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Clutch by Oz Pearlman (Instant Download)


Simple. Powerful. Easy to perform. A high-stakes pickpocketing routine straight from Oz's show. Plays as big for 2 or 3 people as it does for two or three hundred!
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"One of the top 10 card tricks I know." - Oz Pearlman

"It's hard to imagine a trick that's more fun to perform!" - Maxwell Murphy

"I admit, I'm fooled. It is good. Quote me." - Anthony Miller

Clutch is featured in Oz Pearlman's off-broadway show, The Unseen. While Clutch is simple to perform and can be done any time with a borrowed deck, it is presented here with the professional performer in mind. This is a card routine that bridges the gap between close-up and stage as it plays for the entire audience. We hope you'll add Clutch to your show.

The deck is borrowed. Fair.

The spectator shuffles, picks a card, and returns it to the deck. Fair.

The cards are put in the card box. Fair.

The box is closed. Fair.

The spectator puts the deck in his/her own pocket. Fair.

The spectator confirms there's nothing else in his/her pocket... just a deck inside a CLOSED box! Fair.

You show your hands COMPLETELY empty. You show them slowly and from all angles. Your sleeves are rolled up. Fair. Fair. Fair.

You explain exactly what you're gonna do. This is as fair as it gets!

You reach into the spectator's pocket and INSTANTLY pull out the chosen card. Your hand darts in at lightning speed and BOOM, a card appears at your finger tips. This happens in the blink of an eye... literally less than a second!

You ask the spectator to check the box of cards. The box is still closed!

Top 5 reasons we love Clutch:

  1. It's extremely fooling--laypeople don't have a chance!
  2. It's dramatic--you set up an impossible challenge for yourself.
  3. It's visual--you instantly pluck the card from your spectator's pocket.
  4. It plays huge in multiple environments--close-up, street, stand-up, and stage.
  5. It can be done with a borrowed deck without ANY preparation. Perform clutch anytime, anywhere... everytime, everywhere!
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Pro Privacy ON (login to see reviewer names) on April 16th, 2010
This is one of the very few effects that I perform that I feel comfortable performing anywhere and any time without any fear of being caught. Under all conditions, this effect is brilliant. You can be surrounded by people intensely stareing at you and this effect can still be pulled of. One of the major problems people have is that not everyone wears shirts with breast pockets and if it's a girl you are, it's somewhat intrusive (I found that out the hard way). You can just as easily use a jacket pocket or a sweatshirt pocket while performing. The effect is not hard to master with some practice. You should be fooling people in a few days after reveiwing the DVD. Oz Pearlman is not anything special as a magic teacher (not like Greg Wilson or Richard Sanders) but you get the whole effect. This effect is worth the money and I highly recomend it.
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Verified buyer Pro Privacy ON (login to see reviewer names) on August 28th, 2018
This trick requires your audiences' attention, so it's not a good one to open your set. But after you've surprised people enough to have their attention, this is a great trick for when you really want to tell a good story, slow things down a bit, and fool the skeptics in the crowd who think they're on to your schemes.

If you audience is not paying attention they'll miss all the ways in which you truly are being fair in the handling of the cards. I've performed this and had people shrug because they missed the impossibility of it. This trick performs much better after hitting people with some faster magic up front. This trick has only one miracle at the end of a long story, so they have to be adequately prepped for it.
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Verified buyer Pro Privacy ON (login to see reviewer names) on January 13th, 2011
Oz has done it again. He's taken an old effect which many magicians aren’t aware of and added his genius to it which turns it into something no less than phenomenal. I had been performing this routine for a number of years and it always got a huge response. However, I had to do all the work, the shuffling of cards along with placing the card into the deck. What makes Oz’s performance so awesome is that you can use the spectator’s deck (or a borrowed deck), allow the spectator to place his or her card into the deck, and allow them to immediately shuffle the cards until they are blue in the face. I can now show my hands totally empty and with next to minimal handling, reveal to the audience that the spectator has been in control of the cards for the majority of the routine. Oz uses a secret method for you to instantly locate the spectator’s particular card which is simple as can be and so unsuspecting to anyone around. What’s more, you can learn this method and apply it to many other card routines. Even if you know how this routine is done, learning the method is well worth the purchase alone.

Oz is thorough in his teaching leaving nothing out. In fact, I learned from my own personal routine where I’ve been making some mistakes that made my own handling more difficult than it could have been. For the money, this is purely simple to learn, profound, gets a huge reaction, and is a must be for novices to professionals alike. You won’t be disappointed!
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Pro Privacy ON (login to see reviewer names) on December 2nd, 2011
Guess it's just me but there are a couple of spots where you can mess this trick up and I really can't comment on why they're difficult for me without giving away the trick. The method of the trick is good but there's just too much concentration needed to do it accurately and consistently. For me to do the trick I just can't do it quickly without error. Hats off to the other 99% who seem to be able to do it flawlessly and with confidence everytime.
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Verified buyer Pro Privacy ON (login to see reviewer names) on January 26th, 2012
In the promotional video Oz states that "the best tricks are simple" and that's no lie when it comes to Clutch. I have performed Clutch about three dozen times before writing this review and have been flawless in performance. The effect is as clean as the demo reel shows and has an amazing impact. Spectator's eyes light up when you immediately hand them the deck to shuffle after they selected their card. The reveal is super quick and requires no sleight of hand. My advice, develop a patter that fits your image and you have an extremely powerful effect.
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Pro Privacy ON (login to see reviewer names) on August 30th, 2010
This effect is great for quite a few reasons.Unlike a lot of card tricks where you can only show a small group, this plays big! Secondly, you can borrow a deck. It can be done fully surrounded. But the one disturbing thing that seems to be repeated throughout these reviews is that you can only do this within the confines of a males shirt pocket. How absurd!!! How myopic in scope! To those of you who may not have puchased this because of that proposed limitation. I assure you this is rubbish!! I've performed this with shirt pockets, deep pants pockets, cargo pants pockets, hoody pockets, jacket pockets, even inside jacket pockets. As for doing this for female spectators, no proplem. I approach it with the same imagination and humor as i would in doing it in the deep pants pocket of a male spectator. I keep the jokes clean and use classy inuendo, my audience does the rest to great affect. Remember, as magicicans we are artist! As with any art form the freedom of improv and imagination are our best friends!! Implement these and watch your reactions soar!....By golly Oz, you've done it again!!!
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Verified buyer Pro Privacy ON (login to see reviewer names) on April 22nd, 2022
Love the simplicity of this. What a great way to blow some minds at the spur of the moment! Some were complaining about the price. I get it...sort of. We get so spoiled on price point for downloads and forget how fortunate we are to even have that as a learning tool. Sometimes I think we get in the habit of wanting something for nothing. The simplicity of this method compared to the impact and the fact you can do this with no prep and a borrowed deck at anytime makes the price worth it to me. I like organic, off the cuff magic. I think it's more powerful. Beats having all of these trick decks to have to carry around etc.
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Verified buyer Pro Privacy ON (login to see reviewer names) on February 3rd, 2012
This is another one of those awesome effects that goes to prove that there truly is NOTHING more magical & powerful than simplicity!
It works every time & it ALWAYS leaves an impact!!!
One of the EASIEST tricks I've ever performed!

If you decide to purchase this download then I would also recommend that you include it as part of a package deal with other effects such as: Self Tying Shoelace, Kicker, Two Dollar Window, & Dress Code. These are all EXCELLENT illusions offered at insanely low prices!

YOU WON'T FIND THEM ANYWHERE ELSE!
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Pro Privacy ON (login to see reviewer names) on April 5th, 2010
Clutch is one of those great tricks that just haven't been done. Unlike a lot of "new" stuff out there, this actually is a brand new, fresh trick. The handling is very natural and there is very little slight of hand used so beginners can quickly learn this too. The best part is that it happens in the spectators pocket unlike most tricks where it's in yours. If you get this, you will learn a trick that will always get great reactions from your audience.
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Verified buyer Pro Privacy ON (login to see reviewer names) on January 12th, 2019
This is beyond useful not just for this effect but for a clean way to find a selection any time for any effect. There is another trick on Penguin called BOUND which does this but with rubber bands on the deck. The beauty here is in getting BOTH for a deep routine. I am using Bound for phase one. Then CLUTCH phase two. Then back to BOUND phase 3. The wild beauty here is that as taught in BOUND you can end with a switched deck (Invisible? Brainwave? Stack?) AND continue your show with what was clearly an examined deck . . . Buy both and you will be thrilled!
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