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Revision as of 15:47, 8 September 2008

Roberto Giobbi, in his Genii Magazine column The Genii Session, published a list of basic effects in the July 2006 issue. This list focused exclusively on card magic.

In the September and November 2006 issues, he also published a 2-part list classifying the great themes, effects and tricks in card magic, based on a previous list by Juan Tamariz. The purpose of this list is to clarify the terminology used when discussing card routines.


Basic Effects of Card Magic

Robert Giobbi's card magic occurence classification is:

  • Animations
  • Coincidences
  • Discoveries
  • Distant Magic (tricks done over the phone, radio, TV, internet, etc.)
  • Divination, Mental
  • Divination, by Super-Powers
  • Flourishes
  • Gags with Cards
  • Gatherings
  • Hypnosis & Hallucinations
  • Intelligent Deck
  • Magnetism and Equilibrium
  • Mathe-Magical Curiosities
  • Multiplications
  • Penetration, Solid Through Solid
  • Predictions
  • Productions
  • Spelling
  • Stories with Cards
  • Superpowers
  • Topological
  • Torn and Restored
  • Transformation
  • Transposition
  • Traveling cards
  • Turnovers
  • Vanishes


Great Themes, Effects and Tricks in Card Magic

Robert Giobbi's thematic card magic occurrence classification is: