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There have been many attempts at organizing and classifying Card Magic.
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'''Card Magic Classification''' has been  attempted by numerous magicians to organize and classify the types of magic you can do with palying cards.
  
 
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[[Roberto Giobbi]], in his [[Genii Magazine]] column ''The Genii Session'', published a list of basic card magic effects in the July 2006 issue. In the September and November 2006 issues, Giobbi also published a 2-part list classifying the great themes, effects and tricks in card magic, based on a previous list by [[Juan Tamariz]]. The purpose of this list was to clarify the terminology used when discussing card routines.
[[Roberto Giobbi]], in his [[Genii Magazine]] column ''The Genii Session'', published a list of basic card magic effects in the July 2006 issue.  
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In the September and November 2006 issues, Giobbi also published a 2-part list classifying the great themes, effects and tricks in card magic, based on a previous list by [[Juan Tamariz]]. The purpose of this list was to clarify the terminology used when discussing card routines.
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Denis Behr's created an online Searchable Magic Book database of the magic books he owns and created his list of "themes" for card effects.
 
Denis Behr's created an online Searchable Magic Book database of the magic books he owns and created his list of "themes" for card effects.
 
  
 
==Giobbi's Basic Effects of Card Magic ==
 
==Giobbi's Basic Effects of Card Magic ==
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* [[Invisible Deck]]
 
* [[Invisible Deck]]
 
* [[Lie Detector]]
 
* [[Lie Detector]]
* [[Lifting/Cutting Any Number of Cards]]
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* Lifting/[[Cutting Any Number of Cards]]
 
* [[Linking Cards]]
 
* [[Linking Cards]]
 
* [[Magnetized Cards]]
 
* [[Magnetized Cards]]
* [[Matching the Cards]]/Magician Makes Good (3 cards cut to, but the values don't match selected card. Magician transforms then into the 3 matching values.)
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* [[Matching the Cards]]/Magician Makes Good (Three cards are cut to by the magician but do not match a prediction card. The three cards are then changed to match the prediction.)
 
* [[Memory with Cards]]
 
* [[Memory with Cards]]
 
* [[Mental Poker Divination]]
 
* [[Mental Poker Divination]]
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* [[Travelers]] (Four selected cards to four different pockets)
 
* [[Travelers]] (Four selected cards to four different pockets)
 
* [[Triumph]] (Deck is shuffled face-up into face-down after selected card is returned. Deck magically rights itself, except for the selected card)
 
* [[Triumph]] (Deck is shuffled face-up into face-down after selected card is returned. Deck magically rights itself, except for the selected card)
* [[Twisting the Aces]]
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* [[Twisting the Aces]] (The four aces turn face up one at a time)
 
* [[Unshuffled]] (Name of selected card appears on the side of the deck, as the performer shuffles)
 
* [[Unshuffled]] (Name of selected card appears on the side of the deck, as the performer shuffles)
 
* [[Vanishing Card]]
 
* [[Vanishing Card]]

Latest revision as of 15:30, 17 February 2015

Card Magic Classification has been attempted by numerous magicians to organize and classify the types of magic you can do with palying cards.

Roberto Giobbi, in his Genii Magazine column The Genii Session, published a list of basic card magic effects in the July 2006 issue. In the September and November 2006 issues, Giobbi also published a 2-part list classifying the great themes, effects and tricks in card magic, based on a previous list by Juan Tamariz. The purpose of this list was to clarify the terminology used when discussing card routines.

Denis Behr's created an online Searchable Magic Book database of the magic books he owns and created his list of "themes" for card effects.

Giobbi's Basic Effects of Card Magic

Robert Giobbi's card magic occurence classification is:

  • Animations
  • Coincidences
  • Discoveries
  • Distant Magic (tricks done over the phone, radio, TV, internet, etc.)
  • Divination, Mental
  • Divination, by Super-Powers
  • Flourishes
  • Gags with Cards
  • Gatherings
  • Hypnosis & Hallucinations
  • Intelligent Deck
  • Magnetism and Equilibrium
  • Mathe-Magical Curiosities
  • Multiplications
  • Penetration, Solid Through Solid
  • Predictions
  • Productions
  • Spelling
  • Stories with Cards
  • Superpowers
  • Topological
  • Torn and Restored
  • Transformation
  • Transposition
  • Traveling cards
  • Turnovers
  • Vanishes

Great Themes, Effects and Tricks in Card Magic

Robert Giobbi's thematic card magic occurrence classification is:

Denis Behr's Card Themes

  • Animation
  • Appearance
  • Chaos & Order
  • Coincidence
  • Divination
  • Do as I Do
  • Four of a kind Effects
  • Gags & Curiousities
  • Gambling
  • Growing & Shrinking
  • Illogical Things
  • Location
  • Mates
  • Mind Reading
  • Number Effects
  • Penetration
  • Phone Effects
  • Prediction
  • Red Black
  • Rubberband & Cards
  • Sandwich & Co
  • Signature Effects
  • Skill Demonstration
  • Spelling & Lie Detector Effects
  • Super-Senses
  • Sympathetic Effects
  • Think of a Card
  • Topological Effects
  • Torn & Restored Card
  • Transformation
  • Transformation - special (card - object)
  • Transposition
  • Traveling
  • Turnover & Reverse
  • Vanish


Potter

List of card magic related themes contained in the Potter Index :

References