What is a good card trick that involves one gimmicked card, or some sort of gimmick that can be carried around in a wallet, and used with a borrowed deck.?

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I personally would suggest that you learn some things that you can do with a borrowed deck without gimmicks (Ambitious Card, Two Card Monte, etc.). But if I had to suggest getting a gimmick, I would suggest getting a Special Assortment Deck. You can just pick and choose which cards you like, and then slip them into a borrowed deck.

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Learn Doc Eason's "Anniversary Waltz"

Yea, i've been doing magic for quite some time...and i've been a member here for a long period of time.... i know an abundance of non gimmicked card tricks...that is why i am asking for something different.

I wouldn't suggest thinking of, "what's a good gimic to use?." I'd think, "What is the effect I want to achieve?" By using the second choice, you can then put slights and gimics together to acheive your goal. Or, just post what you're thinking of doing and perhaps someone here will know of an effect you can purchase.

Craig

Or if you were to carry some different colored cards with you you can throw a single card in and do Paul Green's Coming Together which is basically the same thing as Anniversary Waltz, only without the ungimmicked Card.

anniversary waltz is by chris carter - http://www.penguinmagic.com/specialorde ... hp?ID=5303

doc's name comes second, i think he only helped. chris was the one that invented it, according to him anyway.

if you're looking for something to keep in your wallet. i would suggest a trick called "kolossal killer" rather than a gimmicked card. i carry it on me at all times. there's some pretty good variations of it in "killer konceptions"

basically, you tell someone you have one card you always keep in your wallet, then you get them to name any card. you simply pull it out of your wallet. (no, you don't have 52 cards in your wallet) it hits pretty hard, and with killer konceptions, they give routines where you can let the spectators remove the card from the wallet.

i'd say it's one of the strongest things you can carry on you at all times.

it's sold on penguin here, it's a manuscript by kenton knepper

You're right, my apologies. I never would have heard of the trick if it wasn't for Doc though. It's just my opinion, but I think it's Doc's recognizing the value of an otherwise unknown effect and reworking it that made it as good as it is today. And the work doesn't stop there. Since then another improvement has been made and that too has now been added to Doc's handling of this effect.

I also like KK, but it's more of a setup than just a one or two card gaff. I keep a separate wallet just for this trick. Have you seen John Archer's handling of it? It trims down the effect even more and turns it into a really funny presentation. He calls it "Komedy Killer."

If the borrowed deck is a red backed deck, Cyril's "Moving Pips" has to be the single most powerful gimmicked effect in my opinion.

i havn't seen john archer's handling. where can i see it?

It's on his DVD "Educating Archer."

mystery card by oz pearlman

i have a verry good trick that involes 1 gimmic card, the only down side is that they need to agree 2 ruin 1 of ther cards, its form JB Magic and its caled tag, by Chastain Criswell. all the trick is is u have them select a card, sign it with a magic marker, retun it to the deck, u pick out a card that isn't thers and you procede to puch a hole in it and put a tag in it and then the spectator pulles on the tag and magicly it is there card. you just need to come up with an excuse to search thru the deck to get your card

The original Anniversary Waltz as it first appeared was very movey and quite difficult. It was published in a magazine, and the trick was by Chris Carter. Doc Eason learned the effect, and came up with his own, simple handling. His handling is probably the most known. Doc Eason gives full credit to Chris Carter.