Rejected – Original Card Trick By Brett M.

Brett, your slights are a little better on this video, and the effect is a little bit cleaner than the last one. You still broadcast that you are adding that card, because you have no reason to bring your right hand to the deck (at 51 seconds). Also, you don’t have to do all the fancy cutting and such. In fact, this trick would already be light years cleaner if you simply riffle shuffled the deck.

Also, your color change method is way too obvious. Maybe it is only because it’s on video, but then you shouldn’t have put it on video. If you are going to turn the deck over, then you need much stronger misdirection. Here, it simply looked like you turned the deck over. Not very surprising.

Furthermore, there is still no reason to do yet a second color change (from the 9S to the 7D) – it doesn’t make sense with the effect.

And still, you miss the whole clarity of effect. Brett, have you ever heard anyone say that your spectators should be able to sum up your effect in one sentence? For example, “The magician took a 9 of clubs, laid it on the table, snapped his fingers, and it became the card I selected.”

That’s magic. It would take a paragraph to describe what you did here, and it wouldn’t sound very amazing at the end. Confused, but not amazing.

My guess is that you are trying to be innovative simply for the sake of innovation. There are so many good tricks out there, maybe you should try some of those. See why they work, or why they don’t. And when you decide to make your own trick, have a reason other than “I want to make my own trick.”

Read some stuff about palming cards, if you don’t have anything, email me. I’ll recommend something. Hell, I might even give you a book. Thanks for your video upload, and you are getting better, if this is any indication. Keep working on it, keep sending me the vids!

Rating: A Milk and a Light Bulb. I didn’t look, but I think it’s better than your last rating.

(Notice: This rating is slightly less arbitrary than previous ones…)