Price$24.95
Media TypeDVD
CategoryClose Up
Date AddedNov 15, 2014
Mystique Color Changing Deck
Loosley, David
Alakazam UK
(Based on 1 review)
Dave Loosley has studied this plot and taken it to a whole new visual level. With Mystique you will be able to create an eye popping moment of magic your audience will not want to miss.
Includes- Gimmicked cards, Full explanation DVD with alternate handlings for beginners to intermediate. Presentations for both, in the hands and tabled performances. The DVD also explains how to construct the colour changing card box if you want to add that kicker ending to the routine!
Imagine having a card selected and signed by your spectator. The card is replaced back into the deck. Now instantly and visually the deck changes colour. Leaving just one odd backed card in the pack (your spectators card)
Reviews
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Alakazam Magic and David Loosley’s Mystique Color Changing Deck is a great and easy color changing deck routine. In Mystique, the performer shows a red tuck and removes a red-backed deck. The faces of the cards are fanned to show that it is a normal deck. It is flipped over to show a spread of red-backed cards. The performer has the spectator pick a card by saying “stop” as the performer is riffling down the deck. The cards above the selected card are displayed to be all red-backed cards and the one chosen card is signed on its face and then inserted face down into the middle of the deck. In an instant almost all the cards in the deck turn into blue-backed cards, with one exception… the chosen red-backed card. And, if you so desire, you can also have the tuck change colors.
Mystique comes with an excellently produced 20 minute DVD and the necessary gimmicked cards. The DVD consists of the trailer/promotional video, a live and studio performance and the explanation by Loosley and Peter Nardi. The top-notch camera work and close-up shots help in the instructional phase of the DVD.
First, the promotional video is very fair and shows segments of the routine in a stand-up (no table) demonstration. To Alakazam’s credit, the moves in the off-beat are not edited out of the video and although they can be seen if you are looking for them, the moves are so subtle that they are imperceptible. The only issue with the promotional video is that it shows a spectator holding the tuck in a way that would reveal, at least to that spectator, a part of the method. The ad copy is fair and accurate. The price is fair for what you get, what you will be able to perform and how astonished your audience will be.
Second, the DVD shows the entire live performance from the promotional video without any edits and Loosley’s entire presentation and patter. Then, Loosley performs the routine, using Nardi as a spectator, while they are both seated and using the table to spread the cards.
The routine is explained by Loosley in a very clear and easy to follow manner. Loosley explains the set-up and each step of this very impressive effect. There is one move that will take a bit of practice for a beginner, but Loosley and Nardi discuss easier, more novice friendly, ways to accomplish the trickier move. Loosley is very adept at demonstrating the timing, misdirection and how to execute moves on the off-beat.
You will need to supply your own Bicycle deck of cards and if you wish to do the color changing tuck, you will also need to do a bit of arts-and-crafts, but this is an optional phase of the trick, which also creates some angle issues to be aware of. Although Loosley explains how to construct the color-changing box, he does not demonstrate its construction on the DVD.
The reset will take about 5 second and when the trick is over, you cannot hand out the deck for inspection. This is not an issue because you can immediately place the card back into the box with some patter about how the cards either do or do not match the box – depending on whether or not you end up with a like-colored box. And, besides, your audience is so flabbergasted that they don’t know what just happened.
I highly recommend Mystique.
Mystique comes with an excellently produced 20 minute DVD and the necessary gimmicked cards. The DVD consists of the trailer/promotional video, a live and studio performance and the explanation by Loosley and Peter Nardi. The top-notch camera work and close-up shots help in the instructional phase of the DVD.
First, the promotional video is very fair and shows segments of the routine in a stand-up (no table) demonstration. To Alakazam’s credit, the moves in the off-beat are not edited out of the video and although they can be seen if you are looking for them, the moves are so subtle that they are imperceptible. The only issue with the promotional video is that it shows a spectator holding the tuck in a way that would reveal, at least to that spectator, a part of the method. The ad copy is fair and accurate. The price is fair for what you get, what you will be able to perform and how astonished your audience will be.
Second, the DVD shows the entire live performance from the promotional video without any edits and Loosley’s entire presentation and patter. Then, Loosley performs the routine, using Nardi as a spectator, while they are both seated and using the table to spread the cards.
The routine is explained by Loosley in a very clear and easy to follow manner. Loosley explains the set-up and each step of this very impressive effect. There is one move that will take a bit of practice for a beginner, but Loosley and Nardi discuss easier, more novice friendly, ways to accomplish the trickier move. Loosley is very adept at demonstrating the timing, misdirection and how to execute moves on the off-beat.
You will need to supply your own Bicycle deck of cards and if you wish to do the color changing tuck, you will also need to do a bit of arts-and-crafts, but this is an optional phase of the trick, which also creates some angle issues to be aware of. Although Loosley explains how to construct the color-changing box, he does not demonstrate its construction on the DVD.
The reset will take about 5 second and when the trick is over, you cannot hand out the deck for inspection. This is not an issue because you can immediately place the card back into the box with some patter about how the cards either do or do not match the box – depending on whether or not you end up with a like-colored box. And, besides, your audience is so flabbergasted that they don’t know what just happened.
I highly recommend Mystique.