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[[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]].  
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'''Card Magic Classification''' has been  attempted by numerous magicians to organize and classify the types of magic you can do with palying cards.
  
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.
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[[Roberto Giobbi]], in his [[Genii Magazine]] column ''The Genii Session'', published a list of basic card magic effects in the July 2006 issue.  In the September and November 2006 issues, Giobbi 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 was to clarify the terminology used when discussing card routines.
  
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Denis Behr's created an online Searchable Magic Book database of the magic books he owns and created his list of "themes" for card effects.
  
==Basic Effects of Card Magic ==
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==Giobbi's Basic Effects of Card Magic ==
 
Robert Giobbi's card magic occurence classification is:
 
Robert Giobbi's card magic occurence classification is:
  
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* Turnovers
 
* Turnovers
 
* Vanishes
 
* Vanishes
 
  
 
== [[:Category:Card Plots|Great Themes, Effects and Tricks in Card Magic]]==
 
== [[:Category:Card Plots|Great Themes, Effects and Tricks in Card Magic]]==
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* [[Fingerprint Card Trick]]
 
* [[Fingerprint Card Trick]]
 
* [[Folded Card to Box]] or other place
 
* [[Folded Card to Box]] or other place
* Follow the Leader
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* [[Follow the Leader]]
* Four Ace Assemblies
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* [[Four Ace Assemblies]]
* Four Ace Productions
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* [[Four Ace Productions]]
* Gags With Cards
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* [[Gags With Cards]]
* Gambling Demonstrations
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* [[Gambling Demonstrations]]
* Gambling Exposés
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* [[Gambling Exposés]]
* General Card/Universal Card
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* [[General Card]]/[[Universal Card]]
 
* [[Haunted Deck]]
 
* [[Haunted Deck]]
 
* [[Homing Card]], to pocket (A card repeatedly and magically travels to the performer's pocket)
 
* [[Homing Card]], to pocket (A card repeatedly and magically travels to the performer's pocket)
* Homing Card, Braue/Kaps (A card is repeatedly removed from a packet, yet keeps returning)
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* [[Homing Card]], Braue/Kaps (A card is repeatedly removed from a packet, yet keeps returning)
* Hotel Trick
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* [[Hotel Trick]]
 
* [[Invisible Deck]]
 
* [[Invisible Deck]]
 
* [[Lie Detector]]
 
* [[Lie Detector]]
* Lifting/Cutting Any Number of Cards
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* Lifting/[[Cutting Any Number of Cards]]
 
* [[Linking Cards]]
 
* [[Linking Cards]]
* Magnetized Cards
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* [[Magnetized Cards]]
* Matching the Cards/Magician Makes Good (3 cards cut to, but the values don't match selected card. Magician transforms then into the 3 matching values.)
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* [[Matching the Cards]]/Magician Makes Good (Three cards are cut to by the magician but do not match a prediction card. The three cards are then changed to match the prediction.)
* Memory with Cards
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* [[Memory with Cards]]
* Mental Poker Divination
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* [[Mental Poker Divination]]
* Multiple Card Discoveries
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* [[Multiple Card Discoveries]]
 
* [[Mutus Nomen Dedit Cocis]] (mentally selected pairs of cards are divined by the performer)
 
* [[Mutus Nomen Dedit Cocis]] (mentally selected pairs of cards are divined by the performer)
* Mystery Card (card set aside at the beginning of the routine turns out to be the selected & signed card)
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* [[Mystery Card]] (card set aside at the beginning of the routine turns out to be the selected & signed card)
* Naming the Cards from Pocket
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* [[Naming the Cards from Pocket]]
* Nap Hand Deal (From the audience, the performer divines 3 poker hands held by spectators on the stage. He also makes the performer with the worst hand win.)
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* [[Nap Hand Deal]] (From the audience, the performer divines 3 poker hands held by spectators on the stage. He also makes the performer with the worst hand win.)
 
* [[Nudist Deck]] (A deck that is blank on both sides magically prints faces and backs)
 
* [[Nudist Deck]] (A deck that is blank on both sides magically prints faces and backs)
 
* [[Oil and Water]]/Color Separation
 
* [[Oil and Water]]/Color Separation
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* [[Princess Card Trick]] (One of a group of cards is thought of, and divined by the performer)
 
* [[Princess Card Trick]] (One of a group of cards is thought of, and divined by the performer)
 
* [[Protean Deck]] (3 cards are selected, and the rest of the packet or deck changes into copies of each of those cards one at a time)
 
* [[Protean Deck]] (3 cards are selected, and the rest of the packet or deck changes into copies of each of those cards one at a time)
* Rapid Transit/Two Card Transposition
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* [[Rapid Transit]]/Two Card Transposition
* Reading the Cards of Any Deck
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* [[Reading the Cards of Any Deck]]
 
* [[Remember and Forget]] (3 spectator each choose a pair of cards, remembering one and forgetting the other. Performer locates the 3 remembered cards, then transforms them into the forgotten cards)
 
* [[Remember and Forget]] (3 spectator each choose a pair of cards, remembering one and forgetting the other. Performer locates the 3 remembered cards, then transforms them into the forgotten cards)
* Reverse Location (reversed card found in deck)
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* [[Reverse Location]] (reversed card found in deck)
* Reverse Card Routine (packets of cards are repeatedly mixed face-up into face down, straightening themselves out each time)
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* [[Reverse Card Routine]] (packets of cards are repeatedly mixed face-up into face down, straightening themselves out each time)
 
* [[Rising Cards]]
 
* [[Rising Cards]]
 
* [[Roll-Over Aces]] (Cards shuffled face-up into face-down. First aces are located, then a Royal Flush)
 
* [[Roll-Over Aces]] (Cards shuffled face-up into face-down. First aces are located, then a Royal Flush)
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* [[Soldier's Prayer Book]] (story tricks with an apparently shuffled deck)
 
* [[Soldier's Prayer Book]] (story tricks with an apparently shuffled deck)
 
* [[Solid Deck]]
 
* [[Solid Deck]]
* Spectator Does Magic
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* [[Spectator Does Magic]]
 
* [[Spectator Cuts to the Aces]]
 
* [[Spectator Cuts to the Aces]]
* Spellers
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* [[Spellers]]
* Stabbing, Card
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* [[Card Stabbing]]
 
* [[Stop Trick]] (selected card is found in deck at the point spectator says "Stop")
 
* [[Stop Trick]] (selected card is found in deck at the point spectator says "Stop")
* Sympathetic Cards (Four cards assemble under one cover)
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* [[Assemblies|Sympathetic Cards]] (Four cards assemble under one cover)
* Sympathetic Cards, Milton (Two packets of cards, each consisting of a single suit, are used. When one packet is shuffled, the other packet magically winds up shuffled)
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* [[Sympathetic Cards]], Milton (Two packets of cards, each consisting of a single suit, are used. When one packet is shuffled, the other packet magically winds up shuffled)
* Tearing the Deck
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* [[Tearing the Deck]]
* Telephone Card Magic
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* [[Telephone Card Magic]]
 
* [[Ten Card Poker Deal]]
 
* [[Ten Card Poker Deal]]
 
* The [[21 Card Trick]]
 
* The [[21 Card Trick]]
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* [[Think of a Card]]
 
* [[Think of a Card]]
 
* [[Three-Card Monte]]
 
* [[Three-Card Monte]]
* Topological Card Magic
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* [[Topological Card Magic]]
 
* [[Torn and Restored Card]]
 
* [[Torn and Restored Card]]
 
* [[Travelers]] (Four selected cards to four different pockets)
 
* [[Travelers]] (Four selected cards to four different pockets)
 
* [[Triumph]] (Deck is shuffled face-up into face-down after selected card is returned. Deck magically rights itself, except for the selected card)
 
* [[Triumph]] (Deck is shuffled face-up into face-down after selected card is returned. Deck magically rights itself, except for the selected card)
* [[Twisting the Aces]]
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* [[Twisting the Aces]] (The four aces turn face up one at a time)
 
* [[Unshuffled]] (Name of selected card appears on the side of the deck, as the performer shuffles)
 
* [[Unshuffled]] (Name of selected card appears on the side of the deck, as the performer shuffles)
* Vanishing Card
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* [[Vanishing Card]]
* Vanishing Deck
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* [[Vanishing Deck]]
 
* [[Visitor]] (Signed card travels from between 2 black kings to between 2 red kings)
 
* [[Visitor]] (Signed card travels from between 2 black kings to between 2 red kings)
* Weighing the Cards (Spectator cuts off a packet of cards, performer weighs them with his hand, and announces how many are in the cut-off packet)
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* [[Weighing the Cards]] (Spectator cuts off a packet of cards, performer weighs them with his hand, and announces how many are in the cut-off packet)
 
* [[Wild Card]] (Multiple duplicates of a card change into duplicates of another card)
 
* [[Wild Card]] (Multiple duplicates of a card change into duplicates of another card)
  
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== Denis Behr's Card Themes ==
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*Animation
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*Appearance
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*Chaos & Order
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*Coincidence 
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*Divination
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*[[Do as I Do]]
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*Four of a kind Effects
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*Gags & Curiousities 
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*Gambling
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*Growing & Shrinking 
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*Illogical Things
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*Location 
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*Mates 
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*Mind Reading
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*Number Effects 
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*Penetration   
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*Phone Effects 
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*Prediction 
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*Red Black
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*Rubberband & Cards   
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*[[Sandwich]] & Co 
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*Signature Effects   
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*Skill Demonstration 
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*Spelling & [[Lie Detector]] Effects
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*Super-Senses 
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*Sympathetic Effects 
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*[[Think of a Card]]
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*Topological Effects
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*[[Torn & Restored Card]]
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*Transformation 
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*Transformation - special (card - object) 
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*Transposition 
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*Traveling 
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*Turnover & Reverse 
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*Vanish
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== Potter ==
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List of card magic related themes contained in the [[Potter Index]] :
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* Ace Transposition
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* Aces and Fan
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* Aces and Kings
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* [[All Backs]] Card Routine
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* Alphabet Card Tricks
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* [[Ambitious Card]] Routine
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* Any Card Called For Found At Any Number
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* Any Card Called For Produced From Pocket
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* [[Birds of a Feather]]
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* Blank-Faced Deck Tricks
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* Blindfold Card Tricks
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* [[Brainwave]] 
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* [[Card Across]]
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* Card and Arrow/Dart/Paper Clip/Postage Stamp/Ribbon/Rubber Bands
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* Card and Slate Prediction
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* Card Appears on Some Object
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* Card at One Number in the Pack Brought to Any Other Number
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* Card Balancing
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* Card Colour Changes
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* Card Colour Separation Tricks
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* Card Divination
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* Card Found At Any Given Number in the Deck
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* Card Found Between/in/under Objects
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* Card Locations
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* Card Memorizing
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* Card Penetrated By Some Object
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* Card Penetrates Some Object
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* Card Predictions
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* Card Put in Pocket Found To Be Chosen Card
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* Card Revealed By a Telephone Call/ By Paper Tearing/By the Pecking Bird or Similar Mechanical Novelties
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* Card Revelations
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* [[Card Sandwich]]
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* Card Spelling
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* [[Card Stabbing]]
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* [[Card Tapping]] Tricks
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* Card Transformations
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* Card Transpositions
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* Card Tricks Based on Magic Squares
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* Card Tricks By Coincidence and Matching
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* Card Tricks Conducted By Telephone/Mail
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* Card Tricks Performed By Spectator
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* Card Tricks Performed In Darkness
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* Card Vanishes
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* Cardcase Vanishing
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* Cards and Slate Prediction
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* Cards Produced From Pack Placed in Pocket
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* Cards Reveal Date Number or Year
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* Cards to Pocket
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* Cutting Any Number of Cards Called For
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* [[Dead Man's Hand]]
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* Deals (Poker, Bridge, Brag Poker, Rummy, Gin Rummy, Nap, Pinochle)
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* Deck Vanishing
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* [[Do As I Do]]
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* [[Elevator Cards]]
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* ESP and Design Card Tricks
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* [[Everybody's Card]]
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* [[Everywhere and Nowhere]]
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* Face Up Face Down Card Tricks
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* Fortune Telling With Cards
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* Four Ace Trick
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* Four Ace Trick With Aces Assembling One At a Time
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* [[Four Burglars]]
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* Four [[Card Assembly]]
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* [[Homing Card]]
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* [[Lie Detector]] Card Tricks
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* [[Lie Speller]] Card Trick
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* [[Micro-Macro]] 
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* [[Milton Aces]]
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* Miniature Playing Card Tricks 
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* [[Miraskill]]
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* Missing Card Named After Running Through the Pack 
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* [[Name O' Card]]
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* Name or Word Card Tricks
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* Naming Any Card Cut To
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* Naming Position of Any Card In the Deck
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* Naming the Card At Any Given Number in the Pack
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* Naming the Number of Cards Cut
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* Naming the Top or Bottom Cards of Several Heaps After Cutting
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* [[Oil and Water]]
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* [[Optical Illusion Card Trick]]
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* [[Out of This World]]
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* [[Phantom Card Trick]]
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* [[Phoenix Card]]
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* [[Piano Card Trick]]
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* [[Princess Card Trick]]
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* [[Repeat Three Jack Deal]] 
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* [[Rising Cards]]
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* [[Royal Assembly]]
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* [[Royal Marriages]] 
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* Showing a Pack of Cards Apparently All Alike 
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* [[Soldier's Bible]]
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* [[Stop Trick]]
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* Sucker Card Tricks
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* Tearing a Pack of Cards in Half
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* Telling the Names (or Number) of the Cards By Their Weight
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* [[Ten Card Poker Deal]]
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* [[Ten Card Trick]]
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* [[Think Stop]]
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* [[Think-A-Card]]
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* [[Thirty Card Trick]]
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* [[Three Card Monte]]
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* Torn and Restored Card
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* [[Travellers]]
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* [[Triumph]]
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* [[Twenty-Five Card Trick]]
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* [[Two Card Monte]]
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* [[Ubiquitous Card]]
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* [[Up and Down Card Trick]]
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* Vanished Card Found In Pocket
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* Word or Name Cards
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* You Do As I Do - You Can't
  
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== References ==
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* [http://archive.denisbehr.de/archive/route/route.php?url=10,46 Denis Behr's Card Effect Themes]
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* [http://www.geniimagazine.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Board=6&Number=52477&Searchpage=2&Main=4845&Words=waltz&topic=0&Search=true#Post52477 Zenneth's Card Plots]
 
[[Category:Cards]]
 
[[Category:Cards]]

Latest revision as of 15:30, 17 February 2015

Card Magic Classification has been attempted by numerous magicians to organize and classify the types of magic you can do with palying cards.

Roberto Giobbi, in his Genii Magazine column The Genii Session, published a list of basic card magic effects in the July 2006 issue. In the September and November 2006 issues, Giobbi 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 was to clarify the terminology used when discussing card routines.

Denis Behr's created an online Searchable Magic Book database of the magic books he owns and created his list of "themes" for card effects.

Giobbi's 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:

Denis Behr's Card Themes

  • Animation
  • Appearance
  • Chaos & Order
  • Coincidence
  • Divination
  • Do as I Do
  • Four of a kind Effects
  • Gags & Curiousities
  • Gambling
  • Growing & Shrinking
  • Illogical Things
  • Location
  • Mates
  • Mind Reading
  • Number Effects
  • Penetration
  • Phone Effects
  • Prediction
  • Red Black
  • Rubberband & Cards
  • Sandwich & Co
  • Signature Effects
  • Skill Demonstration
  • Spelling & Lie Detector Effects
  • Super-Senses
  • Sympathetic Effects
  • Think of a Card
  • Topological Effects
  • Torn & Restored Card
  • Transformation
  • Transformation - special (card - object)
  • Transposition
  • Traveling
  • Turnover & Reverse
  • Vanish


Potter

List of card magic related themes contained in the Potter Index :

References