Trick Decks Of Playing Cards

Performing card tricks like a magician can be a great way to leave your family and friends completely flabbergasted at your amazing skills as an entertainer. The card tricks that magicians perform for party events or special occasions can use difficult sleight-of-hand or then can use special ‘trick decks' that can be purchased through online magic dealers.


A trick pack of playing cards has been manufactured in a special way that allows the magician to perform card tricks that look amazing but require little in the way of true skill. These special packs of playing cards come in a variety of formats each one serving its own special purpose. This short article will provide you with some information about the various trick packs so that you can decide which one you may want to purchase juice cards.

One variety of trick pack is referred to as a ‘Stripper Deck'. Using this form of specially manufactured pack of playing cards it is very easy to control the location of a selected card after it has been returned to the pack. This control can be performed using a single card or a group of playing cards. The friends can even shuffle the pack after the card has been replaced but the card will still later be under your control to be produced in any manner of magical fashions.
Another trick pack of playing cards for you to consider is known as a ‘Svengali Pack'. This deck of playing cards has been specially manufactured to allow you to display the complete pack in such a way that it will appear quite normal to your family and friends. However, the properties of this deck will enable you to perform tricks that seem like miracles and will match the appearance of those performed by a professional magician.


For yet another type of magic playing cheat poker cards you can purchase a deck referred to as a ‘Forcing Pack'. Using this pack of specially manufactured playing cards you will appear to give your family or friends the free choice of any card in the deck. However, your friends will really only be able to choose the card that you want them to have in the first place. This is a strategy employed by many professional magicians who might perform as a wedding magician, corporate magician, trade show magician or a table top magician.



Of course I'm sure that you have all heard of a marked deck of playing cards where the secret marking on the back of a particular card identifies the cards suit and value. These decks have long been associated with crooked gamblers at the card tables of river boats etc. Magicians have been using these types of special packs to perform miraculous magic tricks for many years. Marked packs of playing cards can be purchased from specialist card dealers to be found online.
Whichever type of special pack you eventually decide to employ for performing magic tricks like a true magician be sure to keep the true secret of your apparent miracles to yourself. You will be gaining nothing by exposing the secret to the special workings of the deck and will also loose respect and credibility amongst your friends and family.