

Before you know it, you’re new trick will be ‘bullet

proof’. You’ll have a real miracle you can rely on in every
situation.

But you have to get started first. So pick a simple trick

you can do… and DO it. Everything else flows from
there.
At least 80% of beginning magicians we meet think the
easiest way to get confidence is to perform for just one
person at a time.

When Aaron was starting out, he thought the same thing.

As a magic instructor, he was surprised to discover that

the key magic skill known as ‘misdirection’ is much
easier to develop when you perform for two or more
spectators at a time.
Imagine performing for your friends, Sue and Anne. Sue
stands on your left. You say to her, “Do you think Anne
over here has a strong sense of intuition?”

The moment that happens, Anne is surprised. She looks

at Sue. Sue is on the spot because of your question – so
she looks at Anne.

It lasts only a moment. But during that moment, anyone

present will be drawn in to watch your ‘mini-drama’
unfold.

During this interval, you can do any secret move you like
- and no one will notice a thing.
When at least two people are watching, your misdirection
gets more powerful and reliable. You begin to get better
reactions and your confidence grows.

When we seek out our first audiences, they tend to be

members of our family or our close friends.

Why?

Because they’re willing to watch. And while that can be

very comforting, in many cases, it’s actually easier to
perform for perfect strangers.

Our friends and family want to be supportive. They also

want to see if we can amaze them. But because they know
us so well, they often participate in ways no ordinary
spectator would.

Friends and family can be unnecessarily challenging to

perform for - and sometimes, difficult to get ‘into the
spirit’ of watching your magic.
When you’re just starting out, that’s exactly what you
DON’T need.

We suggest you choose casually interested, friendly

people as ‘test subjects’ for your magic.

And as you begin to feel confident in your tricks and

performance, surprise your friends and family with a
polished miracle!

Trust us on this one. We learned the hard way.

What makes a GREAT easy card trick?

Many of the easiest tricks, sadly, are not great… or even

good!

Some are downright boring. Have you ever seen the trick
where the magician deals out three rows of seven cards?
This is called the 21 card trick. It’s a classic mathematical
self-working card trick. It’s easy to learn, easy to do – but
only a little fun to watch (if you’re lucky).

Is this trick puzzling? Yes, perhaps.

Is it magical? Absolutely not.

That’s because this simple card trick, and many like it,
are not magic tricks at all. They’re puzzles!

We love great magic - and we think some of the most

amazing tricks are actually very easy to do.

But we do suggest you avoid mathematical puzzles like

the 21 Card Trick. It’s not amazing - and no one who sees
it will ever beg you to ‘show them another one’.

When you choose to learn an easy trick (there are several

good ones in this book), we suggest you choose it because
it’s amazing - not merely because it’s easy to do.

Every trick you perform should have a clear, direct

and magical effect.

The Video Tutorials in this book were chosen to give you

tricks that are easy to practice and perform - and
extremely magical for the audience.
All the old magic books, and many of the new ones, instruct
beginning magicians that each of your tricks should have a
unique and interesting ‘presentation’.

We understand this point of view. If you have an interesting

personal perspective that suits your tricks, presentation can
truly enhance overall impact of your magic.

However, many magicians follow this advice - only to see

it backfire.

Ask yourself, what first excited you about seeing magic?

Was it the ‘story’ the magician told as he performed the

trick that made it so powerful?
It’s possible. But it’s far more likely that you were
captivated by a trick that left you totally amazed…
without a clue as to how it was done.

Good Presentation cannot make up for weak magic!

It’s this simple: your magic will be astonishing to the

extent that your tricks are clear, direct and strong.

David Blaine proved this to the world in his very first

television magic special, when he scored a universal
success using only minimal presentation.

He knew that strong effects speak for themselves, and

unlike many magicians, he also knew how to get out of
the way. He let his magic communicate for him.

Too much presentation can actually dilute the effect.

Your presentation must work in service of the effect –

not the other way around.
When you pass your hand over the pack, snap your
fingers or wave the magic wand – that’s what we call a
‘magic moment’.

Magical Moments are VERY important. Yet most of our

new coaching clients don’t make use of them very often -
or at all.

Remember, from your audience’s perspective, this is

when the magic actually happens!

If you want your audience to experience magic, find every

potential ‘magic moment’ you can - and commit to it
when you perform.
When the audience sees the magic happen in your eyes, it
makes the trick more believable – and much more
magical.

Further, when you commit to a magic moment, it adds a

layer of powerful misdirection and deception to your
magic. It forces your audience to consider, if only for a
moment, that you may have actually done what you
claim!

When you commit to your magic moments, you actually

force your audience to use their imagination. And that’s a
VERY good thing.

When you begin using magic moments in every effect,

you’ll experience stronger reactions almost immediately!
Magic that directly involves your spectators will have far
more impact than tricks where the audience merely
watches the action.

As an audience, we get to really experience magic that

happens to us directly. We don’t just watch. We feel the
magic because we participate actively in the trick.

Remember this as you consider new tricks and you’ll be

far more successful at picking effects that consistently
connect with your audiences.
When you’re nervous, rely on the easiest tricks you
possibly can.

In fact, this is a good time to use an automatic trick, a

‘self-working’ trick - or even a trick that requires ‘special
apparatus’.

Take every precaution to make sure there’s no way to

get ‘caught’ or exposed using your automatic miracle -
if you were to get busted, there’s no way to recover.

But bearing that warning in mind, many of the best tricks

in magic rely on secret devices. Used wisely, these tricks
can help build your confidence AND amaze your
audience at the same time.

Aaron has often said that he wishes he’d been open to

using secret apparatus in his magic when he was starting
out.

At that time, he only wanted to do sleight of hand with

ordinary cards – he wouldn’t use gaffs under any
circumstances.

These days, he feels that was a mistake. He could have

avoided amazing levels of stress if if he’d been willing to
carry a few ‘gaffed tricks’ with him as a safety net.

You’ll do yourself a great service by having a few

powerful tricks of this sort in your toolbox. They’re
simple enough to perform with ease, and strong enough to
‘close’ a professional show.

These tricks can provide the perfect cushion to help you

begin performing card tricks with confidence.
To guarantee you never get caught using anything other
than ordinary cards, you’ll have to use well designed
tricks.

When starting out, it’s helpful to choose tricks that allow

you to ‘end clean’.

What does it mean to ‘end clean’?

It means that after the trick, everything can be examined

by the audience. Tricks that end clean are easier to
perform with confidence because you know that by the
time you finish the trick, there won’t be any ‘evidence’
for your audience to discover.

Aaron Fisher’s PANIC presents a powerful example of a

self-working trick, that creates the experience of real
magic with secret apparatus, and ends totally clean.

If you haven’t, you should definitely see Panic. Even

though most of Aaron’s magic uses only ordinary cards,
he carries Panic with him to all professional shows.

As you’ll see, Panic is just TOO magical to leave at

home!
 3 Simple Sleights

Now we’ll share 3 easy to master secret moves. You can

use these techniques use to create a limitless variety of
card miracles using any deck.

You’ll get every detail you need to make sure you never
get seen, or even suspected, when you deploy one of your
powerful new sleight-of-hand tools.

Best of all, Aaron’s teaching will show you how to master

these sleights quickly and easily, without hours of
frustrating practice.

The last two videos will arm you with invaluable tools for
close-up card magic. But the first video is actually the
most important.

In it, you’ll get the most powerful instruction you’ll find

anywhere on the first thing you need to master if you
want to perform amazing card magic.
 How to Hold a Deck of Cards
In some sense, magic is like tennis or golf… it all starts
with finding the right grip.

How you hold the deck of cards has a lot to do with your
success.

If you do only one thing to ‘level up’ your card magic,

watch this short video with cards in your hand… and
watch your magic potential blast off!
 Misdirection and the Card Force
The following Card Force allows you to create miracles
with no sleight of hand.

You’ll also be introduced to the mysterious concept

known as Misdirection.

Misdirection is often thought of as the art of diverting the

spectators from the secret moves in a trick.

Tommy Wonder, the master misdirector, suggested that

the word ‘misdirection’ itself is unhelpful because it
encourages us to think in terms of making the audience
‘look away’ from something important.

Wonder suggested we adopt the term ‘direction’ instead.

This term encourages us to think of directing the
audience’s attention at all times – always toward the
effect of the trick itself.

In this video, Aaron shows you exactly how it works in

real life.

You’re about to discover the easiest way to discover the

power of misdirection to create miracles!
 An Ancient Glimpse!
Once you have a spectator’s card under control – either to
the top or bottom of the deck – you can use a secret move
called ‘the glimpse’ to learn the identity of the card
without anyone suspecting you.

While there are dozens of simple glimpses in magic, and

many more advanced ones that take months or years of
practice, this is one of our favorites.

It’s easy to do and will give you a powerful way to

develop your misdirection skills in recorded time.
 8 Pro Practice Tips
These practice tips help our CC Club Members and
coaching clients get maximum results from even the
shortest practice sessions. So even a little practice…
…goes a LONG way!

When we’re just starting out in magic, doing a simple

web search can be stressful! You’ll discover literally
thousands of card tricks, moves and techniques - and you
won’t have ANY good way to tell which ones are for you.
Often, experts imply that if we don’t use advanced
methods (in which they specialize), our magic tricks will
be ‘less magical’.

As a practical matter, turning any trick into a real magical

experience for the audience takes more than ‘invisible
sleights’.

No matter how advanced the method of your trick is,

during performance, you’ll need to have most of your
mind free to have fun with the audience.

If your method eats up too much of your attention, you

won’t have any left for the audience!

Your Pass, Palm or Force may be invisible and perfect –

but what does that matter if your effect falls flat?

The powerful sleight video tutorials above were designed

to show you how easy, effective tools can be used to
create really great tricks.
These simple sleights free up your mind so you can focus
on performing!

Most of us simply practice a trick and then try and

perform it, without deciding in advance what we’re going
to say during the performance.

Trouble ensues, and often, problems could have been

avoided if the magician had chosen her words - called the
‘presentation’ - in advance.

The reason for this is very simple. If you don’t know what
you’re going to say, you have to think about it during the
show.

That automatically takes your attention off of the

audience. Just like using a difficult sleight can blow your
focus and spoil the trick, trying to work out your
presentation, as you perform, makes it nearly impossible
to be ‘in the moment’, connected with your audience.

And there’s something else.

The words themselves matter.

Your words spin, color and often actually create the

effect in the mind’s of the spectators. You may think a
trick is self explanatory – but that’s hardly ever actually
so.

If you don’t clearly communicate what you want the

audience to perceive, it’s likely no one will have a clue
what magic you claim to have accomplished.

If you’ve tried performing even a few tricks for your

friends or family, you’ve probably experienced this
painful fact already for yourself.

The exact words you choose can either make the trick
seem more magical… or less magical.
In fact, unless you decide what to say in advance, you’ll
often be surprised to hear words come out of your mouth
the actually compromise the secret!

Every experienced magician has made this mistake

hundreds, or thousands, of time.

Choosing your words carefully, in advance, is the only

surefire way to avoid the problem.

Take special note: When you first start to write down your
presentation and use it in performance, you’ll likely be
discouraged. Many of our coaching clients complain, at
first, because their performances feel ‘stiff’ or
‘rehearsed’.

That’s a normal feeling. As you perform the trick several

times for different people, your words will become
second nature.

You’ll start to feel more relaxed as you perform, and

before you know it, you’ll start making small changes to
your script in real time.
You can do this safely, because by that point, you’ll know
the trick so well, you can speak ‘on the fly’ - without
fear of damaging the magic.

You begin to sound like your real self, having fun. And
that’s the whole point!

When we see a great looking trick on video, we make an

unconscious assumption that the trick works in ‘real life’
the same way it does on video. Most of the time, making
tricks look and feel like real magic in front of a live
audience requires a different approach.
Most kinds of misdirection don’t work for magic on
video.

And when you perform live, misdirection is a must.

People watching a magic trick are never supposed to see
you do a secret move. Actually, they’re never supposed to
even suspect you of using sleight of hand.

If the audience ever gets the idea you’re doing anything

sneaky, they’ll dismiss your tricks as the work of ‘quick
hands’.

The moment that happens, there’s no chance for a

magical experience. As far as the audience is concerned -
you become a ‘mere trickster’, nothing more.

To make sure you never experience this painful fate, it’s

important to apply misdirection to every sleight – and
every secret action in your method.
To get in physical shape, we all know it’s better to
exercise for a short time every day than to work out for 8
hours once a week.

Practicing magic works the same way. The good news is:
when you have a plan, and go about it with the right
attitude, it’s actually much easier to make progress than
most people think.

Most of our coaching clients have businesses full, busy

lives. In fact, many of them are lucky to find 10 minutes
to practice on any given day.

And yet, these magicians make consistent progress. Day

by day, they focus on one simple action at a time. Then
week by week, they put those actions together.
And before they know it, they’ve got a piece of magic that
not only looks great, but truly amazes and astounds
everyone who sees it.

Dai Vernon, the most celebrated close-up magician of the

last 100 years, used to suggest that students sit down to
practice with the goal of making one lasting improvement
during any single practice session.

That was, and still is, very good advice.

However, we’ve consistently found that the most direct

path to mastering a move is to break it down into as many
small pieces as you possibly can.

By doing that, you set yourself up for success by

achieving many small, easily attainable goals.

That way, even if you only have ten minutes to practice,

you can use those minutes to achieve something
substantial.

The alternative is to spend your valuable practice time

trying to figure out what you should focus on.
Making steady progress makes practice fun, and makes
you want to practice more, not less. And that’s the best
way to get great results.

No aspect of a trick or sleight is too small to examine -

and practice.

Most of us start feeling that only the ‘scary parts’ of a

trick or sleight require practice. But actually, it’s how we
handle the smallest details which make or break a piece
of deception.
We filled the video tutorials in this handbook with more
information than anyone can reasonably digest in a single
viewing - or even two.

That’s because we want to make sure you have every

detail you need to succeed. Even with the easy tricks
we’ve shared in this book, that’s a lot of details! For best
results, on your first viewing of a trick tutorial, just try to
get the basic method in your hands and head.

You want to be able to clearly present the trick, in it’s

simplest form – with no embellishments.

Now take that trick and show it to a few different groups

of two or three people. You can show the trick to bigger
groups if you’d like, but at this point, there’s no hurry.

Take care not to get frustrated if the results of your

performances are disappointing. That’s totally normal –
and to be expected. You’ve just completed a major step
toward the goal of making great magic.

Then go back and watch the tutorial again. You’ll see

details, touches and instructions you missed the first time.
Investigate each moment of the trick individually. As you
become aware, then address, each one of the details
covered in the tutorial, the trick will get noticeably
stronger.

Your audience will feel it. You’ll feel it too.

This is the real practice process that leads to great results

and amazed audiences.

As you add small details to a good trick, bit by bit, it

becomes real magic.

If you want your audiences to be truly amazed, keep your

tricks simple, clear and direct.
No matter how easy a trick is technically - or how few
secret moves you need to do it - the more effects you
perform within the larger routine, the more difficult it
becomes to maintain the clear thread that holds the effect
together in performance.

Most of our beginning students start by mastering a few

simple tricks and stringing them together into a short
‘set’.

Try putting three tricks from this handbook together to

create your first simple set – a mini-show that starts
strong, and builds up to a satisfying climax.

As your confidence and experience grow, you’ll be able

to carry off longer tricks, or longer sets, with ease.
The best way to develop an appreciation for how amazing
magic can really be is to watch the masters at work.

Below are clips of two modern masters. Watch them

work and you’ll see proof that miracles really are
possible.

Bill Malone is not only one of the greatest card magicians

in the world – he’s also one of the funniest.
David Williamson is one of the funniest, most talented
magicians alive today. Sometimes his tricks directly
engage and involve the spectator – and sometimes, the
trick itself does not.

But even then, Williamson himself engages his spectators

at every turn.
We’ve discussed how some of the strongest magic
directly engages the audience.

There are many easy to perform classics that engage the

audience directly at every moment.

But even though these tricks aren’t difficult to perform

from a sleight-of-hand standpoint, they do require you to
give your spectators clear directions at specific moments.

So as you write your presentations, pay special attention

to the instructions you give your audience. What you say,
as well as how and when you say it, will have a profound
impact on your success.
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