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Atomic Deck

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Atomic Deck is the name for a couple of mechanical decks.

Joe Berg

Joe Berg's marketed deck which allows you to show all cards are ordinary. Two cards are peeked at. All cards change to value of first, then then the second, and finally back to original condition. It can also allow you to vanish two selected cards from the deck. Seen advertised in Genii Oct 1953.

Dai Vernon

Dai Vernon's created a forcing deck in which the volunteer could shuffle yet still cut to one of them 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.

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