Casual (Looking) Magic

By Mere Practice

In this book, you'll find instructions for original sleights built around looking as innocuous as possible. Including a one-handed palm from the center of the deck, a one-handed turnover pass, a method to attach a palmed card to another, and the freest force I've ever seen.

Also included are various tricks of my own creation, including multiple transpositions (one of which involves burning a free selection and transferring the burn to another free selection), a highly visual oil and water, two of the cleanest ACAANs in existence (one of which they shuffle and deal themselves), and a routine where you display multiple copies of the same card within the deck.

Still more, I give my variations on false deals and shuffles, as well as my take on known tricks, sleights, and more. This includes a complex ACR concept, a method to palm any number of cards off the top of the deck while shuffling, one handed transitions from one type of palm to another, double lifts, and a twist on the famous Top Shot.

Beyond this, are even more new ideas, methods, and handlings on extremely well-known and time-tested routines, stack work, marked cards, and even down to the basics such as double convincers and more. Plus a whole host of other tricks and ideas tucked away and taught where you may not expect them.

These are powerful ideas that can just as easily destroy minds at a high end show as at a bar to someone who asked why you have a deck of cards. They are modular by design, and can be used individually, or inserted into any existing routine as a single phase or moment.

These aren't easy, but I've had fun with them,

Despite this book being called "Casual Magic" the contents of it are anything but. This is not meant to be an introduction to magic. Casual refers to the fact that no pre-setup or plans are required for nearly everything in here. Much of it requires pre-existing knowledge and skills. Some is quite knuckle-busting. Some of the tricks are based around sleights or ideas not taught in this book and while I point the reader towards a source, what they will learn are sleights that have magicians hurling cards at the wall in frustration.

But that said, there's not too much at that level and if you're willing to practice, you have nothing to worry about.
And just to give a once over, here's as much of the table of contents I can fit:

Pg. 12 One Handed Swivel Shift
Pg. 24 Bottom Feeder (a force)
Pg. 32 One Handed Turnover Pass
Pg. 41 Ring Clip Attachment (attach a palmed card to one held at the fingertips)
Pg. 47 Toss Pass (don't waste your time learning this)
Pg. 54 Awa Switch (steal a card while tossing it away)
Pg. 58 Faro Top Palm
Pg. 63 Brute Force (the worlds fastest oil and water)
Pg. 68 Open Palm (An ACAAN where they shuffle, deal, and turn over the card themselves)
Pg. 77 A Real Head-Scratcher (card to impossible location)
Pg. 80 Half Transpo
Pg. 84 True Transpo
Pg. 93 True Burn Transfer
Pg. 98 TDTIK (The Dumbest Trick I Know)
Pg. 102 It was yours all along
Pg. 107 Cloning Machine
Pg. 112 In Your Face
Pg. 119 Evaporation ACAAN
Pg. 121 Five to Four (Find the wrong card, but make it right)
Pg. 124 Cards Across
Pg. 128 Card to Box
Pg. 130 Ambitious Card
Pg. 136 Push Through False Shuffle
Pg. 146 The Second Deal
Pg. 149 The Bottom Deal
Pg. 159 The Reformation (A new handling, not a lesson)
Pg. 164 Half Restored
Pg. 166 Double Lift
Pg. 171 Double Convincers
Pg. 175 The Fling Change
Pg. 177 The Half Turnover Pass
Pg. 185 Ring Cap
Pg. 186 Palm Generation
Pg. 191 FASDIU to Stack
Pg. 202 Marked Cards
Pg. 207 Wash Shuffle Control
Pg. 211 Overhand Shuffle Control
Pg. 214 One handed False Deal Control
Pg. 216 Gilbreath Poker
Pg. 221 The Swiss Army Stack
Pg. 232 The ESW shift
Pg. 236 Poker Face
Pg. 246 Chaos Shuffle
Pg. 263 One-Handed Slip Cut

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1654375144
• ISBN13: 9781654375140
• Release Date: January 2020
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 334 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"