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Atomic Deck
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- See also: Atomic Mystery Deck by Joe Berg.
Atomic Deck is a forcing deck c n which the volunteer could shuffle yet still cut to one of them.
Created by Dai Vernon in the mid-1930s, but did not give it a name. It was first dubbed the "Brainwave Deck" by Francis Carlyle, but later retitled the "Atomic Deck" by Faucett Ross in 1953. Dai Vernon then used the name Brain Wave Deck for another routine in 1938.
References
- The Encyclopedic Dictionary of Magic by Bart Whaley (1989)
- Magic City Library of Magic - Trick Decks, Vol. 14 by Leo Behnke (1991)