The strongest card tricks most often depend on a stack or special deck. Unfortunately, if you start with a gaffed deck, as soon as you have accomplished the impossible feat, its very strength causes audiences to say, "Let me see those cards!" With a deck switch, they can, because you just switched...

The performer shows an envelope he says contains a prediction. This envelope is left on the table the ENTIRE time. The spectator shuffles and cuts his own deck and with obvious freedom selects a card. Upon looking in the envelope, you show a picture of a '52 on 1' card and point to their card....

Roberto Giobbi, recipient of the Academy of Magical Arts' Literary Fellowship of 2012-2013, is known worldwide as the preeminent teacher of card magic. He is also one of Europe's most sought-after performers of close-up magic. Reading Confidences is like having an ear next to Giobbi's lips as...

Ask yourself this question, and answer honestly: how many magic DVDs do you actually re-watch, and reference often? Not very many? The same with us. But a few “resource” DVDs are invaluable as a source to return to again and again, and that is the case with this lovely Card College DVD set.

So…Roberto Giobbi has already written himself into magichistory with his Card College series ofbooks. What does he do next?

The last of the Card College Light trilogy (which is lucky because I think they've run out of catchy "light" titles), Card College Lightest is a collection of easy card magic given the Roberto Giobbi treatment. If you've been in magic for a period, it's easy to dismiss this...

This is the first of two books in the "Light" series. It's a collection of card tricks that require absolutely no sleight of hand. Instead they rely in clever structure, subtleties and routining. The 21 tricks have been compiled into complete routines, each lasting around ten minutes. So not only...

When people tell us they are serious about card magic and want to know what books they should buy, we always tell them the same thing: “Get Card College.” That’s not to say that this acclaimed series is just for beginners. It’s not. It’s an excellent, cumulative course in handling a pack of cards,...

Roberto Giobbi's wrote five classic card magic tuition books ... then he published some easy card magic. Essentially, what Giobbi has done here is tweaked, routined and given presentations for 21 slightless card tricks from magicians such as Dai Vernon, Theodore Annemann, Al Leech, Max Maven,...