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Tears Trick by Dani Daortiz (Borrowed Deck Project Chapter 2) (Instant Download)


One of the most powerful borrowed-deck secrets you'll ever learn. A spectator (no pre-show) guesses a strangers FREELY THOUGHT-OF card (no force!).
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The ability to take a borrowed deck and perform true miracles is one of Dani DaOrtiz’s most powerful weapons. His card work is legendary, and now he is sharing some of his most closely guarded routines with you in The Borrowed Deck Project. A year-long course featuring incredible routines, concepts, theories, and philosophies that allow you to take any deck of cards presented to you and perform real magic. Chapter two of this project features an incredible location of a thought of card by a spectator.

Here’s what happens:

● One spectator takes a borrowed deck and shuffles it.
● They think of any card in the deck and are even allowed to change their mind as many times as they want.
● A second spectator freely takes out a card from the deck.
● Impossibly, the selected card is the exact card the first volunteer thought of.

The Tears Trick is one of those pieces that Dani DaOrtiz has turned into a legendary piece of card magic. The deck is genuinely borrowed and shuffled. The thought of card is an entirely free choice. The spectator discovering the card is not instantly stooged or in on the effect at all. You’ll learn some of Dani’s inner thoughts on controlling a spectator’s actions to put you in a position for an impossible revelation. As a special bonus, Dani teaches you how to make this effect more impossible with a small setup. Even though the effect can be performed with a real shuffled deck in use, this type of effect is something Dani has been playing with for decades. You are getting the real work from one of the greatest card magicians on the planet.

The Borrowed Deck Project is must watch material for anyone who wants to look like a real pro with cards. The effects are simple in concept but mind-blowing in execution. You’ll not only learn great tricks but become privy to Dani’s FISM award-winning theories in card magic. School is in session, and you don’t even need to supply your own deck because any deck in the world can now make you look like an expert at the card table when you study chapter two of The Borrowed Deck Project by Dani Daortiz.

To see every trick in this series, visit Borrowed Deck Project COMPLETE by Dani DaOrtiz.

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Verified buyer Pro Privacy ON (login to see reviewer names) on March 21st, 2025
What a sensational effect. This has to be one of the finest effects with easy to follow instructions. What seems impossible becomes amazingly stunning. Great method and easy to perform. The best closeup or stage effect that leaves your audience or spectator baffled. Want to amaze, stun, and show your ability to reveal a spectators freely chosen card, then download this effect and work your wonders, its that good.
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Verified buyer Pro Privacy ON (login to see reviewer names) on May 9th, 2025
I love Dani and I normally love his tricks. He's clever, and a genius at hiding simple things in plain sight. I also love the way he explains not only the trick but the psychology behind them.

But I don't love this one, and I think the psychology behind it is very lacking. You might love it, and that's cool. But this my my review. You can write your own. :)

For me, there are two very weak spots, which I'll mention at a high level so I don't give away anything. If you know, you know.

First, the way you get the card's value. This would never work on me because of the way I go through a deck when I look for a card. Again, not giving anything away, but it's not an uncommon way for someone to hold cards. I just don't see there's a high enough percentage that this would work to ever give it a try.

But even if it did, there's the bigger problem.

The way you learn the suit is just absurd. Maybe my audiences are just more jaded (or not drunk enough) but if I said, "I know your card is red," a pretty common answer I'd get is, "Do you?" (That's not giving anything away - it's clearly asked in the trailer) And... then what? There's not an out unless you just press them, at which point the trick becomes obvious.

And suppose they do say Yes/No. Great! Unfortunately, the follow-up is so obviously a fishing line I couldn't bring myself to try it. I've seen anvils fall on cartoon characters' heads with more subtlety. And even if you did want to try it, remember, you're not asking a question. You're stating nonsense. The audience member has no reason to confirm anything because they weren't asked to. Dani might be able to get away with it, but it's too hokey for me.

I'm bumping the trick up a star because I really liked Dani's set-up version, with the si stebbins. It's very clever, and useful for other many other situations. That was worth the price of admission. But for the trick as presented in the trailer? I'll pass.
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So clever!!! Report this review
Verified buyer Pro Privacy ON (login to see reviewer names) on March 20th, 2025
Brilliant in its simplicity and practicality. The method behind this card effect is next level, and if you’ve got the mindset for it, you’ll find countless ways to integrate it into your existing repertoire.
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Verified buyer Pro Privacy ON (login to see reviewer names) on March 26th, 2025
I was really looking forward to learning this trick, but I couldn’t understand anything he said. His instructions weren’t structured, and he seemed to rattle off the cuff which made no sense to me.
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Verified buyer Pro Privacy ON (login to see reviewer names) on March 20th, 2025
Thank you for charing such a great effect and all the ideas aorund it. It is more than a trick.
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Verified buyer Pro Privacy ON (login to see reviewer names) on March 24th, 2025
Dani is incredible. His lesson is brimming with inciteful observations and revelations. I'm not the best person in the world to write a review because I'm unlikely to be able to master a quarter of what he has shown and that quarter will be with a great deal of practise, but that's on me and a lot of what he has pointed out I can carry over to tricks that are at a level I am able to work at, so I'm more than satisfied with my purchase. Dani has done all he can to get me started and has done it exceedingly well. Thank you so much.
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Verified buyer Pro Privacy ON (login to see reviewer names) on March 21st, 2025
I would give one star, but Dani seems so excited about it, maybe it’s just me that thinks I would’ve been better off just throwing ten bucks away. First, he is very difficult to understand. Broken english combined with excitement makes it tough to follow. Next, the trick itself is just too risky. I can’t believe I would get ever get it right becomes too much is left to chance. Just hoping that everything goes right. I have bought dozens and dozens of tricks from penguin and quite a few go in the junk drawer, but this is the first time I felt compelled to write a review and let others know about it.
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How wonderful! A gift. Report this review
Pro Privacy ON (login to see reviewer names) on June 22nd, 2025
Any of these Masterpieces could be worth many times their price. It’s a gift to the magic community.
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Verified buyer Pro Privacy ON (login to see reviewer names) on June 6th, 2025
Dani Daortiz twist on this effect is absolutely beautiful! The advice at the end will perfectly fit with me and I can't wait to try this effect! I'll be practicing a lot in my spare time with this one. Worth every penny!
Thankyou for sharing Dani
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Pro Privacy ON (login to see reviewer names) on April 19th, 2025
I have all of Dani's routines and I am sorry I purchased this one. Getting the second observer to pick the correct card is very risky and Dani does not explain it very well at all. If the part doesn't work you are busted with no out.
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