I had the pleasure of receiving my Ellusionist Custom 6 Deck Sample Pack in the mail last week. Ellusionist has done an exceptional job with these cards. I don’t know who they got to do the artwork on the Aces of Spades and Jokers but these are especially nice.

The cards meet the quality standards of any Bicycle deck and far exceed them in the case of the two Masters’ Edition Decks.

In all, you get a Black Tiger Deck with Red Pips (a beautiful black deck), the Ghost Deck (like the Tiger but ghostly white), the Tally-Ho Viper Deck (another black deck with red pips and silver ink), a red “Vintage” 1800 Deck (gorgeous weathered looking deck…this one might even get better with age), the Masters Edition Deck (a standard Bicycle deck with signature Ellusionist touches on a heavy card stock), and a Shadow Masters Deck (like the standard Masters Edition, but dark and moody).

These are not your run of the mill practice decks. These are strictly for performance or for collecting. A must have collection at USD$36.00.

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.

Complete and utter crap. The video here looks quite impressive but I could not get results anywhere near as good as these. And the idea that the trick was designed to be performed in shorts has me baffled—was it also designed to be performed in front of morons? Anyone who sees this effect in person will see how it’s done especially if it is performed in shorts.It is garbage—save your money. There are cheaper and easier ways of achieving a similar effect that is just as ineffective when wearing shorts but are much more effective than this when wearing pants.