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[[Color Changing Deck]] is a classic card theme where a back's of a deck of cards that has been shown (usually during the course of a routine) changes to another color. Many routines add it as a "kicker", an additional ending after the original effect is over.  
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[[Color Changing Deck]] is a classic card theme where a backs of a deck of cards that has been shown (usually during the course of a routine) changes to another color. Many routines add it as a "kicker," an additional ending after the original effect is over.  
  
  
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== Variations==
 
== Variations==
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* [[Paul Curry]] Color Changing Deck in [[Close-Up Card Magic]] by [[Harry Lorayne]].
 
* [[Color Stunner]]
 
* [[Color Stunner]]
* [[Rainbow Deck]] each card has a different back.
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* [[Rainbow Deck]] each card has a different back by [[Senator Crandall]].
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* [[Transmutation]] by [[Larry Jennings]], originally published in [[Genii]], and [[The Transmuted Deck]] in [[Jennings '67]].
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* [[Color Triumphant]]by [[Derek Dingle]]; see [[Dingle's Deceptions]] and [[The Complete Works of Derek Dingle]]
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* [[Technicolor All Backs]], a routine in which [[Derek Dingle]] melded
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[[Alex Elmsley]]'s handling of [[All Backs]] with a full-deck color change.
 
* Regal Color Changing Deck by [[David Regal]] (faces change color too).
 
* Regal Color Changing Deck by [[David Regal]] (faces change color too).
 
* Colour Burn - slow motion color changing deck
 
* Colour Burn - slow motion color changing deck
 
[[Category:Card Plots]]
 
[[Category:Card Plots]]

Revision as of 00:45, 4 September 2009

Color Changing Deck is a classic card theme where a backs of a deck of cards that has been shown (usually during the course of a routine) changes to another color. Many routines add it as a "kicker," an additional ending after the original effect is over.


History

  • In the October, 1916 issue of Sphinx, Charles T. Jordan advertised a trick called "No. 32 Speaking of Pink Elephants." A card is drawn from a blue-backed pack; It changes to a red back party glances sheepishly back at pack. Second wallop! Pack now red, all cards shown both sides.
  • In 1944, Paul Curry marketed the Color Changing Deck.

Variations

Alex Elmsley's handling of All Backs with a full-deck color change.

  • Regal Color Changing Deck by David Regal (faces change color too).
  • Colour Burn - slow motion color changing deck