Jay Sankey is an amazing performer. Few magicians today affect their audience as positively and profoundly as Jay. In this DVD, Jay takes a look at The Invisible Deck and applied his years of performing experience to one of the few trick decks real magicians actually use.

I should first like to corroborate Jay’s sell-job of the Invisible Deck seen above and add that for the $10 price tag, you’d be hard pressed to find a more powerful and magical effect than this deck. If you don’t own an Invisible Deck, you really should. If you’re starting in magic, this deck should be one of your first purchases.

Now—the DVD. Jay demonstrates the “classic” handling of the Invisible Deck (and even then he can’t help but add his own spin) as well as a few handlings that are available in a rather inexpensive book called “Invisible Secrets Revealed.” On top of all that, he adds many of his own ideas and, in so doing, adds that trademark Jay Sankey blend of simple brilliance and insanity to the mix. These routines and ideas are well worth the $20 to $30 price tag. If you’ve grown bored with the old ID routines, this DVD might bring some new life to your performances or even give you ideas from which you can springboard and create your own innovative ideas.

So, get the Invisible Deck and learn how it works. Perform (as opposed to “demonstrate”) it for your audiences. Once you’re ready for the next level, give Jay Sanky’s DVD a look.

I’ll leave you with what is probably the most familiar performance of the Invisible Deck that has been made in the last decade—David Blaine and his mind boggled friend.

Any Card Through Window (a.k.a. CTW) routine takes balls and the ability to control your spectator. Is this hard? Not necessarily, but it should be understood before investing in this DVD.

If that warning gave you pause at all, the good news is that Eric James’ Ultimate Card Through Window DVD offers some very clever ideas for taking the risk out of performing this effect. Bonus tricks like “Card to TV,” “Card to Cel Phone” and “Wall Stab” take the genre further while also suggesting directions where you can take CTW with a little creativity of your own.

If you’re interested in adding Card Through Window to your street magic routine, Eric James’ Ultimate Card Through Window DVD will give you the nuts and bolts of the effect and hopefully the encouragement to try a risky but rewarding illusion.

As Kevin Parker’s magic tricks go, this one seems a bit more versatile to me than Canz; it’s still angley, but not nearly to the degree of Canz.The trick is fairly easy to get “out” of: when it’s done you aren’t left clean, but you aren’t left with too much difficulty on getting “out.” Getting “in” is a trick in itself. Parker doesn’t give any help on how to get “in” to the trick. Edge pretty much has to be the opener to your street magic routine…you’re “hey you! come watch me!” effect, because there is no subtle way to load the gimmick. And when you’re set to go, you’re useless for anything else.

A great magic trick I wish I hadn’t bought. Canz looks amazing in this video, but Parker never shows the whole live performance only the one he did in his living room in front of a fixed camera. The fixed camera is not nearly as curious to see where the extra cans are coming from and thus it is less likely to see the secret of Canz.Enjoy the video, stay away from this trick.