[Card Magic] Amazing Magic Revealed: Difficult Tricks for Advanced Magicians
No matter how many times you watch card tricks, they always feel mysterious, and you can’t help but wonder about the secret behind them.
I think many people also feel inspired to try them themselves.
In this article, we’ve gathered a variety of card tricks and their explanations from the advanced-level magic you often see on TV and social media.
Since these are for advanced performers, you might not be able to show them off right away even after learning the methods, but with plenty of practice, you’ll be able to perform tricks that truly astonish your audience!
Be sure to challenge yourself with these amazing card tricks.
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[Trump Card Magic] Amazing Magic Revealed. Difficult Tricks for Advanced Performers (21–30)
Instant Card Change
A card change—where you rub a card and it instantly transforms into another—is a move you often see in TV card magic.
Even if you watch it slowly multiple times, the moment the hand rubs the card, it changes… But actually, it’s just the top and second cards of the deck being swapped.
Even so, many people might think, “How on earth do you do that?!” (laughs).
You conceal the card with your palm and shift it, and within that motion you switch the first and second cards.
Once you try it, you’ll quickly understand the principle, but making it look smooth is hard—cards can crumple, or your movements can look unnatural.
Be sure to practice, and try incorporating it at the end of a card revelation routine.
Color-changing magic, Chicago Opener
You have someone choose a card, return it to the deck, and cast a little spell.
Then the back color of one card changes.
And when you turn over that one differently colored card…
it’s the card they chose! If you do the same thing again, the face of that previously odd-backed card changes.
This magic trick produces unexpected effects and requires techniques like the double lift—showing two cards as one—and top control to bring the target card to the top of the deck.
It’s a challenging trick that you can’t perform without solidly mastering several techniques.
[Trump Magic] Amazing magic reveal. Difficult tricks for advanced performers (31–40)
An undetectable card prediction magic trick
You’d be surprised if someone could guess the card you chose from a whole deck, right? Card magic is often performed on TV as well.
In card tricks, finger movements are extremely important.
Magicians secretly palm cards so they’re hidden from view, or hold cards between their fingers while shuffling.
They also put themselves in the spectator’s shoes to read their psychology and guide the trick forward.
Why not learn a variety of magic techniques and challenge yourself with more advanced moves? You might even be able to guess a chosen card from among many in the deck.
Instant transposition of cards using the 444 switch
There’s a slightly advanced teleportation magic trick called “444.” It uses a technique known as the 444 Switch, and its hallmark is that it requires no setup.
In broad strokes, the performer first shows the audience the top four cards of the deck they’re holding.
Then, in an instant, the cards are switched.
Rather than relying on a gimmick, this trick is based purely on technique, which makes it complex but also harder to detect and imitate.
There are also derivative techniques, so if you’re interested, give them a look.
A magic trick where the color of the back of a card changes.
I’m going to introduce a magic trick that’s going viral on YouTube, where the back color of a card changes.
In this trick, after the spectator chooses a card, it’s returned to the deck and shuffled, and then only that card’s back changes color.
The secret is surprisingly simple: there’s a card printed with different-colored backs on each side, and by showing it at the right moments, it creates the illusion that the color has changed.
To perform it convincingly, you’ll need various techniques, so practice repeatedly.
The torn card is back to normal.
It’s a high-impact magic trick where a torn card is restored.
Performance skill is also key in this trick.
First, take a playing card and have the spectator sign it.
Then, give some reason why that card can’t be used and tear it up.
After putting it in your pocket, you produce an intact card with the spectator’s signature.
Many of you may have guessed it: it’s a simple trick where you switch the card before tearing it.
Still, with good acting and technique, you can really amaze your audience.
Aspectatored Card Flight
You place four cards of the same value on the table and insert a selected card among them.
After casting a spell to return the selected card to the deck, the spell is too strong, and the four matching cards end up in the deck instead—this is the trick.
While you’re displaying four face-down cards on the table, they’ve already been switched for different cards, and at the moment the spectator selects a card, you’ve secretly moved the four-of-a-kind to the middle of the deck.
Then you pretend to fail at moving the selected card, and during the next spell you flick the cards so that only the selected card remains forward, leaving just one card isolated—completion.
The key points are the positioning when you bring the cards in and the delicate finger action when you flick the cards.
